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2:01 PM
@CruelCow Why do you know this? >_>
 
@StrixVaria It's funny that the reasons listed for the "asphyxiation" argument are exactly the opposite of true.
 
Did that game not sell well or something? It was a great game and they don't even bother localizing the sequels anymore. And this "game" sounds horrible
 
I remember Chibi Robo. It was a cute game.
I enjoyed it.
Also, this is the best name for a disease ever:
Sudden unexpected death syndrome, or Sudden unexpected nocturnal death syndrome (SUNDS), or Sudden Unknown Death Syndrome is sudden unexpected death of adolescents and adults, often during sleep. Sudden unexplained death syndrome was first noted in 1977 among Hmong refugees in the US. The disease was again noted in Singapore, when a retrospective survey of records showed that 230 otherwise healthy Thai men died suddenly of unexplained causes between 1982 and 1990: In the Philippines, where it is referred to in the vernacular as bangungot, SUNDS affects 43 per 100,000 per year among young...
 
@Powerlord Plausible, at least. We have similar parts of our Autobahn here in western Germany too. They are easily identifiable: Perfectly straight, with two huge parking lots at both ends of the road section and the middle part is not grass and bushes as usual, but also asphalt with the rails being ease to dismantle.
 
@ShotgunNinja It's less cool when it's called SIDS and you freak out constantly about whether or not your baby is breathing.
 
2:12 PM
@ShotgunNinja I'm reminded of Resonance of Fate now.
 
> Older Filipinos recommend wiggling the big toe of people experiencing this to encourage their heart to snap back to normal.
 
Other cultures are stupid, amirite?
 
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Q: What Alliance ships do I need in order to defeat an Imperial Star Destroyer?

ChargingPunIf I am going into a battle against an Imperial Star Destroyer with a full compliment of 6 TIE Fighter squadrons (in Star Wars: Rebellion), what is the minimum I should have to ensure my victory? Will a Mon Cal Cruiser and 3 X-Wings squads do it? How do you determine (besides trial and error) wh...

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Q: How can I get rid of this black hole in my minecraft world?

SolignisI have interesting bug that I have experienced before but has gone away on its own. This one is not going away though. I have a giant stripe or chunks missing from my desert biome, I would say probably 7 chunks long. I'm guessing the chunks are corrupted or something, what was hoping to figure ...

 
@Sterno Why, yes, obviously that's what I'm saying by merely quoting a sentence. It's impossible that I would ever want to point out that these other cultures have much more practical solutions than our science-induced habit of pumping ourselves full of chemicals and using various machines to extend our lives just for the sake of it.
 
2:23 PM
While I was including your comment, it was more at the collection of things that have been linked by multiple people. Thus, not a direct response.
Though defecating in a bookstore IS stupid. Though now that I read it, that's not what that one says.
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@Sterno Gotta work a bit on your timing then. :P
 
@FEichinger I'm working while chatting. I respond to everything way late.
 
Wee, stealing more coffee from the train company.
 
FAE
@user56 You're stealing coffee from NS?
 
@FAE Well, depends on how you look at it.
I'm in one of their first-class lounges.
 
FAE
2:26 PM
@user56 Ah, I've never ridden first class.
For... anything, train, flights, whatevs.
 
Neither have I, hence stealing.
 
I'm pretty sure wherever @FAE rides is the first-class section.
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I have a card that lets me enter the lounges without paying for first class.
It's wonderful, I get free fancy coffee whenever I'm at Schiphol. (Or A'dam Central or R'dam Central but that happens rather rarely.)
 
@user56 nice!
 
FAE
@Sterno Haha, I'm not quite that fancy.
 
2:28 PM
And free disdainful looks from actual first-class passengers too!
 
FAE
@user56 That's the best part!
 
Exactly!
 
I got to go first-class out from Milwaukee to Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas a few weeks back.
 
FAE
@ShotgunNinja Oooh fancy. How was it?
 
It was fantastic. I almost fell asleep on the plane, and I never fall asleep on planes.
Also, it was my first flight where I've been old enough to drink on the plane.
 
2:30 PM
I have never flown first class :(
 
FAE
I'm able to sleep on planes, but my flights are generally much longer than it would take to go from WI to TX.
 
Yeah, well it was the first leg of the trip out from WI to Orange County CA
 
I work at a company that used to be owned by American Airlines
 
@SaintWacko And my dad works for American as a captain.
 
So a lot of my coworkers have their flight benefits
I don't, though :(
@ShotgunNinja Oh, nice
 
2:31 PM
All I get is D2 non-rev status... and that goes away after I turn 23 or something.
instead of the usual D3
 
FAE
@ShotgunNinja What's that mean?
 
@FAE Basically, I'm a bit higher in the running if there's not enough empty seats for all standby passengers.
 
FAE
Aaah okay.
 
D1 is the highest status; that's reserved for younger family members.
 
Such short flights are not much fun in my opinion, at least not on the big passenger machines. I tend to just grab an e-book on them and read through the flight though, unless I'm really tired.
 
2:33 PM
There's a number of factors which affect your non-rev status, and the system is a bit archaic, but it's based on their attempts to produce a fair policy.
 
FAE
Going from here to my parents is usually like 18-20 hours travel from house to house.
 
Also, I always wear business casual when I travel, because that affects whether or not they'll allow you to upgrade to first-class.
 
Air Canada used to overbook their planes, and all they did for those bumped off the flight was go, "So sorry. We've re-booked you on another flight later. Here's a $10 meal voucher."
 
@FAE Where do your parents live?
 
FAE
There's no direct flights from Amsterdam to the airport closest to them, so I always have to have a layover.
@ShotgunNinja Upstate NY.
 
2:35 PM
@fbueckert Every airline overbooks their flights.
 
@ShotgunNinja Nothing wrong with that, as long as they, y'know, reimburse you for your time.
 
FAE
@ShotgunNinja Really?
 
@FAE Oh, you live in Amsterdam? Also, I was born in Cheektowaga, NY.
 
I comfort myself with the fact that my laptop is obviously the most beautiful one here.
 
A $10 voucher, though, is just insulting.
 
2:35 PM
@FAE Absolutely. They don't want to offend the well-dressed snooty types who sit in first with their tickets.
 
Not to mention probably way less than you have to spend in the meantime.
 
@ShotgunNinja Amsterdam is the main airport of the Netherlands.
 
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@ShotgunNinja No, I live about a 40 minute drive south of Amsterdam. I think we've had this convo, I seem to remember you mentioning you were from upstate. I grew up in the Finger Lakes.
 
@FAE Shows how good my memory is.
X|
 
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@ShotgunNinja All of my family/extended family is from the general Buffalo area/suburbs though. Cheektowaga, Tonawanda, Akron, Amherst, Williamsville, Grand Island...
Then out to Batavia and Pembroke.
 
2:38 PM
Sweet deal.
 
How did Double Fine burn through 1000%+ of their funding goal, and need more money?
 
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@ShotgunNinja I grew up a Bills fan under duress, haha.
 
A challenger appears!
Oh, no, false alarm, still ugly.
 
@fbueckert That's really confusing, yeh.
 
@fbueckert Because no one knows how to plan game projects?
 
FAE
2:39 PM
Also Wikipedia tells me that Batavia was named after an area in the Netherlands, wtf.
 
Reminder: It's coming July 11
 
Sounds like something sketchy's going on.
 
FAE
The Dutch have way too much history in upstate NY, it's weird, lol.
 
@ShotgunNinja It's Double Fine out of all people. :/
 
@FEichinger Let me direct you to the following:

 Game Development

Game development and other polite discussion. Game development...
 
2:42 PM
@ShotgunNinja Your point being?
 
FAE
@ShotgunNinja It's kinda funny I've been to a couple of the same places as you, Cheektowaga and Kenosha.
 
@FEichinger No one knows how to plan game projects because every game project is wildly different.
@FAE stalker <_< >_>
 
@Sterno That's quite the URL.
 
Actually, @FEichinger, the point was to link you to the beer discussion we were having earlier.
 
@fbueckert Scope creep.
It's the same reason people who win the lottery go bankrupt.
"Look at all this money I have! Let's find things to spend it on!"
 
2:44 PM
@ShotgunNinja Oh that's where you're going with this. Sure, but still, we're talking about Double Fine here - it's not like this is their first project. I can't find any logical explanation for them to run out of money without there being something sketchy about it.
 
@StrixVaria That's not scope creep. That's scope with a rocket launcher.
 
@ShotgunNinja I just saw that, yes. I hate you now.
 
I discovered something in Rogue Legacy that makes Alektorphobia one of the best traits
When the chickens are live and running around, you can leave the room and they won't despawn
 
@SaintWacko It's a pretty great trait already.
 
FAE
@ShotgunNinja You're about the same age as my cousins who live in Williamsville too.
 
2:45 PM
So you can store health recovery and come back for it later
 
I'm pretty sure you get chickens more often with it.
 
Bolivia's UN Amb.: "We're talking about the president on an official trip after an official summit being kidnapped" http://reut.rs/17SxPcY
 
@FEichinger "Let's make a giant statue of all the Psychonauts Characters for our offices with this money!"
 
@SaintWacko It also triggers siphon, vampirism, the lich ability, and the spellthief ability. All good stuff!
 
@Sterno Yep!
 
FAE
2:46 PM
@StrixVaria They pretty much admitted this is what happened, yeah.
 
I couldn't have any less interest in that game, either.
Point and click adventure is the worst genre.
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Everyone is like DOUBLE FINE OMG BUYBUYBUY
 
So far the worst Kickstarter(s) I've seen are by Mike Nystul, who did them for RPG products. Three separate Kickstarters, none delivered, and he basically blew all the money setting up a company for himself and putting up a booth at a con
then he started an indiegogo thing to try to fund the kickstarters that he'd already blown all the moneyf or
 
@FEichinger they're also working on 4 games at once now, which I find...odd
 
@StrixVaria It is. Walking Dead getting Game of the Year was horrible.
 
2:47 PM
I don't even know what the game is about other than that it's being made by them.
 
@DavidStarkey Cannot tell if sarcastic.
 
Doesn't every game get Game of the Year? Seems like everything's got a "Game of the Year" edition.
 
@Sterno Let @fbueckert tell you about bad Kickstarters.
 
@StrixVaria Nope, it was awful. There were so many other good games to pick from.
 
FAE
@StrixVaria Aw, I still find it quite fun.
 
2:48 PM
Oh yeah, today's the day that the Walking Dead: 400 Days DLC comes out for PC.
 
@fbueckert Tell me about bad kickstarters.
 
@fbueckert Tell @Sterno about bad kickstarters.
 
@DavidStarkey Now, aside from the ridiculousness of "Game of the Year" in itself, what would've been your choice?
 
THE PEOPLE DEMAND IT
 
@Sterno Star Command.
Overhyped, undercommunicated, entirely undelivered piece of shit.
What got released is essentially 30% of what was promised, and they've blown past every delivery date ever set, and hope their backers don't call them on it.
And then get pissed when they get criticized for doing so.
And to date, have not delivered anything but an iOS game.
 
2:53 PM
@DavidStarkey Borderlands 2?
Is it sad that I can't really remember what games were released last year?
 
@FEichinger Far Cry 3 came out in 2012, Scribblenaughts Unlimited, Borderlands 2 (my pick), Halo 4, Assassins Creed 3
 
@fbueckert Yeah, the reviews for that were pretty bad
But at least something was delivered, and they didn't just blow the money on ale and whores.
 
@DavidStarkey Oh, I thought Far Cry 3 was this year.
(Not that I've played it)
 
And they have a habit of overpromising features.
 
@Powerlord The Blood Dragon thing came out this year. Also, XCOM Enemy Unknown came out in 2012.
 
2:55 PM
Speaking of Kickstarter, I'm sad that they cut out all the good music from the Shadowgate remake.
 
No way Point & Click Walking Dead series should beat any of those.
So speaking of Kickstarted, what are the views here for the Ouya?
 
@DavidStarkey It features great storytelling, which is a quality games have lacked very much in recent years.
 
Not that I've played that game, but I think gameplay is pretty important for a game.
A good story is nice.
Good gameplay is mandatory.
 
@FEichinger You honestly think Walking Dead was a better GAME than every one of the ones on this list
 
@Sterno Delivered over a year beyond the promised release date, and they did nothing to address that until people actually called them on it.
 
2:58 PM
@StrixVaria Indeed. Without gameplay it might as well be a TV show or something.
 
Speaking of XCOM, anyone want it? I have a copy that I'm never going to play.
 
And had the temerity to go, "Y'know, we're human, too. What do you want from us?"
 
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@OrigamiRobot Really?
 
It came with Bioshock Infinite.
 
@DavidStarkey So, if a game that's of a genre I don't like wins Game of the Year somewhere, I can piss and moan about it?
 
2:59 PM
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Q: Where to find a barber in Fallout NV?

Lukas StejskalIs there a barber available in Fallout New Vegas? Sporting hipster beard in Mojave desert almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter.

 
@DavidStarkey Again, I find the entire concept of ranking games against one another ridiculous.
 
@Powerlord You honestly think Walking Dead is a better game than Dishonored?
 
@DavidStarkey Haven't played either game.
 
@DavidStarkey Do you even read what he wrote?
 
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@DavidStarkey I guess I'm wondering here, does it matter?
I mean, different people value different aspects of gameplay and narrative.
 
3:00 PM
@Powerlord This is The Bridge. You can piss and moan about anything at all. My Cheerios were a little soggy this morning and I'm still mad about it.
 
@FAE I love games that most people hate.
 
@Sterno My wrist hurts, god damn it.
 
I don't care. I have fun with them.
 
FAE
@fbueckert Exactly. What's fun for you may not be for others and vice versa. I don't quite see the point in decrying someone else's choice in this situation.
 
Having said that, Dishonored isn't my kind of game and I would definitely have placed Virtue's Last Reward above it because of that.
Virtue's Last Reward being a visual novel with puzzle solving bits in it.
 
3:02 PM
@DavidStarkey I'm inclined to praise The Walking Dead as the best game of the decade just in spite of your view. And I don't even like it, for god's sake.
 
Gears of War received near universal praise. I think it's shit.
 
@FEichinger Mmmmmmm spite
 
@FEichinger Probably the reason it won Game of the Year anyway :)
 
@FAE Yeah. If you don't agree with someone's choice for best game of the year, that means you don't enjoy the same types of games, and their opinion means less to you.
 
3:03 PM
@DavidStarkey No, fans of the TV show are why it won GotY.
 
@DavidStarkey Now you're not even making sense anymore.
 
@Powerlord Frankly I'm surprised Angry Birds didn't win being the huge mobile "gaming" platform
 
FAE
@fredley Awwww!
 
@fbueckert Well, it doesn't necessarily mean that, but it could.
 
@OrigamiRobot That's the most logical conclusion.
 
3:06 PM
@fbueckert Not really, the most logical conclusion is that you don't value the same things within the game. That doesn't have to be genre.
See: my Gears of War opinion.
 
@OrigamiRobot Now you're just being pedantic. :P
 
I like shooters, I just think the cover system is gimmicky and very poorly implemented.
 
I'm not sure what @fbueckert and @OrigamiRobot are arguing about, but I agree wihth @FAE.
OKay, time to beat boss 3. Then onto the final boss.
 
I'm rarely a fan of games with cover systems. I'd rather have free movement and crouch
 
@fbueckert I'm just pointing out that you can dislike a popular game for reasons beyond genre.
 
FAE
3:09 PM
@OrigamiRobot Jochem and I got it as one of the first games we picked up when we got our 360 because we wanted a couch co-op game to play, but we both prefer shooters on PC, so we just kind of never went back to it.
 
Also I've very rarely seen a game with a cover system where the "cover" button isn't mapped to something stupid like "run" or "jump" so you constantly accidentally attach to cover like it's a goddamn magnet
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FAE
I'm working on playing through it with @Fluttershy now, 3+ years after I got it.
 
@BenBrocka Me too, and Gears of War's 1-button approach just leads to the game just assuming it knows what you want to do.
 
@OrigamiRobot Indeed you can. The point still stands, though. You value other aspects than the person doing the reviewing.
 
FAE
@BenBrocka Mass Effect 3! shakefist
 
3:11 PM
@FAE after playing it through 3-4 times, this ceases to be a problem
 
@fbueckert Which does not translate to "type of game"
 
@kalina Once was enough for me
 
the game felt really fluid the last time I played it
 
FAE
@kalina It mostly annoys me in multiplayer where I want to rez someone, not take cover next to them.
 
@fredley story options!
@FAE ah yeah, that happens
 
3:11 PM
@OrigamiRobot Now you're just nitpicking. :P Meh.
 
@kalina Options schmoptions
 
@fredley tofu is nicer than porkchop
 
@kalina I can read what the other options were
@kalina Beer is nicer than fire
 
@fbueckert How am I supposed to know what you mean when it's different from what you say?
 
@fredley nothing is nicer than fire
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3:12 PM
@kalina I agree. Nothing like a roaring nothing in the grate.
 
@OrigamiRobot 1 Button cover system jumps in to help.
 
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@kalina Trying to rez someone who's got a Brute standing over them and a Banshee's on the way in, your shields are down and you need to get this guy up but then your character decides, no, I'm gonna crouch next to the wall instead of rezzing my teammate is uuuuugh.
 
@FAE I don't know what you mean by "no shield" - I played vanguard
 
@OrigamiRobot Read my mind. Obviously.
 
FAE
@kalina I can't play Vanguard if I'm not hosting, too much lag because all the friends I play with are overseas.
 
3:13 PM
@fbueckert I would, but someone broke my telepathy circuits and refuses to get them fixed.
 
FAE
Way more likely to get sync-killed.
 
@FAE yeah, I had that happen a lot early on. Uncharted is probably one of the few games I haven't had it be a problem to my recollection
 
FAE
@BenBrocka Yeah, cover's a separate button in that one, IIRC.
 
and third boss dead! THe third boss was actually pretty easy.
 
3:17 PM
Google has made me sad.
 
@StrixVaria Did you use vault runes for the third boss?
 
@Wipqozn What game are you playing?
 
@OrigamiRobot things to do when your failing grammar.
 
@DavidStarkey Rogue LEgacy
 
I win
I live in a more interesting Google Bubble than you
 
3:18 PM
@FAE I think it's only used for cover and maybe some situation specific stuff
 
@fredley Meaning?
 
@Wipqozn Weren't you stuck on the fourth boss?
 
A filter bubble is a result state in which a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user (such as location, past click behaviour and search history) and, as a result, users become separated from information that disagrees with their viewpoints, effectively isolating them in their own cultural or ideological bubbles. Prime examples are Google's personalised search results and Facebook's personalised news stream. The term was coined by internet activist Eli Pariser in his book by the same name; according to Pariser, user...
 
Funny, "things to do when gagged" produces no suggestions.
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@fbueckert I did the fourth boss before the third.
 
3:19 PM
@Wipqozn That's completely illogical!
 
My favorite is "things to do when you've just ax murdered everyone"
 
The fourth boss was a huge pain in the ass. I honestly didn't find the third boss difficult at all.
 
Introducing Google Bucket, filled daily with the most popular substance of today's search traffic!
 
I could see why you would if you didn't bring along any vault runes though.
 
@fredley Surely it means London is less interesting, because people run out of things to do so consult google.
 
3:20 PM
Vault runes make it really easy to get around the map without bumping into all the flames ever.
 
@fredley We didn't even have the same search.
 
As well as hopping over the giant flame.
 
Also, Level 5, where is Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright in English?
 
Also, @OrigamiRobot was the one who killed the third boss. He's basically awesome
 
@OrigamiRobot True
 
3:21 PM
@FAE I liked infiltrator too
but those are really the only two classes I played MP
randomly rubs up against @fredley
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FAE
@kalina Yeah I like Infiltrator a lot as well.
 
@Wipqozn What class was I?
 
@OrigamiRobot Hokage.
 
@Wipqozn Fuck yea, Shinobi/Hokage is the best.
 
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, my favourite class.
Dwarfism is a terrible trait for the final boss.
Your range is non-existent.
 
3:26 PM
@FAE geth sniper rifle! woo
 
FAE
@kalina I get spoiled on Hunter Mode.
 
this is not helping my overwhelming desire to play Mass Effect through again
 
@kalina Watch tennis, disengage brain instead
 
final boss first form down
 
@fredley ...tennis
I do not understand
 
I don't wanna
 
@kalina Fine
 
IDON'TWANNA
there is a new deus ex game out soon
It's a shame its on mobile devices
 
Pay $1 to hack this console
 
while it does have microtransactions, apparently none of them are required to complete the game
I defer my judgement until after playing it though
 
3:44 PM
@bEnbrockA Why $1? Why not more?
 
you in the wrong neighborhood
 
Also, did you see what I did there? :D
 
@Powerlord because you can eat away at people slowly with small payments and earn more than one big payment. If you pace them right, people will object less to 5 payments of $1 than an upfront $5 payment. They're already invested after the first dollar (sunk cost) and people are shitty at math, especially for long term costs
 
@BenBrocka So, how much to reload a gun?
 
WE ARE INSIDE OF THE FINAL 45 MINUTES OF THE WORK DAY
HOMETIME HERE WE COME
 
3:49 PM
Yay, tomorrow is July Bank Holiday! In the US, that is.
 
@kalina I feel like going home now
So I will
 
yes but you smell
 
@kalina I smell delicious
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er...
strange definition of delicious
 
@kalina Char-grilled pork chop? What's not to smell delicious?
 
3:52 PM
@Wipqozn I have no idea.
The strategy I used for the third boss was be a Hokage and just try to outpace its damage.
 
@fredley Maybe the fact that you are a talking pork chop that can smell itself? You also are quite discolored for a char-grilled pork chop
 
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Q: Can't install Call of Duty 4 in PlayOnLinux!

JamesTheAwesomeDudeI was trying to install Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on my Ubuntu machine, via PlayOnLinux. I got PlayOnLinux installed, and the setup for CoD started, but when it came time to choose the installation location, I was greeted with this: The destination you selected does not have 8000 MB of s...

 
[space] is an actual tag on AU.
 
@fredley burnt pork chop
 
@fredley Now I'm hungry.
 
3:56 PM
A space is a spot that is occupied or not occupied by something
I don't remember writing that tag wiki
but it's really helpful, so I must have
 
@kalina You could improve it!
 
@FEichinger So much space, gotta see it all
> A space is a spot that is occupied or not occupied by something.
Oh for fuck's--
 
@BenBrocka Space is a father
 
@BenBrocka Also: That was added in a suggested edit.
 
3:58 PM
bored
BORED
 
@StrixVaria I see I see. I used hokage, but I only got hit a couple times. It's actually really easy to avoid damage if you have vault runes. I had two of them. Makes jumping around the flames really easy. If I didn't have vault runes I imagine it would have been a terrible experience.
 
bored
BORED
 
@kalina Okay, okay, we get it. But we don't care.
 
that's interesting, the notification appeared but the messages didn't
 
3:59 PM
@DavidStarkey No, that's a plank. Not a bored.
 
@FEichinger potato-tomato
 
@FEichinger just like your existence
 

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