At least this one wasn't so obvious that I was able to solve it before the opening credits ran, although "spores, molds, and fungus" was the first thing that came to mind when they finally gave us a proper look at the tomb's interior.
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That's bizarre, given that they'd already done one of those with Whispers of Dawn. It's as though they're trying to make this an old-style OAV series, with a new part emerging every few months, which would be okay if they'd just say so. The unwillingness to commit to any kind of date, even if it's next year, is frustrating.
I finally managed to watch at least one episode of everything I was interested in.
Dropped:
- Link Click (just didn't, er, click with me)
- Farmagia (too much game showing at the seams, not enough depth, protag is an idiot)
- Greatest Alchemist (not good enough to survive having slavery treated as acceptable)
- Fruit Master (just mediocre all over)
- I Want to Escape from Princess Lessons (denial of the main character's agency to an extent that's downright icky)
- Magic Maker (um, dude, I don't really care that she's your sister, but you appear to be macking on an oblivious prepubescent girl. No.)
- Momentary Lily (motion sickness-inducing).
Hanging by a thread:
- Aquarion: Myth of Emotions (really ugly artwork and isn't likely to be good enough in other categories to compensate)
- Promise of Wizard (first episode felt rather bland, haven't gotten to the second one yet)
- I'm a Noble on the Brink of Ruin etc. (just really bland so far, no black marks but not very interesting either)
I'll be picking one of those three to keep watching and dropping the other two.
By the way, does anyone know what's going on with Fate/Strange Fake? I wasn't anticipating it dropping off the schedule again after one episode.
And at the moment I’m watching an intriguing oddity called Scrapped Princess. At first glance, it appears to be a sort of cheesy swords and sorcery adventure story, but it’s been revealing surprising depth as it goes along and has really been quite good. Remains to be seen how it plays out…
Let's just say that the ending is probably not what you're expecting if you're still in the earlier part of the show.
There's a subset of Americans who are rather like ostriches: heads so deeply buried in the sand that they forget anything exists outside their immediate surroundings. Reminding them that the rest of the world is out there rarely has any positive results, however.
It's . . . arguable. The Alberta oil and gas industry doesn't really benefit "all Canadians", just the ones working in that industry, and most of us who whose paychecks don't depend on Alberta oil think the environmental oversight needs to be tightened up. In terms of advocating for the short-term interests of the subset of Albertans that elected her, Smith could be said to be doing her job. Problem is, she's doing so in a manner that goes against the long-term interests of everyone in the country, including the people that elected her.
Ultimately she's a whore for Alberta's oil and gas industry, and Trump is just a means to an end. She'd put out just as readily for a Japanese tentacle monster if it promised to buy oil from Alberta. So this isn't really about Trump or the US at all.
Somehow I knew he was going to draw the Fool. 😅
If I recall correctly, what they stole wasn't even worth that much. Definitely not worth starting a high-speed chase over, and you can't have a chase without a pursuer. If it had been a multiple murderer fleeing the scene, the risk might have been acceptable, but not for this.
I don’t understand how what once was rare in foreign tuition, then was a cash cow, and is now limited (but not eliminated) is now responsible for the total collapse of some schools.
They overextended themselves during the years the money was coming in, most likely, and now can't afford the remaining payments on new buildings or equipment or the current staff salaries or whatever without the extra financial support. (There's also the possibility of outright embezzlement having taken place, as at Laurentian U, which ended up axing a couple of programs.) Wikipedia suggests that Algonquin's been building or renovating a fair amount of stuff on their main campus in Ottawa over the past fifteen years. If they took out loans to finance some of it, it would make sense that they're short on cash now.
One of two things is the case:
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The numbers are in the paper, and the person who wrote the article could have transcribed them but is too lazy.
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The numbers are not in the paper, in which case I would class the article as inflammatory and irresponsible.
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Do I trust the journalist? Not in the sense you mean, but I expect them to act responsibly and make a minimum effort.
Japan often continues to use tech beyond the point other developed countries consider it obsolete (their government only recently transitioned away from floppy discs). It wouldn't surprise me if Sony was manufacturing the Mini- formats in small quantities for the Japanese market only.