lol today I discovered there's a Pixiv tag that's literally just this DQ1 line

Just yesterday I added user CSS that removes the boldface from the result excerpts, because it's patently not meaningful anymore.

"How old is this website"

Crossing fingers for Zan

I just type everything I want to look up straight into Jisho with romaji every time

I remember that alarmingly well

I know right

As a personal opinion… I feel like the big appeal of train networks is that they connect distant places into a single vast "system", so I feel this premise would have been solidly ideal for a contiguous world you could admire from afar such as in Monster's Expedition. Oh well.

I also think a good deal of the humour and surprise/shock value is lost without having played Higurashi first, but they are mostly different genres (albeit with similar approaches to mystery and suspense).

FWIW the Steam version's translation is just a repack of the original mid-00s fan translation, for all that entails. Yes you can turn off the art also.

I just watched this again and can't believe I missed the hopscotch at 0:15

Thinking about this and reflecting on how, conversely, everyone and anyone emulated EarthBound…… entirely because of Smash Bros

AO3 stands for Archive Trioxide