One of those suckers lands and it reduces your life bar by half. Nowadays a hadouken only deals 0.0000075% damage

Can’t wait to read the rest of the series! I love how good he is at establishing the characters that I never feel lost with time jumps. You intuitively understand how the characters have been behaving so it’s never jarring.

Can’t believe how a book from the 70s feels more transgressive than a lot of modern fare. Characters’ vices are on full display here. Different from movies nowadays where they won’t even show someone smoking

It’s available in English and I read the first chapter. Pretty good translation. Does a great job of capturing the protagonist’s voice.

Even more galling is most of them live within reasonable driving distance of D.C.

These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.

I fear that first image might inadvertently launch dozens of new religions

My Japanese friend would just say Fudō because even he knew saying the full name properly would make you sound like a freak

Bookstore cats are also awesome

I would just like to remind everyone of a very telling and substantial report of Rockstar's abuse and disregard for workers that came out...... 6 YEARS AGO youtu.be/4xTDVlNGKng?...

If you haven’t seen it yet, the creator of the show wrote and directed the “BlackBerry,” which has a lot of the same vibes and is pretty tragicomic

That show is so fun! And to think I found out about it by looking into the origins of that Wii Shop Wednesdays meme

Oh for sure. And I think your personal connection further underscores how weak the Post’s fear mongering is. You can look at that and say, “Mamdani isn’t anything like Stalin by any stretch of the imagination.”

“One good day” lmao