Don't break the budget here, guys. Impressions: Here we have our second show about being in an RPG world and being eaten by a dragon in the first 60 seconds. Which is weirdly specific, and yet there's multiple. Anyway, it really goes out of its way to show that, yes, you can actually do […]
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