At last, Ren'ai 0 Km is out and downloadable. The release was delayed from last November, but now we can all dig in. This is a good time because there's still 4 days before the Olympics and there aren't any new events in Heaven Burns Red. What looked like an empty portion of the calendar is now full.
I was looking forward to Ren'ai 0 Km based on the art, the studio behind it (Asa Project), and the plot summary. Obviously I haven't played it until now, so I can't vouch for its quality. I can only vouch for its potential. From what I've played so far, it has the same annoying bug as Da Capo -- you can't use the mouse wheel to scroll down and continue the next line of conversation, you have to actually click the mouse button to get to the next sentence. This doesn't sound that annoying in abstract, but trust me, the amount of effort it takes to click the mouse every single sentence gets burdensome really quickly. Remember, visual novels can be as long as War and Peace. That's a lot of mouse clicks. To avoid having to click the mouse all the time, I set it to auto, but this comes with its own troubles. The auto pace is too slow when it comes to spoken lines, but too fast when it comes to unspoken lines. Finding an auto pace that is slow enough to read the unspoken lines without feeling rushed means inevitably boredly waiting for the spoken lines to finally move on. There is no golden mean.
The music is uninspiring so I immediately turned it off in favor of my own wonderful playlist. There's virtually no game whose music can compete with my wonderful playlist, though, so I forgive it on this front.
So long as the plot is good and the characters are likable, I'll put up with all these nuisances. Obviously Da Capo was still worth playing with this bug. But I can only notice the problems early, the virtues, if they exist, will only become clear days from now.
Meanwhile, I finished my rewatch of Cinderella Gray season 2. The season was too short, it barely covered anything. They should really make a sequel and cover the exciting moments to come in the rest of the manga. But it was nice while it lasted. Only three series remain to be rewatched: Koujo Denka no Kateikyoushi, Who Made me a Princess? and Spy x Family S3.
Obviously when it comes to ICE vs. Antifa protestors, I support ICE. Ron Unz and Andrew Anglin are anti-ICE for some dumb conspiratorial reason that they believe ICE is here to steal our civil liberties rather than enforce the law, but that's stupid. They're enforcing the law, and all law-abiding Americans should be cheering them on. Law-abiding Americans have nothing to fear from ICE, everybody ICE has hurt brought it upon themselves by first confronting ICE.
Either we're a nation of laws or we aren't. Either we enforce the laws on the books against illegal immigration or we have de facto open borders, and billions of the poorest and most criminal populations of the world will come streaming in to prey on us and take over our country. There is no middle ground on this issue. If you don't support ICE then you support the complete annihilation of our country and becoming the eternal slaves to whoever decides to show up at our doorsteps and become our conquerors. Obviously there are more foreigners on Earth than native-born Americans, so just by democratic vote they will take our country over without having to fire a shot. Talk about the most effortless conquest in history.
Furthermore, either we have a federal government or we don't. If localities like cities or states are allowed to nullify federal law, ban federal officials from their areas, or put federal workers on trial for violating their own 'state' or 'local' law, then we don't have a country. We have fifty countries, or hundreds of countries, all at war with each other, a complete anarchy and pure chaos. The federal government must not bow down to the completely outrageous, illegal, and insubordinate demands of any lower government body. We are the supreme law of the land. This has been established by hundreds of prior Supreme Court rulings. We don't answer to anybody, they answer to us. We are the federal government, the true government, and they are lesser beings who exist to carry out our orders and wishes. That's it. ICE enforcement must continue in Minneapolis not because illegals are such a dire threat there, but because we must make a point to never bow down to local government officials and never give in to pressure from our own subordinates. It would be like the nobility taking orders from the peasantry, or illiterates instructing priests on what the Bible says. This is a totally unacceptable inversion of power relationships. Supine, servile behavior will immediately lead to the disgrace and discreditation of the current government, after which it won't stand much longer. Like the Tsarist government in 1917, any sign of weakness only led to further contempt and further demands against the government, which quickly lead to its complete erasure. This sort of effrontery must be nipped in the bud to preserve the government's prestige, which is necessary to preserve obedience to the government. There is no alternative or compromise.
Andrew Anglin, Ron Unz and the like say there are better ways to deport illegals than the methods ICE are using, but they ignore the fact that these 'better' ways would require Congress to act, which is impossible because of the Senate filibuster rule. We can't pass a new law saying it's illegal to hire illegals, or rent to them, or give them welfare, etc., because the Democrats won't go along with that. If we try to reinterpret current laws to achieve the same effect, some federal judge appointed by the Democrats will immediately nix it with an injunction, so that won't work either. The only thing we can do is personally, one by one, grab illegals off the street and deport them, because that's the only enforcement judges and Congress currently allow. The hope is that by making visible raids on some illegals, the rest will get the hint and self-deport, which is what's already happening. Over two million illegals have self-deported since Trump came in office. The strategy is working, if Republicans wouldn't stupidly get in its way and sabotage their own President who is trying his best. All we have to do is have faith and stay the course, show up and support Republicans in the midterms, and the illegal immigration problem will slowly go away. Instead the alt-right, which should be the most favorable towards ICE, is stabbing them in the back and nitpicking every little thing they do. It's infuriating. Like a spoiled child who finally gets what he wants and throws a tantrum anyway, suddenly declaring he wants something else. Haven't we been fighting against mass immigration all this time? And now that somebody actually agrees with you and tries to do something about it, now you declare that they aren't doing it right so you're still going to throw a hissy fit? It's no wonder everybody ignores the alt-right constituency. There's no profit in serving them because they don't show any gratitude or loyalty in return. Complete amateurs at game theory and simple politeness, they deserve to be thrown into the dustbin of history.
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