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Not so much. That's generally my standard suggested response to human-sized arachnids, to be honest. Not only is the bastard probably violating the laws of physics, they're unstoppable doompredators we cannot allow to survive as a species. Sentient arachnids must be ended. Our state of being as anything but food demands it.

*scratches head* Wasn't there actually a news post someone threw out a bit back that had one of/some of the major repub figures basically say exactly that? That they wanted to have dudes that stopped saying incredibly stupid shit at incredibly poor times, but didn't intend to change party platforms in the slightest. Basically to shine brighter but shovel the same shit, if you will. We'll see how it goes, I guess.

Tales of Maj'Eyal has added... facebook integration.

Ladies and gents, we have a roguelike with facebook integration. My mind is adrift in a sea of confusion.

Secrets of the Omnissiah, that.

More specifically, you probably don't actually want to know. Let's just say recycling tech in the forty-first millennium is highly advanced and leave it at that.

... it's good that you recognize you're part of the problem, though, iti. I'm guessing you A or B?

Well, there's a fair chunk of interaction among the manga/anime style stuff, but not so much between that and gaming. Like I said, the skill set required for game translation (above and beyond the relatively simple translation part) is generally quite different from the skill set required for video/graphic novels, and the bulk of adult, if you will, translation work occurs with anime and manga (frankly put, naughty games tend to be considerably lower quality than the comparative difference between licit and illicit manga/anime). So the racier stuff doesn't have terribly much impact among game translation, insofar as distracting capable folks from working on the more straight-laced stuff.

You occasionally get folks going off and translating stuff like Sengoku Rance, but... well, that's actually a good game despite the racy bits. Same for stuff like fate/stay night and Tsukihime. Most folks won't invest the time needed to translate a game (which is considerably more than what you need to translate a manga, or often even a manga series. Bit closer timeframe with anime, but still more investment with a game, generally.) unless the game's pretty good for some reason. Most adult games are, well, crap. So they don't often get translated. Too much effort for too little reward, so to speak.

They keep a lot of good stuff to themselves, yeah. They being the non-english video game sphere

But we have translators! Ones that do it for free. They'll get around to it eventually. It just... takes a while.

Doesn't have to be ridiculously expensive to eat well. I hit up the local farmer's markets (and ethnic markets...Indian/Asian/Hispanic markets often have produce and bulk spices at ridiculously cheap prices compared to mainstream grocery stores) and try to make a big batch of food every few days to munch off of, since my finances are now much tighter. Got some cheap chicken cuts, pierced them, tossed them in a bag with some Italian dressing, then pan-fried them. Made a box of chicken-flavored rice/vermicelli mix from ALDI's, and tossed up some green peas and mushrooms with a little butter and seasoned salt. Total price of everything was maybe $8. Made enough to get three full meals out of. That's pretty price-efficient and way better than just ramen.

Who said anything about just ramen Though ramen's part of it. The noodles make an alright addition to several other things, and the seasoning's actually kinda' delicious when added to rice or potatoes. Y'just don't use a full pack of the stuff (in anything, including the ramen. That's some bloody strong junk.).

I tend to average about a buck fifty/two bucks per meal unless I'm particular desperate. Base of some sort of grain (rice, noodles) or potatoes, then additional seasonings and occasionally meat. And usually some cheese, heh. Every once in a while I'll get fancy, but you get inventive when you're low on funds so it still trends toward pretty inexpensive. I do seem to drive family members a little crazy when I go shopping with them, though, heh.

Do need to get around to scoping out the town I'm in now (for another week or two, possibly longer at some later point) for various deals, but... that comes later.