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2:01 PM

Kids these days

@TimStone damn straight!

but nah, this intern is -wait a second no

I forgot he's not an inteern

at his 1 month review we just offered him a full time position

because he's relly good. Smart, hard worker, quick, and eager to learn.

Just looking through our bug database, and I see an issue that I reported about using atan(double a) instead of using atan2(double y, double x), so I did a search for atan(, and came across an old method that tries to replicate the functionality of atan2, but does a really bad job at it.

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Q: How to obtain more starter candies

I've ran out of the candies my starter carries by default, how do I obtain more candies for my starter? Finding new charmanders seems like a very difficult task.

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Q: How do I turn off the steam controller start and end sound?

I thought that this would be a pretty simple setting, but somehow I couldn't find it. When you turn the steam controller on, it plays a short sound. The same happens when you turn it off. I know where you can change these sounds, but it does not seem possible to just deactivate those sounds. How...

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So I'm watching Legends of Tomorrow, and they're this team of people traveling through time to stop the big bad guy from taking over the world in the future. And the time council or whatever the hell is all "No, you can't do that even though everyone dies, because changing time is bad!"

So at point point, to try to stop them, the time council sends an assassin back to kill all the heroes when they're kids.

DOESN'T THAT VIOLATE THEIR OWN DAMN PRINCIPLE?

Walking again

Caught a zubat but missed an Abra

Kevin van der Velden

2:08 PM

@Sterno not really, their principle is "You can only do it if we allow it"

And they did allow it soooo

Oh good, so that show has officially gotten into "baby hitler" territory

Kevin van der Velden

Well yes but that's a different episode

Yeah. It almost-literally had a "baby hitler" episode, But he was a teenager, and not Hitler, but compared directly to him in awfulness

As in, the main guy saying, "Children in my time are taught about him like Hitler is taught in yours"

Kevin van der Velden

IIRC white canary (what's her name) also pointed it out

@Sterno boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/128565/evil-baby-orphanage

2:13 PM

@MBraedley Nice

wooooow, he didn't even open the file. So, basically, he did nothing and is wondering why nothing is happening. I don't understand.

THis is really upsetting. I thought he was doing better, but this makes me think he's not.

Heh

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I saw this on my way home today. I have no idea what it is

BTW I hope you're okay @Yuuki, sounded like the typhoon that rolled through was pretty bad

Anyone wants to take a shot at identifying it?

2:26 PM

Looks like a tree

reverse GIS says "vehicle"

@PrivatePansy I was looking for the Pokémon... I... think I have a problem.

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Q: Pokemon Go, evolving XL and afterwards its XS?

someone can help or explain this? I evolved a pokemon which was XL at height and weight. Afterwards it was XS?!?! WHY??

it's a ship fender

Kevin van der Velden

It's a giant thing of steel and car tires

Did I win?

2:27 PM

@Unionhawk Well it is, but I'm more interested in the giant-sex-toy-esque object that's sitting on it

oh

wait what?

I am also confused

The black object looked rubbery

The thing covered in tires?

@twobugs Yes.

2:28 PM

The thing covered in tires is a ship fender

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@PrivatePansy alibaba.com/product-detail/…

wellt hta's another email sent off

That is fantastic that you can buy them on Alibaba

my reply could basically be tl;dr "the code change isn't working because the code change wasn't made"

@Loong Huh, apparently one could be mine for just $100

I mean, it would not be the best way to spend $100, but imagine the look on your neighbour's face

"I have a giant rubber ship fender. Do you have a giant rubber ship fender?"

2:31 PM

You could just leave it in your neighbor's yard and say "Merry Christmas!"

and...he just replied with...I'm honestly not sure

@PrivatePansy Given its massive size - and the fact it is said to be worth nearly £20,000 - its owners surely should have spotted that it had disappeared.

like he honestly just doens't get it, and isn't trying to

It's funny because the Pound

@Wipqozn Is there a language barrier? Or just an intelligence barrier?

2:32 PM

he's like "The setup is done. All I di was this." ....soo you didn't dot he thing I said you NEEDED to do for this to work

@TimStone So roughly $20, right? (I know the pound is more than the dollar shh)

annnnnd there we go, now he gets it

The $100 -> £20,000 was the joke. -10 points @Unidor

Oh, meh

there are lots of dollars

let's pretend I was making a CAD joke

in addition to a GBP joke

This town is full of zubats

Kevin van der Velden

2:34 PM

Let's pretend @Unionhawk is actually really clever, I know it's hard but we have to try

5

there, just replied being like "yeah I was confused about the difference between these two taxonomy types too, since I wasn't aware we still used the other one and that your new topic wasn't a topic"

There's a drowzee or something within 200 meters...

I didnt say that exactly, but that's basically what I siaid

aka just trying to be a nice "no worries man, confusion all around"

They need to make pokemon go tv ads like who's that pokemon

so okay, still a bit annoyed that he didn't at least check the code once he saw the issues, but I can see why now .There was just a lot of confusion about this among all of us.

2:35 PM

So I can remember their names

Turning World War 1 Into a Game

I thought I saw a legendary bird but then I looked up said bird and it was like "no that's not him"

(it was actually a fearow)

Of course Seattle would be full of Drowzee... I will never take a better #PokemonGO photo https://t.co/PtNK5RqCGg

Tweeted by jennifurret on July 8, 2016 at 11:43 AM

@arda It's JIPSNED!

Saturday's SGDQ lineup is insane. OoT Any% glitchless (not at a great time but technically Saturday), Typing of the Dead, Diablo 2: LoD, Pokemon Red glitchless any% race, and TASBot.

Nevermind the Super Mario Maker tonight.

2:37 PM

What build are they using for D2?

Druid.

I don't know the specific build.

okay I am feeling better now

Ah, probably shapeshifting of some sort

super fas build

@twobugs I wonder if it's normal only or all difficulties.

Normal only I could see elemental working, but definitely not for all difficulties.

2:38 PM

because I really want this guy to improve, and this whole event concerned me, but I'm confident this isn't an indicate he isn't improving at all.

Yeah, it's normal only.

For speed I have to imagine it'd be shapeshifting but elemental was my favorite

Yeah you're probably right.

I think werewolf is pretty nuts at lower levels

Shapeshifting moves faster and has more single-target DPS.

Which is all you really need for any%.

Since you run past most enemies, I'm sure.

2:39 PM

Well yeah

I imagine it scales well enough that they can skip most of the leveling/gear grinding

I'm sure it'll look a lot like a skyrim or dark souls speedrun

They did some Skyrim glitch exhibition last night that was fun.

in the sense of run past everything

I didn't get to finish watching the Fallout 4 run since I had some network issues.

2:40 PM

I guess the question is Werewolf or Werebear?

I've been really hankering for Skyrim again, I'll probably buy the "remastered" version like a sucker

Dammit caught a paras

Paras is legit.

But stuck on ball screen

Oh.

2:41 PM

@twobugs I'll probably ~~play~~ buy it too.

I think that it is trying to imply something

@twobugs The 20 minutes of the Skyrim run I saw yesterday were nuts (then I fell asleep).

$ ls node_modules | grep promise
es6-promise
pinkie-promise
promise
promise-polyfill

A wild Jigglypuff appears!

@Sterno Hm, good point

2:41 PM

The 5 minute run of Two Worlds was amusing.

Let's play - how many polyfills does it take to promise to change a lightbulb

Oh, I got my Steam Controller. It works really well with the Steam Link (as you'd expect). The fact that there are pre-made community bindings for games is pretty great. Haven't tried playing a game that requires 2 sticks yet, though.

@MadMAxJr The Oblivion run was 90% the tutorial dungeon.

woo payday

I'd be a lot more interested in a Steam Controller if I hadn't ended up with a spare Xbox One controller

I played Rebel Galaxy on the steam controller. That was fun. But I find that there's a learning curve to using a touchpad over a stick.

2:43 PM

That thing is so nice. Basically just the 360 controller with every complaint addressed

@twobugs I was using a wired 360 controller for my Steam Link previously so the Steam Controller is a pretty substantial upgrade.

Even just being wireless was amazing.

Nice

I apparently caught it

I'll have to try a Steam controller out one of these days

$ ls node_modules | wc -l
726

*sigh*

Uh oh

It seems that I'm not alone

2:45 PM

My favorite controller so far though is the Xbox One Elite (the $150 one). It's expensive but the build quality is amazing, it has a lot of customization options, and it just feels awesome

The gym apparently got captured

Kevin van der Velden

@twobugs do you have all the DLC? Then the remastered version is free (at least on the PC)

@KevinvanderVelden Wait really? Awesome

I do have all the DLC (I think)

Kevin van der Velden

If you own #Skyrim and all its add-ons or own Legendary Edition on Steam, you'll get a free upgrade to Skyrim Special Edition on Oct 28 #BE3

Tweeted by BethesdaStudios on June 13, 2016 at 3:20 AM

^ it really didn't want to onebox

That's pretty cool of Bethesda

2:48 PM

neat

@twobugs i could never bring myself to drop that much money on just a controller though

lots of team red in the area apparently

@KevinvanderVelden I only own the original release.

Bethesda are jerks.

@Unionhawk is behind enemy lines

Kevin van der Velden

Should have gotten the DLC in the summer sale then =p

2:49 PM

#savingprivateuni

I don't want the DLC.

There's a team blue across the street too

It all sounds like garbage.

@StrixVaria How so? They seem like they're being better recently

Kevin van der Velden

52 secs ago, by StrixVaria

@KevinvanderVelden I only own the original release.

2:50 PM

I assume there might be more to it than that :P

Nah, not really.

Dragonborn is pretty good

Just bitter that I'm not getting a thing for free.

Hearthfire is all right

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Q: Are there any workarounds for the 1HP bug?

Last night I was playing some Go and I found a gym nearby that I could easily take. Both times I tried fighting it though, the battle timed out because I could not reduce the gym's final mon to 0HP - it was stubbornly stuck on 1HP. After speaking to some of my friends, this seems to be a common b...

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Q: Do Lure Modules Stack? - Pokemon Go

Can multiple people put a Lure Module on the same PokeStop at the same time, and does it increase the amount of pokemon that appear?

0

Q: Can the player be re-classed more than 5 times?

In the Manual it says that characters can only be re-classed 5 times. with any member of the Stranger Guild you add to your party, both those that you can create that the ones that were available from the start, you can delete them which means that if you mess up the re-classing you can just re...

stranger-of-sword-city

2:50 PM

i have the legendary edition on xbox 360, where's MY PS4 copy Bethesda?

Do the Skyrim DLCs have their own new actual questlines with dungeons and stuff to do?

I thought one was literally "now you can have a house".

2 of them do

@StrixVaria Yes, two of them do but there are smaller ones as well

the one that is house is like 1.99 iirc

Dragonborn and Dawnguard have their quests

2:51 PM

I actually enjoyed Hearthfire as a thing

mainly because it's more customizable than breezhome

@twobugs Hm. I'd probably just wait and get the super edition or whatever anyway, which presumably comes with these.

Dawnguard is annoying at the start because you have to deal with random vampire attacks, frequently after you fast travel to a city and they'll kill some NPCs in the ensuing fight

@twobugs YUP

Wait, do you become a vampire in it?

Kevin van der Velden

Dragonborn is a gigantic new area

2:52 PM

You can

You can become a Vampire Lord

Being a vampire in Bethesda games is the worst.

Yeah, Dragonborn is by far the best

@StrixVaria You can also opt to not become a vampire lord and instead join the dawnguard

And they expanded Werewolf to not suck (as much)

Kevin van der Velden

I'm torn between playing more skyrim now or after the update thing

2:52 PM

My college roommate played through all of Oblivion as a vampire and the unfun was palpable.

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@StrixVaria Basically the idea is to make vampires less awful to play as

oblivion as vampire was not fun

To that end they offer SUPERVAMPIRE

yes

2:53 PM

I have to go do a work thing now.

I will read up more about the actual DLC though I guess.

Also Skyrim Vampires work differently so they're less painful to begin with

Yesterday was Commencement, apparently

I still hate vampires in Bethesda games

I did dawnguard because I'm boring and screw becoming a vampire

I did werewolf though iirc

I should just restart skyrim

#famouslastwords

I did Dawnguard as well

2:54 PM

"Kajhit have goods if you have coin, yesssss?"

The crossbows were cool at least

Fighting dragons was still dumb though

"Let's make an enemy that flies around forever!" No, don't!

Kevin van der Velden

Only till half HP =p

Or till you get dragonrend

Figures you'd be a Dragon loyalist

Kevin van der Velden

But yeah, you're basically forced to go archer just by their existence

@twobugs clearly, down with the blades! >:(

Stealth was really, REALLY strong in Skyrim

2:56 PM

@KevinvanderVelden mage?

@KevinvanderVelden Well, also because sneak+archery is really good

Daggers end up scaling better but Archery is very good

Kevin van der Velden

@sequoiad doesn't really work against dragons

i basically made a mage assasin

Kevin van der Velden

The projectils are slower and you don't have as many

2:56 PM

16x damage on a backstab is preeeeeeeetty good

My phone has small apps support

@twobugs Yeah, well, 15x damage is strong

can chat while walking

way stronger than... what, 3? 6?

3 I think is the max archery modifier

But archery has much higher base damage

Kevin van der Velden

2:58 PM

Not sure if the double bonus from dark brotherhood armor works on bows

I don't remember

Kevin van der Velden

@Uni science it by starting a new game of skyrim

I also did like, all the things in skyrim already, so I should redo them

you know, all the same because sneak is so fun

I feel a weird happiness

Kevin van der Velden

I've been making an effort to not sneak and just run in and stab things with a claymore

It's fun

2:59 PM

Actually I think I started another game trying to do two handed as backup plan and stabs as primary plan

There are at least 2 players in this town

@arda I hear there's a cream for that

It was weird since I'm very used to dual wield axes

@KevinvanderVelden The Bioshock Collection is offering a similar thing. So I picked up Bioshock 2 for $2.50 during the summer sale. Now I'll get the remaster for free. :P

Kevin van der Velden

Nice

3:00 PM

Thing is this town is very small

I'm not really a big Bioshock fan

Elite Dangerous: Arena for free on Steam until July 11th

Infinite was fun enough and I liked 2

Kevin van der Velden

@arda find the other person and beat them up

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Q: Can I cancel just one Battle Menu order?

While in combat, I can open the Battle Menu by pressing +, and then issue orders to my party. This is handy for various situations, such as using the "Keep you tension up!" order when I want to be using a lot of Overdrive. However, sometimes I want to cancel an order. I know using the "Do as y...

xenoblade-chronicles-x

3:02 PM

@arda What team?

@KevinvanderVelden come on, dont do that... wait. until trading works. then do it.

Looool

I see someone walking with a phone in hand

try explaining that one to the police

I asked where a bank is and we'll he turned out to be the other player

"no officer, i wasn't trying to STEAL the phone... I just REALLY needed that charmander"

3:04 PM

Hmm

I really need to beat Human Revolution sometime

Maybe I'll stream a total pacifist run on that

What the actual fuck is wrong with American Politics?

This is a town with 400 people and there are 3 trainers. Game is not ven out yet lol

SPOOKY GHOST IN THE OFFICE

Gonna be a good opponent and get yellow

Town. Has blue and red btw

GO TEAM BLUE

3:16 PM

And I rekt the gym

I'm deeply offended I couldn't get the name "twobugs" on Pokemon Go

I also couldn't get Bellpepper

what about xXx_dreggplant_xXx

I forgot to try that :(

I might print pokemon posters and stick it to the gym

Gokunaruto is another standby but it's not as good if there isn't chat where I can say things like "hello it me, character from bleach"

3:20 PM

@twobugs the dark souls of kotaku headlines

@twobugs 2slow 4 2bugs

@GodEmperorDune Kotaku headlines are really good

They're a very silly website but they're extremely good at getting people to click on articles

2% battery

"You won't believe this awesome game clip!" Octodad falls down some stairs

This thing drinks my battery

3:22 PM

Thanks Kotaku.

1%

Running home

@MadMAxJr (sbahj intensifies)

@arda yes it does

@MadMAxJr There was one about how a throwaway Fallout 4 easter egg PROVES that TES and Fallout happen in the same universe

It's brilliant, really. You just make up insane headlines and people click on them to tell you how you're wrong but they still give you ad revenue

@twobugs until people get tired of being misled and don't trust kotaku as a news source anymore

3:28 PM

The thing is, people don't seem to care about that

Welcome to the world of for-profit journalism

@twobugs are you comparing clickbait titles to the yellow journalism from way back in the day?

I'm not familiar with the term so not intentionally

I just mean clickbait seems to be here to stay. People are not particularly concerned about it, and when they are they express their concern in very poor and non-constructive ways

washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/07/08/…

And now for lunch

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Q: Do attacks in Pokemon Go have added effects?

I am too low-level to challenge gyms, but I have caught some Pokemon with moves such as Struggle and Poison Sting, which have added effects in the core games (dealing some damage to the user, and chance to poison, respectively). Do these attacks do anything except deal damage in this game? I wou...

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Q: What are the chances of a specific structure in minecraft on default for the xbox one

Ocean temples. Jungle temples. Desert temples. How many can spawn in 1 world??

minecraft xbox-one

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Q: cannot connect to the nexus server

when I try and connect to the nexus server it says java.net.connectionexception:connection refused:no further information. does anyone know why this is happening?

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Q: When do Pokemon spawn?

I see leaves rustling all around me (I'm at 14th Street/Union Square)!! Do I have to do some thing to make the pokemon spawn, or is it just random? I've tried walking above them with no success.

@twobugs betteridge says no

3:44 PM

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Q: Where am I supposed to go at the beginning of the game?

I am having problems playing Half Life (Part 1). I mean that since I entered the Black Mesa Research Facility, I go on roaming around here and there. I can see only scientists and few securities. But what do I actually need to do there?

→ 1 message moved to Android Hell

I guess Games Done Slow wouldn't be as popular.

ack. three rep caps in a row o.O

Nuuu server

:( server down

3:57 PM

@MadMAxJr Apparently the Trials "speedrun" yesterday made a lot of people angry. I dunno why, but I caught a glimpse of chat, and they were all begging for the run to end.

@arda in other news, what is new?

Huh?

@Fluttershy I watched part of that. The last level with the invisible bike was neat.

the servers being bad is nothing new. annoying, sure.

@Fluttershy I don't look at Twitch chat if I can help it.

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3:59 PM

if you want Games Done Slow, just let me stream :P

I've been putting GDQ on my TV. It's been interesting watching it the last few nights.

I think it's more fun watching the guys who play really esoteric/hard to find games.

Really looking forward to TASBot and the FF6 run.

@MadMAxJr That part was pretty neat.

Watching him shift the bike to see the puffs of dirt to figure out where his front tire is was a rather cool trick.

@PrivatePansy Same. I just saw it as I was going for the "Hide Chat" button.

And despite the guy messing up, the blind SOTN run was fun to watch.

Just had to skip forward in the VOD when he got to the librarian.

Figuring out where he is based on counting backslides and sounds was impressive.

4:02 PM

@MadMAxJr Blind runs are always fascinating, even when they mess up

The fact that one key wasn't bound properly in a particular menu messed up an entire run is quite instructive

Yeah, that's where I had to fast forward a bit.

Sometimes the couch banter is equally interesting as the game.

> Like much of Washington's political theatre, the speculation about who the two major party candidates will pick as their vice-presidential running mates means everything - and nothing.

I'm struggling to remember the last time Joe Biden did something that made the news

I'm surprised I even remember his name

Wow. 115 pokemon go questions already.

user15026

@MadMAxJr how.

user15026

I just.

4:14 PM

I think a chunk of them are login related.

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Q: How do i delete dropped items in a specific area?

how do I delete items in a specific area because I don't want to delete everything...

minecraft minecraft-commands

I wonder how long it'd take me to learn how to speedrun Ori and the Blind Forest...

Out of 115 questions, 14 are closed. This is about the same close rate as the rest of the site I believe

good morning bridge

Okay, so I attempted to play over my lunch break

Found a Caterpie. Disconnected in the process of catching it

Found a Jigglypuff. Disconnected in the process of catching that, too

Couldn't even connect to the nearby Pokestops

Did run into someone near the Pokestop and we shared our pain about the connection

4:22 PM

There is a gym almost within range except connection issues

Like I want to traaaaaain

There's a gym and at least 2 Pokespots within walking distance of my workplace

Look you can't be the best there ever was because everyone is out there to be the best there ever was.

I can definitely see myself bringing lunch more often and going on lunch walks

It'd help bring my average steps up, too (I'm around 10k but that's heavily skewed towards days I do go to the gym)

I guess it depends on how much fun I have when I actually get to PLAY THE DAMN GAME

Soooo many crappy Pokemon GO answers

We're getting so much traffic from it

Ugh, someone didn't check in the .DLL so I have to build it but they used some stupid absolute pathing to their dumb libraries

4:29 PM

@Fluttershy I keep trying to think of what game I like enough to learn to speedrun, but I'm not sure one exists.

oh hey you are already complaining about that! yay

Overwatch isn't speedrunnable :P

@StrixVaria Not with THAT attitude!

just going to throw this out there, having sudden death on a map like volskaia industries is stupid

@StrixVaria LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE

4:31 PM

you should have sudden death be on a neutral point

otherwise whoever is attacking basically auto looses

@Dragonrage So many things to say about this, but let's start with, "I agree with you."

Sudden death doesn't seem to make sense outside of KOTH

That being said, 1) Blizzard are looking into more ways to avoid sudden death scenarios (even maybe resorting to draws if they can lower the rate of sudden death enough).

2) Attackers have an advantage over the defenders for the most part, so if anything the attackers probably have the advantage.

3) The sudden death timer is tweaked to keep sudden death at about a 50% win rate per side. They just adjusted the timers in the last patch.

So it definitely feels unfair and it definitely sucks when you have to go to sudden death, but statistically it's "fair".

Take that as you will.

I still can't wait for the changes to get rid of it.

Man this person really screwed up the pathing for this file they checked in, and then left the company

I was in a game earlier were both sides failed to capture the first point. then we went to sudden death on the same map.

4:35 PM

That's stupid.

it's like how do you expect either team to capture a point in 1:30 that neither team could capture in 5 minutes?

Because this time you die if you fail!

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Q: Duplicate question, original question does not have a good answer

Looks like this situation has occurred previously here: Duplicate questions, both without an answer cannot be flagged There is a question (Who does healers follow?) that was just asked today that is a duplicate of a question (Under what conditions will healers switch targets?) that I asked a mon...

discussion exact-duplicates

@twobugs ok, so we die if we are the unlucky ones

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Q: Undertale pacifist run without Photoshop Flowey

I tried to beat Ashore six times and failed each time. So I decided to go back and get some more healing items. But while I was going through my resort I got a call from Undyne telling me to deliver a letter to Alphys. I went through the date with Alphys and as I was heading out of the dump I got...

4:52 PM

If I had noticed my passport expired back in April, and had renewed it, I'd be getting on a flight to San Diego tomorrow. Instead, I'll most likely be on call on Sunday.

:(

At least it wouldn't overlap with ComicCon in a week. That would just be cruel.

And I'm free to get super drunk tonight in order to wash away the stress of this week.

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