Right. So the whole modern world just ran away on us, did it? The last I remember, there were troops walking over my bridge crowing about how guns meant the end of the samurai, you realize that right?

[Pffft. Yeah. Gotta love the bakufu and rise of the meiji there.]

We didn't have these things. That seriously connects you to anyone? As long as they have one? Ngh... I could imagine that going really really badly. People are shits.