#Firelock 198X

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plain prism
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and just want battleships buffed and everyone else nerfed

fickle summit
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Can't you just queue up against them and then bring all the battleship counters

plain prism
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yes

fickle summit
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I guess that's what grandar did in that wargame

plain prism
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and then they get salty about it

buoyant garden
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the hilarious thing is that if they ever actually got historical battleships they would never stop screaming about it

vale sparrow
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Finally someone said what I think about the state of ANS bias

gaunt sphinx
buoyant garden
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historical battleships autowon every gunfight but never got deployed and periodically sunk to one "missile"

fickle summit
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This is such an alien mindset to me hahaha I am glad I am learning about this. A glimpse into their world I guess

arctic estuaryBOT
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and then they went and compained to the point that most of the anti-capital counters don't work anymre

gaunt sphinx
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Now, I wouldn't say it's exactly an absolute rule - Aneta's also a battleship enjoyer

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But people like Aneta also understand and respect it when they go around a corner blind and die instantly to a torpedo

buoyant garden
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you too, huh?

plain prism
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yeah you can enjoy playing potemkin without having brainworms about it

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but a lot of people are covered in worms

dusky bramble
gaunt sphinx
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Rather than whine that their Krupp steel should be impenetrable from the front, devs with freaking allied bias, fix this

tiny perch
buoyant garden
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now I want to make literal Battleship Potemkin with the correct colour scheme

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the only thing I know about Strive is the one meme where they used the IRA quote for Potemkin Buster

tiny perch
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The world is filled with worms

arctic estuaryBOT
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Is you Battleship potemkin going to be a potemkin battle ship as well?

brisk rampart
# buoyant garden you too, huh?

Never joined them 'officially', was present for some of their ops and know a lot of people surrounding the community
And the youtuber himself is...
Suspicious, ideologically speaking.

buoyant garden
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yeah that's about my position, although I never played with them

gaunt sphinx
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Another guy whose group drops R-slurs, incidentally, which is why we stopped watching his vids

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(Cadian XX is Rimmy, right?)

brisk rampart
woven saffron
plain prism
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oh yeah I watched like 1 rimmy video and then blacklisted them

buoyant garden
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I hold out hope for the Ignis guys sometimes since I know a couple of them and they're decent people, but I haven't actually played any Arma in forever so I've never been on an op with them

gaunt sphinx
buoyant garden
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no idea what the unit culture is like

gaunt sphinx
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rip

shrewd talon
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i've been called a redarmyaboo but that's only because they're novel and strange to me

plain prism
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I... have a dream. A dream where I can say the word "opfor" and not run into a slur 5 minutes later.

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I'm gonna keep pursuing that dream

copper bridge
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Another component to the whole chuds in wargaming spaces is that people often think of soldiers and hardbitten officers as just like slurring all over the place as a direct effect of being tough and cool

brisk rampart
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Yeah, Space Marines.

edgy imp
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"Making the tough choices" mentality.

copper bridge
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So they think them slurring ups their military-esque cred

gaunt sphinx
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and period films often do include a lot of slurs yeah

heavy mesa
shrewd talon
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Soldiers throw around slurs like crazy, whether they grow out of that is another matter entirely

plain prism
woven saffron
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I don't think space marines know what normal slurs are honestly

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Just like, weird insular future ones

brisk rampart
copper bridge
edgy imp
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Always heard chuddy sounding army guys like "It was a hard decision but I did an ethically terrible thing for a minor advantage"

shrewd talon
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At least two slurs for asian people come from american wars

buoyant garden
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there's an interesting anglo-american cultural split here because in America the officers are hardbitten operators operating operationally and in Britain the junior officers are all fresh-faced 19 year olds in gay love affairs who will die in Act 2

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different WW1 brain

arctic estuaryBOT
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We knew of one wargame that we neer meet a chud when we competativaly played it, or at least non that showed any more assholery then you might see on the street. But mechclix got caned over a decade ago so

fickle summit
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What is opfor? (serious)

shrewd talon
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opposing force

buoyant garden
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Opposing Force

brisk rampart
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Opposing Force

copper bridge
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Opposing force

buoyant garden
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there we go

heavy mesa
gaunt sphinx
buoyant garden
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I have a little clock that I start whenever this kind of conversation gets going and stop whenever everyone answers the same question at once

heavy mesa
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Playing Darktide its just kark this and grut that. You sound stupid

edgy imp
buoyant garden
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I really like all the alternate 40k swear words

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krak

shrewd talon
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return to saying frak

fervent crystal
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Well this was a very disappointing turn of events but i'm glad I got to learn about battleship nazis lol

buoyant garden
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Nazi battleships, famously, sucked

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this is a running theme

brisk rampart
heavy mesa
edgy imp
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My favorite is still "frak" from Battlestar Galactica.

woven saffron
gaunt sphinx
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tbf I do feel like most Space Marines wouldn't swear much

fickle summit
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I actually think it's very cool and funny when fantasy settings make up their own words for fuck. Like Star Wars has "kriff". I dunno it's just a cool touch like when they say "by the white hammer of Azula!" instead of "oh my god"

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I like seeing bizarro fantasy interpretations of ordinary concepts, I guess

buoyant garden
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so did The Twins

arctic estuaryBOT
woven saffron
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Like how much does the Aspirant Hall of your average fortress monestary sound like a CoD lobby?

gaunt sphinx
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but the peeps in Darktide should absolutely be going on deeply explicit rants and ravings involving improbable events and verbs involving exotic organs, featuring lots of improvised compound words

brisk rampart
plain prism
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like all that grim darkness and nobody can even say fuck

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because that's a bad word

gaunt sphinx
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iow they should swear like I do, but less squeaky and more gravelly.

arctic estuaryBOT
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fair

brisk rampart
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It's what happens when you let British Liberals write satire

shrewd talon
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Unseen Ops on twitter also posts pictures of military equipment while being a french anarcho-communist

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cool dude

gaunt sphinx
buoyant garden
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30k includes about seven novels that are basically just Space Marine Yaoi but can never actualy say it, it's very funny

gaunt sphinx
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especially cause it gets warped into like "ashes" or "blood and bloody ashes" or "bleeding ashes" or a number of such variations

arctic estuaryBOT
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TBH Blood and Ashes sounds like a real oath

fickle summit
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Dresden Files has three different fantasy swears (hell's bells, empty night, stars and stones) and I think they're all cool

buoyant garden
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if Horus Heresy had very slightly different marketing it would have a gigantic Tumblr shipping community

brisk rampart
buoyant garden
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precisely

plain prism
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I love netflix's castlevania. "God shits in my breakfast once again"

edgy imp
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Horus heresy is nerd WWE

fickle summit
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I don't really like a lot of Warhammer 40k stuff except for specific things my partner shows me because it knows I love that kind of aesthetic, but that speech about being disgusted by the inpurity of the flesh was great

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I think about that all the time

brisk rampart
plain prism
buoyant garden
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the Admech consistently have the best aesthetic, I am not biased

plain prism
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it's not even a swear but it's so hilariously good

gaunt sphinx
plain prism
shrewd talon
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i wish more wargames or media in general drank from the cold war armies well

brisk rampart
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Oh I agree so much

gaunt sphinx
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(ashley says: "gonna lock this thread"
one hour later...)

plain prism
buoyant garden
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I just need more air cav that isn't Standard Scifi Magic Dropships

shrewd talon
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I'm struggling to think of one that does aside from cod and niche shit like wargame

gaunt sphinx
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yeye I'm not complaining

floral lion
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Oh gosh what happened lmao

plain prism
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(like we're all kinda sad and mad it's okay to just have a community hug over this)

gaunt sphinx
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it's just kinda lingering at the back of my mind, like a funny thought

plain prism
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we're out

floral lion
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Fuckssake

brisk rampart
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Yeah that's how we all felt

woven saffron
gaunt sphinx
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dev dropped a slur and defended it really weirdly and problematically and got dropped in return

floral lion
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Honestly i hate that Im not that surprised

brisk rampart
fickle summit
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So according to the conversation above it's optimal to go to an LGS filled with Nazis and then take a deck that hard counters Caesar's Legion to farm free prizes, right?

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woven saffron
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Like how boltguns are basically some strange looking UK smg from the 80s

buoyant garden
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I should also hit everyone I know with a stick until I actually get a Barotrauma or Pulsar: Lost Colony campaign together because I want to do boat stuff, but my last seven attempts have all failed

woven saffron
buoyant garden
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I wonder if there's enough Pulsarheads on this server

shrewd talon
floral lion
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Play baro with me misc

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I need more baro in my life

gaunt sphinx
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but in principle, yes

edgy imp
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Metal Gear esque Cold war futurism wargame would be fun. Abhrams tank with a laser turret and 90s chocolate chip dessert cano

shrewd talon
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I think warhammer has elements of cold war things, some imperial guard or space marine tank or w/e has rounded early soviet style turrets

buoyant garden
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I keep trying to play Baro with this server, getting two sessions in and then watching everyone disband

edgy imp
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Mechs named like the ones in muvluv

gaunt sphinx
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yeahh

fickle summit
brisk rampart
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Oh it does, in fact a lot of the early 40k vehicles are very cold war
not the recent ones though, those look like Mario Kart designs

shrewd talon
gaunt sphinx
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Barotrauma is tricky. I've had a consistent group going for a bit but timezones are rough and it's a group in which everyone's already pretty damn good friends and/or dating in various combinations

buoyant garden
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when Pulsar is next on sale I'll grab half a dozen copies and see if I can rustle up a group for weekly Knockoff Star Trek/Firefly/Space Free Trader adventures

shrewd talon
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I guess my understanding of 40k tanks ends at the leman russ and the hammerhead

buoyant garden
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it's a good one that nobody has ever heard of

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although the graphics are nothing to write home about

brisk rampart
gaunt sphinx
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for me Pulsar definitely has the issue that I want something like Barotrauma in space, and Pulsar isn't quite that

brisk rampart
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But yes it's really good

floral lion
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Yeah I have a different weekly baro campaign going but that does not satisfy the crave

copper bridge
gaunt sphinx
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I can see how it'd scratch different itches for different people

buoyant garden
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rare case of "ship management sim" where everyone actually has a job other than Ship Chores

arctic estuaryBOT
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oh that dose sound intersting

buoyant garden
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I would also like to play Baro but in the absence of a real group I will accept that I will never actually get to do any gene modding

plain prism
woven saffron
plain prism
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go forth, discuss games, and share cool new ones! o/

crisp abyss
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A bit of a necro response. But my dating a psych major compels me to mention that mental illness is not the same as mental disability. Now granted I'm assuming the slur a bit for this. And ultimately yeah bad vibes with their response. But figured I'd mention the language distinction as like a PSA.

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Damn missed a very important "not" there. Ok fixed lol

plain prism
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this feels like a really persnickity distinction to make that I doubt the original poster did

crisp abyss
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I mean as someone who has what is likely both mental disability and mental illness respectively. As well as having partners with similar situations. The distinction matters to me personally.

But to be clear this is in no way a defense of the person using slurs. Like fuck them honestly. This was very much just me wanting to PSA a language thing.

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But apologies if I came off pedantic or as a devil's advocate. Very very much not the intent. But yeah sorry to bother.

gaunt sphinx
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it's a bit pedantic and that can be annoying in the wrong context or with the wrong delivery but tbh I've also got kinda both categories of things going on so I get it

crisp abyss
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Yeah. Just due to like personal lived experience the distinction is very sorta felt. But I do get in causal general convo it's much less uh concrete a differentiation generally.

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So I'll fully admit it's a thing informed by perspective.

gaunt sphinx
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yeah in this case I kinda didn't really notice it because the meaning behind the statement was "fuck this guy in particular for being an ass"

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And the precise words just kinda don't register as much

crisp abyss
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Yeah that's fair. I'm rarely in chats when it comes up but I just happened to be hawk eyeing in this forum lol

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So just sorta weird/bad timing.

blissful bolt
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This is fucked up but also really funny to me

gaunt sphinx
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yeah, it do be like that

shut fiber
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damn, that's one way for a sub-community to die, that sucks