The Bridge

two bugs

18:00

I'm hyped to replay it!

Lazers 2.0

0

Q: How to get nether mobs to spawn at night in minecraft?

In some servers, nether mobs come out in the regular world, like blazes, ghasts, and Giants every night along with all the other mobs the regularly spawn at night. How can you do this in a single player world? Is there a command for it?

minecraft

0

Q: How to test for if all players of a particular team are on a particular area

Im making an minigame map in minecraft and I cant figure out how can I test (using command block) if ALL players form a particular team are in a particular area (of radius 8 blocks)(if all players are present command block should give a redstone output). So can someone help me by providing the co...

minecraft minecraft-commands minecraft-redstone windows

Fluttershy

@StrixVaria Oh. Huh. Guess it was some other Bridge person then! Sorry! :D

two bugs

I like stealth games, that looks cool

Chippies

@Fluttershy that looks like it might potentially be okay. Stealth genre is a difficult genre to be good at, which is probably why there are so few good stealth games

I 100%'d Styx: The Master of Shadows, that game was awesome

StrixVaria

Dishonored was a good stealth game.

two bugs

18:02

For good Stealth you have like... MGS, Thief (1, 2, and 3. New one is meh), Splinter Cell, and the random one-off ones

Dishonored was basically current gen Thief but with super powers, which was awesome but too easy

Chippies

Dishonored was awesome

StrixVaria

Dishonored had two very, very important things (for me) to make a stealth game palatable.

1) If you were seen, you weren't just instantly and irrevocably fucked.

Chippies

@twobugs wasn't that easy if you went for ghost runs

StrixVaria

2) There were multiple viable and interesting paths through the levels.

Chippies

I did a murder everyone run and I did a no-kill ghost run

both were fun, but ghost run was sooo much harder

GodEmperorDune

18:03

dark souls is a great stealth game

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@Chippies Mainly because of the bizarre scoring where you could be blamed for kills that you didn't commit

StrixVaria

Deus Ex: HR, to contrast point 2, had 2 paths. 1) The room with the guys in it, or 2) The air vent hidden behind a box or around a corner that circumvents the challenge.

Which is the worst level design.

two bugs

I like HR and I need to replay it. Maybe I'll stream that eventually

Chippies

@twobugs in a ghost no-kill run, there should be no deaths by anyone, but yeah, there was that

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I think the original DX had better levels

StrixVaria

18:04

@twobugs HR might have other things going for it, but level design is not one of them.

two bugs

@Chippies I didn't kill anyone but apparently some NPC wandered too close to a monster in one of the last levels

StrixVaria

I stopped playing after I was literally forced by the game to murder every living person in the police headquarters.

I figured maybe I wasn't the best stealth agent.

two bugs

I was reading about it and unless you do specific things that is a semi-common problem, apparently

Chippies

Yeah, it counted deaths, not necessarily kills by you, due to the chaos thing working off of any deaths, which makes sense in a way, but can be a hassle in practice

two bugs

Any game where you can stop time and it works exactly like my animes is a 10/10 though

StrixVaria

18:07

I still love that one gif/video where the guy got shot at, paused time, mind controlled the guy who shot the bullet to walk into the path of the bullet, and then unpaused time.

Chippies

@StrixVaria there's a guy who makes videos of Dishonored with insane skill/trick shots

SaintWacko

@StrixVaria That one was incredible

Chippies

Dishonored Badass Stealth High Chaos (Daud's Cleaning)1080p60Fps

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this just being one of the randomly picked videos

two bugs

Basically anything with stopping time was amazing

Yuuki

Shoot crossbow bolt in the air, jump and assassinate one enemy, block and riposte the next, last enemy runs up and get the crossbow bolt through the top of the head.

Newly Opened Proposals for Entertainment

18:09

1

Mixology

Proposed Q&A site for cocktail enthusiasts, bar tenders and curious imbibers.

Currently in definition.

two bugs

Stopping time is the best power

Chippies

I do believe he is using a trainer for unlimited mp, but it's impressive nonetheless

SaintWacko

I think my favorite stealth game may be Splinter Cell: Conviction

It has amazing co-op modes

And it has varying levels of stealth requirements

Chippies

@SaintWacko co-op was so hard though

SaintWacko

My favorite one was where if you're spotted, you lose

Chippies

18:11

twice the opportunities to make mistakes and one mistake ruins the whole run usually

two bugs

I never got into Splinter Cell

SaintWacko

@Chippies It did with the settings we used!

two bugs

Metal Gear Online was amazing though. RIP

StrixVaria

@SaintWacko No thanks.

SaintWacko

That's why you only play with people you know

Chippies

18:12

@twobugs Conviction was very different from the previous games

StrixVaria

9 mins ago, by StrixVaria

1) If you were seen, you weren't just instantly and irrevocably fucked.

SaintWacko

And who are as good at it as you are

StrixVaria

On my list of important things in a stealth game.

two bugs

I only played the first Splinter Cell. It wasn't for me

Chippies

@SaintWacko that's the settings we played on as well, although we did try lowering it and it didn't necessarily help when you accidentally trigger someone and everyone swarms you

SaintWacko

18:13

@StrixVaria See, I enjoyed the forced absolute stealth

Chippies

@twobugs as I said, Conviction was more of a shooter with stealth elements than a proper splinter cell game

SaintWacko

@Chippies Well, you weren't using the same settings, then. There were no swarms, because if you were spotted at all, it was game over

Chippies

many splinter cell fans hated it

two bugs

I'm fine with forced stealth, but only if the stealth mechanics are actually fair and satisfying

SaintWacko

@twobugs Splinter Cell does a good job of that

two bugs

18:14

Stuff like MGS

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs like arkham predator mode?

Chippies

> that's the settings we played on as well, although we did try lowering it and it didn't necessarily help when you accidentally trigger someone and everyone swarms you

SaintWacko

@Chippies Ohh, I see. I misunderstood

two bugs

Assassin's Creed is pitched as a stealth mode but it's really just meh

@GodEmperorDune Yeah, although I kind of don't like how they handled it in City/Knight

SaintWacko

Oh, yeah Assassin's creed is only a tiny bit stealth

two bugs

18:15

It was great in those games, don't get me wrong

Chippies

@twobugs I have only played the first three games, but I have never found a stealth bit in the game

you always have to murder someone and once you murder anything, the whole city chases you

two bugs

@Chippies If you try to do the optional objectives you have to remained stealth a lot. And those are shitty because the stealth mechanics are dumb

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies unless you do stealth kills and walk quickly away

two bugs

But in Arkham City they started this weird like... tech arms race between Batman and grunts

Yuuki

Titanfall 2 Teaser Trailer – PS4, Xbox One and PC

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two bugs

18:16

You get an ability to counter them, they get a counter, you get a counter-counter, etc

Chippies

@GodEmperorDune in my experience, that only worked in roaming

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies true

StrixVaria

I guess I only like stealth if it's one option among many and can be used for an advantage, but being seen just triggers some other combat that itself is inherently fun.

Dishonored is good for that.

So is Skyrim, for example.

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs origins was really bad about that

two bugs

I didn't really play Origins

Chippies

18:18

Arkham Asylum and Arkham City had pretty good stealth

two bugs

I liked the number of options you had in City and the Mr. Freeze fight was amazing

But Asylum is still my favorite of the series

It just felt the most cohesive to me

@Yuuki Now THIS I am really excited for

GodEmperorDune

i still need to finish origins

Chippies

@twobugs it would have been much better if they had all the good improvements of city

two bugs

Titanfall 1 is a blast

Chippies

Asylum just felt sluggish after playing City

two bugs

18:19

See, I played them in release order because I'm not a madman.

Chippies

@twobugs I did too, but I immediately noticed how much better City felt

and I tried going back to Asylum to get a few combat achievs and I just couldn't play it anymore

GodEmperorDune

i mean the premise behind city was way more of a stretch than asylum

two bugs

So I'm already repcapped on Workplace

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs which HNQ did you hit?

two bugs

Asylum I gladly 100%'d but City just had a bunch of silly filler objectives

18

Q: How can I manage my need to take short bathroom breaks in a professional setting?

I have a very non-threatening chronic kidney condition. One of the recommended management techniques is to drink a lot of liquids - this keeps my kidneys from retaining more water than they need to. The obvious downside is that I need to visit the bathroom semi-frequently (maybe 4ish times a day,...

professionalism

djsmiley2k

18:21

@twobugs i go to the loo more than this

I have no diagnosed condition (i think possibly ibs/ibd but anyway).

StrixVaria

9

Q: Recovering from a rm -rf /

I run a small hosting provider with more or less 1535 customers and I use Ansible to automate some operations to be run on all servers. Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the code above this line. ...

centos7 data-recovery

Chippies

@twobugs I couldn't do the combat achievs :( And City I tried to 100%, but the stupid DLC crap glitched out on me and I gave up

djsmiley2k

Do other people smoke?

@StrixVaria not this again? >_<

StrixVaria

I get nervous every time I have to type rm -rf into the console.

two bugs

People do a lot of "who the fuck would view this as unprofessional" but I've sent plenty of Workplace.SE questions about people being unprofessional for having backpacks

Chippies

18:22

I got stuck behind a door where I wasn't supposed to be due to some glitch or whatever and it autosaved

GodEmperorDune

@Justin I have my own office overlooking some of the finest real estate in SV. I don't even wear a shirt at work and never turn the lights on so I doubt anyone even notices. #lifehack. — hownowbrowncow 10 mins ago

djsmiley2k

I also have a backpack

GodEmperorDune

look what you did @twobugs

djsmiley2k

and wear a beanie hat into work

(not @ work mind you).

two bugs

I apologize for nothing

djsmiley2k

18:23

@StrixVaria i type the path, THEN <home key> then rm -rf

two bugs

That hownow guy is the hero Lifehacks needs

GodEmperorDune

3 hours ago, by fredley

Meanwhile, in errors

djsmiley2k

i once accidently did rm -rf /music/<was meant to type stuff here but had already hit enter>

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs his lifehack is to use piss jugs

cc @GnomeSlice

StrixVaria

@djsmiley2k Yeah I usually go for this too.

two bugs

18:24

@GodEmperorDune Hm yeah, it's not a lifehack if they're designed to be piss jugs

-1

Okay, office stuff is here

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune what the even fuck

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk this is the worst sort of programmer

djsmiley2k

i thougth everyone had already seen this, lul

two bugs

Just got off the phone with someone who explicitly asked for my extension so he could call me again. Am I... an adult now?

I mean, I've had extensions before but nobody cared

GodEmperorDune

what makes it seven better is that he brags about 500/loc per day... loc is a terrible metric

two bugs

18:28

I can write 500 loc a second

Probably more

Will they be productive? No.

I had a job where the only metric they compiled on devs was the bounce ratio of bugs you marked as completed

Only problem was QA didn't fucking care and would routinely bounce bugs for no reason or bounce the wrong bugs

djsmiley2k

500 lines isn't much ieven if they Are good lines.

GodEmperorDune

@djsmiley2k right?

djsmiley2k

Also dumb @twobugs

at work atm they looking at closed tickets as the metric

which is dumb, but hey ho whatever

StrixVaria

Luckily both jobs I've had to write code in have the "talk to another human being and agree on what a reasonable amount of work is for that timeframe, then do it" style of determining your performance.

two bugs

It's a shitty metric because loc is really dependent on factors

djsmiley2k

18:30

I can close the most easily.

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I.E. If you're working on a legacy system I certainly hope you aren't writing 500loc a day

djsmiley2k

I can even write something to ping me on each new ticket so i can check them before collegues, etc

Oh god, I'm going to be that guy who automated his whole job aren't I? :D

two bugs

If you're working on developing a new system you should be writing more than 500 a day.

djsmiley2k

On legacy systems you should be scoring negative amounts of loc

GodEmperorDune

@twobugs if anything you should be going for negative LOC, but then people do stupid stuff to reduce linecount that doesn't help anything

djsmiley2k

18:31

\o/

two bugs

Yeah, you don't just measure delta lines

Well, you do if you pee in jugs I guess

Unionhawk

Is this guy literally the sniper?

Does he throw his pee on his enemies?

SaintWacko

@GodEmperorDune It's pretty easy to reduce linecount. Just remove the newlines!

two bugs

I think the Sniper is a lot more sanitary than that guy

And the Sniper is better respected by his parents

Unionhawk

I refuse to believe that guy is not trolling

GodEmperorDune

18:32

@SaintWacko then they do things like enforce line lengths, so people start golfing

Yuuki

@twobugs "I'm an assassin, not a crazed gunman."

Unionhawk

But I also do not have 125 rep to tell him off with

two bugs

@Yuuki "The difference is one has a job and the other is a criminal!"

Yuuki

@twobugs "One's a job and the other's mental sickness."

two bugs

Ah, right

Yuuki

18:33

Of course, my quote is reversed so I'm not right either.

GodEmperorDune

also @twobugs the network association bonus does not contribute to repcap, so you still have 100 more rep to go

two bugs

Yeah I just noticed that. Drat.

Fluttershy

@Chippies In interested due to the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time comparison, to be honest. I'm not a huge fan of stealth games. I enjoy them, but they aren't my favorite thing.

bwDraco

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 - Nergal Meslamstea Boss Battle - Xbox 360 Gameplay - HD

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In more than 30 hours of play (including dozens upon dozens of successful vampiric feeding QTEs), this is the first time I missed a QTE late.

GodEmperorDune

@bwDraco you took some bio breaks, i hope

Chippies

18:36

@Fluttershy not sure how it compared to PoP, when PoP had no stealth (afaik) and the very short description of that game says "Stay hidden - or the ruthless guards will kill you on sight!"

Fluttershy

@Chippies It has a rewind mechanic.

Chippies

@Fluttershy ah, that's always fun

but I doubt there's any other similarities :P

two bugs

This guy sent us an email from an apparently defunct or fake gmail address. Weird.

Fluttershy

"Stand in one place, and the game world freezes around you like a diorama." Maybe SUPERHOT would be a better comparison.

Oh, no, there's a rewind mechanic as well, so that still works.

bwDraco

@GodEmperorDune Of course, this was not in one session.

Dragonrage

18:39

is there anything similar to a table header for divs?

two bugs

That reminds me of the best description I ever saw for The Last of Us - "The Citizen Kane of getting people to make really ridiculous Citizen Kane comparisons."

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage that should be done almost entirely in css

styling the particular <h#> tags or some sort of <div class="header">

have you looked at getbootstrap.com/css

bwDraco

It's very rare that I miss QTEs of this sort. The timing window for that one was wicked narrow, though (probably about 12-15 frames at most).

Dragonrage

@GodEmperorDune hmm, ill check this out. we are updating everything to bootstrap which is why im converting all these tables to divs. just trying to also preserve how it looks for the most part

GodEmperorDune

@Dragonrage you may want to think about what the presentation of the data should be, not just what it was in the past

if it is truly "tabular data", just use a table and style it with classes

if its not, porting the tables to equivalent divs doesn't make it better

Dragonrage

18:47

@GodEmperorDune im updating some of it, but i was told to keep it similar, it mainly just displaying text from different fields in a database as a detail. doesnt really need to be in a table, but having it in a table worked fine before, but now they dont work as well

ardaozkal

YES

I'm working on making a mail notifier for tracking my deliveries, and I just got "access" (decompiled android app, found hardcoded link, worked for minutes to find out what I'm wrong, used an android userstring, and finally got access) into tracking systems.

Well, they shoulda had added captcha check to android app like they do for online app.

Chippies

Insane Eyefinity Surround Testing - 10320x1440 Resolution - Part 2

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Yuuki

19:05

> Astronomers find a supersized black hole in a small Norwegian town in Washington Square Park Rally, 7K more than 45 years ago

Lazers 2.0

-1

Q: The Batman Arkhim Knight

Hi I am stuck in Batman arkham knight. I must hack a security gate but their is no signal to use the hacking device. Please help me.

batman-arkham-knight

0

Q: Super Mario Brothers Wii level 9-7 without star item

Having played through Super Mario Brothers a few times, I found world 9-7 (along with the last coin of world 9-4) the most difficult. I always need to use multiple star items (for limited invulnerability) to get through level 9-7, is it possible at all to get through that level without it?

wii new-super-mario-bros-wii

ardaozkal

Totally working.

Sends mail when something changes.

djsmiley2k

@ardaozkal or you could of just proxied the capcha

Ohnana

@Dragonrage workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/65041/…

I blame you for this

Context: lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/11242/…

ardaozkal

@djsmiley2k they have a homemade captcha system. Probably some online script thingy but not just a regular recaptcha.

GodEmperorDune

19:14

@ardaozkal never roll your own security measures when there are established libraries to do so

Dragonrage

@Ohnana hmm, well then, what can i say, they saw my excellent question and had to rip it off

ardaozkal

gonderitakip.ptt.gov.tr

Chippies

@ardaozkal we're looking at this why?

ardaozkal

I think that just using a mobile, captcha-less api is better for me. It returns json too, so no need to parse html too.

@Chippies bc chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/29017690#29017690

Nate Kerkhofs

Damn, it's been a long time since I last was in the room

Hi everybody

ardaozkal

19:21

@NateKerkhofs oh hi o/

Nate Kerkhofs

Nothing is certain in life except for death, taxes and Activision charging indie-game prices for 11 year old CoD games

I mean, Call of Duty 2 is from 2005 and it's the same price as MW, MW2 and WaW. And it costs only a fraction less than Saint's Row 3 and 4 put together

badp

okay, those map-based designs have no right to look that good

Chippies

Great, sales tax in Newfoundland is getting increased from 13% to 15% starting with july

user15026

19:39

Lucky you.

Chippies

A summary of all the crap changes with the Newfoundland & Labrador budget

> The budget has left nothing untouched, with Bennett saying the "culture of spending" is over.

well, at least I'm glad I built my PC when I did :P

user15026

Yikes, that's a mess :(

Yuuki

@Chippies When will people realize that a government budget is not the same thing as a household budget?

Chippies

Yet, we're looking into buying a house here... We are beating @twobugs in bad financial decisions

@Yuuki not sure what you mean by that, but everything is getting more expensive, more taxed and people are getting laid off

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki never, as long as it justifies their end goals

Chippies

19:51

and I don't really understand politics, but the government budget must come from somewhere, so, we're paying for it

Yuuki

@Chippies One of the ever-present analogies that fiscal conservatives use is "we don't spend more than we have at home, why do we do it in government". Which is fallacious for at least two reasons.

Chippies

Here's a more in-depth article for anyone that cares

GodEmperorDune

@Chippies government investment is not necessarily a bad thing, so in some cases it is actually worse for the economy to only spend money that they have on hand

Yuuki

People do spend more than they have in household budgets. That's what debt is. And secondly, the idea of comparing a government budget to a household budget is ridiculous.

GodEmperorDune

@Yuuki comparing a govt budget to a corporate budget is closer but still not that great

Unionhawk

19:53

Thirdly, the government prints money, and in the case of the U.S., it's backed by other nations' confidence in us

Which is why going back to the gold standard would be disastrous, incidentally

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk yep

Yuuki

I don't know about Canada, but the US national debt is largely domestic. In that we owe money to ourselves.

Unionhawk

Well, not only that, dons make america great again hat but mexico owes us billions because that's how trade deficits work sets fire to hat

Yuuki

Trade deficits are great. It means we've been getting stuff without equivalent return.

Like if you gave me Dark Souls III. I would have a trade deficit with you. But now who owns Dark Souls III?

By Trump logic, trade deficits are bad and I need to buy you Dark Souls III.

Unionhawk

No dragon ahead [ds3 spoilers]

spoiler alert: dragon ahead

spoiler alert the dark souls community is awful

Yuuki

20:03

@Unionhawk Who walks anywhere without a shield raised?

That's just asking for trouble.

Unionhawk

Yeah, like that stupid steel ball that rolls down the stairs in the DS1 tutorial

Fluttershy

@Unionhawk A shield wouldn't save you there. :P Quick reflexes will though!

Unionhawk

Meh I didn't die, so it's whatever

It's just like the game knows that it wants to make you feel like an idiot

Because it does

user15026

@Unionhawk I've never understood that aspect of the game tbh

Unionhawk

20:18

The idea is that not awful people would be like "yo dragon ahead" vs "no dragon ahead", or you would pick up on the sarcasm

user15026

@Unionhawk yeah, I figured that's what they were going for, but it definitely didn't work in practice

Unionhawk

Yeah, well

GodEmperorDune

@AshleyNunn this is why we can't have nice things

Unionhawk

You can't really plan for the internet, this is why online interactions are not rated by the ESRB etc

Though the limited vocab makes dark souls note jokes even funnier and more creative

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk that's more because any online interaction would automatically get the worst rating possible

@Unionhawk illusory wall ahead

praise the sun

Unionhawk

20:23

Well, I was thinking more specifically "great chest ahead" sort of word play

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How do you get your weapons out in Gta races Xbox one

How do u get ur weapons out on Gta races for Xbox one

grand-theft-auto-5

two bugs

Ah is @Unionhawk now being trolled by the Souls community?

Unionhawk

No because online is offline in DS1

22 mins ago, by Unionhawk

No dragon ahead [ds3 spoilers]

two bugs

Ah yes

Unionhawk

Now, it's very obvious that this player knows that there is a dragon ahead and wants to show that off

But still

GodEmperorDune

20:25

@Unionhawk maybe they're just missing a comma

"no, dragon ahead"

Unionhawk

Though now I want to play dark souls instead of doing my homework

Bad uni

Uni this is Unionhawk. Do your homework, idiot

Hmm. Maybe I cut dark souls and replace with homework and running. Part of me wants to run a 10k in 2 weeks

Part of me thinks that's nuts, part of me thinks screw it I'm 22 it's probably fine,

Part of me wants to say screw that but do run anyway

I think #3 is the most right

Though since it's only a 10k I could probably do it versus a half marathon

Since it's half a half

Then again it's not on the marathon day, and my dad and brother are going to run the half and full respectively I think

Fluttershy

@GodEmperorDune \ [T] /

Unionhawk

Oh, wait, this is before exams. DECISION MADE: SCREW THAT, SPECIFICALLY

GodEmperorDune

@Unionhawk you've run a 10k before?

Unionhawk

@GodEmperorDune No but I've run a mile 6 times, that's basically the same right? (no it isn't)

I already decided screw it so whatever

BUT IT IS A GOAL FOR NEXT YEAR MAYBE?

maybe

Screw it, half as a goal for next year

DO IT UNI

GodEmperorDune

20:38

@Unionhawk nope

you should probably build up to it

Unionhawk

Yeah

Either way, I've got an entire year now

And if I get this alternative internship, they have a fitness center on-site

(previous did not)

Nate Kerkhofs

Running 10K if you have any physical strength is relatively easy. running it at a respectable pace is hard

Unionhawk

There's nothing on that iPhone so far - FBI

What's that? No I'm not saying I told you so

Nate Kerkhofs

@Unionhawk Believe me, if that phone had any data worth anything in a terrorism case, Farouk would have destroyed it just as much as his personal phone

Unionhawk

Yeah, actual opsec involves burner phones

Nate Kerkhofs

20:44

btw, that rm -rf post by @fredley basically tripled my Reddit karma

Unionhawk

yay imaginary internet points that actually do nothing

Nate Kerkhofs

I saw it in my twitter feed, I made a /r/sysadmin post and linked it to Securitay

93 RTs later and my post karma went from 1 to 160

Unionhawk

#UCDavis Spent $175,000 to Eliminate Pepper Spray Cop From Its Google Search Results http://www.themarysue.com/uc-davis-pepper-spray/ https://t.co/GSXTPWn1Iq

Tweeted by TheMarySue on April 14, 2016 at 8:40 PM

Good news guys! It worked!

Chippies