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Nippon got a is fair share of portuguese christian missionaires tho. Japanese christians aren't super common I guess.

Yeah, Christianity apparently didn't leave a very good impression when it first rolled in to any meaningful degree. Crucifixions and whatnot, iirc. The effect's diluted a bit over the years, but the initial foot-shooting (so far as PR goes) made it hard for the religion to get off the ground in the area, or something along those lines.

Eh... for whatever reason, there's some folks out there that really don't like leaving messages, particularly ones more than "call back". I've known a fair few folks that'll literally just hang up if the answering machine/voicemail comes on, regardless of the situation. Never gotten around to asking one of them why that is...

Well. I know why it's like that for some of them, but not the ones that are doing it for a reason that doesn't boil down to being exploitative scum. Much easier to fleece a mark in real time than through a static message. Is part of reason why stuff like telemarketers or scam artists will only very rarely leave a message. _{the rest of it is usually because they're using a spoofed number or something equivalent, and won't give a working one regardless -- among other things, it's a lot easier for cops to find them if they give one to their target :V}

So, silly and ironic as it sounds TRUMP IS POPULAR BECAUSE HE IS MORE PREDICTABLE.

... or at least he's pretty decent at convincing low information voters he is, to all appearances. I'm not sure how you'd consider him particularly predictable, though, considering what he says he's going to do changes something like every few days. Well... predictable on some things, like changing position on a subject, but so far as policy and policy implementation goes I think you'd have better luck figuring out what a rabid squirrel would do, at this point.

Apparently there's people in this house that think driving off in the middle of cooking something, without telling anyone, is a good idea.

Oven's off now, and whatever's in it only smells somewhat burnt, but if I hadn't gone into the other room for a snack at that particular time...

That sounds entirely too much like the title of an even more terrible than usual bodice ripper romance book.

... y'know, there's that one game, but I don't think I've ever encountered a book that had a slime tech revolution as a plot point before the last day or so. Well, written work, whatever. But now I have. Medieval world being basically slowly uplifted by advances in slime breeding. Sanitation and material sciences advances, friggin' air conditioned carriages, buncha' other stuff, all by way of slime. It's a helluva' thing, and surprisingly stealthy about the greater cultural shifts going on despite the amount of focus the slimes get. Can't say I dislike it, but it's definitely a bit of a WTF.

The Man Picked up by the Gods is the title, by the by. Web novel that's working through the process of being translated into english. Quite possibly one of the least offensive massively overpowered MC works I've read in a while.

If by what it needs, you mean what it needs to stop being the world hegemon, I guess...