Limelight Lemonade Jam:

I'm still in the middle of Hazuki's route in Riddle Joker, but Yuzusoft isn't waiting and has announced its next visual novel -- Limelight Lemonade Jam.  It comes out in September in Japan and who knows when if ever in America.  But I have high hopes for it -- every other recent Yuzusoft visual novel has received a translation, so why not this one?  And every Yuzusoft VN has been great so far, so I expect it'll be great when it is translated too.  2025 has become the year of Yuzusoft.

I spent most of the day trying and failing to beat the level 2 fire Orb Boss III.  It feels like if the game didn't cheat I would win slowly but surely via packing my squad with defenders and healers, but randomly the boss does so much damage that I get a character's shield broken even at max health.  Until I introject Tama with vivifying light that's a death sentence and I lose shortly thereafter.  If only I could hurry up and get my nordstrom crystals this boss would be nothing.

Hazuki has been more fun than I expected from her, but still isn't good enough to enter my hall of fame.  More room for the girls from Limelight.  :).

I did finish my rewatch of Bleach, DanMachi and Monogatari.  All that's left is my rewatch of Fairy Tail 100 Year Quest and I'll be all caught up on my rewatch of all anime in my top 200 rankings, proving all 200 franchises really are that great.

Elon Musk is having a hissy fit over stuff he apparently can't comprehend.  Reconciliation bills are possible to pass without being filibustered because they stick to narrow tax and spending categories, according to Senate rules.  The cuts Elon wants aren't possible to be done in reconciliation bills.  Meanwhile, if the tax cuts aren't renewed in this bill, America will suddenly get a 68% tax increase because the previous Trump tax cuts will sunset.  Why were the previous tax cuts written with a sunset clause in the first place?  Because reconciliation bills are required to be budget neutral, again according to the Senate rules.  So the tax cuts would have been unaffordable if they had been made permanent, which would have turned it into a normal budget bill, which could have been filibustered.

All the problems Republicans are having with getting a good bill passed have to do with the Senate filibuster.  The real solution isn't to keep changing the bill this way or that way -- it's to abolish the Senate filibuster, which exists nowhere in the constitution and was never meant to exist.  The filibuster has completely paralyzed the legislative branch of the government and banned the USA from passing any serious law for decades.  Congress has become basically defunct as a governing body because of the omnipresent use of the filibuster.  Americans want congress to pass various good bills -- like a permanent tax cut with no sunsets, or a ban on men playing in women's sports, or voter ID laws -- but the filibuster prevents everything.

Republicans need to show their voters that voting for them is useful, so they need to pass this bill.  It may not be perfect but it's better than a 68% tax increase.  I'm pretty sure no Republican voters voted for that.  Elon Musk is sabotaging an important bill for no reason.  How do Republicans benefit by becoming turbo-leftist Democrats and doubling tax rates?  Does that make any sense?  How does Elon benefit from this?

To make matters worse Elon is acting like a child and making wild accusations of Trump being a child rapist with no evidence, as well as threatening to strand astronauts in space and leave them to die.  Someone with such an unreliable character should not be the head of major companies or have hundreds of billions of dollars.  He's like a mad elephant just rampaging through town.  All for the 'sin' of wanting to prevent a 68% tax increase on everyday Americans.  That's why Elon is so mad and saying all these wild things.  It's totally bonkers.

I think Trump should sue Elon for defamation and make the fee be 500 billion.  That would shut him up pretty quickly.

P.S.:  Okay, I beat the fire Orb Boss III level 2, using the same healer oversaturate strategy.  The difference this time is I made sure to get to overdrive 3 before unloading all my buffs, debuffs, and hailstorms which the boss is vulnerable to.  This way all my hailstorms hit the boss at max power and while the boss was at min power, which made all the difference.  I didn't actually need more strength, just more strategy.

I moved Oh Unhappy Day, the end theme of SAOAGGO S2, up to 4-star, demoting some classical music to make room.  This made it eligible to be a theme song for a character, so I gave it to Lisbeth.  I also made Clear Weather After the Rain, Fight! and Managarmer Sequestration Primal character theme songs, as they were more suitable than their predecessors.  The main point being now my wonderful playlist is better than ever.