Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays for one.
Second. Remember when the entire plot was about trying to make things better for everyone, like rideable mech ponies and slightly interesting doodads that make life easier for people?
Now we have Jellyfish, T-posing crab mechas, battleships, Stealth Bomber fighters, a Sun for some reason, What's his name making an appearance again, aerial bombardment, holo screens, combat golems, a romance that hasn't been mentioned in like 20 chapters, a gravity generator holding up this planet, a railgun loli, a kingdom that thinks crossbows and medieval weaponry are the latest technology when they know someone who shoots lasers, an Awacs, and a whole other list of things that just takes the suspension of disbelief and launches it into the void.
To think I was annoyed at the surfing Golem competition, how naive I was...