While going through my directory of screencaps from Read or Die, this caught my attention:
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This is from the opening. Check out the sign behind Agent Paper:
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Hmmmm….
What I like is that I didn’t notice this at all during the show. My eye just accepted this, even though it isn’t even close. There are no gaps in the words and there are an awful lot of less common letters stacked together. I’m surprised it never caught my eye.
Free Radical
The product of fandom run unchecked, this novel began as a short story and grew into something of a cult hit.
Ludonarrative Dissonance
What is this silly word, why did some people get so irritated by it, and why did it fall out of use?
Mass Effect 3 Ending Deconstruction
Did you dislike the ending to the Mass Effect trilogy? Here's my list of where it failed logically, thematically, and tonally.
The Dumbest Cutscene
This is it. This is the dumbest cutscene ever created for a AAA game. It's so bad it's simultaneously hilarious and painful. This is "The Room" of video game cutscenes.
Spider-Man
A game I love. It has a solid main story and a couple of really obnoxious, cringy, incoherent side-plots in it. What happened here?
T w e n t y S i d e d


Since it looked alot like a cypher, I decoded it with ROT13 and Ceasar’s Chiffre. Alas, the output had no meaning ;)
Anime does this a *lot*; Digimon is one of the most blatant ones. There are storefronts with the name spelled “Zyyzyy;y” and such, right behind the characters.
Heh. Until I saw the closeup, I was thinking ‘Why is theat sign printed in Russian?’…