Riddle Joker Read:

I finished Mayu's route and with it all of Riddle Joker.  This on the same day I immortalized Riddle Joker by including it in my golden 300 franchises honored in '100 Waifus,' and the poster girl of Riddle Joker, Nanami, as one of Christopher's daughters.  Riddle Joker is worth the praise, but only because of Nanami.  Nanami was the best girl in Mayu's route.

In Mayu's route Satoru is caught spying on Mayu, but it turns out the two organizations they represent are on the same side, so they decide to cooperate to complete some scientific research.  Eventually they succeed and heal a bunch of injured espers, including Mayu's best friend.  Somewhere in there they start dating and having sex as well.  But Mayu is an annoying girl who is constantly denigrating herself (fishing for compliments?) and lying to hide her embarrassment.  She's sexy, like all the other girls in the game, but terrible wife material.  So high maintenance.  Being around Mayu is exhausting, while being around Nanami is invigorating.  It's all the difference.

I prefer working at a cafe over working as a secret agent, but I admit the 'spying with Nanami as my partner in stealth' was a more powerful feeling of closeness than coworkers at a cafe could ever produce.  Nanami saved Satoru's life and risked her own life.  That's something only Riddle Joker could do.

As I fell in love with Riddle Joker/Nanami, I fell out of love with Phantom Brave/Marona, to the point that I had to edit '100 Waifus' yet again despite the book being 'finished' last December.  That's just how great Nanami is and how bad Phantom Brave Lost Hero is.  But I'm convinced this is the final edit to the book, from here on it should be smooth sailing.  I already ordered a new paperback with all the new changes -- the name changes and the new Honoka date.  The name gallery is as good as it can get, given all the parameters it has to fulfill, and every plot hole due to not interacting enough with various waifus has been filled.  There shouldn't be anything left to correct.  The 50th edition really will be the charm.

I moved Albion (Day) up to 5-star, demoting Ultema - The Perfect Body to 4-star to make room.  Then I transferred Andy's theme song from Ultema to the much better After the Soldiers' Dreams, a heroic martial theme as opposed to a villainous one.  Now that Ultema wasn't 5-star I no longer had an obligation to attach a character to it.  My wonderful playlist consists of 1100 5-star songs, 195 4-star songs and 128 3-star songs.  But a large percentage of those 3 and 4 star songs, if they were rated 5-star, none would be surprised.  There's really a razor thin margin between the tiers.  That's why getting all the songs rated correctly has been so hard.  Recently I moved an Angel Beats song all the way from 1-star to 4-star -- Ichiban no Takaramono.  Rating 5,500 songs relative to each other correctly is harder than scoring a goal in the World Cup!

Now that I've finished Riddle Joker I can start Noble Works, the final English-translated Yuzusoft visual novel.  There's also the remaining 1/3 of Phantom Brave I still have to beat.  I feel like I've had more competing projects to work on this year than at any other time in my life.  For instance, in Heaven Burns Red I just beat the anachrony flat hand from chapter 4 part 1.  This rewarded me with an eternal daphne which I promptly granted to Hisame.  I now have 6 characters with eternal daphnes, but they don't actually make an ideal squad together, so I still need more daphnes before I get everything to work.  There are two anachronies left to best, and one of them has a daphne reward, the strongest one, so. . .

I hope Trump cracks down on the rioters hard this time.  The Democrats can't complain since they went so buck crazy about the January 6 protests.  If that's the new standard, any protest is an 'insurrection' and the worst event since 'the Civil War,' then we get to apply that standard too and arrest every last rioter in Los Angeles and keep them in jail without bail for the next 4 years.  That's how important quashing an insurrection is, right Democrats?  Sometimes rioters have legitimate grievances so it's hard to shoot them all, but this time they're rioting over the right to attack ICE so that illegal alien criminal gangsters can continue to victimize normal Americans for the rest of their lives.  This is such a beyond the pale 'grievance' that no one should tolerate it.  Something like 90% of Americans want criminal illegal aliens deported, and these riots are attacking ICE for doing the job the American people voted for them to do.  This is why Trump was elected.  There could me no more illegitimate a political protest than this -- basically these people are saying that democracy doesn't matter and if they lose the vote they'll just turn to violence and get their way anyway.  That's totally unacceptable.  And there's no reason to put up with it.

Preferably the National Guard would just mow these rioters down with machine guns, but like Putin Trump is a pussy, so some milkwater crackdown will be done instead.  But the riots must stop, one way or another.  Use kids' gloves, give out candy, whatever, but the riots must stop.  There can be no question in anyone's mind, anywhere in America, whether the federal government has the right to enact federal law as mandated by a nationwide election just a few months ago.  This needs to be made clear to the left half of the country, they're no longer in power.  Period.