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I’m reading old webcomics, and I don’t miss the art style that goes “I like watching anime but never took an art class, and I’m never going to do any kind of lighting or depth or be at all realistic about how character’s lips move.”

A realization: The Stupendium is the elevated, semi-dignified form of The Bloodhound Gang. They both have the ability to generate loosely connected rants made of unexpected rhymes, but The Stupendium does stuff like:

Now the ads have got the traffic
And we've grabbed your demographic
So you're packing up your basket
'Cause your dad has gotta have it
He'll be sad if you don’t wrap it with a tag, it'll be tragic
So you're manically grabbing at the shelves amid the panic

And The Bloodhound Gang does stuff like:

Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket
Like the lost catacombs of Egypt, only God knows where we stuck it
Hieroglyphics, let me be Pacific, I wanna be down in your South Seas
But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean
Means small craft advisory

Judging by the release dates, Persona 3 is “we have Yoru ga Kuru at home.”

There’s this terrible idea some older games have, where characters get leaked experience as soon as they join you, but they don’t get their levels adjusted if you’re overleveled when you get them, so they’ll be lower-level than your older characters for the whole damn game.

Speaking of which, I am so overleveled and I’m barely even trying. I was beating holy hell out of a boss who did about 2% of my HP with each attack, and then the fight ended after enough turns had passed, because narratively, he massively outclassed me.

I have no idea how long it takes to fill up a bond meter, so it feels hard to justify using the male characters who don’t get bond meters.

Wait, this is also older than Fate? Because one of these villains looks distractingly like Kotomine Kirei.

I definitely feel some sort of way about the implication that the succubus-themed villain is actually a psychic projection by a little girl.

I like that there is a massive monster-fighting organization besides the teen heroes, fighting monsters in big cities all over the world. The reason the heroes are fighting is because the massive organization doesn’t give a shit about rural areas where the monsters only have a few people to kill.

The serial rapist villain (apparently?) died first, so now all we’re left with are villains who seem to have reasons for their actions. One of them just agreed to stop killing people, so I’m curious how the rest of this plays out. From the genre and the time period, I can’t imagine any of them will still be alive in the end.

A long time ago, I saw a post that said you should be grateful to black bloc protesters, because you need them destroying shit and beating up cops in order to advance your cause.

I didn’t find the words for this at the time, but I think that post was basically the same as when cops say you need them to keep you safe by brutalizing homeless people.