Have you ever had a week where it feels like you failed at life? Yeah. Me too. I’m not sure quite how to deal with it, so I’m drinking an Elysian Bifrost, which is a pretty good winter ale, and I took a tour around the Otakusphere. I didn’t get very far before I found […]
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