There's suddenly a lot of fun stuff to do recently. The War Within came out, Majikoi came out, the fall football season began, One Pace came out, and now an HD version of Futari wa Precure Max Heart came out. I went ahead and downloaded the 1080p version, though honestly it only looks marginally better than what I already had. Or it might just be the placebo effect and it doesn't look any better. I was hoping for the bd version but a 1080p streaming version is the best we can hope for presently. Apparently this 1080p release is based upon the bd release so it's essentially bluray, despite being a stream video.
I'll watch max heart once I finish watching the original futari wa, either with this HD version or a bd version if it comes out before I get started. But at least I have some modernized version of the work to watch, which is now true of the entire Precure series.
At least I've now knocked off Majikoi from the list. It was basically non-stop sex with the giant harem plus some cool robot designs our heroes had to fight. The robots looked as cool as the ones in Xenogears and yet were such minor plot points, it feels like a waste. Anyway, I have no complaints, though it doesn't add much to the overall quality of the series. Now I'm looking forward to A+, the actual conclusion to the series, an epic that has spanned decades.
Instead of rewatching One Pace from the beginning I'm compromising and rewatching the Onigashima arc for the first time. Since I have to rewatch all great anime at least once and I'm currently excited about One Piece now is the time.
War Within has taken a backseat in all this commotion and I'll probably let my subscription lapse until I have more free time for it. I've already become a loremaster of War Within and completed all the real quests, as opposed to the dailies, weeklies, or world quests which are infinite. There isn't much point to playing more until they release more content.
Obviously my account of Russia's progress last time was hyperbole, the entire Donbass hasn't fallen, but there's an annoying fog of war covering Russia's real rate of progress across the board. Russia may or may not have taken most of Selydove, Grodivka, Novogrodivka, Nevelske, Vodania, etc. In the Kursk direction Ukraine may have taken seven more settlements or it may not have, nobody really knows. At least we know for a fact that Senkovka has fallen, the village north of Kupiansk, after holding out for years. The solution to fog of war is to wait, eventually everything will become clear, but it's hard to cheerlead Russia when all we get is unconfirmed Telegram messages. If Russia really has taken everything it's rumored to have taken its progress is meteoric, but if it hasn't then all we're seeing is the speed of rumors not the collapse of Ukraine.
Either way, Russia is hitting high value military targets so accurately and frequently with Iskander missiles that Ukraine is bound to lose eventually. Germany has already said they're done supplying Ukraine with any more weapons, and when Trump is elected he'll say the same. Ukraine keeps losing HIMARS and Patriots daily so without replacements it's doomed. The USA and Germany accounted for something like 70%+ of all Ukraine's weapons. So basically what you're seeing on the battlefield right now is the best Ukraine is ever going to get. It's all downhill from here, as they lose weapons but get no replacements.
The new Wolf & Parchment book is scheduled for October 1st, so not long from now. With the new fall season of anime October is going to be amazing. Dragon Quest 3 comes out November 14th.
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