Mario Saint-Supery opting to sign with a Spanish club out of the blue this week is brutal from a team-building and player replacement perspective this late in the summer.

It's pretty hilarious that despite Gruber repeatedly glazing ChatGPT for having a great Mac-native application, they supplanted it with an Electron-based monstrosity of their own this week, and I learned about it via his chagrined post.

I'm like Sol for its minimalism, but I've found its file/folder capabilities wanting so far. Unclear if I'm doing it wrong or what?

Spotlight losing my applications again has me thinking about open source macOS application launchers for the first time in ages. Going to give Sol a try first I think.

Really dragging this afternoon. Might splurge for a mocha.

Realized yesterday that the fifth season of Welcome to Wrexham wrapped up two weeks ago and I haven't even started it. Next binge incoming!

Mary started watching Seinfeld a few days ago so I've been catching the occasional episode with her. The parking garage one is quite the classic.

Mind blowing defensive mistakes in the biggest game of their lives. 3-1 Belgium with a half hour to go. Absolutely miserable watch so far other than the lone goal.

Absolutely shocking defending by USA to start this game and gives Belgium a 1-0 lead ten minutes in.

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Quansah earns a red card with an absolutely braindead studs up challenge. Stones comes on for Saka and then Harry Kane converts the penalty that Gordon earned a minute later. Absolute chaos game with 30 minutes to go!

England - Mexico a real banger so far! 2-1 England with 5 minutes of extra time left in the first half. Despite the Bellingham brace Mexico has looked very dangerous all game long. Pickford has made multiple big saves.

Just binged The Ramparts of Ice S! (👍👍) over the last couple of days and it really ended on a cliffhanger. Good thing season 2 is coming in October. Also kind of funny that I'm starting to recognize dub voice actors from other shows even if I don't know all of their names yet.

I'm very curious to see how Blue Box actually wraps up. I can imagine an incredibly interesting storyline for Chinatsu post high school, but I'm doubtful the author is actually that interested in it. Best case would be a whole new series, worst case would be a time jump epilogue that completely squanders all the possibilities that are currently in play.

My Blue Box inspired, Claude-powered research seems to indicate that most high school sports in Japan exist in a practice and knockout tournament paradigm. That's fine for individual sports like badminton, and completely sucks for team sports like basketball.

Luka Vušković is go for Brighton for basically £50m after add-ons. Seems like good business for Spurs. The guy is an offensive talent, but completely unproven as a Premier League caliber defender.

Waiting for a septic tank servicing appointment. Dogs are chill at the moment and have had some outside time, but we're now in the window where they're going to be stuck inside for a while and nobody else in the house is up yet.

I am seriously impressed with how funny and satyrical Witch Watch is. Episode 5's opening sketch with their closet-manga-fan instructor, Ms. Makuwa, realizing her favorite fan artist is one of her students and having a mild breakdown, was a tour-de-force roasting of modern manga and its fandom. I can see why the Witch Watch manga is at 250+ chapters and counting.

Middle daughter starts her summer soccer practicing tonight. Happy that she's back at it, but not psyched about a Friday evening practice, hope most of her team shows up.

Somehow clawed my way to 5-2 in my first premier draft with Boros Thor-tribal after losing my opening game. Super fun set.

Tired and ready to hit the hay.

The Manga Plus Standard subscription is a ridiculously good deal. $1.99 a month for all current series is pretty amazing. The full back catalog for completed series is only three dollars more too, although it might make more sense to pay $4 for the Shonen Jump app.

Having a blast with Marvel Super Heroes this week. It seems to be getting the full Final Fantasy treatment in terms of available cosmetics, massive Jump-Start event, and a whole new achievement section as well, with full playset rewards. Top notch execution all the way around.

The Marvel Superheroes Jump-In has a new reward structure so you can end up with 4 rares and and extra uncommon card if you when two games. That's a great return on 1000 gold so I'll probably even more than I had originally planned.

It's pretty cool that you can view the latest chapters of popular manga series for free, and basically anything in the Shonen Jump back catalog for $3 a month.

My keyboard flaked out and destroyed my post about how much the spell gags in Witch Watch make me laugh out loud. The half clothing spell, doubling/halving spell, and friendly spell in episode 4 were hilarious! Now that Kan is in the mix things are only going to get more zany and eye-rolling from here on out for Morihito.