

Night City (and its outskirts) is replete with that ‘No Future’ graffiti, and then you see shit like this and you have to wonder. This shitter can be found at a motel where a Militech squad is stationed and doing target practice during the quest “Radar Love.” I’m convinced this shitty society is beyond redemption. They have beautiful, futuristic shitters as far as the eye can see and yet they treat them like this. These pillaging maniacs! This looks like a construction site! It’s hard to even look at. Why is there gunpowder residue all over the bowl? Maybe these animals deserve no future. Be thankful for and take care of what you fucking have, for one day you may find yourself shitting in the street - alleycat style - thinking fondly back on that desert oasis left in rubble at the Sunshine Motel.
Barry, Barry, Barry… Oh, my GOD this fucking room Barry no wonder you’re depressed! This is a hovel, man, like this is a full-on rat’s nest! Ugh, I can’t even look at this mylar-trimmed caveman shit. Duvet cover is a survival blanket from the space shuttle. Moon explorer for real.
And yet? I have hope for Barry. In comparison to the bedroom, this shitter is actually pristine. I mean maybe he paid someone to clean it for him 10 days ago. This does not match the adjacent room at all. Final thoughts - Does he kneel to use the sink? Why’s it so close to the ground??
What happens if a shitter sees its own shadow? Such things never occur outside the realms of HELL! Here’s “Belphegor”, Ambassador of Filth (Type: Irritable!). Belphegor inexplicably drops silk yarn, but he has other traits as well. He’s the Governor of Sloth - happy for him - yet he “excels at invention and discovery” which generally contradicts what he governs completely? According to Persona, this imagery derives from “Ba’aal Pe’or, Syrian god of abundant crops”. Again, not sloth, but what do I know? I myself have only briefly dabbled in sloth, industry, and farming separately, I’ve never tried them all lumped together.
Belphegor is a miniboss who guards King Kamoshida’s megalomania fort from his strategic perch of a tankless toilet throne. Bucket Brigadier ILikeSocks explins: “The volleyball coach was abusing his team and the school covered it up. We can go into people’s sub-conscious and steal their heart causing a change in their behavior, so we do that to force the gym teacher to confess to his crimes. The school is a castle and the gym teacher is its king, King Kamoshida, because that’s how his distorted subconscious sees it.” Honestly, most high school gym teachers are afflicted with megalomania, and I see that as a keystone of toxic patriarchy. My own high school gym teacher would play a merciless game of “Simon Says” just to avoid supervising team-building games, so I totally get it.
Howdy! Belphegor the Sanitation Doorman greets you in this Persona 2: Innocent Sin shitter lobby. He’s calling himself a Duke of Hell and makes reference to the fact that he’s the landlord of indolence, but those sound like self-appointed titles, something out of a LinkedIn profile from a guy who is definitely #OpenToWork.
Let’s take this opportunity to learn something together about Toilet Taboo. Belphegor sits on a toilet because of ancestral “ew” association surrounding bodily functions. The Abrahamic system that produced the Dictionnaire Infernal indicated excrement was an appropriate offering to Belphegor. All of this is certainly awkward when reality hits that sanitation is the height of enlightenment, and a toilet on wheels is possibly the best invention ever conceived of, second only to the flying car.
This post has been brought to you by Bucket Brigadier Rockin’ T! A little light in an otherwise insane world.
Submitted by Bucket Brigadier Rockin’ T! This is from The Amazing Digital Circus: Lost Demo! The game features captivating diorama-based storytelling using a combination of physical objects and digital enhancements. These little scenes can be so fun to make. Selecting each piece of the overall aesthetic reflects something of ourselves. Within that itsy bitsy, miniature world, everything is placed just so, representing one’s desire for authority, and an outward façade of an idyllic family life. Yet frustratingly, the actuality is a fucking shambles, with a dead-eyed spouse anesthetized by chemical escapes and children who have severed all contact. Strange how everything collapsed. It was probably someone else’s fault.
This game features a shitter as a prominant landmark, part of a threefold goal to crack this universe’s secrets. From our brigadier: “The title screen seems to imply the game is actually just called Lost, which I guess would make sense since the point of the game is finding things. It’s basically a little fangame for a show that’s a series of fetch quests. I don’t think there are plans to flesh out the game and it’s currently only about 20 minutes long.
You’re playing as the jester girl in the center! There are 3 locked doors that you have to find keys for. They’re scattered around the map of the circus. I think probably they’re locked since the only purpose of the game rlly is just to find things. You find keys, pillows, memory cards, coins, a hidden character, and gloinks (little colorful creatures).
One takes you to this bathroom, one to a mirror room where you see a person begging you to get out in your reflection, and one takes you to a supply closet. When you unlock this door, a red comedy mask jumpscares you. None of the ppl here have bodily functions anymore, so this is just like. For funsies.”
The Governor of Mannshire, Weber vir Lecri, lives in this fort, along with these twin shitters. As anyone who has worked in council government will tell you, the shitter is doing all the work. The shitter may not be signing the decrees but, without question, it’s authoring them. Its brother - the one closest to the wall - functions as an Attorney General of sorts.
From Bucket Brigadier ILikeSocks! This wilson is coming straight to us from Persona 5 Royal: “Dude I cant even begin to explain what the fuck is going on in this franchise. One big LSD fever dream. I’m in prison for reasons? Idk. It’s called the velvet room, it’s in every persona game that I’ve played. Not sure why this time it’s taken on the form of a prison, I’m sure I’ll get there at some point.”
Flushing a toilet without a lid in a room with fuzzy wallpaper sounds like punishment to me! But doesn’t that cot look sooooooo comfortable? It’s like they thought the walls and bed should swap materials.
I know it sounds like a reggae ragecore quartet, but “Island Asylum” is really just the starter/tutorial zone where you first spawn in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. It’s convenient how many games commence in the prison setting, because it gives you a rather immediate gauge of the shitter quality you ought to anticipate throughout the rest of it. Sorry did I say prison? I meant hospital. This term is interchangeable. Marinate your senses in the presence of these Wilsons located at a plague detention center where a cult, untethered by government oversight, punishes average townsfolk with knives and immolation. The plague is called “the Wyrdness”, and it makes you like semi-transparent and glow a little bit. And I guess you die from it, but I’m sure sleeping on a damp stone floor or getting set on fire doesn’t help.
In the first frame we see our very own personal shitter, as well as that of our roommate (amazingly, we both get one!) This cell has a certain Dunwall Prison vibe to it. But leave it up to Tainted Grail to #BuildABetterBucket - I’m loving that center handle, which facilitates carrying, even if it does make #2 a little challenging. Maybe you can sit against it.
For this second one, of course there wasn’t any point to the curtain in the corner that doesn’t even extend anywhere or afford comfort and privacy. Such things are forbidden in hospitals, churches, and carceral blocks - I think this was supposed to make the player notice this location and come in to talk to this lady, whose name is Lisa. Lisa was special for not dying right away. But she does, eventually, and this was her shitter! There’s also this other one that belonged to a guy who just burns forever. In this frame, you see that the Island Asylum is definitely a repurposed cistern, but why? This is the only building on the island - does it require a municipal drain channel?
Finally we see Brother Syrius and his shitter - This guy caught the plague and because he’s so noble he’s researching the effects on himself. Well, let’s not be fooled. In spite of the Plague Cosplay items on display (the wall-mounted shackles, shabby furnitures, and grubby clothes), this guy was absolutely an architect of this establishment and fully deserves every last lashing you donate to his cause on your way out the door. Don’t worry, that shitter is on your side, as I’m certain it was given no special treatment here.