Elmesia's title is 天帝 or 皇帝 in Japanese, and both of these are gender-less words.

In any case, the English people probably had the same thought you did and defined Kingdom as being able to be headed by a queen also. The United Kingdom was one example until recently.

There is a reason Rimuru is special besides being from a different world, and is related to the mask, but that is the next story arc for the anime (LN vol 11) I think.

Continuing from the end of the last episode, Rimuru and Gazel discuss Tempest's financial problems, at which point in stead of the OP song we got the entrance of wise and ancient Elmesia, who was acquainted with Gazel's grandfather and called him Gazel-bou ("young Gazel").

Elmesia offered to exchange some gold coins from her personal magic purse to help, and gave a lesson to Tempest (and especially Diablo) what greedy schemes humans could have hatched to undermine the country. After some talks with Rimuru and assessing him, she approved an alliance between Thalion and Tempest, in return of …… getting her included in any interesting stuff Rimuru plans in the future, and an introduction to Mr. Yoshida 🍰.

As to the tournament, Gobta fought so bravely with his new skill that even "Lightspeed" Masayuki decided to concede the fight and let Gobta win. Milim was impressed and volunteered to train Gobta and Ranga in the dungeons which Hakuro welcomed.

@rikka@ani.social :

Goodbye, Gobta. Goodbye, Ranga. I'll never forget how brave you were. -- Rimuru

Masayuki finally got to eat lunch in private with Rimuru, without his doting party members. Rimuru told him that he was also from Japan and treated him Japanese cuisine. He was relieved they were not enemies and told Rimuru of his unique skill. When he learned that Tempest had mangas, he became an ally completely.

Next episode we'll witness the opening of Tempest's Labyrinth, and Masayuki will show it off by challenging it.

Also, the button layout on switch controllers is different (A & B is swapped compared to XBox). This mostly matters on emulators, although you can remap the buttons, it can get confusing that they don’t match the games’ instructions on screen.

I really hate that you can only open one settings page at a time. There is no justification to making you lose your place you’re working on just because you want to adjust another minor setting. With the old interface I can e.g. have network and sound settings open at the same time and I don’t know why they took that away.

• One of the government's justification for the practice was "It was lawful at the time". Now the Supreme Court ruled the law was never constitutional.
• The Supreme Court also decided that "statute of limitations" does not apply so plaintiffs can still seek compensation.

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He made the magnitude of a negative number bigger, and bigger is always better, right?

If Meta win this lawsuit, does it mean I can download some open source AI and claim that "These million 4k Blu-ray ISOs I torrented was just used to train my AI model"?

Heck, if how you use the downloaded stuff is a factor, I can claim that I just torrented those files and never looked at them. It is more believable than Meta's argument too, because, as a human, I do not have enough time to consume a million movies in my lifetime (probably, didn't do the math) unlike AIs.

But who am I kidding, I fully expect to be sued to hell and back if I were actually to do that.

He’s still bitter someone Sponsorblocked his cat segment :-)

As far as human is concerned Frieren was alive before reliably recorded history, and will go on to live so long for generations to come. To see her commenting "Elves are on a slow decline to extinction" I first feel sad, and then realize it'd be so slow it would be unimaginable to me.

Frieren will probably live at least another 1,000 years. Will Frieren still be alive in 10,000 years? Will she have overcome elves' lack of passion at least once and have an offspring during that time? If so, will her offspring goes on to live another 10,000 years? If elves will be going extinct, it'll still be a long, long time in the future.

EDIT:

Next week will be the episode with the same name as the series title: "Sousou no Frieren".

One of the (many) things that I really enjoy about this series is its portrayal of demons.

I haven't seen this portrayal before Frieren, it is an intriging idea, and I think the author did a convincing job with the example of the demon girl, that it is totally not the "yesterday's enemy can be tomorrow's friends" trope you see in so many other novels/mangas/animes.

All these typing makes my hand sore. Did I mention this supplement that is good for muscle cramps? You can buy it now at mychannelstore dot com!

I know who will be the top contributor!

Their name is ChatGPT.