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18:01
@twobugs it would if it had a chamber with water pumps
open the first hatch, some water gets in, close the door, pump it all out, open the 2nd hatch and you're in
some water gets in...
thats where your problems start
Water pressure hurts.
You can't stop New Netherlands VII
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Q: Key binding for seperating storm not working

BobI want to change my default keybindings for Mass Effect 2 through Coalesced.ini so that the following happens: Storm is separated from Use/Cover Storm is bound to LeftShift Use/Cover is bound to E Command HUD is bound to Spacebar I moved Order Move/Attack Henchmen 2 from E to T so E would bec...

Besides
Owning an island might be the most realistic way to realise the "living in an underwater dome" dream you never knew you had
I mean you still have to figure out a way to get fresh oxygen and fresh supplies and electricity and a safe way to get in and out and if the island happens to be inside a lake you aren't going to get much of a view out of your dome
but at least you can build it in the dry while it lasts!
@badp I did that in dwarf fortress once
I started on the edge of a frozen lake
18:15
hehe
I did it in minecraft
not tried in df
Just imagine how much the property value would increase once you can claim that yes you do indeed have a honest to goodness real underwater dome
And immediately rushed my dwarves out to make a stone-lined shaft down through the frozen lake to the lakebed
Then summer? @SaintWacko
@djsmiley2k amazingly disappointing experience. Very realistic, probably
So by the time the ice melted, I had a safe entrance to under the lake
It was cool
18:16
@SaintWacko does the game model oxygen supply and demand?
It will eventually, if not currently
@badp I don't think so
That would be cool, though
Currently, though, I think it only models fluid dynamics in liquids
So you still had infinite air supply which might be the biggest problem for an actual underwater dome lifestyle
> "Sponsor does not guarantee the Island to be inhabitable, developed or reachable by any means other than a boat."
although I suppose that so long as you have electricity you could inefficiently get oxygen out of electrolysis
dunno how breathable a 33-66 oxygen hydrogen mixture would be
That sounds like way too much oxygen
18:19
That sounds just a tad dangerous
@badp That would be incredibly flammable.
I'd be concerned about the hydrogen. Excepting people with certain respiratory conditions, at sea level, 100% O2 is perfectly breathable.
I do not know what the physiological implications of breathing that concentration of hydrogen are though.
Apparently electrolysis already is the main supply of oxygen in space?
33% O2 is breathable at sea level and at depth, even.
18:22
although this article is quite old
Air is ~80% nitrogen, which we don't process in any meaningful way, IIRC.
Nope, nitrogen is completely inert
@Unionhawk considering you're building your underwater dome in what's currently dry land I wouldn't expect amazing depths — you wouldn't want them anyway because they'd ruin the views
Oxygen isn't really the problem, it seems. More like the composition of the breathable air you'd use.
It's more likely to become a part-time underwater dome
18:24
Relying on electrolysis alone is dangerous because of how flammable hydrogen is.
@badp 33% O2 is breathable at depths up to 32 msw
which would honestly make things A LOT easier.
electrolysis is also a problem if you accidently produce O3
although I suppose you'd need to have high tide at midday to make the most out of it
@badp That is a terrible idea. The most dangerous thing in space or underwater is a fire
18:25
Wow, someone I graduated with is already a senior software engineer at Google
@twobugs just moved up in the list of people who will survive the Google-pocalypse.
Probably, because I remember helping him on a few programming assignments :P
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@twobugs This is why I am glad I don't have many uni friends who are in the working world so I don't have to feel like a failure
so in the case of a part-time underwater dome suddenly you can only really use it one every four weeks
Someone I ended up having to do entire projects for is working at Amazon, apparently. I wonder how that's going for him.
18:27
> Hydrogen that's leftover from splitting water will be vented into space, at least at first. NASA engineers have left room in the ECLSS hardware racks for a machine that combines the hydrogen with excess carbon dioxide from the air in a chemical reaction that produces water and methane. The water would help replace the water used to make oxygen, and the methane would be vented to space.
Basically, throw the dangerous things out the airlock.
@twobugs Amazon is apparently utterly awful to work for.
I guess that one you do figure out how to run electricity to your part-time underwater dome you should be pretty much okay
Pretty much
@AshleyNunn Well, I don't feel too bad because this guy was really smart. But yeah...
18:28
@badp Wave generators
@SaintWacko Electricity OP.
Pls nerf.
@SaintWacko won't work in shallow waters I'm afraid
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@twobugs The few friends I had in uni either went on to Master's stuff or they're unemployed.
@badp Alright, tidal generators
Solar sounds like a better plan
18:29
Apparently Hydreliox is a thing (a breathing gas mixture containing hydrogen, helium, and oxygen), since hydrogen is easier to breathe than nitrogen at depth
Have a basin under the island that fills and drains with the tide
you wouldn't be using the dome 3/4 weeks anyway
@AshleyNunn Ah. I lost touch with most of mine, sadly. A few are in grad school I think, others scattered across the continent (and world, probably)
so you can use that time to charge up your Tesla power walls or something
@badp Geothermal, maybe?
18:30
It's used in place of Heliox at depths greater than 130 msw to mitigate the risk of high pressure nervous syndrome
user15026
@twobugs I had like....three to begin with :P
Many islands are in areas with tectonic activity
@Unionhawk msw?
meters seawater
Meters under water surface?
18:31
@AshleyNunn Aw. Well I didn't have too many either, for the most part. I did computer science and the culture really turned me off. Lots of "brogrammers"
under sea water surface level
Gotcha
After all we're talking pressure
user15026
@twobugs University was....a lot of change and a lot of difficult life experiences.
Under Pressure!
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@SaintWacko And now i am singing that to myself.
18:32
@SaintWacko doo doo doo doodoodoodoo...
@AshleyNunn you're surrounded by programmers here!
I'm sorry
@AshleyNunn Glad to be of assistance!
user15026
@badp It's okay, you lot are pretty decent humans.
"Humans".
@AshleyNunn One of us! One of us!
18:33
> The problem, as you may well know, is that when combined with Oxygen, Hydrogen makes a terrific rocket fuel. However, it has been used successfully as a diving gas because it is not flammable when the fraction of Oxygen is less than 5%.
Will you spare us when you seize power?
Or at least... hug us first?
Short answer, that gas mix will blow up. Immediately.
SCIENCE
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@SaintWacko I'll never be a dev, but I have dreams of doing something else in that arena. (I started studying for my A+ again after abandoning it since my brain got opened up :P)
@Unionhawk electricity no longer sounds like a problem suddenly
I mean, come think of it
If electrolysis could provide breathable air divers probably wouldn't need gas tanks to begin with.
probably
@Chippies a 50k island sounds like a pretty crappy deal
18:39
although I also don't think that "discard 80% of the produced oxygen before mixing it with hydrogen" would be particularly challenging
so the question becomes how quickly can you electrolyze enough water to make breathable safe air out of it more or less sustainably
@Blem which is why you can just take the 50k$ instead
Oh, wait, seawater provides additional fun complications.
In that, I believe you actually produce chlorine gas
Man you guys are really bored, huh?
At least Uni
I love dive science, and this is related to dive science
Why don't you take a long dive off a short pier? I guess that doesn't really work so well as a burn.
18:44
@Unionhawk Ah, because of the dissociated sodium chloride in the water?
Yup. The actual products are hydrogen and chlorine
Which most definitely does not render a breathable gas mix
Where does the sodium go?
@Unionhawk no actual oxygen? Damn
@murgatroid99 Reacts with the oxygen, I assume.
Na2O, I believe.
Chlorine didn't sound ALL too bad — it's no plutonium
18:46
@badp Chlorine gas is very poisonous.
There wouldn't be all that much sod— wait sea water.
Mhmm.
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Q: What is "Tread Switching" and how can lower ranked players utilize it?

JeroenPower treads give +9 to either Strength, Agility, or Intelligence. You can switch between the "active" attribute. When buying them for my hero, the default thing I'd do is set them to my hero's primary stat. Casters of professional games often refer to "Tread Switching", which I assume means c...

@Yuuki lenntech.com/periodic/elements/cl.htm didn't make it sound too bad — it would mostly be a problem for the sealife that would be your primary source of entertainment
@Yuuki According to the internet, the electrolysis of brine produces hydrogen gas, chlorine gas, and sodium hydroxide
18:49
@Unionhawk So... bad, bad, and bad.
It's apparently an important industrial process, or something
Brine is defined as "saltier than sea water"
@Unionhawk Probably why desalinization is harder than people think.
@badp I think the process is still the same.
I don't know, I'm not a chemist.
The red sea is at 40‰ salt
Brine is 50‰+
18:51
Saline water is water that contains a significant concentration of dissolved salts (mainly NaCl) and is commonly known as salt water. The salt concentration is usually expressed in parts per thousand (permille, ‰) or parts per million (ppm). The United States Geological Survey classifies saline water in three salinity categories. Salt concentration in slightly saline water is around 1,000 to 3,000 ppm (0.1–0.3%), in moderately saline water 3,000 to 10,000 ppm (0.3–1%) and in highly saline water 10,000 to 35,000 ppm (1–3.5%). Seawater has a salinity of roughly 35,000 ppm, equivalent to 35 grams...
so simply put your underwater dome in the Baltic sea!!
a.k.a. a swamp, apparently
@badp Does this symbol mean "per thousand" instead of "per hundred"?
@StrixVaria yes
Oh, if I read the Wikipedia article...
18:53
Why not say 4% salt instead of 40‰?
That way everyone knows wtf you're talking about at a glance and you're not using intentionally misleading archaic symbols.
Stupid Wikipedia elitists.
There even is ‱
although it's more commonly spelled bp
@Yuuki acceptable
This symbol is 10000‱ stupid.
You know people are fucking with you at ⁰/₀₀₀₀
wish I could adjust the kerning better there
@badp I am so happy that's not a single character.
18:57
@StrixVaria I'll start using it as such though!!
It's gonna be 987,332 ⁰/₀₀₀₀₀ fun!
@badp Fun is almost mandatory.
The remaining parts per ten million are also mandatory.
@Yuuki I'll allow it
@Yuuki ha! You linked to a gifv, so I can't watch it even if I wanted to
@Yuuki I have to imagine the most offensive part of this is using dough that comes in a tube.
19:01
@badp That's part of why I was wondering how much rage I could induce in you since I know you hate .gifvs.
@Yuuki you only have that part though
So many things to tick on the "things @badp hates" list.
In order to have that part you gave up on all other parts
I was going to fix it, but apparently imgur redirects webm links to gifv for me
yes, because gifv is dumb.
You have to click on their special download link
19:03
@Unionhawk That's just something imgur does, I don't think it's a .gifv-specific thing.
@badp I see
because again .gifv is actually html
just like urls that end in .php actually aren't php files
or .pl, or whatever
Right, it's not a real format, it's just a html5 video embedded on a page... Is gfycat not precisely the same thing, or do you hate it less because it isn't pretending to be a special format?
.php redirects to "special hell".
@Unionhawk gfycat is video converted to gif, not the other way around
19:06
I see
Also gfycat works on mobile
Those are the two main things
Ugh multisim, why are you so huge
@badp Good. Stupid 600MB animated GIFs that automatically download and start playing.
gifv is like making FLAC out of wav after it's been compressed to 4 kHz
Yeah, the download link downloads a gif, not a webm or anything fancy like that
19:10
So, is joy2key the current "best" thing to use for PC if I want to use a gamepad in a game that doesn't support gamepads?
Yes it's FLAC, but it's still garbage
If you want the true music over the mobile phone experience just downsample the original
All right, a couple bits of software down, several more bits to go
Let's start downloading MatLAB and hope this network can get a 7.3 GB iso done before I have to go to class
(it might)
Hmm... joy2key or xpadder.
> 1 hour left
@Powerlord Wish I could help, but no (recent) experience with either of them
19:13
Nope it won't
I think I tried using Xpadder when I was trying to get GTA:SA PC working with a controller, but I remember being frustrated that nothing really worked right
@Powerlord Ive used xpadder, it worked well enough.
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Q: What Kanai Cube recipes are not listed?

ChaseCThere is a help section in the Kanai's Cube tab that shows 7 pages of different recipes. I know that you can also put in a Puzzle Ring and that will open a portal to The Vault. Are there others?

19:30
@Unionhawk I need to do that.
user15026
GUYS I HAVE HELIUM BALLOONS IN MY OFFICE
user15026
ITS AWESOME
@AshleyNunn TAKE ONE AND BREATHE IT IN.
SQUEAKY VOICES, WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
how do I do a high pitched voice in text form?
I'm sure you can figure something out with superscript.
19:34
How do I do superscript on mobile?
^high pitched voice?
Nope
user15026
@Yuuki Oh that would make tech support more funsies
@AshleyNunn doooooo eeeeeeeeet
Also something something, high pitched pterodactyl
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Q: Low FPS CPU Overheating

user3783087I have a laptop with: CPU: i7 4700MQ GPU: GeForce GT 740M 2GB RAM: 8GB Playing League Of Legends I normally have 80 FPS on medium, but in the last days I had to switch to medium low and my fps was still crazy, for example at the first 5 minutes of the game my fps constant 80 after that it star...

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@GodEmperorDune yeah, good luck catching me doing that :P
user15026
IIRC, the original pterodactyl noises came after a few beers.
19:40
Few beers, few helium balloons, same difference
@Powerlord joy2key isn't the best anything
not if you're using an xbox 360 controller anyway
Hmm, apparently Polygon is comparing a game named Layers of Fear to P.T.
20:04
@Lazers2.0 y would ur cpu overheat if your graphics card is underclocking..
@djsmiley2k It's turning red from embarrassment at being underutilized.
The rest of the computer was worrying it was getting chilly.
Until Dawn is pretty awesome.
Though I must not be doing so well because the protagonists are dropping like flies.
A wild Nanor appears.
I've been here for a while.
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Q: How does the spawn protection in Counterstrike Global Offensive work in Competitive Gamemode?

LeoschWe had someone matched up with us in competitive mode in Counterstrike Global Offensive who was not content with our performance and started calling us idiots and noobs, the works. We tried to get him to shut up first, then muted him. As a consequence he started griefing our team. He repeatedly ...

@AshleyNunn :O
user15026
@fredley Apparently recent birthday = balloons :D
20:25
@AshleyNunn Amazeballs
@AshleyNunn It's true! They just appear and no one knows why
Explain that, science!
If balloons are for birthdays then why are there still birthdays?
user15026
@fredley I am going to take them home on the bus, it will be entertaining
@AshleyNunn why not attach them to a chair and float home?
HALLO
Hi @spugsley
20:30
@GodEmperorDune Balloon fuel can't melt steel chairs!
@RonanForman unless it was ... THE IRON THRONE
@Sterno Apparently, that's supposed to happen.
> Throughout the game, players will make difficult decisions during ethical or moral dilemmas, such as sacrificing one character to save another.
And you're apparently supposed to play it multiple times because you always miss something in each playthrough.
Essentially, it's the kind of game @Sterno definitely should not be playing.
I hate forced replays like that
Collectionist in me can't stand it
user15026
@GodEmperorDune Gonna need more than 3 balloons then
@AshleyNunn :/
user15026
20:43
Now I am curious what I can make float with three helium balloons
@GodEmperorDune Lego games with their 'free' play after completing a level?
@AshleyNunn Only one way to find out. attach stuff to them and Let it Go
/me has spent the last 3 nights collectign stuff in lotr lego hobbit
I think they went way over the top with collectable stuff this time :/
the food items are annoying
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Q: Should I sell my remaining Rift Keystone fragments?

ClickRickSince the 2.3.0 patch, any rift keystones now have a message showing in the tooltip saying "This is useless. Perhaps you should sell it." Given that they are no longer used to open the Nephalem rifts, is that indeed the case, or is there still some hidden use for them?

21:06
I wodner if theres anywhere good for farming items in this game
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Q: Minecraft Loading World Building Terrain

CSGOjoshOn the "Loading World Building Terrain" screen minecraft freezes up and crashes for a minute or two, and then what happens is it crashes. Here is the crash report. ---- Minecraft Crash Report ---- // Surprise! Haha. Well, this is awkward. Time: 8/26/15 4:53 PM Description: Updating screen event...

21:18
@djsmiley2k the only thing that bothers me with the free mode in lego levels is unstoppable cutscenes. They've gotten better with them in the more recent games
Also in lego: batman 3, you can actually skip entire portions of the level (like start at a boss fight) when replaying. The collectables are broken down by section too, so you can see that only 3 mini kits are in this part of the level and such
If I had to replay in story mode to collect something, that would hugely suck
Yay, I have regained internet connectivity!
Thanks for nothing, Comcast!
@twobugs should've gone with @AshleyNunn's ISP. Then you can get tech support in a helium voice
I'm sold.
21:33
If anyone wants some hard sci-fi set in the near future, Nexus does an excellent job of imagining biotech.
@Frank who's the author? Nexus is kind of a common word
@GodEmperorDune Ramez Naam.
Wikipedia summary sounds awesome, I'll add it to my list. thanks!
@GodEmperorDune He does realistic future tech, too.
It's not handwaving away how programming works.
Yeah it looks like he worked at Microsoft so he has that cred
Also TIL about the crazy Hugo awards controversy
I'm surprised I didn't hear about it til now
user15026
21:47
@twobugs You'd have to live in teh middle of nowhere and be happy for at most a 4mbps connection though
user15026
@GodEmperorDune The Puppies stuff?
user15026
I've been following that since....well, since Correia proposed this year's Puppies slate.
user15026
(Correia writes pretty decent books, so I poke his blog with sticks sometimes.)
user15026
The whole thing was a rubbish mess
Yeah, the puppies thing. I didn't realize that the Hugos were so easy to game
user15026
21:52
Yeah, because it is effectively open voting (if people pay $40 or whatever it costs, they can vote), it's not hard to swing it however you like
user15026
I did like GRRM's response to it all with the Alfies
Yeah I saw that
When @spugsley publishes her epic bridge fic we should totally get her the Hugo for it
user15026
I am sure we could find enough people :P
She is internet famous
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Q: Minecraft TestFor command

tarm2I am using the testifier command, /testfor @a[x=-436,y=9,z=-758], but instead of testing for a player at those coordinates, it is testing everywhere, and finding me. Any help?

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Q: Command block check if entity is hovering over another entity

user122326can i do a command to check if a dropped item is hovering over a villager named miner and then tp that item to a position. thank you.

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Q: How to lure spiders as Webber without attacking the nest?

GuyI'm playing as Webber and I want to fight spiders during the day, so I would go up and smack the nest once with my spear to aggro the spiders. I thought this was okay, and that the nest would sort of "auto-repair" itself after a day, but after a few days of doing this the nest actually broke. So...

21:57
@lazers I don't even code minecraft, but somehow I know that testfor is terrible
@GodEmperorDune Oh, but he's not using testfor, he's using the testifier command
@SaintWacko Check for fire?
I logged in to D3. I seem to have a lot of riftstone fragments. Who are apparently worthless now. I have 400+ of the things.
In my hardcore stash.
@Arperum Yep.
Oh, a testifier! Praise be, praise be
22:04
@Frank They are actually worthless too, sell for like 500k/stack.
@Arperum Yep. They're a good chunk of change.
@Frank Not really. I know I can farm up what they sold for in a couple minutes. If I figure out where the fuck my gold legendary gem is.
DAREDEVIL SEASON 1: COMPLETE
That was enjoyable.
Now I can sit around waiting for Season 2 like everyone else. yay!
Actually given how well it wrapped everything up waiting isn't really abig deal
no cliff hanger endings and what not
@Wipqozn spoiler alert!
22:10
@badp You linked to STAR_'s stream? Really?
Yes? Really?
That is a thing that really just did happen?
Calling STAR_'s stream authentic TF2 gameplay would be like streaming stuff Donald Trump does and calling it authentic American living
user15026
@Wipqozn I still need to try this
Play-test a lot. Players are usually wrong on how to fix things, but they're rarely wrong that things need fixing. #ShareAGameDesignTip
@GodEmperorDune DAREDEVIL WAS THE BLIND GUY ALL ALONG
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
@badp I'm famous!
@Wipqozn Haha, I like that
22:23
@Powerlord dude, he was just done uncrating 50 weapon boxes.
That was sarcasm, yes.
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Q: I can't vote I don't know what the email is

user122328I type in a email and it doesn't work. I don't know what email. I tried different types of email's and it didn't work. please help.

damn, did one act of bounties, got a cache and a bonus cache, that resulted in 9 different plans for legendaries and a legendary.
@Arperum Yeah, Blizz wants you to have all the plans now.
So they're just shovelling them your way.
@Frank Seems like it.
At that point, couldn't you just give them automatically to the blacksmith already? saves me clicks.
Dear Valve, please get an upstream for your US Virginia servers that doesn't suck
22:26
@Arperum Yeah, but then those that found it would complain!
@Frank I think most of them are new, it's been forever since I last found plans on my hardcore characters.
Why do people buy a ps4, a ps+ subscription, and then play with dial up internet
22:41
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Q: Do Killstreak Kits for Stock Weapons also work on Australiums - Team Fortress 2

odixonI recently got an Australium Minigun and I want to apply a Specialized Killstreak Kit to it (one I found on the market). The one I found on the market is called a "Specialized Killstreak Minigun Kit", as I could not find an "Specialized Killstreak Australium Minigun Kit". This is obviously for th...

@Arperum Did season 4 start already?
@Lazers2.0 yay a sc2 qn!!
oh
always
@Fluttershy Nope, but the patch arrived already.
Think the season starts friday.
The kanai's cube recipes aren't exactly cheap o_O
22:58
@Arperum Nope
And they need so many act bounty mats.
Yea. ANd my collectors itch pokes me very hard with those legendary powers thing.
@Chippies bleh, Sounds like console only.
Straight Outta Compton was pretty good
I didn't know any of the history though and they kinda skimmed some parts
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Q: FIFA 15 Million dollar weekly salary

seanIn my career mode I got an Email from Messi saying he wanted more money and his demands are a 1 million dollar weekly salary. I can easily afford to pay that but I doesn't allow me to pay a million only a 6 digit figure. Anyone know how to fix this????

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Q: How do I buy a car in Don't get fired?

vianna77In Don't get fired, I already double checked all tutorials, clicked everywhere and couldn't find out how to buy a car. Do you know how to do it?

23:22
Hey everyone! How are you doing???

I have a quick question related to the comments of the answer.

Is it ok if I say "Thanks" in the comments when someone replies to my question?
It's on the edge, but generally okay.
so, better not?
You can if you want to. I think many people don't.
@vianna77 Acceping + Upvote is the best way to say your thanks, but there's nothing wrong with thanking a user with a comment as well. If the answer gets a lot fo comments then a mod will probably delete your "Thanks!" post just to reduce the clutter in the commenting field, but if there's only a couple comments no on really cares.
user15026
I AM A ROCKSTAR
user15026
23:26
SERIOUSLY
@AshleyNunn Oh?
user15026
I managed to walk someone through both a direct connection AND a router reset in the SAME CALL with NO ERRORS
user15026
:D
@AshleyNunn you responded too fast, I was gonna make a bridge band joke
user15026
23:27
Sorry, I am just happy I got through the call :D
Rockstar status: confirmed
@Wipqozn , thank you! I will just Accept and upvote the answer.
ANGRY BIRDS STATUS: 2000 AND LATE
@RedRiderX lol at the text if you do 5 stars for everything
23:37
Heh all the results are pretty good.
Though it seems that book's actual ratings are very slanted towards 3.5ish
Yeah
Goodreads has mildly positive reviews on most things
user15026
Every time I complete a KoL quest I feel so awesome.
user15026
It's kinda silly how much I like this game.
@AshleyNunn the humor is so spot on
And I feel so hip when I recognize a reference that they make
user15026
23:45
It cracks me up so much
@Yuuki Who's the villainess?
@RavenDreamer Looks like Janice Lincoln (Beetle)
Bridge, Youtube suggests I watch Anime, Old Spice, and Bat for Lashes. I hold y'all responsible.
Info's not in the wiki, but it's not very up-to-date on Secret Wars stuff.

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