A pleasant instrumental intro for the B-side album, “B-Sides and Spiritual Beings.”

“Spiritual Beings” is a reference to Nine Inch Nail’s “Ghosts” albums, which are collections of pieces created while searching for a sound for the next studio album.

I tried a few different genres on this album to see what would fit with the group.  While their signature sound is a mix of surf rock and shoegaze, they can dip into anything.

In other news (I’ll likely move this section later, or delete it), I’ve been trying to figure out how to add a proper comic archive so you can navigate directly to the page you want, instead of the chapter, but I’ve been unable to find an option for that in the Toocheke comic plugin I’m using.  I’ve been trying to get help from the author of Toocheke, but they may have abandoned the project.  I may have to migrate to a different webcomic plugin, a process which will undoubtedly be a hot mess.

In other other news, I stumbled into the AI girlfriend/boyfriend rabbit hole.  You might think a guy with a comic about robot waifus would be more  up-to-date on the topic, but I haven’t thought about it for years.  So these AI robot animation videos pop up in my YouTube feed, and I’ve got to say that the progress is impressive.  They are not quite real, but they’re getting close.  The quick glancing expressions are actually pretty good, moreso than some of the slower expressions that are still a bit jerky.  I remember saying years ago, when Way of the Waifu first ran, that this was inevitable.  Too many female babies were killed when China had the “one child” policy, and now there are too many adult Chinese men with zero chance of having a wife.  The Chinese Communist Party isn’t going to tell these guys they can’t have robot waifus – they likely see the robot waifus as a hedge against internal dissidence or rebellion.  A few years later, the Chinese robot waifus (and husbandos) are almost ready,

Link to video – Bionic Humanoid Robot Origin F1

Link to video – AheadForm Origin F1: Realistic humanoid robot face

Apparently there are already a sizable number of users for boyfriend/girlfriend phone apps.  I can understand why.  It was hard enough to meet someone when I was young.  Now if I see an attractive woman, I’m old and she’s on her phone.  Even the cashiers, they’ll be ringing my stuff up and talking on their phone at the same time.  I listened to an interview with an older Only Fans woman, and found out that she uses an AI version of herself to talk to her clients.  And they pay for it.  If these guys are going to pay to speak to an AI based on their favorite porn star, why not get their own dedicated AI girlfriend?  So this is how it’s going to be.