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6:02 PM
I was watching some historical news coverage from past US election nights
 
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Q: Is it possible to play Civ 6 or BE on a Secondary Monitor?

Raven DreamerI am running a dual monitor setup with the Primary Monitor on the right. In Windows, pressing + Shift + ← (or →) will attempt to move the current application to the appropriate monitor. When I do this with Civ VI, the game moves to the Secondary monitor just fine... but then I am unable to nav...

 
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@SaintWacko I am about halfway through Arc 3, and still loving it
 
it surprised me to see reporting of the results happen when polling stations were still open in some states
it must be depressing when the election is already called from the eastern states and the western states are still polling
like
 
No results should be in
 
what's even the point
 
6:03 PM
Oh
 
@Unionhawk "projections"
 
"exit polls"
 
I mean I guess small counties have a chance to be done counting in four hours maybe
 
@badp yes, it is
 
@Ash :D
 
6:04 PM
when you are searching for a software development job, and you are getting results for people needing babysitters :(
 
I'm nearly at the end, and it's still amazong :D
 
@Dragonrage same thing really
 
@Unionhawk I think software development involves a lot less fluids
unless you literally print out your logs to paper
then it's no contest
 
@Dragonrage can confirm, both are about dealing with upset humans, arbitrary deadlines, and cleaning up a lot of shit at ungodly hours of the night
 
user15026
@SaintWacko I'd read more but I keep forgetting because it's online
 
6:10 PM
so who's breakin the internets?
 
@djsmiley2k The internets have been fixed.
Have been for a while
 
yah maybe but who broke it :/
this reminds me of the warnings that someone was probing
 
I haven't seen anything about who is responsible. Most likely some botnet operator that controls a large number of IoT devices.
 
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Q: How do I commit suicide?

jojoI was recently playing on a KOTH map, Illios, and for some reason, on the second round, I ended up spawning in the enemy team's ship. I think it's most likely a bug that got me there, but here's the rest of the problem. When I tried to leave the enemy team's ship (spawn point), the yellow barr...

 
Twitter is down for me other than that everything seems fine
 
6:15 PM
so, I have found a way to make a decent amount of gold per turn in civ 6
in a somewhat unorthodox manner.
 
being ghandi?
 
Oh and YNAB is down
 
well, you could probably do it as ghandi, but i saw it being done as gilgamash
 
God dang it
 
basically, what you do is get the policy that gives you 100 production towards the first era units, then build a bunch of war carts and sell them.
 
6:20 PM
@Dragonrage Hmm... do I get to rain an impossible number of swords down on my enemy as Gilgamesh?
 
@Ash AHHHHHHHH! Just finished it :(
 
you can sell them for 110 gold each, and you can get enough production that you can produce about 1 a turn
@Yuuki no, you train and sell donkeys basically.
 
@Dragonrage That's a lot less impressive than Gate of Babylon.
 
alternatively you can just rain donkeys down on your enemies
 
user15026
@SaintWacko is that sad because there is no more or sad because bad ending?
 
6:21 PM
@Dragonrage Better.
 
@Ash Sad because it's no more :(
 
i was watching this guy stream it, and he got into war early with germany, and at the end of the war he had like 40 war carts
 
Also, apparently Worm is ~22 conventional books in length o.0
 
so he kept making more, and then went and captured 2 city states and defeated assyria
 
user15026
@SaintWacko It's 304 "chapters" and Goodreads puts it at 500000 words but I don't know how accurate that is
 
6:23 PM
then he found out he could sell them for 110 gold a piece, so he kept producing them and selling them to fund making a more modern army
 
user15026
(Or 4000 pages, also not sure how they counted that)
 
@Ash Apparently it's actually 1,680,000 words
According to a post on reddit
 
@Unionhawk same
brb burning my esp8266s and raspberry pi, iot is bad
 
user15026
@SaintWacko That is very many words
 
user15026
I am logging it on GR because it totally counts.
 
6:26 PM
@Ash No kidding. I knew it was long, because it took me so long to read it, but I didn't realize it was that long
 
i tried playing a 14 year old game yesterday, but it didnt work very well
 
@arda are you running with the arduino IDE?
 
@arda ?
 
@SaintWacko I suggested that this morning's internet disruption was likely caused (at least in part) by IoT devices.
 
ah
Well fortunately for my project, our devices will be network connected but not internet connected
(under normal circumstances)
 
6:30 PM
@MBraedley Someone managed to make a botnet of IoT devices?
 
(it'll need to be internet connected for pip install flask etc)
 
Given that they probably have poor security, I guess it's pretty likely.
 
@Yuuki There are so many vulnerabilities that it'd be pretty trivial.
 
They do have poor security
 
@Yuuki There are plenty of those with default passwords and unpatched security flaws. The reported attacks were above 1 TBit, with tens of thousands of participating devices
 
6:31 PM
Hell, my thermostat network bridge could be part of one for all I know.
 
Holy shit
 
@Yuuki there's 2 IoT botnets by now
Both of those work by opening bloody telnet to everything they can find and trying a hardcoded list of passwords
 
So protip don't use the default password
you idiot
 
(the second one is still in the infection phase, not yet in the active bit)
@Unionhawk Erm, did you change the telnet password on your IoT thing?
 
No?
 
6:33 PM
Because assuming the thing even has login features, they don't change the telnet password
 
@Unionhawk Well thanks for the botnet @uni
 
And that's what they attack
 
But it's powered off and also not connected to anything
 
@uni still your fault
Why do you have to go and start botnets like that @uni
 
Goddammit, @Uni.
 
6:35 PM
@KevinvanderVelden If telnet is exposed to the internet, you're doing it wrong anyway. I thought telnet died a decade ago or so
 
@MadScientist IoT is bringing it back
That, combined with things like UPnP brings it back to the internet instead of just back to the network
But anyway, good news! Telnet isn't actually the problem here. The same issue would exist if they used SSH
The problem is that you can't change the password
Heck, the problem is that it even has a default password and is default on
 
that reminds me, how can i find out if my nest cam has been hacked?
 
It has.
 
because the other day i found it on, but nobody that has access to it turned it on
><
 
Ugh ynab is down
This is theworst
Now I can't find out how much money I don't have for the rest of the month
 
6:44 PM
it was up for me earlier
 
Which is a lot
Ctrl+F5 activate
nope
damn
lol
the university implemented 2FA for faculty and now my professor can't get in
 
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Q: What types of rooms can I find in a Mansion?

Rudolf L. JelínekI updated my survival world to the newest snapshot, and managed to find a Mansion. It consisted of many different types of rooms, and soon I got lost inside and got killed by Illagers. So I would like to ask: What different types of rooms can be found inside the Mansion?

 
@Unionhawk on your YNAB account?
 
No, to the university class file sharing system
 
back in my day the Universities were strongly against file sharing
 
6:51 PM
You day was at least 30 days ago
 
8 years ago
 
That's what I said, at least 30 days
 
your margin of error is impressive
 
2920 is not fewer than 30
 
a lower bound without an upper bound
 
7:00 PM
I would consider myself to be technically correct
 
@GodEmperorDune Basically the opposite of limbo.
I guess @Sterno's too busy fending off the barbarians to Friday troll like a barbarian.
 
@Yuuki i was led to believe there would be trollish streams
 
@GodEmperorDune I don't think I can stream a Rebecca Black concert at work.
 
wharrgarbl
 
7:11 PM
@KevinvanderVelden hue
 
user15026
7:50 PM
Okay the Mario Pikachu plushes are hella cute
 
@Ash pics?
 
@KevinvanderVelden Oh. Oh my.
Those mustaches.
 
Yeah, the mustaches turn them from cute to creepy IMHO
 
Chuigi
And Marichu.
 
7:56 PM
The AI doesn't seem to put much emphasis on technology levels when declaring war. It's always fun to fight swordsmen and catapults with mechanized infantry
 
I got too busy at work to go home early and place Civ 6, so I'll just listen to Baba Yetu repeatedly instead
 
@MadScientist Have you lost a bomber squadron to a spearman squad yet?
 
@Yuuki I don't have any bombers
 
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Q: Is there a way to setup a minecraft server that me and my friend can play on together?

SurprisejediMy problem is that I want me and my friend to be able to play on a survival world together, but we live at different locations. I know I can visit a hosting website but I don't want to pay money because it's just me and my friend. Would there be any way for us to play together without paying any ...

 
David hewlett in dark matter is exactly the same as david hewlett in stargate atlantis (rodney mckay)
 
8:08 PM
@KevinvanderVelden yep
a lot of stargate people show up in dark matter
the episode i watched the other day was directed by amanda tapper
 
Any javascript people in here?
 
@SaintWacko me
 
hides in a corner
 
@murgatroid99 Okay, so I have an array? that's being passed in from a django serializer
I assume it's an array
It's current usage looks like _.filter(task_list, 'completed').length
So currently it's filtering based on whether they're completed
I need to get the last item in the array which is completed
I could do this very easily in python, but javascript isn't as friendly
 
8:12 PM
Are you using underscore or lodash?
 
lodash
So that might help, if I knew what lodash was :P
 
OK, lodash does have _.last, which should do it
 
I didn't realize it was something other than just a regular underscore til you asked that
 
lodash is basically just a broad JavaScript utility library. It's a fork of underscore
 
Just found that
Thank you, that seems to be exactly what I needed
Now if the damned npm thing would just actually notice when it needs to rebuild
 
8:17 PM
What do you mean, exactly?
 
Oh, we have some npm thing that watches files and automatically rebuilds everything when a file changes
In theory
In my experience, about half the time it doesn't notice a change
 
Maybe you have to run something and/or it's misconfigured
I mean, if you're using watchify, you have to set it running, and tell it which files to look at
 
It's all set up already
And half the time it works
It's not that it only works on some files
Sometimes I have to save a file twice to get it to rebuild
 
user15026
Sorry, I was trying to look up those plushes @MBraedley but work exploded
 
It's okay, I provided the image =p
 
8:23 PM
There are a billion ways of setting up that kind of stuff, but usually it should just work.
 
@SaintWacko Maybe it's set with a weirdly long polling period
 
@murgatroid99 That's what I've been wondering
 
Are you on Windows?
 
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Q: For Pokemon Go, are there published stats as to what percent of Pokemon can be expected to be Amazing (82.2%), and 91.1%, and above?

太極者無極而生I wonder if there are official or published stats as to, if we catch 100 Pokemons, what percentage of Pokemon could be "Amazing" (82.2% IV), and 91.1%, all the way up to 100%? (assuming Attack, Defense, and Stamina are totally random numbers from 0 to 15). I ran a program to generate random numb...

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Q: Is there a way to rename cities in Civilization 6?

bogardpdIn prior versions of Civilization, it was possible to rename my civilization's cities (though it was, admittedly, difficult to find in Civ V). In Civilization VI, however, I've looked through every city management pane I can see, and can't find any sort of edit link or button for the city name. ...

 
user15026
I don't like working for the internet today.
 
8:26 PM
@Ash People calling about the outage?
 
user15026
Mhm.
 
@Ash yeah, sometimes assimilating the eastern seaboard gets a little bumpy
 
@Ash oh gods, that is the worst =[
 
@SaintWacko It's just weird. A script like that is so simple that it shouldn't have an opportunity for any weird bugs like that.
 
@murgatroid99 Yeah, exactly
 
8:28 PM
@murgatroid99 or maybe the polls are RIGGED by the clinton campaign
 
user15026
There are 22 calls in my queue and I am the only one here
 
Also, wtf
 
@Ash Why is everyone else a jerk and skivving off work?
 
@murgatroid99 I would access a dictionary inside an array by doing array[index][key], right?
 
@SaintWacko yeah, that works fine. And if you know the key beforehand, you can even do array[index].key
 
8:35 PM
Hmmm
 
What I mean is, instead of array[index]["property"] you can do array[index].property.
 
Right
 
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Q: Getting back into my Pokemon Go acct

A CurryI forgot my password evidently so I asked to reset it. Now to reset it ask for my birthday and an ID#. First of all I do not ever tell anyone my age or Birthday. So I can't remember what Birthday I lied about in my login and it then asked me for an ID#. What do I do I am a player who had tons o...

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Q: How do i make an armorstand tp to a random spot in an area

PlayerOK, So I'm making a map and I'm having a HUGE Issue. I need to make an ArmorStand teleport to a random spot in an area. I don't even know how to MAKE An area. Please help. It also MUST Be in 1.9+

 
I had switched to doing that
Also, I just remembered I can use the dev console to view the errors
fml
 
I want to mention that JavaScript objects are not really "dictionaries" or "maps" like you'd see in other languages. Key subscription and property access are the same, and interact with prototypes
 
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8:39 PM
@Yuuki they're either not scheduled or out fixing issues. I'm not mad, just busy
 
So are people just calling because a few websites are down and clearly that's a problem with you and not the website?
 
They are the internet, they make the computers work
Why haven't they already fixed the problem? Why should we even need to call!
 
@Ronan The DNS issues today affected quite a few bigger sites, so I'm not suprised by this
 
I bet this tier 1 tech person is personally responsible and I should yell at her to make it go faster
 
@murgatroid99 That is good to know
 
8:41 PM
Seems about right @Ash?
 
@KevinvanderVelden poor @ash, we should take up a collection to send her cookies
 
@MadScientist I guess if all the websites you visit go down that'd look like the whole of the internet to you.
 
I'm pretty sure the worst case would be Google being down ;-)
 
Okay, why the hell is _.last returning an object rather than an int?
 
@MadScientist usually my check to see if something is client side or server side is to hit google.com from the client
 
8:45 PM
@SaintWacko I thought it was an array of objects
 
@murgatroid99 but _.last is supposed to return the index of the object its looking for
 
@SaintWacko No, it returns the last element of the array
 
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@KevinvanderVelden that's about right b
 
Oh, shit
 
@GodEmperorDune s02e8... is that... Weir?
 
8:48 PM
@KevinvanderVelden not that far yet but it wouldn't surprise me
 
Only heard the voice yet
 
@SaintWacko I think it might be a little tricky to get the last index of any element matching a particular predicate. I think you'd have to do something like _.lastIndexOf(task_list, _.last(_.filter(task_list, "completed")))
 
Oh hey she appeared in season 1
So yes I suppose it is her
 
Firaxis should feel honored. Civ VI is the first game in 3 years over 15 EUR that I paid full price for
 
she's a corp representative and visited them in the prison at the beginning of season 2
 
8:48 PM
@murgatroid99 _.findLastIndex
 
and yeah, she was in season 1 as well
 
I had already decided to use that instead, but I had accidentally left the actual call as _.last
 
@SaintWacko Or that. Yeah, I didn't notice that one
 
user15026
So many phone calls....
 
Also not gonna mention spoilers in this episode but: TOTALLY CALLED IT
 
8:50 PM
@KevinvanderVelden yeah they tend to telegraph their plot twists
but i find it fun nonetheless
 
Maybe I should go back and figure out if I have any overly complicated uses of lodash APIs
 
There we go!
Now everything works :D
Thanks again for the help! :D
 
Is Dark Matter any good? Can always use more sci-fi to watch.
 
I like it so far
 
@Frank it has a very stargate kind of feel, probably because its the same writers/producers
 
8:52 PM
@GodEmperorDune cc @TrentHawkins
 
@GodEmperorDune sounds good to me
 
@Ash Does your company have a sort of custom messaging thing that they can put in their calling system? Like when someone calls, they automatically hear, "We are aware that there are current service issues. If you are receiving DNS errors, (blah blah blah). If you are having other problems, please stay on the line."
 
@GodEmperorDune I'm just hoping they don't pull every sci-fi trope out of the box
 
@KevinvanderVelden hehe yeah they do that
and not in a "we're doing this for the meta value" kind of thing
it's a fun show, but i don't expect any real depth from it
also five is my headcanon @ash
 
I can see that
Though my headcanon of ash has been destroyed by seeing a picture of her so =p
 
8:57 PM
Haha, @Ash and I seem to be headcanon destroyers
 
yeah my headcanon is usually quite wrong
 
Yeah, I bet @GodEmperorDune thinks I'm Rebecca Black.
 
@Yuuki You're not?! There goes my headcanon
 
@Yuuki nope, you're the actor that plays i forgot his first name Chang in House of Cards
 
I thought @Sterno was rebecca black and he/she wanted to make more money by linking it here
 
9:01 PM
ahh dammit i am a terrible racist, i meant danny chung on veep
 
user15026
@Yuuki theoretically yes but I don't have access to do that
 
@GodEmperorDune Man, what's wrong with you?
 
@Yuuki white privilege
 
I had barbeque today. Brisket and sweet ribs.
 
texas bbq is so good
 
9:06 PM
Lol. Belgian newssite is reporting about the DDoS. The picture that has been added to the article is from some random weather forecast type thing.
Aha. After reading I understand why. The site the image is from is taken down because of the attack.
 
Well, technically speaking, none of the sites are down. I think you should still be able to get to them if you knew the IP address.
 
Unless they have any javascript libraries.
 
@Yuuki and the IPs of all the external resources linked to on the page. images, javascript, css
 
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Q: Pokemon Trainer CLub

user165294I recently won a giveaway on a Pokémon GO account. It is a Pokémon Trainer Club account, and since I own that account, I was trying to change the screen name on my profile settings on the Pokémon Official Website. What happened, was that everything in the settings was sort of locked or something,...

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Q: How do I persuade Edward Deegan to join my side before fighting Lorenzo?

ExoMuteAfter I finished fighting the Cabot's with Lorenzo, I noticed Edward died as well, and I wanted him to live. How do I convince him to join my side?

 
@GodEmperorDune That's what dev console's for!
:D
 
9:10 PM
That's what a caching DNS server is for \o/
 
I need to get new glasses. One of the temple pieces is almost completely loose and the nosepads have green stuff on them.
Dunno why it's green.
My best guess is copper compounds?
 
Just in case you missed it the first time
 
@Sterno this is so weird
 
@Yuuki Get the nosepads replaced. The glasses shop over here replaces them for free, so if there is a cost it should be minor.
 
@Arperum Also, the temple piece. If I tilt my head down, it's likely to just fall off my head.
At the very least, I need new frames.
 
9:23 PM
Alright, well I was asking a question. I wasn't asking if "weird letters" are going to prevent hackers, alright? and Frank, you're just a sad little man. Does it seem like I care? why do you have such a negative attitude? Is this what this website is about? asking questions and getting negative responses? Woah, great website! so much for the terms of service. So you can fuck off Frank. — user165294 49 secs ago
That hasn't happened in a while.
 
@Frank Talk about a hair-trigger temper.
 
@Frank Attacking both people who comment. Fun person.
 
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Q: What does honking the horn on Harbor do?

Timmy JimOn the multiplayer map Harbor, there is a level that you can pull up near where the Longshot spawns (pictured below). Is there a purpose to the lever other than just honking the horn of the ship? I can't figure out if there is a dynamic feature on this map that is triggered by the lever, but ...

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Q: Should I kill Lorenzo after he killed his family?

ExoMuteWhile an infinite source of mysterious serum would be nice, I feel like Lorenzo is too powerful to be allowed to walk freely. Should I kill him, since we alone, and not have to worry about him?

 
Opened a fun-size Starburst, got two lemon-flavors.
Today is a good day.
Wait, these are Tropical Starbursts, so I got two pineapple flavors.
Today is a very good day.
 
noice
 
9:36 PM
What's the difference between linking CSS like this <link rel="stylesheet" ... href="/styles/style.css"/> or like this <style type="text/css" media="all"> @import url(/styles/styles.css); </style>?
 
@Yuuki the <style> is deprecated, and i believe browsers have specific optimizations for the <link rel="stylesheet" form
 
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Q: How do I send an envoy?

MikeHow do I send an envoy to a city state? The game tells me I have two but the options are grayed out?

 
@Yuuki It looks like the first one directly links the stylesheet in HTML, and the latter creates an in-sheet stylesheet that, when evaluated, imports another external stylesheet.
 
So basically nothing except one is imperceptably slower
 
Hmm... I think this tutorial was written by someone else. They're using <table> to display elements that aren't tabular data.
 
9:43 PM
@Yuuki hunt them down
no mercy
 
@GodEmperorDune Well of course if I was going to hunt them down, there would have to be no Mercy or else she would rez them right after.
 
I'd think that in this case the presence of mercy would be beneficial, you could kill them again after they were rezzed
They did write an HTML tutorial that uses tables
 
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Q: Is Lorenzo dangerous after he kills his family?

ExoMuteI let Lorenzo live, and he killed his family when he got back to his house. Will he remain there doing nothing, or is there any chance he will attack the Commonwealth or any of my settlements?

 
@Lazers2.0 OP seems very unsure about Lorenzo
 
9:55 PM
@GodEmperorDune He sounds like a very unstable individual.
 
my computer can't run fallout 4 so i wouldn't know
 
@Yuuki OP or Lorenzo? ;)
 
@SaintWacko Why not both?
 
10:15 PM
Coffee at 6pm because I am a responsible adult with no caffeine problem
 
@Ash Fanfiction pet peeves: when an author appends "(Guess the reference)" to a random line.
That's a "drop everything and get out" pet peeve for me.
I don't care how clever you think your pop culture reference is (hint, it's not), you kinda defeat the purpose of making a reference by pointing it out.
Not to mention, you just completely broke immersion.
 
user15026
@Yuuki Yeah, I hate that.
 
user15026
It's like a) what if I haven't interacted with that particular bit of culture, b) you're never that clever c) if you have to tell me you're clever, you're extra not clever
 
@Ash It's particularly bad when the thing that is supposedly a reference is so completely general that it doesn't actually function as a reference. Doing the splits and punching someone in the crotch is not a reference, it's a silly fighting move.
 
user15026
@Yuuki oh yeah that's just ridiculous
 
10:31 PM
Maybe it's because the nature of such things requires playing fast-and-loose with the already tenuous environment of fanfiction, but I find that crossover fanfiction tends to be of lower quality on average than fanfiction that sticks to a particular fandom.
 
. @internetofshit The #DDOS attack took out Internet connected parking meters and I got a ticket. https://t.co/e5jckxLqbO
 
@Unionhawk Why are parking meters connected to the Internet?
 
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Q: What are the duration of the effects that the mysterious serum gives?

ExoMuteIt removes 36000, or 10 radiation a second, which would last for an hour, but is that in-game hour, or real life hour? How much time does it give 5 strength and 50 damage resistance?

 
If you guys like fanfic I know where you can find some written by someone named Strixvaria
 
user15026
@Unionhawk what the hell kind of world do we live in I mean really
 
10:45 PM
@Yuuki because you can set up an account and pay with an app on your phone
 
@Sterno is that the one where jackson was admiring the smoothness of teal'c's staff?
Dec 15 '15 at 20:00, by Sterno
> Daniel slid his hand slowly over Teal'c's staff weapon. "That thing sure packs a lot of power," he whispered.
ya it is
 
Power, not smoothness!
 
my mistake
 
Also, I may have made that particular line up
 
user15026
11:04 PM
I HAVE CONQUERED THE PHONE QUEUE
 
@Ash NEXT STEPS: REST OF THE WORLD
 
user15026
@GodEmperorDune oh no I don't want to be in charge of that many things
 
@Ash pls, it will be the @ashnet of things
 
user15026
11:28 PM
Yes but then I have to be responsible and no one wants that I mean really
 
@Ash well, actually
2 days ago, by fredley
If it weren't for @Ash this site would fail
 
user15026
11:46 PM
That's only because I don't troll with Friday
 
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Q: Who is Nancy Bonds?

David GrinbergIn Civ VI when you discover Mount Kilimanjaro you get the following quote: "As it turns out, Mount Kilimanjaro is not wi-fi enabled, so I had to spend two weeks in Tanzania talking to the people on my trip." -Nancy Bonds I've never heard of a Nancy Bonds and Google searches don't sho...

 

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