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12:29 AM
So, Brink is out soon?
@badp: I'd check to see if I have an extra YER, but thanks to the specialness that is Steam, I can't launch TF2 at the moment.
 
have a spare black box?
 
@NickT Nope. I never seem to find those.
Also, TF2 update to fix some replay issues.
(Big surprise!)
No extra YER, but I have an extra Cloak and Dagger...
86.81% downloading ./orangebox/tf/sound/midi/intruder_alert_midi.midi
wtf?
Why does TF2 include a MIDI file now?
Oh yay, Thunderstorm closing in fast.
 
12:45 AM
Yeah, it just swept by here
well, like 30 minutes ago
 
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Q: How can I determine what weapons I'm missing?

Nick TIs there some quick and easy way to determine which TF2 weapons I'm missing?

 
 
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3:29 AM
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Q: What mouse controls are available in Dwarf Fortress?

Ben BlankI've added [MOUSE:YES] to my init.txt to enable mouse control, but I haven't been able to find any info on exactly what mouse controls are available. So far, the only one I've found is changing the font size via the scroll wheel. What other mouse forms of mouse control does this enable? I had ...

 
4:18 AM
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Q: Can cheaters use Aimbots on Blackops for PS3 ?

giulioI have been playing Blackops on PS3 for a while, and occasionally come across some insanely good players that just totally pwn, I just wanted to know if it's possible that aimbots can be used on PS3's ? And how to pick them out.

 
4:30 AM
0
Q: Why do some abilities that cause the spell to be sacrificed have a tap cost?

Jeff MercadoQuestion's in the title. Why? For example, the Wasteland has an ability that requires sacrificing it. In order to activate the ability, you have to both tap and sacrifice it. What's the point of tapping if it is going to be sacrificed? It seems redundant. You're going to lose it anyway. No...

 
Someone come play Minecraft with me: mc.treepunch.ca
 
 
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5:48 AM
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Q: mouse on the xbox 360??

Hugh AllenConventional wisdom is that you can't use a mouse on the Xbox 360 (you can use a keyboard though). XNA Game Studio claims not to support it for example. (has anyone tested it? I should probably ask on stackoverflow) However, this support page claims that "Most USB mouse devices and USB keyboards...

 
6:12 AM
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Q: Javascript error on reputation page when there are no changes to show

ZoomLooking at my own reputation page on Maths StackExchange with no records to show. Message: 'reputationView' is undefined Line: 1 Char: 5665 Code: 0 URI: http://sstatic.net/js/user-page.js?v=fb07c6493c2d

 
 
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7:57 AM
Gah... for a while now, TF2 only sees about 1/10th of the servers. The others it somehow can't connect to.
 
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Q: Is there a PlayStation version of Starcraft?

TimThis SMBC Theater implies that there is a PlayStation version of StarCraft. Is there?

 
 
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9:32 AM
So I'm trying random EU servers, and as usual a random pick means 80% chance I'll end up on bot ville saigns.de
I think that after this one I'm going to completely blacklist the entire thing
Oh wait, this one has no end anyway
 
 
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10:49 AM
0
Q: Does Brink use GFWL or Steamworks?

DrakeI heard in some previews that Brink would have used Steamworks but today I went on an online store and the PC cover shows the logo Game For Windows Live. Can you clarify which is the truth? I am asking this because I am not a big fan of GWFL (to say it softly) and I would buy probably only if it...

 
11:37 AM
Would a question on which voice clips were unused in Portal 2 be on-topic? /cc @badp
 
0
Q: Jungle or Lane when lasthitskill is good?

tarraschHello fellows, I am currently at 1100 elo and would like to get the next 100 points up to 1200 elo. I can lasthit reasonably good, mostly leading in cs in the early/mid stages of the game. I notice that most of the times my team does not have a jungler, and that having one is a real advantage...

0
Q: Is there a way to cheat in BFBC for iOS?

MosheIs there a way to cheat (like a developer console on PC games) in Battlefield Bad Company for iOS?

 
11:58 AM
@ArdaXi Honestly, it'd be better suited to a Portal 2 wiki or something. It would become a high maintenance list fast.
 
How so?
I mean, it's static.
 
At every update, at every DLC...
 
The question would be in the original game
So DLC won't change it.
 
0
Q: What genre would you put "Dope Wars" in?

MosheWhat subcategory of "games" would "Dope Wars" belong in? Does "role playing" sound accurate?

 
@ArdaXi Then it becomes irrelevant...
 
12:00 PM
@badp Well, no. It would still serve as a list of sound clips not used in the main campaign.
 
New content adds new sound clips not used in the main campaign.
 
This is not the question box, I don't need to completely specify it. You know what I mean.
 
0
Q: What elements of Pokemon make it such a popular game?

MosheWhat are some of the elements of Pokemon that make it so popular?

0
Q: In Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, is it possible to change the time?

MosheIn Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, is it possible to change the time? If I recall correctly, you can bring up some sort of UI for that but it required a code of sorts...

 
12:33 PM
Man, people are getting unruly.
I'm actually quite surprised I haven't seen people swearing more often.
This is only the second or third time in, like, a month and a half.
Which is great, I guess.
I'm referring to that.
 
@Ragnar ninja'd
but thanks for that
 
@badp Cool beans, daddy-o.
 
@Ragnar No problem; we actually get surprisingly little of this
 
That's what I was saying. I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
Reading through youtube comments, at least... :-)
 
Yeah, well, it's also a problem of scale
 
12:37 PM
Well, I don't know about the rest of the SE sites, but gaming seems to be fairly big.
 
We do not get as many posts as Youtube gets comments.
 
I would think that SO gets a lot more hits, but due to subject matter, it doesn't or wouldn't attract the same crowd as gaming would.
 
@Ragnar You can see numbers here: stackexchange.com/sites
 
Thanks for that.
 
@Ragnar Oh, I'm not too sure. There are hot headed programmers, there are dick programmers, and worse, there are indian programmers. Stereotype says they're an editing and quality nightmare
ducks
 
12:39 PM
Sure, but, I mean, you don't don't get posts of people just cussing 'cause they're 12.
 
12yos aren't supposed to post in here anyway.
 
18k hits/day.
Respectable figure.
 
We average in the 20ks usually, as does Ask Ubuntu. Here come charts...
 
@badp Well, sure, but they do regardless. And I've yet to see one end nicely. :-P
 
↑ AU
 
12:41 PM
@Ragnar I used SO at that age. Or somewhere around it, anyway.
 
How long has SO been around anyway?
 
↑ Gaming
 
@Ragnar Since 2008.
So that's about right. I started using SO when I was 13 I think.
 
@ArdaXi You were 12 in 2008? That makes you, uh...
 
↑ SO
 
12:42 PM
@Ragnar 16.
 
Help me out here with the math, I'm legendarily bad at it.
 
This data is public btw - quantcast.com/p-c1rF4kxgLUzNc
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Our April spike is Portal 2. AskUbuntu's spike is 11.04
 
I can has spike too.
 
@ArdaXi Man, when I was 16, the only reason I used the internet was for porn. :P
 
Thing is, Ubuntu now has a button going straight to AskUbuntu, so it's no longer fair :P
 
12:44 PM
@Ragnar I'm somewhat more... dignified... than that.
 
Nevermind our unadvertisable domain name.
 
Portal 2 SDK research time!
 
@badp When will gaming be getting it's own?
 
@Ragnar We've been promised something when we approach Server Fault levels of traffic.
 
@badp Which means, uh...
 
12:47 PM
At least a few more months.
 
Hey @GraceNote!
 
A few more months and coming up with a good name! Hah, let's see how long that'll take us. ♪
 
Bye @GraceNote!
 
www.gaming.com
 
Gaming.se
 
12:48 PM
Hi then bye, @Arda ♪
 
@ArdaXi As good a domain name as any :-P
 
SE Inc. should buy out the SE TLD.
I mean, it's used by some country, but who cares about them?
 
@ArdaXi Pity thy poor Swedes
Where's IKEA going to go now?
 
@YiJiang Denmark?
 
I read somewhere that the scandinavians don't really like each other much.
 
12:51 PM
@Ragnar I blame history
 
From what I half-remember, Denmark really hates Norway for some deal regarding oil.
Where Norway got, like, 90% of the crude while Denmark got Dick Butkus.
Or was it the other way around...
 
@GraceNote You mean the team won't come up with one for us? Aww.
 
@badp They did. "Gaming Owls".
 
@GraceNote No fair, that was mine.
 
@ArdaXi Sure, come to the US like you plan to never do. Or you can come up with exceptional reason to convince me to come to the Netherlands. There's a whole lot of you that I could meet up there.
 
1:02 PM
:/
It just doesn't work.
 
Also, wow, this weekend features more mentions of my name than many previous ones. Figures you guys pick the one weekend that I'm physically absent.
Haha, nice, @badp
@badp Huh, well, Robert nabbled it.
 
@badp Is that your actual monitor resolution?
 
@Ragnar It's the resolution I play TF2 at.
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Q: All the settings are at minimum. I still play at 10 FPS. What can I do?

badpI'm the (not so) proud owner of an nVidia 9200 M. This card I'm (not so) proud of owning is stuck into a laptop I'm (not so) proud of owning, so I can't upgrade it. Yeeey. I've dragged all the settings to the minimum in TF2; I'm playing in a small 800×600 window on my desktop; my laptop is upsid...

 
@badp That's... really small. Mind if I ask what size monitor you have?
 
I play windowed
 
1:06 PM
@badp Oh, that makes sense.
nVidia 9200 M
I think you'd be better off using an Intel integrated graphics chip. :-(
 
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Q: Any games similar to the Thievery mod for UT?

RushyoI used to really enjoy playing Thievery for Unreal Tournament (multiplayer Thief) but it's now 7 years out of support. Can anybody think of similar games with similar objective-driven stealth vs force game-play that have active, current communities?

 
Game-rec
 
@GraceNote Well. Erm.. hm. You wouldn't happen to like tulips or something?
 
@Ragnar It's not that bad. I had an Intel integrated too.
 
@badp Well, it is kinda' bad, if at 800x600 and minimum details you still get 15 FPS.
 
1:12 PM
My eyes are used to 15 FPS.
However at times it drops to 10
 
But they shouldn't be! What are, peasants?
Pfeh... My brother got scammed a few years back. He payed about 200$ for a second hand 8500GT video card.
He justified the price by saying "it has 8 at the beginning! It's just a bit slower than the 8800, what's the big deal?!"
 
@Ragnar He can buy my 8800GT for $100.
 
@ArdaXi I bought him a HD5850 a few weeks ago.
 
It has double the 8s at half the price!
@Ragnar Aww.
Why can't Valve have let the maps they used for sp_30_a4_finale5 in the game?
 
Y'know, it's a great GPU, but only if you don't have bottlenecking from the CPU.
I wouldn't recommend getting it you're using, like, an E6500 Pentium Dual Core.
 
1:17 PM
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Q: Broken images in "Remove new user restrictions"...

mickeyWhen my new user restrictions were removed, I saw a privileges page with a short tutorial on how to embed links and pictures in questions. The following example pictures were broken: http://i.stack.imgur.com/lSZui.png ("insert link toolbar button"), and, http://i.stack.imgur.com/C3zkF.png ("in...

 
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
 
@ArdaXi Huge invisible war-scarred men mermaids?
Oh, that's not fair, I'm always thinking that.
 
Anyway.
For those who played Portal 2. Once again, /cc @badp.
Combine those pictures with
That's not how you're supposed to reply @badp!
So, that means that Portal 2 is /probably/ not the end.
 
It sold better than the Bible, of course they're gonna' follow it up...
At least I hope so...
 
1:41 PM
Am I explaining it wrong?
How can a question like "why is x popular?" not be interpreted as extremely subjective?
 
@Ragnar Didn't I close it?
 
Yes, but there's a discussion now.
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Q: What elements of Pokemon make it such a popular game?

MosheWhat are some of the elements of Pokemon that make it so popular? Why do you like it?

 
Use this, @Ragnar
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Q: How can I ask a question about why people play Minecraft in a constructive manner?

BillareI really want to understand why Minecraft as a game is so popular, and get considered opinions on how a game that looks rather blocky, like it came from the early '90s, is so popular on this site. I was considering asking something like "Why do people play Minecraft?", but I don't think phrased a...

This is basically asking how to ask "Why is Minecraft popular", though with different terminology.
So, it's a good source of how that went over (note how Billare has not asked such a question).
 
Righto.
Thanks
 
In particular, I suggest the second-to-last paragraph of my own answer, if I may.
 
1:48 PM
Was just reading your answer.
 
2:47 PM
Is anybody as excited about Dead State as I am?
Zombie survival RPG
 
2:58 PM
I'm not particularly excited by upcoming game releases
Perhaps I'll take a look at the new edition of McGee's Alice
The demo of the original was fun.
 
C'mon, man! Zombie RPG! Made by some of the people that worked on Fallout 1!
 
I'm not into RPGs and I haven't played any Fallout.
 
Oh. Fair enough.
 
and I'm not sure I'm into killing 1,000,000 of the same dumb by design enemy.
 
Sure.
But Fallout, at least, has a great storyline which more than makes up for slightly uninteresting game mechanics.
 
3:03 PM
Certain All of the Alien Swarm custom maps really ruined me here
 
Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas, at least.
 
Objectives:
- Kill 200 swarm
- Kill 400 swarm
- Kill 600 swarm
- Kill 800 swarm
- Kill 1,000 swarm
 
Well, Alien Swarm isn't exactly and RPG.
 
And when you do get the last, you approach the elevator...
> Kill 2,000 swarm to call the elevator.
 
I think they're just trolling by that point.
If Storyline matters for you
You could try Planescape: Torment
Old school RPG.
I think you can get it for, like, 10$ on gog.com
 
3:05 PM
@badp's just bitter, don't listen to him.
 
Maybe cheaper.
Maybe even Anachronox...
Oh, well.
 
> @GraceNote Well. Erm.. hm. You wouldn't happen to like tulips or something?
 
@Mana You're not helping maaaaaaaaaaaaan.
 
@Arda what.
Hey man, that's what I'm the best at. Not helping.
Also plastering my lovely digital mug over every single post on the site. I'm really good at that, too.
 
 
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4:26 PM
OMG OMG OMG I just backstabbed.
Then ran away alive.
All of 1 HP.
 
4:38 PM
congrats @badp
you should I'm really very proud of you
backstabbing people and living to tell about it is a......useful.....skill....
 
I made another backstab but got killed seconds later.
However, I got healed.
And got the achievement.
And I was like "OMG the server's going to spam about it."
And the server winked and kept its mouth shut.
That was creepy.
 
only slightly
 
4:54 PM
@Mana Yes it is.
However, how easy that is to do depends on a lot of factors, the foremost being how much attention the other team is paying.
@badp Which achievement are we talking about?
 
@Powerlord Master of Disguise
Then spies actually became useful, and there was a small corridor, and it was full of soldiers demomen and scouts, and I got through a couple of times miraculously with the cloak and dagger, then recharged under the bridge, then went for the sentry and got busted all times.
Then, even if we had 8 mins left I left.
 
Did you manage to get any of the other medic-related ones?
Like FYI I am a Spy?
 
@Powerlord Nope.
or FYI I am a Medic, for that matter.
 
That's the one where you backstab a Medic who has been healing you.
At least I think it's backstab... maybe it's just kill.
@badp This sounds suspiciously like a good situation to use the Dead Ringer in, btw... disguised as your own team to make them less suspicious.
(and change disguises while cloaked)
 
@Powerlord It's quite fiddly.
I still have to push past them, I mean.
 
5:00 PM
Yes, but you no longer glow when you touch them.
 
The problem at any rate was my moving around their base, because I did manage to slip through.
 
Smart people will still figure out you're there, and... it does have a shorter cloak time.
Honestly, though, hallways like that? Demoman.
Or Heavy.
 
I'm not alone on my team.
 
I only thought of Demoman because his normal grenades bounce, so you can attack enemies around corners. :)
While it's true your not the only one on your team... some people don't seem to grasp when a tactic isn't working and to change it.
Sometimes... they need encouragement or to be led by example...
I'm saying this as a terribad Demoman, btw. :P
That reminds me, I need to play on some arena maps to get my last Scout achievement at some point. >:/
 
Also I'm disappointed by the quality of image TF2 sprays have
4 hours ago, by badp
user image
I mean, our domain name makes this kind of stuff useless, but seriously...
 
5:05 PM
@badp I'm not sure why it looks quite that bad. Images seem to look just fine.
 
↑ original
(AtWork is a guy on the server who always plays Spy on that server. I figured that if I'd customize the "ad" for the server, maybe it wouldn't look so bad.)
 
Also, why do you play in Windowed mode? Last time I checked, Windowed mode had a tendency to have lower frame rates than full screen.
 
@Powerlord Because whenever I want to alt-tab, full screen makes me tear my hair out.
In Windowed, it's seamless.
 
@badp Right, but you're also complaining about framerates...
"Mother's Day Savings. Get 20% Off VMware Workstation" <-- Is VMWare assuming my mom uses their products?
 
By playing on a server on the wrong side on the continent I make that a minor problem.
At any rate I only get real trouble with framerate when I'm behind my sentry and people rush it.
Dropping to 5-10 fps while I'm knocked off the sentry and I must crawl back to it ASAP? Not fun.
When do the drops resume?
Getting them all on the same day kinda ruins it.
 
5:13 PM
@badp It's somewhere around midnight UTC Thursday morning.
 
@badp where was your other tf2 tag spray
 
@NickT which?
I always make 'em up on the spot with powerpoint.
 
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Q: Endless notification: "Don't forget! You can invite [n] colleagues to create their own Careers 2.0 profiles."

Michael HarenI get this notification on every page: Don't forget! You can invite [n] colleagues to create their own Careers 2.0 profiles. Clicking the "x" dismisses it until the next page load. I can't forget because you won't let me!

 
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Q: Quick link to tags

Nick Tbadp seems hell-bent on making sprays for TF2 for the sake of advertising the site, but he was remarking how long the domain name is, e.g. Why do we have to have such a longass domain name :| I wanted to make a promotional TF2 spray but no one is going to type that URL from a spray ...

 
@Lazers @badp for you
 
5:25 PM
@NickT Good luck getting that to change!
Ha, just to be funny, I should set up a subdomain for my TF2 domain (ocrtf2.com) that redirects until they have an official solution.
 
qa.ocrtf2.com?
 
Of course, that'd only make sense for TF2...
 
@NickT That's because it's the SE conversion of a QA site that already was there, and connected to a parent site.
They also had quite a few DNS trouble... I'm not envying them.
 
@NickT Way to be rude to the new users. :p
 
5:29 PM
Just snap up the gaming.se domain when it expires!
@Lazers Do your job!
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Q: My Gaming StackExchange account isn't showing up on my network profile.

Daniel RasmussenSomething, somewhere, fixed it. I'm not sure what - but it's there now. I'll leave this question here for the comments, and in case someone else has the same temporary issue. I've answered a few questions on the Gaming site, and my account is linked, with all of my information having been copi...

 
0
Q: Can ghast fireballs break glass?

Doktor JI'm thinking about building some glass structures in the Nether on my friends' SMP server (once 1.6 is released), and haven't spent enough time in SP to determine this for myself since I like to work on the SMP server... so, can Ghast fireballs break glass? I intend to make fully-enclosed struct...

 
5:46 PM
0
Q: When is the best time to Farm in DoTA?

CheluisI've been playing DoTA like a couple of months ago, and I find the game kinda of amusing (altough the infinite number of douches who plays it), but I'm lacking of some sort of map awareness, specifically with the farming theme. I note that many players in early / mid game already have nice items,...

0
Q: Good games for a 4 year old on the Xbox 360

PurplegothAre there any good games for a child who is 4+? Ideally educational ones where I can play with him. I've searched the usual places but haven't had much luck so far.

 
Ugh... theres got to be an easy way to split all the carbon in gas works park
 
what level?
 
Gas works park
hephaestus IV
 
Fun fact: sentries built on movable platforms remain in place.
 
6:03 PM
how many movable platforms exist in TF2 maps?
 
@NickT Not many, perhaps for this reason.
 
I don't think that was the case with TFC anyways
but you could glitch out sentries and have them hover in mid air, I forgot if it was with moving things or just funny map geometry
 
arg, mining laser, this game just keeps getting harder
 
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Q: Why do my TF2 sprays look like crap?

badpI've toyed around trying to make useful sprays showing a bit of text or whatnot. However, they look like unreadable, blurry, low resolution crap once in game. For example, this spray: ...becomes this ingame: How can I fix this?

0
Q: Do vehicles load/unload faster the more that the resource is covered?

UllallullooFor example, does this: load/unload faster than this does?: If yes, can you still load everything that that place produces in the second senario, or can you only load an amount proportional to the portion that's covered like with houses?

 
@RonanForman Hrm, I only just got to Hephaestus IV, been doing a bunch of the research net stuff
 
6:10 PM
it said to wait until i got to the swap reactors
or what ever they're called
 
Tunneling?
 
maybe, the one with the two arrows that cross
 
You do any of the research net ones? I think I have one of the fastest times on the galvinization challenge, at least according to the graph (hard to tell)
 
no, not yet
also, I can't log into here on my iPod
 
take a peek at em, the officially select ones seem to only last for a couple weeks (though you can always play them whenever if you have the string to import)
 
6:14 PM
so there's a level editor?
 
yeah
 
which end should i start at?
 
@badp how are you converting the image to a spray?
@RonanForman the earlier issues are going to go out sooner
 
@NickT I tried BMP and 24 bit TGA
 
how do tunnels work?
 
6:20 PM
I think they just swap whatever's on them, ripping all bonds
mouseover them, I think it says
 
I can't work out the first one then
danm
oh well...
 
The newest issue "Nuclear Science" I haven't had much luck with yet
I did the Mazite, Galvinazation, and Methanol ones
 
7:00 PM
all I did there was convert the PNG you posted to a bitmap, then loaded it in
your graphics settings are horked up
or maybe the Italian version is inferior at converting images to textures
probably Silvio's fault, that.
 
7:18 PM
@NickT yeah, that one was it.
 
7:43 PM
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Q: Sidebar on /unanswered inconsistent with result of clicking on those links

hammarIf I go to my tags in the unanswered section, some links are shown to "unanswered tags" below my favorite tags. If I follow any of these links, I get a search for the intersection of all my tags with that tag, which unsurprisingly gives zero results. These links give the impression that if I f...

 
7:58 PM
Hmm, did I remember everything when updating Mapchooser Extended? Does this mean I'm actually finished rewriting it? >:O
Wait, maybe I'd better double-check.
(this is pre-testing, btw)
 

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