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SaintWacko

16:02

@PrivatePansy I got that :D

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs feast on the HNQ rep

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Q: Where can I buy pants?

In previous Souls games, there is usually at least 1 vendor in the hub area. I've read online that the Handmaiden fills this role in Dark Souls 3 and sells all kinds of useful things, including garments to cover my lower body. But I've run around Firelink for an obscenely long time without being ...

dark-souls-3

(or rollback if i went too far)

MBraedley

@Yuuki @Powerlord would have had 10 kills and only 1 death.

(I assume you're playing TF2)

Yuuki

Oh hey, our state attorney general is being charged with civil securities fraud.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki is that related to the planned parenthood investigation or something else?

Yuuki

@GodEmperorDune Something else, but that's one of the reasons I hope they get rid of him.

StrixVaria

16:17

@twobugs No, it's fine. I thought we kept it pretty respectable and didn't delve too deep into general internet dicketry.

Dragonrage

good morning bridge

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How to Use Way of White Circlet

At the beginning of the game, starting as a Knight, I have a usable item called "Way of White Circlet". Despite the name, you can't equip it as a headgear item, and it is unusable by default, regardless of whether I possess an Ember or not, though it can be equipped like a usable item. Does any...

dark-souls-3

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Q: Beating Iudex Gundyr

At the end of the tutorial area, you reach the first boss of the game in a circular arena. I'm having some trouble beating this thing. The first phase is pretty easy as I can roll back from the horizontal slashes or roll sideways against the vertical slashes. After half the lifebar is gone, it...

dark-souls-3

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage morning

Dragonrage

i shall be streaming again tomorrow night if anyone is interested in watching

StrixVaria

What software do you guys use for streaming @twob @Sterno

Dragonrage

16:30

@StrixVaria obs

Sterno

I use OBS

Unionhawk

open broadcast something

Dragonrage

obsproject.com

StrixVaria

Found it, thanks.

GodEmperorDune

hmm

so that's why i went to my twitch channel and it was just a blank screen

KutuluMike

16:31

so, is this "dark souls" thing any good? looks kinda sketchy.

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune you have to enter your steam key into whatever streaming software you are using so that it can put the feed on your channel

to get it you have to go to your dashboard

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage cool, i'll try it out at home. Though i am doubtful that my PC is strong enough to handle it

Dragonrage

@KutuluMike i hear its like you are this guy in a post apocalyptic world trying to survive, but you die a lot

KutuluMike

@Dragonrage so its like fallout.

Dragonrage

@KutuluMike i havent played that either, but i think dark souls is more nightmarish

KutuluMike

16:35

oh. so more farmville.

GodEmperorDune

@KutuluMike fallout is more guns, dark souls is more medieval

like fantasy apocalypse instead of scifi

KutuluMike

is it multi-player?

cuz that's a deal breaker for me.

Unionhawk

Sort of?

Dragonrage

i think you can do co-op

Unionhawk

Not really

KutuluMike

16:36

I tried playing video games with other people until I discovered that other people are generally pricks.

Unionhawk

But kind of

two bugs

@GodEmperorDune You have done a good thing this day

Unionhawk

It's primarily single-player

But it's single player wherein you can call for help from other players

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs i don't think its going to make HNQ, but i tried

KutuluMike

oh so it is like Farmville!

Unionhawk

16:37

And wherein you can have other players just poop on your day for fun

two bugs

I repcapped so t's all good

Basically the souls games you can do multiplayer if you want

Unionhawk

Yeah

Dragonrage

hmm, i should go make highlights from my stream from last night

KutuluMike

i just purchased an xbone because they finally went on sale, then realized I only had 1 game for it.

StrixVaria

@Wipqozn I read the first chapter of Assassin's Apprentice this morning. Just thought you'd want to know I started.

Literally nothing has happened yet.

Chippies

16:38

Ashes Of The Singularity: DirectX 12 vs DX11 Tech Analysis

►

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Being in multiplayer mode opens you up to PVP where people can invade you, though

Chippies

nvidia is really sucking in dx12 it seems

StrixVaria

Seems Robin Hobb doesn't give a shit about that "start with a good hook" cliche.

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There are things you can do to focus on multiplayer and different types

Like there's a group of players who defend people who get invaded

GodEmperorDune

@StrixVaria is that a cliche or more of a thing you are supposed to do when writing?

KutuluMike

16:39

I would largely prefer to pretend that everyone else in the world is dead.

StrixVaria

@GodEmperorDune I used "cliche" in a poor attempt at humor.

GodEmperorDune

like "lol, my writing is ironically very boring"

StrixVaria

It's almost mandatory.

Chippies

@KutuluMike pretty impressive to have a game before you have a console though

Unionhawk

It might count as a trope, but a necessary one

StrixVaria

16:40

You don't have to start with like a gunshot or an action scene or something even terribly dramatic, but you should start with something happening.

KutuluMike

@Chippies I have a catalog of X360 games. turns out, only 1 of them is on the compat. list

GodEmperorDune

i think it can be summed up as "the first page should be interesting"

StrixVaria

Yes.

Dragonrage

i dont mind not having a catch at the beginning if they are giving a bit of background that is needed to establish the story

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune "my writing isn't actually boring, I'm just making it boring ironically. I am so ironic. tee hee"

Dragonrage

16:41

@GodEmperorDune i think more like first chapter.

Unionhawk

@StrixVaria So you're saying that not only does he not open with "the marleys were dead to begin with", but page 1 is wholly uninteresting?

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage when i'm in a physical bookstore, i will read the first page and if its not interesting I'm not going to buy it

StrixVaria

@Dragonrage The first sentence has to be interesting enough to carry you through the first paragraph. The first paragraph has to be interesting enough to carry you through the first page. The first page has to be interesting enough to carry you through the first chapter, etc.

Chippies

@KutuluMike beauty of backwards compatibility (or lack of it) in consoles

GodEmperorDune

i don't have time to go through first chapter anymore

@StrixVaria yep

StrixVaria

16:42

@Unionhawk I guess it wasn't wholly uninteresting, but the entire first chapter was a guy failing to write a history and then thinking about how shitty his childhood was in the most disconnected "actually it wasn't that big a deal" way possible.

Dragonrage

i havent been to a book store in awhile, or the library. been too busy

mostly, i just borrow books from my friends

djsmiley2k

i'll happily read things i find entirely boring :/

I think I'm weird.

Chippies

@StrixVaria sounds like the story has to get exponentially more interesting to by the time you reach the end you get depressed that you ran out of pages

GodEmperorDune

@djsmiley2k i mean sometimes i have to read boring stuff for work, but given a choice i would definitely not read boring things

Chippies

that... actually sounds like some people I know that read books...

StrixVaria

16:45

@Chippies Not necessarily "more" interesting (although that is nice), but the point is that you have to start with a hook and then once the reader is interested you have time to slow down and breathe to start building up to the really cool stuff.

Dragonrage

@Chippies there are some books that are so good that you are disappointed there arent more of them

Lazers 2.0

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Q: My woodworker is ignoring my woodpile

So I'm using the linked tutorial and just trundling along when I noticed that my barrel production is practically non-existant. I then noticed that my woodworker is going all the way up to the surface to get wood instead of using this woodpile he has right next to him. Any ideas? I've had a look ...

dwarf-fortress

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Q: Installing Forge onto Minecraft problems

I want to run 1.7.10 minecraft forge, because the mod i have only works on 1.7.10, i have done all of the following steps: Play minecraft 1.7.10 add forge 1.7.10 into the versions folder add a mods folder, and put my mod into it enabled snapshots, beta and alpha versions tried to find forge, bu...

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StrixVaria

I apparently just like complaining, though.

It wasn't so bad that I'm going to give up or only read begrudgingly.

Dragonrage

what is the question we mark all sys requirement questions dups of?

Unionhawk

Uh...

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Q: How can I check if my computer's powerful enough to run a certain game?

Is there a service that I can use to check if my machine will be able to run a certain game?

pc hardware system-requirements

two bugs

16:49

I come back from delicious free burrito to free cookies and brownies

Good workplace

Dragonrage

well, the question that should pop up any time on lasers needs to be closed

Chippies

@Unionhawk I can't believe that has a 40 minute old answer...

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies which is yet another link to systemrequirementslab

Dragonrage

i love how the question asks about far car 4

Yuuki

Lazers 2.0

16:55

-1

Q: Far car 4 is Not Running my Pc?

My System Requirements Intel i5-2430 2.40 Ghz Intel Graphics 3000 6GB Ram Windows 10 OS Direct X 11.0

system-requirements

two bugs

I need to be more active. I'm really slipping on the rep gain charts

Well, I capped for today at least

Dragonrage

@twobugs im #6 for the year

Yuuki

So here's a conspiracy theory. The moon landing was faked. But Kubrick was such a perfectionist, he had them film on location anyways.

two bugs

@Dragonrage That means you're a nerd

Yuuki

Wow, I'm #13 and I haven't really been trying.

Dragonrage

16:58

@twobugs well the april fools game gave me a bunch

two bugs

I was pretty inactive for a while. I just don't have good questions to ask sometimes

Dragonrage

apparently people liked me trying to kill the unicorn by shooting it 600 times

djsmiley2k

i have no clue where i am

i just do what i can

which isn't much atm

GodEmperorDune

well @twobugs, HNQ achieved on the pants one

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Thanks to @GodEmperorDune I am part of the problem

GodEmperorDune

17:02

@twobugs :D

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At least I'm not as bad as the SFF HNQs

Dragonrage

@twobugs or lifehacks

all but one of my questions has gone to hnq

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The Lifehacks HNQs seem pretty reasonable

GodEmperorDune

i mean its a legitimate question, made a bit more lighthearted

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Maybe that's because I'm not fixated on every lifehacks question, though

Fluttershy

17:03

Holy crap today is going so damn slow.

Dragonrage

apparently workplace has a question about destroying papers without a shredder now

copycats

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Workplace had this awful question where the ask was like "Wow, backpacks are so dumb, am i rite guyz?"

It went HNQ

GodEmperorDune

clearly the z in guyz did it

djsmiley2k

hmmm how do I do a 'key' in a answer again?

GodEmperorDune

but there are some high rep workplace users that REALLY HATE HNQ

@djsmiley2k <kbd>

djsmiley2k

17:05

ty

i was trying [ and ] and being confused

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It was just a really thinly veiled rant

Of "Oh using a backpack makes you look like a college student, which I hate"

djsmiley2k

errrr

hmmm

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As if carrying around those stupid laptop cases slung over your shoulder doesn't

It struck me as being very self-righteous and anything that I perceive that way really pisses me off

Dragonrage

@twobugs when i was in college i had a backpack, 2 laptop cases, and 3 laptops at one point

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs one of workplace's close reasons boils down to "this is a rant, where is your question?"

Unionhawk

17:08

murgatroid99

@GodEmperorDune That's "unclear what you're asking" on most sites

two bugs

@GodEmperorDune Good

I think Workplace has great moderators, it's just a tough subject matter due to the personalness of it

Unionhawk

Yeah, a rant here is unclear what you're asking

Dragonrage

@Unionhawk i worked on campus and 2 of the laptops were for work. one was for development, the other had all the credentials for publishing

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 not sure if it was changed, but the close boilerplate was "real questions have answers" rather than "please provide more details"

Chippies

17:11

@Dragonrage were laptops back then not powerful enough to do 3 things at once?

Unionhawk

Meh, if it works for them then whatever

two bugs

They probably required one laptop for each job. Some places do that

Unionhawk

I had a desktop and a laptop at my internship last summer

It was pretty great

Except the laptop was slow

but other than that

Dragonrage

@Chippies my development laptop couldve done publishing, but to publish we had to have our supervisors credentials, so whenever we needed to publish he would give us one of his laptops that was signed in to publish

and i didnt use my work laptop for school, so i also brought my personal laptop for that

djsmiley2k

17:29

in my day we had vm'#s

:D

(we didn't)

Lazers 2.0

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Q: Dark Souls 3 xBox One Controller not working on PC

I have been trying to play Dark Souls 3 with an XBox One Wired Controller. The game is not recognizing the controller at all. I have tested the controller with Dark souls 2 and it works fine. I have disabled all other controllers on the machine and even unplugged all USB's from the machine oth...

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In my day we had Demon's Souls! We didn't have any covenants! There wasn't any Sun to praise!

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs at least you had illusory walls

Unionhawk

Whee learning to do a thing in Java on my own is fun

Dragonrage

@Unionhawk eeew java

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17:34

Java is fine.

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage java is not as bad as other things

VBscript shudders

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune still, its near the bottom

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@Dragonrage Why?

Dragonrage

it makes things overly obfuscated

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The only real complaints I've seen about Java are that it trades performance for compatibility and that it "enables people to write bad code"

GodEmperorDune

17:36

@Dragonrage that's poor coding, not necessarily language design

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@Dragonrage Not sure what you mean

Dragonrage

maybe i just had a bad teacher for java.

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs spoiler alert, every language "enables people to write bad code"

djsmiley2k

i can write bad code in all languages

it's mah thang

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@GodEmperorDune Yeah, pretty much

Chippies

17:37

@GodEmperorDune assembler?

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I mean people criticize Java for including stuff like the Pair template

With the reason being some Hitler wrote like Pair<Pair<String, Int>, Array>

Dragonrage

or maybe it was my experience in my software design class in which i had to write java-esque code in c++

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The argument being Java shouldn't enable to you to do that

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies yeah, you can do stupid stuff in assembler too

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune sure you can, but it's gonna punish you for it, probably

two bugs

17:38

Or at the very least, Java shouldn't make it so easy

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies like if i decide to save the results of an add into every single register

Dragonrage

like i literally had to make every function a class, including main

GodEmperorDune

compiler won't complain

@Dragonrage yeah thats not a good way to teach object oriented programming

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That's just a waste

GodEmperorDune

you should create classes based on what logically fits the model, and have multiple methods in the class

Yuuki

17:40

@Dragonrage Wait, what?

GodEmperorDune

one class per function sounds bizzare

two bugs

Classes are annoying to make in Java so you do them only when necessary

Yuuki

That sounds like some kind of weird functional programming take on object-oriented programming.

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Yes they're painless BUT THEY'RE ANNOYING DAMMIT

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune basically my approach was to make one class with a bunch of functions and my default constructor became my main function which called all the other functions that were needed, and my main function simply called my default constructor

GodEmperorDune

17:41

@Yuuki not even

@Dragonrage your constructor should do nothing but instantiate objects

Tim Stone

@twobugs The performance thing isn't really true today anyway, the JItter is pretty good today and comparable with C code for the majority of cases (obviously there's always C tricks that can be faster for certain scenarios, though)

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune i know, but the requirements were stupid, so i wrote stupid code to highlight the stupidity of it

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Yeah, they've done a lot to improve Java's VM performance

GodEmperorDune

@TimStone and as always, programmer time is more expensive than hardware

Tim Stone

Now that Java 8 has lambda expressions the only thing that makes it annoying compared to C# is the lack of multiline strings and first-class properties

Dragonrage

17:42

also instead of using for/while loops, i made my own with gotos and if statements

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Maybe it's not as fast as certain highly optimized or lower level languages, but that's a mark against far more than just Java

@Dragonrage I'm not sure I really get what you're saying here

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs your bottleneck is much more likely to be the algorithm than the language

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GoTo is not some horrible thing. It can be used responsibly.

GodEmperorDune

unless you are a super edge case

Tim Stone

@twobugs goto get out

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17:44

But if you're using GoTo instead of for/while loops... why?

murgatroid99

@twobugs Most of the time, it's better not to use it. But it has its moments

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@murgatroid99 Certainly, I just think the stigma is not entirely deserved

GodEmperorDune

also in the real world we like to use the appropriate language for the situation rather than "everything must be X"

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Used irresponsibly it will ruin your code flow and make it much harder to comprehend

StrixVaria

Neal Stephenson thinks it's cute to name his labels 'dengo'

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17:45

But you can use it legitimately

StrixVaria

I know literally everybody has seen it.

But I still like it.

Dragonrage

@twobugs because it was my way of criticizing the requirements

GodEmperorDune

@StrixVaria because raptor

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I actually dislike that XKCD for pretty much that reason. It memeified (for a lot of people) hating GoTo without really getting why

@Dragonrage That's... not a good idea

Dragonrage

if you are going to give me a stupid project with stupid requirements, i'll write code that fits the requirements and does what you want, but i'm going to do stupid things

GodEmperorDune

17:46

@Dragonrage i recommend you find more constructive ways to disagree with requirements, like passive aggressive code comments :D

Dragonrage

also it had more lines of code than using a for/while loop

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Yeah that's really just punishing yourself

murgatroid99

@Dragonrage The result is that your professor will see that you wrote shitty code, and probably not understand that it's some sort of subtle protest

Dragonrage

which was one of the standards we were measured by

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 this

Dragonrage

17:47

@murgatroid99 we werent measured by quality, just quantity

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage that is a horrible metric that no one should use anymore

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The assignment was dumb so in protest I gave you a bad answer! <- Not very constructive

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune i agree

StrixVaria

@twobugs Plenty of languages exist without goto as a thing. I'm struggling to think of a time when you should use it in, say, C++.

Dragonrage

also i gave all of my variable generic names, just because

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17:48

@StrixVaria I'm not saying you have to use it or even should use it. But it can be helpful in situations like unwrapping from nested loops

GodEmperorDune

@StrixVaria when you think you can outsmart the compiler in regards to optimization

murgatroid99

@StrixVaria Not C++, but in C, you might want to have a single error handling block at the end of a function, and have several "goto error"

StrixVaria

@twobugs Ah, I guess I can see that.

Having a flag that you have to check in each loop separately and then break one at a time can be a little annoying.

Dragonrage

i should see if i can find that code

murgatroid99

@Dragonrage If your professor doesn't even read the code, what does writing it poorly accomplish?

StrixVaria

17:49

I guess that's handled in other languages by throwing exceptions.

Dragonrage

@murgatroid99 it made me feel better

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Basically I just view it as another tool in the toolbox. It has some limited uses, and most of the time when people want to use it they're probably wrong. That doesn't make it inherently bad, though.

You know, like Community Wiki.

BAM. I was waiting to drop that for a while

murgatroid99

@StrixVaria Exceptions are really just cross-function gotos without a known destination

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

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Open Modelling tools for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Proposed Q&A site for proposed Q & A site for scientists, engineers and energy planners working on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This site provides the know-how to use the open source tools for SDGs. The toolkit includes: GIS and ONSSET OSeMOSYS CLEW

Currently in definition.

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 but the way you can filter, handle, re-raise, etc makes them much more useful than a plain goto

murgatroid99

17:52

@GodEmperorDune I know, I know. That was an exaggeration. But they do have a similar complicating effect on control flow

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I mean, don't get me wrong. That's a funny XKCD and getting people to not use goto is probably for the best

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 agreed, which is why its so nice that the stack trace lays the control flow out for us :D

user15026

@NewlyOpenedProposalsforEntertainment Long titles is long.

murgatroid99

@GodEmperorDune I mean when you're reading and writing the code

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I just dislike XKCD in general because I feel like (intentionally or not) it feeds into this nerd smugness and egotism without really educating

GodEmperorDune

17:56

@twobugs correcthorsebatterystaple is very educational

as was the heartbleed comic

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I think the oneboxing on Facebook still describes it as having "complex mathematics, which may be harmful to liberal arts majors."

@GodEmperorDune Correct Horse yes, but even that was super simplified and not exactly the best advice

murgatroid99

@twobugs The actual website says that

GodEmperorDune

@murgatroid99 i guess the code i write is not complex enough to have that problem, or if it does I refactor into separate functions to make it more digestable

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@murgatroid99 Ah, I typically don't visit it so I didn't know that

I think that's a really douchey line to include

I respect Randal Munroe and his comic, but I have some criticisms of it too

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