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... so it seems. Chalk that down as another reason to never use that site to host anything.

Anyway. What's great about this stewert person hitting another guy with a chair, anyway?

There's more animated picture formats than .gif, yes.

Also I don't really know who either of those people are. I think I should know the jon one, but...

Just as soon as someone starts doing actual politics instead of vaguely fellating in trump's direction, sure. Please send letters to the appropriate republican candidates and ask them to do so. They wouldn't listen to me. Too liberal.

I guess we could talking about the dems, but we sorta' have been talking about the dems and there's not much to say, not much really going on in general, and mostly we're just sitting around waiting for the sideshow to start really rolling while the republicans start the time honored primary tradition of tearing into each other.

Gregory Horror Show. PS2 game, apparently.

E: The google-fu hit was "horror game hotel grim reaper" sans quotes. Gamefaqs review about five hits in nails it to a T.

Apparently has a pair of sequels, too, though it looks like they deviate from the original game style.

Probable reason it hasn't been translated is just 'cause it's a PC-98 game. Doesn't look like there's been much inroads in translating stuff for that system. Just the farland story series seems to make up like half of all the translated games for it, heh.

Have started reading this Mushoku Tensei thing. Am currently experiencing what it's like to read about a reincarnated japanese hikikomori trying to hold a staff meeting for a three person adventurer party, where the other two parties are an incredibly violent borderline-idiot tsundere twelve year old, and the other is a 500+ year old barely-socialized mass murderer that spent a significant amount of his life indulging in weapon-possessed killing spree. It... they don't really know what's happening, and the main character himself is basically performing a caricature of something he never experienced.

Picture, if you will, three wildly disparate individuals, two of them under 13 years old, gathering around a campfire in the middle of what amounts to a magically inundated death desert. The shortest one, a 10 year old, leads the other two in a round of applause, stating that the meeting has started. He actually tells them to applaud. The incredible awkwardness of everything that's involved in this process is almost palpable.

... it's a thing. I do have to say, though, that this is quite possibly the first LN I've read where the regular lasciviousness is actually self-aware of how scummy it is. It's faintly amazing, reading a perspective character that is not only more or less scum, but is acutely aware of it and (vaguely) trying to be a better person. I'm only three volumes in, so I'm not sure I'd actually recommend it as a whole, and there's parts that are vaguely painful to read, but the degree of self-awareness involved so far is weirdly impressive.

E: Having read a bit more, I also have to express a degree of appreciation for the variety of erection euphemisms used. Author has been fairly fastidious about avoiding repetition, which considering the number of times it comes up (*ahem*) is faintly impressive. The one involving arthurian legends was pretty great.

World turned the internet social 'cause it's the most powerful communication tool we've yet invented, and they wanted to use it to communicate socially :V

... that's really just about it. Not even really anything odd about it, s'just people doing what people do, talk to each other. Just that a lotta' folks don't want to bother with the anonymity, so they don't. Which is okay, I guess. Little irritating, compared to when the 'net felt nice and comfortable and safe from the outside world, but that was pretty much always an illusion waiting to get popped. That time was always temporary, to the extent it even existed to begin with, and was pretty obvious it was going to end just as soon as interface and whatnot smoothed out enough to open up greater access to the medium. Which it did, and here we are.