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In more than one way, as you will soon find out.

Overhead death strike!

Nothing much to "predict" there. Tourism makes up like 30% of the gross domestic product of Tyrol. Tourism is so powerful there they don't have lobbyists influencing the politicians... the lobbyists are the politicians. The municipal council of Ischgl is made up entirely of mountain lift managers and hotel owners, and corporate fatcat Franz Hörl is actually a member of parliament. In uhm, addition to owning a hotel, managing a mountain lift company and being the head of the Austrian mountain lift association. Good thing they learned something from past mistakes though... not. The French found a solution for problems like these a while ago, maybe it's time to dust it off.

Not sure where to post this, but I'll be rocking off to this for the rest of the night: xD Some background information.

Just sat on the couch doing nothing much with Netflix running and for some reason it suddenly played the third episode of Cardcaptor Sakura. Not sure how that happened. I'll mark the spoilers but really nothing that happens here is of any consequence, you're free to read. That "feelgood" tag the anime has on Netflix is well earned. Compared to Sailor Moon so far it's a bit more shōjo, but that's not something I mind... never did, not even when I at least was in the same age group as the regular shōjo target audience.

Nintendo recently sent me an e-mail telling me that I can buy coupons in the online store. 99€ for two full price games... means I just bought the most blatant cash grab in history, Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Bravely Default 2. I wanted both anyway, and with the clock ticking on 3D All-Stars that just sealed the deal. At least I can pretend to have minimized the effect for totally falling for a cashgrab by saving 20€, even though never having played Sunshine or ever finished Super Mario Galaxy (only the second one) would be justification enough, I guess. Now there's only one tiny problem that remains. How can I get my visiting nephew to stop hugging my Switch? 🤔

I've seen two episodes. If the entire show is just her capturing a card each episode without little else happening then it will probably not be interesting for me either, but so far there's enough fun stuff going on. Steven Universe episode 16:

Hm. The advantage of 10 minutes episodes though. They're over quick when they're not particularily good. Sailor Moon SuperS feels like a slog in comparison.

Soon you will revel in the glory that is Sailor Moon SuperS. Are you excited yet?

Oh, right, I forgot to add: Finished Phantom Blood now. I also finished the first Cardcaptor Sakura episode, and the second one. I'm enjoying this one a lot, and that after only two episodes. Sakura is totally endearing and her best friend Tomoyo turns into a complete fangirl the moment she finds out that Sakura is actually a magical girl. I wonder if that keeps up, because currently she's chasing Sakura everywhere with her camcorder and documents her fights, and she insists on giving Sakura pretty costumes to fight the monsters in. Tomoyo comes from a very successful business family and has her family's servants and bodyguards drive her around. Inlcuding a van full of costumes to choose from pre-battle. It's hilarious and adorable, and the dialogue is fun. Sakura remarks that there probably aren't many elementary school girls that have body guards drive them around, and she comes back with "Yeah, but elementary school girls that can use magic are probably even rarer", that had me laughing for a good while. The english dub is a little less fun, somehow. Video timecoded for your conveniece, as usual. Jesus Christ that dub is bad, do yourself a favor and watch this one with subs. 😮 Edit: Oh, right, and Steven Universe:

Naoko Takeuchi, by the looks of it. Crystal is rather close to the manga. The Professor and his team is just so awesome.

@ArtistFormerlyKnownasKP Huh, what's with your name, had a fallout with your record label?

Ah, hell. I have an excuse, it is almost 3 am here. *cough* *cough*

Had to look that up, but from what I've read, yeah, seems similar. You'll scare Bartimaeus off here with that talk, man.

By the way, if you need any more convincing to watch Madoka Magica, look at this adorable trailer.

Look at the Mike and Jay Podcast turning 10:

There's a reason the IT variant of Murphy's Law is: Even if nothing can go wrong, it will go wrong.

Torn between anger, hate, despair and a certain feeling of airy lightness because that hell launch that's been looming over me is done and it is surprisingly quiet. Except for a minor problem that I just patched out. Can't wait for the bomb to hit. There's something that must break down, or stop working, or go wrong, and the longer it takes to rear its ugly head the worse it will be. I'm quite frankly terrified. And tired.

A note on watching too much anime with subtitles: I randomly followed a Netflix recommendation and have now seen half an episode of Cardcaptor Sakura. I have no opinion on the show yet (and won't, for a while, because I'll finish JoJo and Steven Universe first, and then it probably will be Revolutionary Girl Utena first), but I've made some interesting observations. I'm getting used to hearing Japanese. Instead of everything being one indistinguishable mess of strange sounds I'm actually beginning to pick up commonly repeated phrases like good morning, good evening, hello, yes, no, let's eat, thanks for the food, good bye, bye, welcome home, my name is (although that's the other way around, <surname> <first name> desu), nice to meet you. And I immediately recognized the voice actors of two characters on Carcaptor Sakura. Sakura's magic animal companion is Ami and the boy she likes is voiced by Haruka... which is a bit weird. This one is particularily interesting because when I started out watching Sailor Moon with subtitles I couldn't even tell the girls apart when they were talking over each other, let alone recognize their voices in some other show. How long until I turn into a complete weeb?

We were supposed to be part of the second phase as critical infrastructure (i.e. people to innoculate after the 80+ high risk group and employees of health services and doctors), but like everything, our dear little Dollfuß messed that up hard. *shrug*