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There was supposedly minor controversy in Japan over Aerith’s new design since she looked more Caucasian than in the previous interpretations of her character.

Reminds me of my shittiest job as a paper deliveryman — they’re delivered between 1 AM and 6 AM around here, so it’s not a job for teens. Poor pay, bad weather and lots of unpleasant drunkards. Still, there was one address that was downright eerie, but in a good way: an over 100-year apartment building where one… Read more

A photo of the Hangman’s Hill with the little monument at the top and the cathedral’s spire in the background:

There’s that other possibility: he’s neck deep in debt and terrified of both civil and criminal charges. He may straight up flee the country and pretend for the rest of his life that he’s a political refugee, while leaking as many national secrets as he can recall to Putin out of spite. 

Are creepypasta videos interesting if you don’t believe in the supernatural? Read more

I do not believe in supernatural phenomena in the slightest and I don’t consider this incident to be more than an amusing coincidence and a side effect of watching too many creepypasta videos, but regardless, it does make for a good story, and someone else might read more to it than I do. Read more

Not really. They’re petri dishes now because they consist of thousands of people crammed into an enclosed space for days or weeks on end, all going to the same restaurants and entertainment facilities for most of the trip. As a shopping center the number of people going in would increase, but their continuous… Read more

That kind of stuff is surface details that often gets altered or replaced in renovations, though. Read more

Wendigo is Algonquin equivalent of a werewolf myth; starving people who are driven to cannibalism become monsters forever hungry for human flesh. The Algonquin are from the modern Canada, and the Wendigo is associated with winter cold, not deserts.

She was lying in her bed in the middle of the night when a giant hole opened up in the middle of the wall opposite her bed and in rode a man on a motorcycle with a skull for a head. Read more

*ahem*

Isn’t a whole thing about the Targaryens their whole otherworldly, almost Elven beauty? Read more

It’s funny that despite of the silly look, this armour probably provides more protection than the last one. 

As magical racist cops, the abuse they inflict on the young girl goes beyond merely beating her and making her legitimately fear for her life—one of the cops spits on Diana, placing a curse on her body that immediately prevents her from breathing. Read more

Is Dee being pursued by Hounds of Tindalos? The persistence of the creepy little girls mimics theirs. Read more

It’s kind of funny that this line is then followed by chapters full of examples of discriminated minorities throwing off the yoke of the oppressors and going off their own ways as Nomad clans. Read more

They’re not. At least if we look at the source material, plenty of non-Asian people have adopted those swords. Read more

While there’s many uncomfortable Orientalist details about Cyberpunk, this isn’t really one of them. It’s been established that there are separate Chinese and Japanese districts in Night City, and the district of Kabuki is even mentioned to have been originally built by Japanese immigrants who since mostly moved on,… Read more

Sauron made the One Ring, it contained his own power and will. It was a part of him. So no, he wasn’t mastered by it. It was his lifeline that kept him from dying when his physical form was killed. 

As I recall (ha!), the only one who contested whether it was rape was the rapist, himself.