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Feb. 15th, 2019 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yamamanama32 days until the vernal equinox
The latest Freedom In The World Report came out so it's time again for my annual Freedom House rant.
So, I’m glad that even Freedom House recognizes that there are problems in certain post-Soviet Bloc states and I’m glad they finally demoted Hungary to Partially Free.
I didn’t understand why Brazil is free but I guess Jair Bolsonaro didn’t assume office until 2019 and we’ll have to see how things go. On the bright side, Democratic Republic of the Congo is finally living up to its name and Ethiopia is going democratic as well.
I don’t understand why Italy is considered free. I don't know when they hand out the surveys. Or the Czech Republic. Or Austria. Or Poland. It's nice that they point this stuff out in their report but the rankings don't reflect this. They’ve kind of noticed that civil liberties are on the decline in France. I don't understand how Japan has the best rankings. I guess Freedom House has a bias towards right-wing secular states. Or I guess apathy is a way of life in Japan and if Japan became a dictatorship overnight, nobody would really notice or care.
Julia also has cats named Midnight and Comet and had Orion. She told me that Comet and Orion are black and I didn’t have to ask about Midnight. Unless he’s the anti-Snowball II. There may be a fifth cat but I didn’t hear it. Hell, I thought she said the cat’s name was Ryan, which isn’t unusual. It might be a reference to Men In Black but I didn’t think to ask.
Of Fizz, she said "look at him prance!"
She was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with some kind of cheese roll. Or would have, had the roll not had mold on it. Still, it sounds like a horrid combination.
Meanwhile, Dominique was eating some kind of noodle salad with tofu.
Michael said the mask he was wearing made him look like the world's worst Sub-Zero cosplayer.
We have two barred owls at this time. I think this means five have graced medward in 2019. We also got a fox and yet another swan and/or goose but they died.
The barred owl grabbed the mouse and then tried to murder the camera. We only do two laps with them as opposed to 5 with hawks because owls just sit around until they hear something and then they go after it. One of the barred owls has some vet wrap around his wing and we stick bits of wrap on them so they waste their time pulling that off instead. He made his injuries worse by bouncing around like a maniac.
We have another saw-whet owl.
burning question: is it just my imagination or is fanservice getting worse? Compare Star Ocean 3 with 4 (mostly good aside from one character who seems to have escaped from Lineage II. It definitely makes me long for Star Ocean 3 and your ability to choose a character’s outfit) (also one character who sounds like Tina Belcher with a lobotomy and a high dose of valium and there’s a reason for it I know. Doesn’t change the fact that she can be kind of grating) or Xenosaga or even Xenoblade Chronicles (there are many flaws with this game. Fanservice is not one of them) to Xenoblade 2, or Fire Emblem (I’ve only played The Sacred Stones) and its 1000 year old dragon who looks like a 12 year old girl and wears a skimpy outit, and, why, yes, I am aware that skimpy and tasteless aren’t necessarily synonymous. Michael says that they’ll cry censorship if they change Fiore’s outfit design.
I do not for one second believe that these people are interested in Japan for its gardens and sumo wrestling.
The latest Freedom In The World Report came out so it's time again for my annual Freedom House rant.
So, I’m glad that even Freedom House recognizes that there are problems in certain post-Soviet Bloc states and I’m glad they finally demoted Hungary to Partially Free.
I didn’t understand why Brazil is free but I guess Jair Bolsonaro didn’t assume office until 2019 and we’ll have to see how things go. On the bright side, Democratic Republic of the Congo is finally living up to its name and Ethiopia is going democratic as well.
I don’t understand why Italy is considered free. I don't know when they hand out the surveys. Or the Czech Republic. Or Austria. Or Poland. It's nice that they point this stuff out in their report but the rankings don't reflect this. They’ve kind of noticed that civil liberties are on the decline in France. I don't understand how Japan has the best rankings. I guess Freedom House has a bias towards right-wing secular states. Or I guess apathy is a way of life in Japan and if Japan became a dictatorship overnight, nobody would really notice or care.
Julia also has cats named Midnight and Comet and had Orion. She told me that Comet and Orion are black and I didn’t have to ask about Midnight. Unless he’s the anti-Snowball II. There may be a fifth cat but I didn’t hear it. Hell, I thought she said the cat’s name was Ryan, which isn’t unusual. It might be a reference to Men In Black but I didn’t think to ask.
Of Fizz, she said "look at him prance!"
She was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with some kind of cheese roll. Or would have, had the roll not had mold on it. Still, it sounds like a horrid combination.
Meanwhile, Dominique was eating some kind of noodle salad with tofu.
Michael said the mask he was wearing made him look like the world's worst Sub-Zero cosplayer.
We have two barred owls at this time. I think this means five have graced medward in 2019. We also got a fox and yet another swan and/or goose but they died.
The barred owl grabbed the mouse and then tried to murder the camera. We only do two laps with them as opposed to 5 with hawks because owls just sit around until they hear something and then they go after it. One of the barred owls has some vet wrap around his wing and we stick bits of wrap on them so they waste their time pulling that off instead. He made his injuries worse by bouncing around like a maniac.
We have another saw-whet owl.
burning question: is it just my imagination or is fanservice getting worse? Compare Star Ocean 3 with 4 (mostly good aside from one character who seems to have escaped from Lineage II. It definitely makes me long for Star Ocean 3 and your ability to choose a character’s outfit) (also one character who sounds like Tina Belcher with a lobotomy and a high dose of valium and there’s a reason for it I know. Doesn’t change the fact that she can be kind of grating) or Xenosaga or even Xenoblade Chronicles (there are many flaws with this game. Fanservice is not one of them) to Xenoblade 2, or Fire Emblem (I’ve only played The Sacred Stones) and its 1000 year old dragon who looks like a 12 year old girl and wears a skimpy outit, and, why, yes, I am aware that skimpy and tasteless aren’t necessarily synonymous. Michael says that they’ll cry censorship if they change Fiore’s outfit design.
I do not for one second believe that these people are interested in Japan for its gardens and sumo wrestling.
