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As some of you know, I love sardines. A lot. Mackerel and herring, too. If it's canned fish, I'm there (although I don't obsess over salmon and tuna to the same degree, but I certainly eat them). If you ever want to send me a nice present, a tin of local sardines is, in all seriousness, always appreciated. I eat these things about four days a week, and I love just about all varieties.

As some of you also know, I'm obsessed with the Disgaea games. And Disgaea 4 came out two weeks ago. It's awesome on all sorts of levels, from the ludicrous amount of strategy and game techniques that the series has always offered, to a decent storyline, to the wacky humor and pop culture references.

But the running gag of the game is that Valvatorez, the vampire lord main character, is obsessed with eating sardines. To the extent that they're the theme of every between-chapter interstitial, as well as an in-game item and something talked about constantly.

I've never been more convinced that I'm the in target audience of a game than now.