Thrawn's Revenge
Off Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: Revanchist on July 03, 2014, 03:18:42 PM
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With the death of the Shoutbox (may it rest in peace) there is now a reason to start a thread that is simply about discussing the random bits of information and trivia stuff that was supposed to be the original purpose of the Shoutbox. So without further ado, here it is!
First bit of conversation: who are you rooting for to win the World Cup? Personally, Germany is looking like a strong contender.
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World cup? I thought that was over. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Seriously, since USA and Mexico are out, I could give a hoot. Round of 16 done yet?
More importantly to me, who does everyone think will take the F1 drivers championship this year? You think Nico can hang on and win, will Lewis right his recent bad luck and storm back to take it? Or does someone think Riciardo or Alonso can manage to make a huge jump in performance to score enough to take it at this point?
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Well I hope Germany can win. France is going to be tough but I think Germany can beat them.
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Well I hope Germany can win. France is going to be tough but I think Germany can beat them.
How could the cheese eating surrender monkeys be tough? Just go out and threaten them whenever you have the ball and they'll jump out of your way waving their white flags and let you go and score at will. It's what surrender monkeys do...
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I want brazil to win but I think Columbia could win it.
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Aye, the winner of Brazil-Columbia has to be a strong contender to go all the way.
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How could the cheese eating surrender monkeys be tough? Just go out and threaten them whenever you have the ball and they'll jump out of your way waving their white flags and let you go and score at will. It's what surrender monkeys do...
All that running made their legs strong so they may be good at soccer but as usual Germany prevails!
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Just miss the shoutbox ahahah
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Soccer is one of those sports I'll only watch when national pride is on the line. As far as I'm concerned, football season can't come soon enough.
I'm guessing Germany will probably win.
More importantly to me, who does everyone think will take the F1 drivers championship this year? You think Nico can hang on and win, will Lewis right his recent bad luck and storm back to take it? Or does someone think Riciardo or Alonso can manage to make a huge jump in performance to score enough to take it at this point?
Wait, is F1 the same thing as Indycar series, or is it something else? The cars look pretty darn similar... I'm only familiar with a few drivers, the last race I saw was the Indy 500, which was a hoot.
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Soccer is one of those sports I'll only watch when national pride is on the line. As far as I'm concerned, football season can't come soon enough.
I'm guessing Germany will probably win.
Wait, is F1 the same thing as Indycar series, or is it something else? The cars look pretty darn similar... I'm only familiar with a few drivers, the last race I saw was the Indy 500, which was a hoot.
Totally different series. F1 is a worldwide series with only 1 (should soon be 2) races in the US, and no oval track racing. Indycar series is MOSTLY oval track with mostly US and a few canadian races. There is the occassional driver that crosses between the series though, as outside the top 2-3 teams in F1, you don't make a lot of money as a driver.
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Well I hope Germany can win. France is going to be tough but I think Germany can beat them.
Well Germany does have a history of beating France...in Soccer as well as Military...
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That it does haha
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Continuing on the sporting theme (and I know that the World Cup and Wimbledon have both been continuing today), did anyone catch part of the Grand Départ for this year's Tour de France (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_france)? I've been watching it on TV for most of the afternoon, but look who was actually there (https://www.facebook.com/BBCLookNorthYorkshire/photos/a.10152559272684626.1073741868.15286229625/10152559273484626/?type=1):
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10522476_10152559273484626_228549727820553706_n.jpg) (https://www.facebook.com/BBCLookNorthYorkshire/photos/a.10152559272684626.1073741868.15286229625/10152559273484626/?type=1)
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That's pretty cool. Those police officers look REALLY excited and amused.
Did anyone hear about the rumors for SW VII? Jedi Hunters and stuff? Sounds pretty lame if you ask me.
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Worst idea ever It's probable just a Sith acting as a Bounty hunter.
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I'm missing a Portishead gig just to watch the World Cup final live. This game better be good.
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Da fuq, Please move along :police:
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Sometimes I miss the shoutbox
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Sometimes I miss the shoutbox
So say we one, so say we all. Well, Germany won the World Cup!
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Ja! Ist wunderbough!
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Neuer and Schweini with commanding performances + Götze scored the winner. Bayern dominates the World Cup! Oh well, I'm most likely going to curse the world cup by september when three quarters of the squad looks exhausted four games into the BuLi season.
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It did have it's uses. Such as mindlessly killing time.
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Just got back home after a month-long vacation, only to find a mandatory refresher training exercise invitation in the mailbox. All that vacation relaxation gone, feeling downhearted right now :(.
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Just got back home after a month-long vacation, only to find a mandatory refresher training exercise invitation in the mailbox. All that vacation relaxation gone, feeling downhearted right now :(.
I wish I could afford to take a month long vacation at all...
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I definitely can't afford it (since none of you guys pay me for this whole modding thing) but I'm going to go live in a forest all weekend.
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I wish I could afford to take a month long vacation at all...
Perks of the Finnish society: Free education >< get commanded around even though you are no longer in the military, deprived of proper sleep and nutrition and in soaked clothes.
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Harru! Harru!(Sorry been on a Civil War kick lately, just watched the Irish fighting one another at Fredricksburg, such sad scene as i am of Irish descent)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph-oe9bRkdE
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Almost entirely of germanic descent here. Which is odd, because German cars are my least favorite designs.
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Almost entirely of germanic descent here. Which is odd, because German cars are my least favorite designs.
But Volkswagen Busses . . .
Changing topic, over my last vacation I started watching Attack on Titan. It's really good and I highly recommend it. Anyone else seen it?
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Hello guys, Who has been your week going ? I have been just lazy LAZYYYY. But i played today some Battlefront 2. Man that game is so nice. Hoping that Battlefront (who it suppose to be according to dice) is going to be cool and enjoyable!!
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Hello guys, Who has been your week going ? I have been just lazy LAZYYYY. But i played today some Battlefront 2. Man that game is so nice. Hoping that Battlefront (who it suppose to be according to dice) is going to be cool and enjoyable!!
Mine was brutal. Someone turned POA feature on for our Sophos servers in the company and THOUSANDS of machines would no longer boot enterprise wide. Got 7 hours OT in 2 days driving all over Arizona trying to get all the systems here back up and running.
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Mine was brutal. Someone turned POA feature on for our Sophos servers in the company and THOUSANDS of machines would no longer boot enterprise wide. Got 7 hours OT in 2 days driving all over Arizona trying to get all the systems here back up and running.
lol. Kinda f*ckd up situation :O
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Hello guys, Who has been your week going ?
I was hiking in Lapland for several days. Had a fairly nerve-wrecking drive home with multiple close calls with reindeer. Those animals are both stubborn and don't give a **** about cars. Also, their favorite pastime in summer is to lounge in and around roadways.
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I was hiking in Lapland for several days. Had a fairly nerve-wrecking drive home with multiple close calls with reindeer. Those animals are both stubborn and don't give a **** about cars. Also, their favorite pastime in summer is to lounge in and around roadways.
Those things are dangerous when driving with car :O
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We're potentially going to have the most posts this month of any month since 2011ish, so that's a thing.
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We're potentially going to have the most posts this month of any month since 2011ish, so that's a thing.
Probably mostly due to the shoutbox being gone so we can't chat any other way.
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Theory confirmed (it's also higher than if you were to combine the shout box + posts; basically it defragments everything and makes it easier to join stuff).
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At least some of the additional posts is due to Ascendency I dare say though. Since there's now active testing going on, and routine screenshots, probably some users that would otherwise not post are doing so.
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We're potentially going to have the most posts this month of any month since 2011ish, so that's a thing.
Bartender! Bring me a Corellian ale to celebrate this occasion! In a clean glass.
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Guys what do you think about Star Wars rebels ? ( is this right place to speak, even thou there is Star Wars section for these) I've only seen people complaining it that it looks Childish, Well IT IS TARGETED FOR YOUNG TEEN AND OLDER CHILDS ?! and i thnk it looks pretty cool :)
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Guys what do you think about Star Wars rebels ? ( is this right place to speak, even thou there is Star Wars section for these) I've only seen people complaining it that it looks Childish, Well IT IS TARGETED FOR YOUNG TEEN AND OLDER CHILDS ?! and i thnk it looks pretty cool :)
Not interested in the slightest with anything further Star Wars. My Star Wars ended when the EU was done away with. It's going to be another terrible show like TCW, yet because the average populace can't tell a good TV series from a hole in the ground it will get rave reviews and blah blah blah . . .
Looks like complete, utter garbage to me.
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Guys what do you think about Star Wars rebels ? ( is this right place to speak, even thou there is Star Wars section for these) I've only seen people complaining it that it looks Childish, Well IT IS TARGETED FOR YOUNG TEEN AND OLDER CHILDS ?! and i thnk it looks pretty cool :)
I'm a bit optimistic. Dave Weisman has traditionally done good work, and TCW improved notably by the later seasons. I'm okay with most of the character designs and the voice talent is pretty solid - they've gotten some big names attached. So far my main concerns are that apparently they're working on a tight budget (TCW already had problems doing large scenes, though this one seems to be a lot smaller in focus, since it's centered on a single rebel cell instead of the entire Clone Wars) and that the Inquisitor has a really, really dumb looking lightsaber.
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Heh. Well ;D
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I will most likely watch the Rebels, but so far have no expectations. If it is decent kids adventure show, fine. If it spits on the grave of EU and says the Rebellion was established by a bunch of kids (or that Vader had a secret ridiculously powerful apprentice, oh wait), I'll be ...disappointed.
I am WAY more excited about the new X-Wing revealed for Episode VII. It is not a futuristic scifi fighter that could never fly in real life, but more of an early cold war era fighter. That is gigantic plus in my book and makes me more excited about Episode VII than anything else so far. Now we just need a crazy "missile with a man in it" single-engine NG A-Wing and my lust for Starfighters (F-104s) in space is sated.
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I will most likely watch the Rebels, but so far have no expectations. If it is decent kids adventure show, fine. If it spits on the grave of EU and says the Rebellion was established by a bunch of kids (or that Vader had a secret ridiculously powerful apprentice, oh wait), I'll be ...disappointed.
I am WAY more excited about the new X-Wing revealed for Episode VII. It is not a futuristic scifi fighter that could never fly in real life, but more of an early cold war era fighter. That is gigantic plus in my book and makes me more excited about Episode VII than anything else so far. Now we just need a crazy "missile with a man in it" single-engine NG A-Wing and my lust for Starfighters (F-104s) in space is sated.
just watched a trailer for Rebels and was surprised in a few ways, if Disney is getting rid of Canon, why is the ISB and Inquisitors still there(I'm actually pleased they are) also pleasantly surprised that Jason Isaacs is the voice of the Inquisitor as he makes such a perfect villain(I cite the Patriot and Lion King as prime examples) I've even heard rumors that the show's directors(While mainly targeting kids for the audience) will have some fan fav EU characters make appearances. Perhaps the show has a smidgen of potential.
As for Episode VII, after Disney disregarded canon, is dead to me.
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As for Episode VII, after Disney disregarded canon, is dead to me.
Agreed on that definitely. I have no intentions of seeing it in theatres, on bluray, and probably won't even bother watching it on broadcast TV.
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just watched a trailer for Rebels and was surprised in a few ways, if Disney is getting rid of Canon, why is the ISB and Inquisitors still there(I'm actually pleased they are) ... I've even heard rumors that the show's directors(While mainly targeting kids for the audience) will have some fan fav EU characters make appearances. Perhaps the show has a smidgen of potential.
I think that makes it worse. They're baiting people with the 'star power' of various EU people and organizations and the appearance of mcQ's paintings.
Aren't you worried that the ISB will look way more lame with that ridiculous Pau'an Sith Guy? What about when they fail to catch these goofballs week after week? As I see it, the cool Legends version of the Empire is gone. What they've replaced it with might just be kid-friendly bad guys with an Inquisition label slapped on.
But they know people will watch it because Zsinj is in it for five seconds.
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Well on a certain level yes, but remember the target audience of the show. While i would love to see an adult version but i dont see it happening. Alsi i can't fault the artists who are legitimately trying to make quality villains but are restricted by their bosses boundaries. As to EU crossovers im good with that as i watch it online so disney earns nothing, if it does a good enough job i may buy the eps that are good. Also the dark sider is part of the Inquistorious not ISB. The agent is ISB, i think if they play it right it could be decent. I admit i hate the heroes and how the stormtroopers are portrayed but again thats target audienc,
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Eh, I'm not that worried about the whole 'Saturday morning villainy' concern. That's not Weisman's style, for one, and it's something both the artists and producers have talked about avoiding. They want this cartoon to be about hard-pressed heroes, and have gone to a lot of effort to make sure the villains they do have are legitimate threats.
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(http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/bloguploads/star-wars-meme-obi-wan-badass.jpg)
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Lets make Forum Space Battle game. heheh
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Am I the only who gets the feeling of haven't signed in to the forum because there is no more chatbox?
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Am I the only who gets the feeling of haven't signed in to the forum because there is no more chatbox?
Nope. But that's why we have this: use it as the Chatbox instead!
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Allow me to introduce myself I'm the one with the 'fwoosh'
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Allow me to introduce myself I'm the one with the 'fwoosh'
I like the current sketch with the healer bashing on Richard "KILL IT!!! IT MUST DIE!!!" and Richard calmly "I'd like a second opinion"
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I like the current sketch with the healer bashing on Richard "KILL IT!!! IT MUST DIE!!!" and Richard calmly "I'd like a second opinion"
That one was pretty funny. The whole archmage battle was pretty nice too.
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Guys what would you do when you were in Space Battle? :D
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Brevet Admiral !
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/151/f/a/meme_fuck_yeah_png_by_agustifran-d51rw06.png)
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Show off
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I enjoy potatoes and also watching the world burn but that's just me who wants potatoes roasted over a living world
I think this belongs here actually. I also think that this thread should be stickied possibly.
In other news I am about to start a Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG campaign with some friends. It will be all of our first RPG and as I am the only one with long-term creative talent (no offense friends) I get to be the GM. I look forward to seeing how badly they can wreck my carefully constructed story ;)
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I think this belongs here actually. I also think that this thread should be stickied possibly.
In other news I am about to start a Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG campaign with some friends. It will be all of our first RPG and as I am the only one with long-term creative talent (no offense friends) I get to be the GM. I look forward to seeing how badly they can wreck my carefully constructed story ;)
As long as they're not the kind you practically have to hit over the head with plot objects for them to understand, should be fun. I had a group that anything more complex than "find a job as mercenaries" was too much.
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As long as they're not the kind you practically have to hit over the head with plot objects for them to understand, should be fun. I had a group that anything more complex than "find a job as mercenaries" was too much.
Ya, we might have a bit of that problem with some of the younger players (and by that I mean people my age; kids these days . . . ). Just have to wait and see. At least my brother is going for a mostly non-combat "face" character: a Twi'lek former drug lord who got put out of business by Black Sun and is trying to claw his way back up (or should I say down) the underworld totem pole.
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Too quiet. For those interested in Miniatures war gaming: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=270&esem=1
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It's the Band of the Hawk! the Death on the Battlefield led by the White Hawk!
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Just dropping this fairly recent EGtW author's cut here in case some of you haven't read it yet, for fans of the 181st and a real nice story about the blast shield in ANH:
http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-essential-guide-to-warfare-authors-cut-part-10-the-rise-of-the-empire (http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-the-essential-guide-to-warfare-authors-cut-part-10-the-rise-of-the-empire)
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Shoutbox gone again, or is it my work network blocking it?
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The shoutbox has been causing really long load times, as well as severe lag when people try to post.
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The shoutbox has been causing really long load times, as well as severe lag when people try to post.
I had a feeling that was the issue recently, but found if I used Firefox instead of Chrome/Chromium that it worked just fine. But yeah, definitely can attest to seeing the issue, I was completely unable to post using Chrome the last few days.
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Yeah, the shoutbox makes my Chrome take forever to load the forums and I have to repeatedly go into the task manager to kill off Shockwave/Flash to get anywhere.
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Extremely noticeable performance difference on the site with Chrome with Shoutbox off.
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That's good to hear. Now everyone just use this as your Shoutbox.
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Random boxing chat: Mayweather is not close to being the best ever as he proclaims, but he is undoubtedly the best of his generation (not counting Hopkins who at this point is a generation older than everyone else). That was a magnificent performance.
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Who all is looking forward to the live action Attack on Titan movie scheduled for next year? Personally I'm looking forward to it more than SW VII.
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I had a real nice day!
Bakuran liquor and turbolaser-fried Mon Calamari for everyone!
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For those that read LFG, have you read this weeks?
I do believe Richard must become good in order to regain his powers...
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For those that read LFG, have you read this weeks?
I do believe Richard must become good in order to regain his powers...
What a twist
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For those that read LFG, have you read this weeks?
I do believe Richard must become good in order to regain his powers...
I know. This will be . . . interesting to say the least.
I'm waiting to see what happens to Those Left Behind from the NPC chronicles too.
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I know. This will be . . . interesting to say the least.
I'm waiting to see what happens to Those Left Behind from the NPC chronicles too.
I'm relatively sure there is a creative loophole waiting to be exploited...
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I'm relatively sure there is a creative loophole waiting to be exploited...
Or just have some fun with it like he seems to before putting him back somehow.
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Or just have some fun with it like he seems to before putting him back somehow.
Also yes