Man, am I tired of listening to him. Impressions: Are we seriously trying to promote Bit to a starring role as a hero? The craven coward who the entire cast patronizes and humors as a joke character? It's about as convincing as pretending Shu's dead, but I guess we're still doing that too. But […]
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