At least there's no slave harem. Yet. Impressions: Well, there's less shouting than I anticipated, and somewhat more of a story centering things, but it still didn't click much for me. The humor has this weird almost Randian bend to it. Yeah, we're not supposed to take the protagonist here as a hero, he pitches […]
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