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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I picked up an Ultimate trim used 2021 Hyundai Kona EV with under 30k miles on it back in December for under $19k. Haven’t regretted it for a second. It was a corporate lease previously so it was in pristine shape.

    Charging at home is amazing.

    FWIW, the Kona EV (at least my model) mostly has buttons and knobs. The screen is 10", but it’s one of those ultra-wide ones so it’s not as big as the diagonal measurement makes it sound.



  • Bleach falls off so hard after the Soul Society arc. The pacing slows down to a complete crawl and practically every subsequent arc just recycles the same tropes and patterns over and over with the occasional shocking moment or two.

    Genesis of Aquarion had a strong concept but the execution increasingly fell flat for me as it went on.

    Guilty Crown had a very strong start but the finale was so forgettable I fully forgot what happened in the last 3 episodes within about a week.

    Mirai Nikki has a very strong start, a mediocre middle section, and a finish that would have been incredible if it made any sense with the show up until that point. The twist itself does work, but the emotional journey of the main characters is done in a way that’s more edgy than it is relatable.

    Darker Than Black is probably the biggest example of this. The dub helps fix some of the plot holes, but basically the showrunner who had the shows bible left the production about halfway thru season 1, so everything else after that point was the rest of the writers room just winging it, and it only kinda works, with the S1 finale being mediocre after such a great first few episodes. Season 2 is fully awful IMO.