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19:00
Pulse, Tales of Maj’Eyal, Doctor Who: The Adventure Game, Two Brothers, cloudbuilt, beast boxing turbo
Tons of other good shit
Sweet.
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@powerlord shhhh don't reveal my secret
So, anyway, apparently there's a new model 3DS XL coming out next month when the new Zelda game does.
@Powerlord With pterodactyl noises!
She's so pro.
19:02
The Girl and the Robot now has a kickstater
I can't watch this at work, but it's supposedly funny
@GnomeSlice Hmm, I wonder why they needed to greenlight what appears to be an official Doctor Who game.
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@fbueckert I am pro much. (except I superglued some of my hair to my glasses so I suspect that is less awesome. Nothing that is gonna require a haircut, but damn.)
Or... Bundle of games... Or something
Whoops, someone must have noticed filters were down because they're on again now
19:04
Big Bang Theory is funniest when laugh tracks are removed and you can enjoy all the awkward pauses
Ooo Tower of Guns got greenlit.
@Sterno It's not a laugh track, they have a live studio audience laughing.
@GnomeSlice Wrong words, same idea.
@Sterno You're right, sorry. I knew what you meant.
@Sterno - $79 instead of $150, so better.
19:06
@Sterno As for enjoying the awkward pauses, I agree. As for the usual criticism of "hurr durr laughtrack" ... Yeh, no.
@AshleyNunn Just think of it as those strings you attach to the earpieces of the glasses, to make sure you don't lose them!
@Arperum It has a demo.
@OrigamiRobot good point.
@Coronus He sits on my arms while I am typing.
I wonder who it was who originally thought, "You know, this is kind of funny, but what would really make people laugh is if we dub in other people laughing at it."
Some evil genius, I'm sure.
19:07
@Arperum I played the demo and was angry when it ended. That seemed like a good sign i should buy it.
@OrigamiRobot I should try that too.
Apparently that man was Charles "Charley" Douglass. Thank you, Wikipedia.
eeeeeeee The Savant game got greenlit!
@Sterno What's really confusing is that they've stuck with the status quo even though people now would hardly find it awkward to laugh at something on TV without the audience laughter (which seems to have been the original intention)
"What? No one else is laughing? Wait, this isn't the town theatre! WHAT IS THIS MAGIC COMEDY PRODUCING BOX DOING IN MY LIVING ROOM? BACK, YE DEMON, BACK!"
The joke where Sheldon knocks on the door three times and says Penny after every one would quickly become creepy without background laughter.
19:12
What the hell is gamification?
@SaintWacko Welcome to SE.
@SaintWacko Your rep.
@SaintWacko Making a 'game' out of something otherwise boring. Like rep.
@GnomeSlice Ah, thank you
Only one who actually answered :P
Gamification leverages social reward systems to incentivize engagement and that sentence was supposed to be a mess of buzzwords but it actually came out fairly accurate
19:14
I honestly don't get this bashing on gamification.SE ... It's a rather well-defined topic and there's some valuable questions in there ...
Protip: if your boss has an attack range of two on a two hit kill super attack, please give players a two turns' warning
@badp I read that as work boss at first
@SaintWacko Me too.
I don't really see a need for a separate gamification site when there's UX
@GnomeSlice I was very confused until I reread it
19:15
@BenBrocka That's a good point, actually
I hadn't even thought of that
@BenBrocka This I can agree on, partially. I think a lot of it definitely falls under UX, but perhaps it takes some broader expertise as well. I could certainly imagine a need for, say, mathematicians building an elaborate balancing model and the like.
I'd better go again
@SaintWacko What? My answer was technically correct (if actually useless)!
Congratulations, @badp, you wrote a garden path sentence
Jin
Jin
19:17
@ravendreamer is it pho time?
UX strikes me more as a psychology/dev/design thing, while gamification is psychology/dev/mathematics. Lots of overlap, but perhaps still enough deviation. I suppose we'll see what the beta brings.
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Q: How i can get a list if ID:Meta of a Minecraft Client?

Namen MalkavIm searching a way to dump/export a list of blockID;metadata, name, mod and it is possible the path to the texture data used by the block (as is in 1.6.*).

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Q: Is there a science to Disenchanting in Hearthstone?

GrohlierI have been too chicken to disenchant anything in Hearthstone. I have heard rumors they were upping the amount of dust you got back from each card. I don't know the validity; but, it has made me not want to even test his feature. Can someone explain what I am looking at in the DE screen. What ar...

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Q: What are the various pros and cons of switching my state religion to Protestant?

WipqoznThe Protestant Reformation recently began in my game of Europa Univeraslis IV, and it's spreading quite rapidly across my nation. When it first started I was hoping to stop it, but that doesn't look like it'll be an easy task. As the percentage of Protestants in my nation started to grow I starte...

@Lazers Dupe
@Lazers You lose access to the Pope, obviously.
@fei personally if @Ben wants some of our spam I have no problem with sharing
19:23
Is the person with the most rep at Gamification.SE winning SE?
@Sterno Yes.
@Sterno No, the person with the most rep on meta.gamification
Which you wont be able to see.
It will remain a secret lost to the ages.
@JasonBerkan What about the Space Pope?
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Q: About the violence inherent in the system

badpMy question/answer/post/comment/chat message/avatar/username/about me box/insult/appellative/sentence/phrase/word/vowels/consonants/punctuation/plenkel/HTML comments have been censored/falsified/moved/anonymized/reattributed/altered! Ah! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Come see ...

@sterno re: laugh tracks. I think the intention is to recreate the feeling of a theatre watching a movie with you. In movies there are no laugh tracks but the audience does laugh at bad jokes anyway
19:25
@badp Or groans. We need a groan track.
@Wipqozn Nah. You'll still have access to him.
@badp what prompted that meta post?
Laugh tracks are terrible
Studio audiences are only slightly less so
@kalina I guess he's in a.... @badp mood.
@BenBrocka you should have said @bad, unfortunately, you didn't, so this is a poor attempt
I've seen better attempts from GnomeSlice
etc
but! A post like that must have been prompted by drama, and you know how much I thrive on drama
@kalina Oh snap
19:27
@kal a comment on the site, I figured that this was a recurring theme though which could've warranted a preemptive question.
@BenBrocka That was so bad my baby woke up to cry about it. Well done, sir.
@badp while the answer is pretty solid, I feel the question misses the opportunity to be far more dramatic than it is
Deleted my comment again. LOL. The censorship on this site is ridiculous. Freedom of Speech seems to be something this company does not embrace. — John Doe Santa yesterday
bah @agent86 got there first, no point in posting a duplicate comment
I am going to flag John Doe Santa's comment as not constructive though
The question part of the meta could use a little work. It's hard to read, which makes me want to stop reading it. It's most useful as a meta if it can be linked to people who are complaining about freedom of speech
19:30
@kalina I already did. Still active. I have a feeling it's being intentionally left for the moment.
@Sterno while I like the use of huge slash separated lists, proper bullet point lists would make it easier to read
@Unionhawk it looked like the system just took action
unless I clicked flag at the exact moment a mod removed it
or maybe lots of strikethroughs
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Q: Second Screen on Assassin's Creed 4

ChrisThe game seems to have a second screen feature that allows you to do other stuff from an external device. I've been trying to find out more and found a few pages and videos that describe this companion app. However I can't actually find any solid details and it sounds quite fun and something I'd ...

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Q: unable to connect to friends server (except for once)

CallanNinjamy friend has a multiplayer server for 1.7.2 , everyone can join except me, minecraft wont find his server but other people find the server is there anyway to fix this? help me please

Strikethrough everything forever
I am so tempted to edit it and display community submitted moderation censorship
19:32
@kal you casted the last flag on the comment, thus removing it
@badp I didn't realise "not constructive" flags would result in system deletions
This new trend of using three letters for people's names is terrible.
Congratulations on your perspective mod abuse point, I guess!
PAYDAY 2 Halloween event
19:32
@kalina all comment flags result in deletion
I wish all flags resulted in automatic system deletions
then I could make an army of sockpuppets and use moderator flags to delete moderators
@benbro it's all fun and games until... I don't know. I don't really have a followup to that. I just wanted to say @benbro.
@ben @dud @bro
my most recent favourite passtime: typing @Rory in The DMZ
To me, this is the definition of an answer that does not belong in spoiler markup.
19:35
-1, too many letters
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A: What do lollipops do?

fredleyLollipops can be used to make more lollipops, and

"Q: What do they do?" "A: I'll tell you in a minute. Hover here first."
Though that just revealed this gem:
I am a vampire and
@Sterno stupid deleted post/comment/whatever.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
I got offered the job.
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@Wipqozn Congratulations!
19:37
@Wipqozn Congrats
Awesome!
@Sterno good way to get an infection
@wip grats! Danger: you might be contracting a life.
@BenBrocka UTIs are serious business
@badp Lives are scary.
and thanks all!
19:37
@Wipqozn Congratulations!
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@Wipqozn Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
@wip they're hard, or at least unpleasant, to cure
What's the job by the way?
If you can tell
Web Developer at The Chronicle Herald.
NEwspaper company
Oh. That's nice. Looking forward to defeat your paywalls
@Wipqozn cool
19:40
oh did you get it in the end?
@badp I've already defeated them.
You just turn off javascript and you get by.
@badp The local paper's paywall can be defeated by turning off JavaScript.
That may be why you got hired!!
Some companies don't try very hard.
Also I only guessed that the site had a paywall, I didn't actually know.
19:42
Also, request for a suggestion!
@jas we are the 1% or somesuch
@fredley You are bad at spoiler markup.
I'd like to make a counter offer, for abit more money. Roughly $4000 more a year (hoping they'll meet me in the middle at $2000 a year). Any advice on how I should go about wording that in an Email?
cc @Sterno, since you're old and experienced and a dad.
@Sterno I think he should be suspended for spoiler irregularities
19:43
@Sternold
@Wipqozn I am bad at this.
@Sterno Bah!
and you call yourself a creepy old dude.
I've never called myself creepy.
@Wipqozn I am also terrible at this
I've had the same job for 13 years, and I did not negotiate upon being hired.
19:43
I'm just like "not enough money? lol bai"
"$4k more or I walk!" No, wait. Don't do that.
All I can say is that from what I've read, when negotiating you want to have an idea of what you're willing to accept or not, and what your best alternative is to making an agreement. That doesn't really seem to be your problem here. You sound like you'd probably still take the job at their current offer... you just want to try to figure out how to ask for more without looking like a dick or having the offer rejected
$4k more or I will replace everything in your kitchen with Olestra chips
@Sterno Basically.
Also, be prepared for tricky business like "I want 4k more" and they say "Well, we'll give you a 4k starting bonus"
Which is still more, so nice, but also means it's a one-time thing
19:45
@Wipqozn - I think it's a bit hard to negotiate a larger salary when you have no experience. Work for a year (or 6 months), wow them, and then ask.
@JasonBerkan That's a good point.
@Sterno Also bonuses, at least here, are taxed insanely high, then some magic happens when you file income taxes and it's less
@wip Protip: it that's your first experience with a LAMP server, keep in mind that load averages are not expressed in percentages.
I get something asinine like 40% tax out of my bonus each year
A load average of 56.23 "percent" is not normal
It's one of the nine signs of the apocalypse.
19:47
I've never sat down and figured out what my effective tax rate is. I should.
It makes me sad that it isn't as simple as adding 2 or 3 numbers.
@badp Technically... it is a percent... but expressed as a decimal.
Well, OK, that fails since it's 1.0 per core
A percentage number divided by hundred is simply known as a fraction
@badp You should instruct Valve on this. :P
Since TF2's "percentage" and "inverted_percentage" types for TF2's item configurations are all 0.x and 1.x
19:50
Heh
I guess they wanted "multiplier"?
(inverted_percentage meaning that it just flips the way its displayed around... i.e. inverted_percentage 0.7 is "30% lower damage")
Of course. It'd never be 1/0.7
I'm sure you can spin it around as -0.7 though. Somehow
Telltale is spamming Facebook with The Walking Dead Season 2 stuff. I'm not certain I'm emotionally ready for that game.
Jin
Jin
I'm about to make my famous porkbelly
@Jin Is that what you cal eating till you're bloated?
Jin
Jin
20:02
@OrigamiRobot are you calling me fat?
@Jin No, I want to know if you're calling you fat.
Candy successfully pulverized!
STOP SELLING THINGS, STEAM
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why can't I get onto imgur? did they ban me
20:07
@Sterno That's their entire business model. Stopping it is unrealistic.
@3ventic good job there's nothing on that list I want to buy
no.
It's the best game I remember ever playing
The Overlord series is on sale. You know you want Evil Pikmin!
20:09
Is that because you forget most games you play?
My wallet approves of this sale.
Brothers still looks super boring to me. Convince me it isn't.
@Sterno taxes are basically designed to not be simple at this point
@OrigamiRobot Sterno plays SMB 3 twice a year and still thinks it's 1990 and it's just come out every time
I wish I could completely forget some game so I could experience them for the first time again.
20:13
Exploring SotN for the first time blew my mind. This was before I could just look everything up on the internet.
@OrigamiRobot And back when you only had a few games, and thus would spend countless hours exploring games you'd already pretty much completed.
And didn't mind taking an hour to figure something out
@OrigamiRobot same
@Sterno Spending hours just to figure out what the 2nd drop of a monster might be because it could be a great item.
Nope, just Ramen
The Internet ruined everything.
Move to the next monster
I printed off a page of SotN secrets at school and most of them were just lies. That's the best I had as far as help.
Or they were so poorly worded, it took an hour to figure out what they were talking about.
"use the wing stone to get to the platform in the tower and make the gears click" and stuff like that
WTF is the wing stone? Oh, they mean the double jump stone because it makes your cape turn into wings when you jump the 2nd time.
What tower? What gears?
20:19
Has anyone played Eldritch?
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should I go to see a fortune teller?
@Sterno I saw a video of it.
@OrigamiRobot Had you never played a Castlevania game before that?
@Powerlord Nope, I didn't even know about the series. I got SotN in the mail for my birthday from out-of-state relatives.
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do I have black magic inside of me?
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20:21
jealousy of relative?
@OrigamiRobot Well, then maybe that's not so bad after all. If you'd played some or all of the previous games and hadn't known that the Clock Tower levels were known for their spinning gears...
@Powerlord Yea, when I finally got to the Clock Tower, I figured it out.
@OrigamiRobot Do you still use autoCAD?
I only have StoN and I got Castlevania 4 for virtual console and never got very far. Didn't realize it would be such a different game
@RonanForman Yes, why?
Are you about to ask me a question?
20:24
@BenBrocka For more Metroidvania games, you had to go to the portable systems.
Oh god, I won't be able to concentrate at all this class; pokemon has officially arrived.
How are Monaco or Dungeon Hearts or Brothers or Borderlands or Fallout 3 or Dungeon Defenders or The Next Big Thing or Gotham City Impostors or Atom Zombie Masher or Sleeping Dogs considered "Halloween games"?
@OrigamiRobot I just finished writing a userscript that fixes capitals in chat messages.
@badp My guess for Sleeping Dogs was that it has a zombie-ish DLC
@RonanForman That's much less fun.
20:25
I say finished, there's something else I want to add.
@OrigamiRobot i thought you might be interested.
Not that I'd complain, I enjoyed it even having bought it at (probably almost-) full price.
Dammit!
Why didn't that fix?
Maybe The Swapper sounds like the most interesting sale of the bunch.
@badp also monaco
I think anything with anything resembling zombies, even in a DLC, got thrown in
There we go, sort of.
20:26
BECAUSE THROW YOUR MONEY AT THE SCREEN, that's why.
Circle of the Moon (GBA), Harmony of Dissonance (GBA), Aria of Sorrow (GBA), Dawn of Sorrow (DS), Portrait of Ruin (DS), and Order of Ecclesia (DS) all follow Symphony of the Night's general formula.
Unfortunately, Konami ditched those kinda of games now.
So hard to get a proper platformer on a home console these days
I need to find a way to play Tomba! again.
Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate tried to dress up like a Metroidvania, but it only looks like one rather than playing like one.
Uh, you can actually use multiple fingers on the default android keyboard's swipe mode if you are dexterous enough
20:28
@OrigamiRobot Luckily my cousin had it still, so I bought it from her.
user58869
why doesn't imgur work?
@TimStone I broke my copy by using it as a frisbee T_T
I was so bad at owning games when I was a kid.
The worst, it sounds like. :(
20:30
I left them in the wrong cases when I put them in cases at all.
loose disks scattered about my hardwood floor
I'm so ashamed.
I think having carts taught us bad habits for owning disks
you could just leave carts in a pile
I lost several hundred (Canadian) dollars of computer games when I moved to Hong Kong, they were all in the same case and I don't know what happened to it.
I don't trust nice things to air travel
Shadowshifters Present: HUNTSMAN The Orphanage is a terrible game title.
@BenBrocka Yea, I just kept all my carts in a big tupperware
20:31
eletronics go in the carryon, nothing valuable comes with me otherwise
user58869
If I recall, it got unintentionally packed instead of put in my luggage.
Also September 11th.
Who the fuck is Shadowshifters? Why does HUNTSMAN needs a subtitle? What day is this? Where am I?
If you like puzzles and creepy/surreal things, Closure is beautiful store.steampowered.com/app/72000
20:32
@Sterno has finally gone senile
@OrigamiRobot Yeah, I was going to buy that one on Amazon for about that price
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But I figured I'd wait until I played the first one again before making that kind of commitment.
I don't know why 2 is more though, 1 was better.
Didn't understand that either
20:34
I need to stop looking up the value of old PS1 games
I am going to cry.
Ticks me off that the whole collection isn't downloadable by now
But licensing fees, IP rights, all that crap
If they released Tomba digitally, I'd buy the shit out of it.
@BenBrocka This ticks me off about all video games in the entire universe. Why isn't everything available for purchase and download somewhere?
user58869
I have a closet full of DOS game boxes I'm itching to get rid of.
20:38
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Q: Does the weather effects in Final Fantasy XIV: a Realm Reborn affect elemental damage, creature strengths and behavior?

Eon Rusted du PlessisDoes the weather effects in Final Fantasy XIV: a Realm Reborn affect elemental damage, creature strengths and behavior? I recall Final Fantasy XII, weather played an important role in elemental damage, the spawn rate of elementals and entities and also the behavior of specific monsters.

@JasonBerkan Yeah. That's why I Think ROMs and such are basically a necessary evil. Otherwise there's no way to get ahold of these things. And buying a used copy doesn't actually help anyone but the guy lucky enough to own one
Too bad I don't own a PS device
@axrwkr I may have missed some context in chat one day. Is there a reason you post lots of Bruce Lee photos at seemingly random times?
20:39
@BenBrocka And Nintendo's stupidity doesn't help. I was all excited to buy a bunch of old games on Virtual Console until I learned they were all tied to my Wii.
@OrigamiRobot A PS Vita TV will play that and it'll only be ~$100 if it comes to the US
@JasonBerkan yeah, and they didn't handle the Wii U VC well either
basically starting over from scratch
@BenBrocka Or I can just download the ISO and use ePSXe
user58869
@Sterno its's usually this tim of night done you know
@axrwkr And as I recall, I requested you stop doing that so often.
@OrigamiRobot If I can purchase a game (not used) I always do
20:41
@axrwkr So you're saying that it's kind of like, "Hey, it's getting late in the day, I'd better put some Bruce Lee photos in chat"?
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@fbueckert no you asked me to stop posting world of Warcraft imagery and I did
@BenBrocka I'm not going to pay $100 to play a game I already bought years ago.
@fbueckert I request people do less ponies, but they never listen. Except for the last few days, where apparently they totally listened.
@axrwkr I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.
@OrigamiRobot Oh, if you've already bought it I'd just get an ISO
20:42
13 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot
@TimStone I broke my copy by using it as a frisbee T_T
@axrwkr Well, please stop posting so many random pictures. Or at least hide them behind a link.
Or, just, please stop posting so many random pictures, full stop.
user58869
I... will... try...
@BenBrocka I don't know what it's like now, but finding the PS1 bios was always the hardest part
20:51
@OrigamiRobot It's not that hard, not that I'd know
Now people are posting ponies just because @Sterno said not to.
Lil Sebastian is best pony.
@fbueckert Nonsense!
@fbueckert Ah, but they're not the kind of ponies he was talking about!
Hence why I'm a comedic genius.
@Wipqozn You're only a genius in your own mind.
20:53
My mind too
I'm pretty sure my cat thinks I'm a comedic genius as well.
@Wipqozn Lyrical genius at the very least.
cc @FAE
No one sings better cat songs than me.
FAE
FAE
@OrigamiRobot 'Strue.
My cat songs involve a lot more swearing.
20:56
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Q: Grand Theft Auto V Installation

Kobran0547Do I have to install GTA V on HDD? Can I just play it with DVD inside without installation? Thanks

FAE
FAE
21:13
@OrigamiRobot This made me literally cringe.
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Q: Candybox 2: Squirrel and candies

Candiest person in the worldhow can I get the right answer to the 3rd question ("how many candies" etc.) as I gain 21 of them each second and am not very good at mental calculus? ;)

42 mins ago, by OrigamiRobot
I am a monster
@OrigamiRobot munster*
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Q: unknown engine / pumpkin steamer

daxninei received an "unknown engine" from Nimble bit a day or two ago. that was the message in a dialog box when i logged in to play. since then, there is a bar labeled "unknown engine" in the yard but it's not click-able. i read on the pocket trains wiki that users that log in this week will receive...

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Q: About the violence inherent in the system

badpPlease print, tick what applies, sign, put on a wooden table, photograph and send by mail or fax. Attach an ID My ❏ question ❏ answer ❏ post ❏ comment ❏ chat message ❏ avatar ❏ username ❏ about me box ❏ insult ❏ appellative ❏ sentence ❏ phrase ❏ word ❏ vowels ❏ consonants ❏ punctuation ❏ plenkel ❏

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There I fix it.
21:26
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Q: Awesomenauts: Does enemy team gain solar when Ayla or Clunck kill themselves?

arabisoftI'm trying to evaluate the following scenario: I'm playing with Ayla and she is in Rage and I notice that she's gonna die either way, if she remains in rage she'd kill herself and if she comes out of rage an enemy Awesomenaut would kill her. The question is, which decision yelids the least solar...

user58869
thank me later
@badp I love it.
Yes. Once the checkboxes and the wooden table were added, I simply had to upvote.
user15026
@badp I thought it was just something that came out of your brain
user15026
21:37
I can't decide if it is more or less horrifying that it has real-world implications
@AshleyNunn Even my brain is fully contained by reality.
@badp You're so fancy.
21:56
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@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment GLORIOUS
@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Good Gravy.
Ugh ... I hate being sick ...
I now own ten Meth Chinas. That's a lot of people to have making meth for me.
@FEichinger Me too! That's why I just stopped doing it.
user15026
21:59
@Fluttershy I wish I had that skill :P
@Fluttershy I hate your guts. ... Oddly appropriate.

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