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So, there's a fan fiction writer who I have enjoyed their output. They stopped writing a while back.

Due to a small handful of opsec mistakes, I think I know who's behind the pseudonym.

Should I message them and ask them to write more?

(No, clearly not.)

Bob: *Outrageous, partisan opinion*

Alice: what convinced you of that?

Bob: Watch this YouTube video.

Alice: Is this video what convinced you, or is it what you think would convince me?

Okay, technically not _everything_ in my collection.

I did not reread _Bored of the Rings_, _The Last Ringbearer_, or _A Tolkien Bestiary_, which don't really count.

For reference, I started... four years ago, by rereading everything, including the entire _History of Middle Earth_.

So it's been a journey.

I rewatched _The Lord of the Rings_ movies as the final capstone in my return to Middle Earth quest.

They still hold up pretty well.

I've been on unemployment.

The only way you make more on unemployment than you do in wages is if you used to be a highly paid professional and the only jobs available are shitty.

Say, you were a computer programmer and now you are selling cable door to door on commission.

Libertarians are just liberals who caucus with the Republicans.

Is there a list of web features locked behind other web features?

Like HTTP2 requires HTTPS.

There's a bunch of stuff that the browser won't let you do without CORS headers.

Browsers block some APIs on file:// URLs.

Etc.

Is there a solid list?

Does that make this a feminist anime?

Oh yeah, one more thing:

The joke is always that he's a former violent criminal whose become a homemaker, and never that he's a _man_ who has become a homemaker.

Always <I never expected _you_ to become a househusband> and never <househusband isn't a real thing.>

Oddly, Netflix normally lets me download episodes of shows I want to watch to my phone, but I can't for this show.

Very weird.

🔒 says in Japan it was marketed as an "animated manga", which would set expectations a lot better.

Not sure who dropped the ball on that in the American marketing, or if it's just on Netflix, which sets expectations by itself.

Should you watch it?

Yeah. It's pretty damn funny.

As long as you can deal with the weird presentation, it's a riot. Go in forewarned and have a great hour and a half.

But, uh, damn if it's not funny every time, even if it's the same three jokes done over and over again.

So, other than that, how is it?

Well, there are roughly three jokes:

Tatsu does something normal, but his affect makes people think he's up to criminal mischief.

Tatsu does something normal, but with a ridiculous intensity.

Gangsters are baffled by Tatsu's domestic skills.

Chatter on the street says that they producer asked for it to be this way. They also say that there was no character designer for the anime, but they used the manga panels as reference directly.

(Take this with a grain of salt. I didn't bother to confirm.)

This looks like a comic made in flash with animated panels.

This is not what a show that ran out of money looks like; this was done on purpose.

The giveaway is when the screen shows panels, which it does.

I have no idea _why_ they did it this way, but they sure did.

Let's begin by addressing the elephant in the room: the animation style.

This is barely animated at all.

I complained that Jojo was being to close to a comic still. I noticed the cost-cutting shortcuts on The Seven Deadly Sins season 3.

This is way beyond that.

That's all of it. Only five episodes.

So, what's my takeaway?

Miku and Masa join forces to throw Tatsu a birthday party. Their incompetence in all things domestic defeats them.

Tatsu meets his former boss and wows him with his domestic skills. This was supposed to be a recruitment, but it's clear that Tatsu is doing better in his new life.