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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Late and Random Superlatives:

    Best Returning & Exceeds already high expectations : Oshi no Ko
    No surprise here, the show picked up right were it left off and kept running strong. I still have a few episodes to catch up on, but I’m sure it is excellent.

    Most surprising: No Longer Allowed in Another World
    Started a bit rough, but once it got the characters and formula established it worked and was easily one of the seasons most enjoyable shows.

    Best Trash: Failure Frame
    I’m sucker for isekai, level systems, and OP protagonists. This had all that and was generally enjoyable but I would not accuse it of being good…

    The Wilford Brimley “diabeetus” award: Pseudo Harem
    I love the show, but the couple is just so cute and sweet it hurts to watch. Still have a few episodes to finish.

    Bonkers but it works: I Parry Everything
    Somehow the central gimmick never quite got old, and the insanity actually sort of made sense.

    Most likely to forget I watched it: The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s army was a Human
    The show was fine, but nothing about it really stood out to me.

    So bad its kinda good: A Nobody’s Way Up to an Exploration Hero
    The show was bad, but somehow that worked for me.

    Largest Dumpster Fire: Bye, Bye, Earth
    An absolute disaster. The setting looked really interesting, but was so poorly developed and threw in so many unexplained situations it just turned into an unwatchable mess.

    Most missed now its gone: Dungeon People
    This was not the most creative, exciting, or flash anime, but it was solidly enjoyable and I really came to look forward to it each week.

    Guilty Pleasure: The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies

    Love the show but forgot it was airing Spice and Wolf

    Most Disappointing: Nokotan
    I really, really, really wanted to love this. I expected irrelevant and random, often surreal humor. What I got was one joke, told over and over again and drug out to the point that it quickly stopped bring funny.

    Most Underrated: My Wife Has No Emotion
    This might be my favorite new show of the season. It gets weird at times and there is an element of uncomfortableness about the human/robot relationship, but the show explores that, and does a decent job of it… I especially appreciated how, despite the title, Mina was able to demonstrate so much emotion without the ability to show it on her face at all.











  • Suppose you take a very superficial view of the U.S. without thinking too hard, and consider COVID to be either an exception or a conspiracy. Under Trump the economy seemed to be doing well, wages were up, inflation a nonissue, unemployment down, illegal immigration wasn’t often in the news, no war in Ukraine or Israel, Afghanistan had not collapsed, abortion was a nonissue, etc. Under Biden, constant news about illegal immigration waves, two wars, high inflation, abortion, etc.

    Of course that ignores other issues, a lot of the “Trump economy” was actually the afterglow of the “Obama economy”, and if we give Trump a pass on COVID we should do the same for Biden and the economic shock that lead to inflation. Trump would not have supported Ukraine and layed the ground work for both the abortion and Afghanistan issues, etc.

    But, keep in mind, half of Americans are below average and take whatever media they consume at face value, a lot of which is Fox News.