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The game had to give it to me through pity system

shadow spruce
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is this some umamusume reference

visual stream
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Rimumusume

zinc talon
shadow spruce
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crazy

zinc talon
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I don't get the why of it

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so it's 4x32, ddr5 5600

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there are 2x32gb, ddr5 6000's for a grand apeice

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why is this twice as expensive as that and only sold 4 at a time

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Does ram actually cost this much gd money rn

zinc talon
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yeah I just idly decided to see what my system was worth now vs what I paid for it a year/two ago

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every. single. part. is at least the same in price and almost all of it is more expensive

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I think we should burn down llm model companies until PCs are affordable again

zinc talon
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4090's $1700, 14900kf processor's $700

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ram's a grand

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haven't even gotten to storage yet

shadow spruce
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Yeah I'll pass

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As much as I'd like to upgrade lol

zinc talon
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say what you want star citizen's one of if not the most beautiful game I've ever played

shadow spruce
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oh absolutely

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Star Citizen is a product that kind of maybe exists

zinc talon
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it's still heroin for people that are addicted to constant, light levels of emotional abuse

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I own it

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I've played it like

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4 times

zinc talon
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yeah I've got a couple ships, I check back in every couple months and maybe put another fifty bucks in the kitty to melt down what I've got and buy The New Thing when a new ship rolls out

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well I've got almost every ship you can buy in-game, and then...two I think I paid for

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I spent all my time doing the actual gameplay loop that pays the big bucks

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befriending and bilking rich idiots out of their money

shadow spruce
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bilking

zinc talon
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to take through surruptitious or unscrupulous means

misty nova
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It's very sad that I'll accidentally hit the new mechs with Napalm

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And spamming mines too

zinc talon
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I gave the people who had everything the one thing they didn't have

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somebody to play with that was unfamiliar with the game

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I think I'm up to 150 million donated to the Okri One Man Armada

shadow spruce
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its probably reset tbh

zinc talon
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so if ya ever wanna see a ship lol

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that's the thing, I've still got like idk 3/4 of all the ones I bought like two years ago

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every major patch everybody's fleet gets jiggled, there's no logic to it

shadow spruce
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oh yeah if u bought them with real money theyre still there i thought u meant in game bought

zinc talon
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yeah that's what I did, people would donate me whatever a particular ship cost

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so far I've kept the vast majority of em, with some weird ones thrown in too

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I think I have four vultures? when I only myself bought one?

shadow spruce
zinc talon
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I've lost plenty of em to be sure, I can't keep a fuckin corsair to save my life

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every update it poofs

shadow spruce
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they added a snapping cargo grid now

zinc talon
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I think last time I revisited it they'd JUST improved the QoL for maxlifts and atlases

shadow spruce
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was that before or after engineering

zinc talon
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^me stepping outta the cargo ship the first time I moved stuff after the patch

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oh yeah that's it, I checked back in last at the inception of engineering

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right when it landed

shadow spruce
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theres two new systems now too

zinc talon
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?

shadow spruce
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or galaxies

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one of the two

zinc talon
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oh I getcha

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Nyx got planets I think?

shadow spruce
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dunno havent been there

zinc talon
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last time I visited there it was just a fuckoff huge asteroid belt and a station full of communists

shadow spruce
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when i played last it was before any new galaxies

zinc talon
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yeah pyro is a ton of fun

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so there's a thing you can do

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there's several flavors of 'items'

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and what I mean by that

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some items you can interact with that go in your bags

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some are like cargo boxes

shadow spruce
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theres a 222k cargo contract for it but people keep breaking the elevators so you cant finish the thing

zinc talon
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but there's this rare class of item that will interact with the tractor

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but you can't interact with it by hand, or snap it to a cargo grid

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it's only manipulat-able with a tractor beam

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but.

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if you pick the stupid thing up, and put it in a ship, and fly it to your persistant hangar

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it persists there forever til you move it

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so it's essentially decor

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pyro is chock full of the stuff

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golden vases as tall as you are, all sorts of physical containers like cardboard boxes with the top open

shadow spruce
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i cant remember can you leave ur ship in hangar now or does it still get auto stored

zinc talon
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goofy shit like oxygen tanks

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boy I hope not, last time I played you could call a ship, get in it, move it out of the way of where the ships spawn when you send the elevator down

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like out of collission distance but still on your hangar floor

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and when you called up another ship, that one would go down then come back up in the same place

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and you'd have both

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so what you can do

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is pull your vulture or prospector or whatever and set them out of the way

shadow spruce
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still no cargo loading

zinc talon
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and when you login, all those ships are on your hangar floor right where you left em

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and you can have all your quick go-to ships sitting on the hangar floor with space left to call something you don't use often

shadow spruce
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i think theyve changed how hangars work but idk

zinc talon
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I thought it was super fuckin cool, you could move your ships aund on your hangar floor and have basically your whole fleet sitting on the pad when you entered your hangar or logged in

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like a fleet of planes on a carrier deck

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and, if you for whatever reason say hypothetically had ships blow up on your pad

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(cuz you were cannibalizing them then blowing them up to dupe the guns and kit)

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the wreckage like the fuselage or wings with the branding on them or whatever

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you could tractor that out of the way against the walls and those persisted forever too

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so you could 'decorate' the outer walls with parts of the superstructure of ships you'd blown up

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make it look like mos eisley or something

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that game truly is the only game I've ever played where you can log in, play for eight hours straight

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accomplish absolutely fucking nothing

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and enjoy every moment of it

shadow spruce
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cities are still a nasa computers game

zinc talon
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heh that's when I knew I'd finally arrived to the big leagues with this pc I have

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everything else just ran max refresh rate so I couldn't ever see it break a sweat

shadow spruce
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im sorry my poor 2060 but i need to buy some armor in a18 be strong

zinc talon
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god I'd develop a complex about visiting cities if I was still on my 3070

shadow spruce
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even with a 4090, 14900kf, and 64 gigs of ram playing the game on an NVME bolted to the motherboard I'd still dip to like, 75-100fps in the worst parts of a18 and whoreville

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but when I'd break atmo, max refresh like every other game

shadow spruce
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same

zinc talon
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the tram in a18 I think was designed to physically burn out older cards to force artificial demand for new ones

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it's all one big conspiracy

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anyways all that to say, pyro is a ton of fun

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all sorts of shit you can drag back to your hangar to decorate with, that nobody else knows how to get

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which means you can sell them as exotic items

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the music is truly fantastic out there too

shadow spruce
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oh my god the weird station ambience is still here

zinc talon
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each system has its own warp music and pyro's is so tranquil and beautiful I actually stay seated at my pc when I warp between planets

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plus, the major space stations in pyro each have live fire combat zones

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so you can bind there, and go down to shoot and loot and scoot and if you're killed, welp, you respawn right there in-station

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and the gear the enemies have is kickass, all sorts of red and black and silver or gold color palettes on armor that's otherwise commonplace anywhere else

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scorched patina guns that have better stats than standard

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flashlights that don't blind your night vision and lasers you can only see with night vision

shadow spruce
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oh yeah no more virtual station inventories

zinc talon
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yeah you mean the mandatory gear kiosks right, no more pressing I and seeing local inv?

shadow spruce
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mhm

zinc talon
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I actually liked that change

shadow spruce
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which honestly is probably a godsend for performance

zinc talon
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oh shit get this

shadow spruce
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and i bought the wrong armor

zinc talon
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so there's black sites in pyro

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where you go to hunt an unironic fuckoff huge dune sandworm

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I mean so big the thing when dead is like, five stories tall

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laying on its side

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anyways the places are all pvpve, they're live shooting sites you summon the thing at

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the kicker is, it has med beds you can bind to

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so when you die, you respawn there

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on site

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but, if you just exit to menu and log back in

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you log back in either a. at your home city or b. at the closest station to the black site

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what this means, is you shoot your way to the med beds and bind, then every death just means you're 100m from your corpse

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and you can loot the place to your heart's content

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then log to menu, log back in, bam you're back at your capitol or starlight service station

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and when you want to go back, you just backspace

zinc talon
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it's instant travel across star systems

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oh and the planet itself is so fuckin hot you fry in a minute or two on the surface, even with the big astronaut suit

shadow spruce
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i wish i had ppl to SC with but my friends all think its a scam

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and theyre not totally wrong

zinc talon
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yeah I've given up trying too

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even to the point of like, look you asses I have an account with a ship I will let you use, just sit down and log in

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fine, don't completely reinvent what an online game can even be in the first place

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cuz yea, they're not totally wrong, the fucking audacity CIG has in some of its actions still boils my blood to think about

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the sheer fucking pricetag, to even ask for it in the first place, uuuugggggggg

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but it's like okay, fine, just buy a $40 starter account and play the game to get the ships

shadow spruce
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yeah i had my stuff paid for by a suspiciously wealthy scalie

zinc talon
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that's what any other game costs to get started

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idk it's almost like some purist mentality

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like muslims and alcohol without any of the religious repercussions

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they get off on not playing star citizen

shadow spruce
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i mean i am actively playing the game right now

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also is there a way to have all my station inventories moved to one station do u remember

zinc talon
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yeah gimme a sec

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I know it consolidates every update

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to wherever you pick your home

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every item in every station everywhere lands in your home city post update

shadow spruce
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according to game chat there is not a way to do that

zinc talon
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there's always getting an 8 or 16scu box and filling that

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but obviously what comes with that

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oh what I was think of was, the freight elevator kiosk has a search function in its ui

shadow spruce
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not worth the effor im gonna be so real with you

zinc talon
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and you can shift click and select as many items as you have showing on the kiosk then one click drag and drop them to a box

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I am the king of kings when it comes to hoarding, I must have at least one of everything

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so needless to say my home inventory's unironically sitting at like 70%

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of eleventy brazilian scu total space

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just pages of goofy shit like p4ar's '

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cuz I knew a lil tricksy that removed the space limit on your backpack

acoustic dune
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ey okri

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hows the kids

zinc talon
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so everything went home with me

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hey man

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unborn

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just the way I like em

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couldn't be prouder of em lol

acoustic dune
zinc talon
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still attached, thankfully

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see the problem is all these libruls

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they went onnnn and onnnnn about women's education

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so now I can't find one dumb enough to stay with me

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(lol)

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so what did the engineering update actually roll out

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I think I half heard or saw or something that most everyone was planetside? like there was a form of base building?

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at least that's what I assumed they had rolled out and not engineering

shadow spruce
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ship has fuses and if they blow u have to replace

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and a whole engineering screen in ships

zinc talon
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oh so it's just ship components and those useless engineering terminals in big ships?

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well, used to be useless I guess

shadow spruce
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that i know of but there might be more

zinc talon
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I assumed incorrectly I guess that there was some form of player crafting now

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or base building, or some reason why everyone was planet surface

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and not specifically at a shooting site doing a new dungeon event

shadow spruce
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

zinc talon
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if this fuckin video ever decides to finish generating I can log in and check, was thinkin about doin that anyway recently

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but I'm like an hour committed generating 5 small videos then stitching them last frame to first frame to make one big cohesive one

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and the generator simply doesn't care to move the progress bar when it works

shadow spruce
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im abt to go do some cargo stuff so

zinc talon
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a word to the wise

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commodity trading has its appeal because you can land and store your cargo ship

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then use the commodity terminal to auto-load the cargo onto your ship

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then you go where you go to sell it, land park store the ship again

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and you can sell directly from the ship's cargo to commodity kiosk B

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and never have to touch a single box

shadow spruce
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ur saying words and i have no idea what they mean

zinc talon
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store cargo ship, find commodity terminal, buy and auto load

shadow spruce
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also i thought only hull C could do autoload

zinc talon
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nah any ship stored at the place you're buying or selling from shows up in the commodity kiosk drop down menu

shadow spruce
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oh no im taking contracts

zinc talon
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bookmark that site

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it'll plan routes for you if you want to, and show you your investment costs as well as how much profit you stand to make if you deliver it

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so downside risk and upside potential profit both

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also

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loadout manager for every ship in t he game

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and where to find any piece of kit you want to install on it

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without those two sites I wouldn't know a brazilianth of what I know about trading and outfitting

narrow mauve
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zealot chat did the artist cook with this one

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@acoustic dune

zinc talon
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....does that female deer have antlers...

shadow spruce
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dont ask questions

frosty herald
narrow mauve
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either that or it's superglued on

zinc talon
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well I don't know if that's a vote for or a vote against, but you've definitely got one vote

narrow mauve
zinc talon
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don't get me wrong, dem curves doe

narrow mauve
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is this a normal reaction to-

zinc talon
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but uh

narrow mauve
zinc talon
narrow mauve
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look,

antlers just make anything look hotter ok?

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just look at louis from beastars

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he's a beast

zinc talon
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but it also looks like it's got the fur pattern of a cheetah

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I guess it could be wearing the skin of its enemies, that might also explain the antlers

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bit morbid, bit hot

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ah, the return of the danger boner

narrow mauve
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it's supposed to be referenced off of an actual doe

shadow spruce
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i dont think im getting paid nearly enough for it

narrow mauve
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okay so final verdict
deer lady hot or not

obtuse garnet
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O deer

zinc talon
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oh shit, they gave me new horror helmets for being a subscriber

boreal plinth
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Yeah so uh the god emperor just told me to friggin cut that beast man up with my uh totally rad … chainsaw…….

zinc talon
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the most fun I ever had in star citizen was getting these horror movie prop masks, building a convincingly torn up outfit around it

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going to the hospital and almost overdosing on the free heroin

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then going to the starport elevators and lying in wait for people to get on

shadow spruce
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crazy work

zinc talon
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they'd turn around and I'm weaving all over the place jittering and shaking with a parasyte tentacle monster coming out of my nose and bursting through the glass of my helmet

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I actually made one guy shriek so loud his mic clicked on and we all heard it hahahaha

shadow spruce
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you could copilot or gunner turret

zinc talon
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that thing is so much fuckin fun to use but all it does is get you killed

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quickly

obtuse garnet
zinc talon
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I think I have em all now, I bought the fungal outbreak masks from the store for like, idk $4

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and I've collected the hill horror scarecrow masks and the 2 horror movie props

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one's a bleached skull and the other's that parasyte monster coming out of your mouth or nose

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Genuinely I have no idea what you're referring to, what you posted just reminded me of reach

shadow spruce
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kind of

zinc talon
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wasn't it just like, a searchlight or something

shadow spruce
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nope

zinc talon
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I'm firmly firmly team cutty red

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oh yeah that's right htat's what's on my fuckin ship lol

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a manned turret with a ladder and seat and everything

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what do you shoot?

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light

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and not the cool red kind

shadow spruce
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yeah i have a turret but the copilot seat handled power management along with the pilot seat

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so most ppl just used it to troll the pilot

zinc talon
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oh you meant th esecond seat behind yours derp

shadow spruce
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mhm

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now it can use a tractor beam

zinc talon
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I always thought it was a shame there was no use for those, cuz of how the seat fits up into the second storey of the fuselage is a fuckin cool perspective

shadow spruce
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i think the idea behind it was pilot would tell co what pwr settings they wanted so they could focus on flying

zinc talon
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fanciful idea, sure

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but who tf is gonna sit there with spicy armpits doing nothing except moving a single power pip

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cuz I think that's all the baseline black had to move with its original power plant

shadow spruce
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idk cause at that point u could get in the turret and be more useful

zinc talon
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yep, victim of its own...idk what to eve ncall it

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self defeating anyway

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the corsair got the opposite so to speak

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now, when there isn't a copilot in the seat, the guns get slaved to the pilot

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it's got something like 2 5s and 4 4s or something ridiculous

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corsair's prolly the ship I'm fondest of full stop, even if I don't fly it much

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like if it were me, there, you bet your ass I'd be in one of those

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it's the millenium falcon-est firefly-est ship they have

shadow spruce
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theres a headhunters gladius hanging out around baijini

acoustic dune
narrow mauve
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thicc trans deer presumably

zinc talon
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you can use the chainsaw INSIDE the vehicle

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why did this never occur to me to try

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I know what I'm doin the fuckin instant this video's out of the oven

acoustic dune
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WHY WOULD THEY LET YOU SWING IT lolllll

narrow mauve
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i begg

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i need more art of the deeer

zinc talon
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is it uh, is it the curves

narrow mauve
zinc talon
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is it the animal itself

narrow mauve
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also deer are cute

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it flows into one another well

zinc talon
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I don't have to understand somethin to support someone else enjoying it but I've never wrapped my head around that larger question

narrow mauve
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(she likes to stand in front of cars and total their hood)

shadow spruce
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driving in my car

zinc talon
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I am just not wired for it I suppose

narrow mauve
zinc talon
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yeah but that ass looks like it'll bring a semi to a full stop

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nothin's crashin anything

narrow mauve
shadow spruce
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bruh

narrow mauve
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"she ran RIGHT in front of my truck"
-"sir you have an ass-print the size of a small child on your hood"

acoustic dune
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In uh

narrow mauve
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bobuck

acoustic dune
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Love n affection

zinc talon
narrow mauve
shadow spruce
narrow mauve
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thats really nice i love giving that

zinc talon
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oh I got it backwards then

acoustic dune
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Put it in my dm

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So I remenber to draw it

zinc talon
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is that what the kids are calling it these days

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your dm

mystic ether
acoustic dune
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So I can see his cousin

zinc talon
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I don't even like the kiddie pool versions, like greenskins or incubi/succubi

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I guess the elf ears are kinda cute but

mystic ether
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And i suppose for others that think more of it characteristics of what the person can do that a human just doesn't have access to.

narrow mauve
zinc talon
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oh you mean like, because they're part something else they can do a thing better than any human could type thing?

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that tracks

narrow mauve
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you draw a human and add animal characteristics

mystic ether
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^

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ik this is kinda a dead horse but holy fuck expeditions are dead

mystic ether
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Human+

zinc talon
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dude I've played expeditions exactly twice

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there's no draw

narrow mauve
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thats what anthro means

anthropo=like human/humanoid

zinc talon
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like why even add a currency you can't spend, it's almost condescending

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just have to solo em effectively

mystic ether
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and pair that ^ matchmaking ordeal with the fact you've only played em twice so that means you're gonna be a headless chicken still learning where everything is

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you turn around every thirty seconds and the whole team is fuckoff down the road cuz you didn't know it was time to move, or whatever

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so you have to one man warcrime your way to that part of the map, by which time they've moved again

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didn't strike me as fun

mystic ether
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Or, something mire immediately understandable maybe: the imagination needed for superhero shit.

acoustic dune
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I called my anthro goat

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Chimera

narrow mauve
narrow mauve
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thats a good name

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i like that

zinc talon
narrow mauve
acoustic dune
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but here we find ourselves

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life is about growth

frosty herald
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Cockatrice>

acoustic dune
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3 page of sexual pose furry

narrow mauve
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i wuld luv to see mor of ur art

acoustic dune
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I am walking rn

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When I get home ill dm

narrow mauve
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O

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idk if ill be on fon when you come bac

zinc talon
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yep

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he'll have already gotten off

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....the internet of coures

mystic ether
# zinc talon I did not wake up today expecting to learn about this topic, much less about the...

I mean even when it's not some common adult stuff, plenty goes into the imagination for worldbuilding. Easy example could be something like Absolum's Mowlai people. They're essentially a race of frog people from a living jungle landmass thing that are particularly drenched in magic because a core of their development as living creatures is literally them placing their eggs in protected, magically dense pools of water. This not only gave them a profound affinity and sensitivity towards magic, but is also just literally taking the development of frogs, placing it into an anthro race and throwing it into a story and arranging those pieces together to make sense

shadow spruce
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british Sitgryn

mystic ether
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Or a scifi story where gene splicing has gotten so advanced that the theoretical is "real" and we got humans with modding done to them to give them additionap characteristics otherwise found in other earth species. The major difference in scifi though is that there is usually some care taken into bending science's measured limits to fit into a story.

Do we have humans running around with spliced genes to get...idk, cat night vision? No. But someone who consults experts or actually is one that writes and plays with these ideas can spin a tale for it that functionally can work.

narrow mauve
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@radiant sluice

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WOAH

narrow mauve
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she might be my single coolest fursona

mystic ether
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That just genuinely looks cool.

radiant sluice
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Did you draw that?

narrow mauve
mystic ether
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Rare to see cool bug art.

radiant sluice
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Ohh right

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still really peak 🔥

narrow mauve
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i would love to draw but i dont draw very good
i write better

narrow mauve
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when they're actual bugs and not dogs with antenna

radiant sluice
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Are there bug furries?

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Buggies?

narrow mauve
mystic ether
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Who made this? Would actually want to see if they have any other bug person art.

shadow spruce
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i wonder whatever happened to freddy

narrow mauve
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i comm them a lot

mystic ether
# radiant sluice Are there bug furries?

If it exists on earth outside of humans, humans can probably make up something to "make" it human through art. We've been doing this as a species for fuck all.

misty nova
narrow mauve
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HOLY EDGERUNNERS REFERENCE

narrow mauve
radiant sluice
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Sphinx

mystic ether
radiant sluice
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Like a reverse furry

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but the og

mystic ether
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I mean, there's tons of depictions of anthropomorphic stuff even before that. Nile valley civs are an entire thing that existed/exist

shadow spruce
acoustic dune
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Or that one horse dreamy boy

acoustic dune
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Where its just a horse with human head

mystic ether
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Unsure of some of the oldest possible art or stories but that's just a staple of human art, myth, etc that the species has moved with through all context.

acoustic dune
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This is infact

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A reverse furry

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A human

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A skinny

radiant sluice
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You're not wrong...

mystic ether
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We got human-faced spiders, spider-headed people uh

devout vault
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Wel thats deeply disconcerting now isnt it

mystic ether
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Idk

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Fuckin

narrow mauve
mystic ether
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Hell we got talking animals within divine politics

acoustic dune
narrow mauve
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he probably had a checklist for all the godawful abominations he's made up

mystic ether
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That are like

mystic ether
narrow mauve
mystic ether
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We got anthro rocks

radiant sluice
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Is it Hinduism that has like an elephant person God?

mystic ether
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Anthro fire

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One amongst many.

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You might be referring Ganesha.

acoustic dune
radiant sluice
mystic ether
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Shit we got living energy that sings but you'll go mad if you're exposed to it uh

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Idk

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We've had anime shadowstepping before anime ever existed.

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Through something like some folk stories of basically afro-caribbean vampires

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That can just literally appear in the shadow cast by a fucking lantern bug like

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Humans have been recycling stories for an incredibly long time, even prior to written histories, destroyed and withheld ones, etc.

shadow spruce
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@zinc talon what u doin pimp

mystic ether
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I bet there's a legend somewhere about some creature made out of eyelashes. Fuck it.

radiant sluice
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Porn server

radiant sluice
narrow mauve
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promis

narrow mauve
radiant sluice
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No no, someone sent a link to a porn server

narrow mauve
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the.

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fuck

placid fiber
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Hi Mort

radiant sluice
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Wait I can send images in this chat

placid fiber
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Yeah

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and in all class chats

shadow spruce
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you have a red name ye

placid fiber
violet hornet
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Even bigger plink

glossy nimbus
radiant sluice
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I only speak in general 😔

shadow spruce
radiant sluice
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but yeah

steel agate
radiant sluice
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I see this a lot weirdly

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different servers from different people, but yeah

glossy nimbus
placid fiber
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I had to check out discord 1 more time before I left for work lol

placid fiber
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No problem, it was my own fault for curiosity

radiant sluice
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Pandoras box type shit

radiant sluice
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I love this image for inexplicable reasons

steel agate
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its a cat, thats all the reasoning needed thumbsup_ogryn

radiant sluice
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Garn47 car

mystic ether
# radiant sluice That sounds kinda horrifying

I still like and the dread the idea of cell phone mimics. Some artist made them up on tumblr once in a series. Iirc I think they each had different feeding behaviors, each terrible to consider.

radiant sluice
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Oh god..

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imagine you put it to your ear and like...

mystic ether
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One bored directly into your shit through there. Some waited till you slept, etc.

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I think there was one that basically copied voices through itself and then would fake call when it was time? I might be misremembering that because this was an ancient series of posts several years ago.

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The overall concept of mimics is already fucked up since it's just taking the idea of an ambush predator that doesn't mind hunting humans that deliberately camos as human items made by humans. Free infiltration.

radiant sluice
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I once saw a mimic armour thing for dnd

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Where you have to keep feeding it or it eats you

glossy nimbus
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I remember there being a mimic that could only transform into objects

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and it became a house maid

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💀

mystic ether
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That's nuts.

radiant sluice
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Maidic gf? 👀

mystic ether
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And is extremely creepy to consider

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Even the mimic is tapping into literal objectification on a psychosocial level to transform.

zinc talon
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asking for a friend

mystic ether
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Also, wouldn't that be more properly just something closer to a changeling or whatever else? I guess broadly it's just shapeshifting but unless I'm missing something here mimics are supposed to be strictly predator monster things that exist and/or copy themselves as inanimate objects made by people.

zinc talon
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mimics are supposed to be able to imprint and turn into a specific someone

radiant sluice
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Mimic toilet 😨

zinc talon
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shapeshifters are more high fantasy wizardry I aint gotta splain shit it's magic

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and skinwalkers from the native american mythos are the ones that can do what that blue girl did in those terrible x men movies

shadow spruce
zinc talon
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I know I didn't like someone, and took their C2

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and wrote a racial slur in the side of hteir hull with a salvage beam

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and then reported them

zinc talon
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it can be a lot of fun, it's like decompression therapy

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me personally I like trawlers, the biggest of the 3 sizes

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there's a couple ways you can go about it

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the truly lazy way is to get a ship, grab it with your tractor

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spin it as fast as you can then release it

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and sit still while it rotates

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also the vulture can only hold so much, like 13 in the hold plus another 13 in the hopper

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so you don't need a ship bigger than whatever that amount is

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if you have a c2 or something just pull it, park it right outside a pyro station

shadow spruce
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i have a cutty B

zinc talon
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that'll do just fine

chrome wave
zinc talon
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good gauge of how big a ship you need

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anyways get it, park it, eva back, get vulture, strip it, claim it, repeate

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salvaging is a fun spin on like, unique minigames except this one has a full profession's nuance behind it

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it's a good side hustle for when you're wanting to play and earn some money but don't want to really like, be more than 5 minutes from your home station

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out in pyro there's no armistice anywhere so you can literally park it ten feet ooutside the hangar and hop back in before the doors close

zinc talon
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nice, me too

shadow spruce
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well theres dedicated ships for salvaging but theyre like 2 mill each

zinc talon
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nice to know I'm in good company

zinc talon
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that must have been like around obama's election time

zinc talon
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same kinda journalism as

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man fuck this, this video still has not finished and I'm goin on like two and a half hours on a nasa tier machine for maybe five minutes of actual movement

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i stg this ai stuff is so grabass terrible if I want to do anything I'm gonna have to code it myself

shadow spruce
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...

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stinky ai bro

heady rapids
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ehhhhhh

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i guess

zinc talon
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boy yall just hate anything at all to do with it huh

zinc talon
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where does the animosity come from

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the fact the content is always shit-tier, or

hard nexus
shadow spruce
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its just stinky

zinc talon
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I'm having to force myself to learn how to do it because I'm in the process of coding a game with a longtime friend of mine, and I'm making up for my shortcomings with computer code by being the guy who does the art direction and aesthetics and look/feel of thegame

hard nexus
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game with ai generated art

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vomits

zinc talon
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and thankfully, I can have the AI pump out a hundred images and cherry pick what is actually worthwhile out of them

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It's a massive waste of resources that's also fucking over large sects of the global economy and particularly consumer products I would like to buy mixed with the fact there's a very annoying subset of AI people who think it replaces the ability to actually create art from nothing.

hard nexus
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Lacks soul

hard nexus
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yarp

zinc talon
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you misunderstand, I produce the stuff, and take what I think passes the test to the rest of the tea

chrome wave
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did you guys know that animations are server sided it's great

zinc talon
#

m

hard nexus
zinc talon
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and once we have enough of a body of content for like, everything from towns to wizard robes to swords to the general style of the character and how they move

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once we have enough of that

hard nexus
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so it’s prototyping

zinc talon
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we're going to commission somebody to make actual stuff

hard nexus
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still gross but it’s not as bad

plush estuary
zinc talon
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along the llines of what we've decided we like as a cohesive theme for the styling of thegame

median steeple
plush estuary
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@hard nexus

hard nexus
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but still
poopshit

drowsy steppe
median steeple
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god this is old

hard nexus
zinc talon
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well, if you can come up with an easier way to build an entire low fantasy world with separate biomes and towns and culture and clothing and and and and and

hard nexus
zinc talon
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while also managing a property company and oil investments

median steeple
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WE ARE THE SAME AGE

zinc talon
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you let me know

hard nexus
median steeple
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YOU FUCKING CHUD

hard nexus
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lmfao

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ok gtg orientation

median steeple
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bitch!

zinc talon
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just be good, huh

chrome wave
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that burster spawned right around the corner but i can't prove it

acoustic dune
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Concrete

zinc talon
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why didn't I ask you sooner

acoustic dune
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Concrete now or I blow you

zinc talon
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or you uh

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you broke up there for a second what was that

heady rapids
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shitass modifier !!!!!!!!!!

acoustic dune
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Nvm

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It was just jawa

violet hornet
zinc talon
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like I said

acoustic dune
zinc talon
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you tell me a faster way to put together content for a game while also having two full time jobs

acoustic dune
zinc talon
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I don't understand how taking stylistic cues from a random number generator and then taking that to get actual stuff commissioned

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sounds like yall hatin just to hate at that point

ivory marlin
violet hornet
zinc talon
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which, fine, hate away

violet hornet
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It's an aggregate of stolen creative assets from artists

shadow spruce
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the ai use is just stinky

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acoustic dune
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Guess no blowing

zinc talon
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money's never an issue

violet hornet
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I want to make a game but there's no chance I'm using AI for that

acoustic dune
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Gonna make it like a job

zinc talon
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the question is what do you want everything to look like

acoustic dune
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Like some kind of

zinc talon
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everything everywhere

acoustic dune
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Blow

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Jobbing

zinc talon
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I use it to get an idea of what I want and then take that to someone with actual talent

acoustic dune
zinc talon
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yall actin like the very act of pushing the generate button is something I'm gonna have to answer for when I get to the pearly gates

shadow spruce
#

you might

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If you need to use AI to have a basic concept of what you want I think you either lack imagination or creativity.

acoustic dune
violet hornet
acoustic dune
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Is crazy

zinc talon
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again, yall feel free to feel how you feel

shadow spruce
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you could come up with a bulletpoint list

acoustic dune
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Like do you truly like you work if you gotta use ai to think for you

acoustic dune
zinc talon
violet hornet
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It's quite clearly being forced into every aspect of people's lives as another way to consolidate funds to the rich and deny people that make actual art opportunities to make that art

zinc talon
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and then taking that to an actual artist and getting the actual look and feel started

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yep

acoustic dune
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I can live with that

violet hornet
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Not everyone will agree

acoustic dune
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Then again a better refrence is taking every part of other game stylistic choice

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And showing it to the artist whom you work with

zinc talon
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yknow what for every single AI generated video or image yall don't look at

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I'm gonna look at three

acoustic dune
zinc talon
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just so when you think of me, you'll think 'oh god he's prolly looking at ** AI ** right now isn't he'

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and I'll have darkened your day just a lil bit

carmine lance
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Hello chat, how are we all doing

deft badge
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Hello Moth

acoustic dune
deft badge
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I am vertical and I am breathing

violet hornet
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I think the attitude of "what's the harm I'm only replacing part of the process with stolen garbage" will age like milk as AI seeps into everything

carmine lance
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Heya Tongs, been a minute since I’ve seen you around. Hope you’ve been doing well :)

acoustic dune
heady rapids
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you wouldnt generate a cat

acoustic dune
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I think you are skipping the brainstorming part

zinc talon
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zinc talon
sterile stone
plush estuary
shadow spruce
plush estuary
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yeah, I game

zinc talon
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hah

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I gut laughed

zinc talon
acoustic dune
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For ref

sterile stone
zinc talon
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"Okri watched a video and looked at pictures"

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violet hornet
#

Look at the industrial revolution. Powered machinery made production of all kinds much more efficient, but without proper regulation led us eventually to rigid 9-5 workdays, closing opportunities for people to work production jobs as more machines filled those roles, and lowering of quality of many things as now fewer wealthier people called the shots on how things were done and made

zinc talon
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"and then tried to ** make ** one"

violet hornet
heady rapids
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ugliest piece of shit modifier

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i hate it here

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and my teammates dont know what interact means

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great

acoustic dune
zinc talon
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it is a thing, that has a use beyond actively and deliberately rotting your brain

acoustic dune
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Or in math

violet hornet
deft badge
acoustic dune
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The calculator powered by ai is still a doozy to me

zinc talon
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I daresay the way I'm using it it's actually sparking thought and creating more creativity

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but no, thing bad don't use thing don't post thing don't mention thing

violet hornet
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I deal with this shit every day since I work with software. Stuff needs to be properly crafted by humans for the time being or else it's not going to work right

acoustic dune
deft badge
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Deeply ironic statements coming from someone who admitted they can't brainstorm so they use AI to do it for them

zinc talon
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lol

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it's not that deep man

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I can push a button and look at a hundred different art styles whiule I eat my lunch

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and say, yeah I like that one maybe the team will too

heady rapids
acoustic dune
violet hornet
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Yeah I have had to set up an AI generation system for work, we know what it does

zinc talon
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tell me an easier way to facilitate that

shadow spruce
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i hope ur 40 series card burns down

zinc talon
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yall actin like I'm somehow defending ai by using it like the tool it is

violet hornet
zinc talon
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might as well get mad at me for using a hammer

shadow spruce
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those are not at all similar

deft badge
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To be honest I'm not sure I'd trust you to work a hammer

zinc talon
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I'll work your hammer if you keep that tone with me

violet hornet
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Legitimately a dumbass wealthy boomer take if I've ever seen one

carmine lance
acoustic dune
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Then so on

zinc talon
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lol I'm a boomer now too

acoustic dune
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Its the chewing gum metaphor

deft badge
heady rapids
zinc talon
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yall so mad at AI I wish I understood the why of it

violet hornet
acoustic dune
zinc talon
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world views? again it's not that deep I'm looking at pictures while I eat lunch where are yall getting this

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yknow what, I don't care

heady rapids
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this here i just cant see past 30m

zinc talon
#

yall givin me indigestion

deft badge
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To be honest I simply think your lack of ability to find basic inspiration in anything and instead are outsourcing it to LLMs speaks to the quality of the product you're working on

violet hornet
carmine lance
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For me ai frustrates me for a number reasons. The environmental impact it has, the sourcing on data it’s trained on, how people treat it like it can plausibly replace human jobs

zinc talon
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how is pushing the generate button any different than watching lord of the rings for the same amount of time

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humans made it? that's it?

carmine lance
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It’s because of everything behind the button push

deft badge
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Aye, adds soul. Simple as.

violet hornet
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They already are

carmine lance
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Even then i don’t think it’s a good idea

acoustic dune
violet hornet
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And it does cost jobs. Without a plan on how those people will be supported, we should all hate this shit

acoustic dune
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Pretty much this extract from understanding of comics

zinc talon
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so let's say we all decide yeah AI isn't worth it and we stop

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yay, planet saved, life back to normal

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what happens when china gets weapons-grade AI or even AGI

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or russia

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you think they're gonna be benevolent with it

deft badge
violet hornet
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Without production or creative jobs, humans will be doing exclusively service industry work. Once they have those humanoid robots ready to go (which are already pretty close) that's over too

zinc talon
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sure, valid, I'm haven't disagreed once with respect to any of the societal stuff

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but answer the question

deft badge
violet hornet
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And it'll be die or riot time for anyone that's not wealthy enough to own those things

zinc talon
#

you think stopping AI is gonna let things go back to the way they were

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and maybe it will

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until

deft badge
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To be blunt

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Real blunt

zinc talon
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oh boy

deft badge
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The only thing I think is that ai usage is lazy and products made with it aren't worth my money

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If someone cared about the product they'd craft it

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Wouldn't be hard to find inspiration for it

zinc talon
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which begs the question

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why you aren't also

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if it's so easy and takes so little time

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surely you should have passion projects as well

deft badge
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I write a fantasy setting rn, I didn't say it didn't take time

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I play guitar too

carmine lance
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For what it’s worth, I enjoy creative writing a lot, and I draw when I have time for it

zinc talon
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'when I have time'

deft badge
#

I would like to pick up some swords and get into hema

zinc talon
#

sir I own two companies

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and I'm trying to pack this in what little time I have

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and I'm the bad guy here apparently

violet hornet
#

Wealthiest dude in zealot chat begs for a little sympathy lol

zinc talon
#

I wouldn't beg you to piss on me if I was on fire, buddy

deft badge
#

You can half ass two things or you can whole ass one thing man

carmine lance
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I’ve been told that the trick is making time for it in your schedule

carmine lance
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I know it’s not easy, I’m constantly feeling overworked just with college shit

zinc talon
#

and here I sit, eating lunch, looking at pictures to get a feel for how I want the art direction to go moving forward

violet hornet
#

Considering most business owners don't do shit you should have plenty of time for your own projects kekcube

zinc talon
#

finding the time

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Jawa, someday you're gonna look back on this and realize just how hollow all that sounds

acoustic dune
zinc talon
#

when you have actual context

acoustic dune
#

So you can't grow

zinc talon
#

anyways, lunchtime over

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yall all catch your breath

violet hornet
#

Better get back to the golf course thumbsup_ogryn

carmine lance
#

I guess the way I see it, is that if you’re able to have time to talk on discord during lunch, you could also use that time to pursue the passion you have

violet hornet
#

I don't think I've lost respect for a regular here so fast in a long time lol

zinc talon
#

which I was doing til yall made it your primary concern to assume every part of my life

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I shouldn't have even taken the bait and asked in good faith why yall have so much animosity towards AI in the first place

zinc talon
#

cuz now I'm somehow the asshole

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for wanting context

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anyway

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yall be easy

carmine lance
shadow spruce
#

is it too hard to make a bulletpoint list or find similar images online instead of generating them?

carmine lance
#

I pull inspiration from the stuff I get autistic hyperfixatations on Clueless

acoustic dune
carmine lance
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Even if it’s just writing fan fiction or something

glossy nimbus
shadow spruce
carmine lance
#

Like rn im writing a story set in World Of Darkness, I love the idea of Hunter: The Reckoning having people woefully misinformed in the business of being a hunter

carmine lance
#

I think that would be a lot less enjoyable

plush estuary
#

isnt the blue shark plush like a trans icon or something

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I keep seeing it

shadow spruce
#

yes

plush estuary
#

is there lore?

carmine lance
#

Lmfao my response got blocked

glossy nimbus
carmine lance
#

Also I have a blahaj at home

heady rapids
carmine lance
#

I named it blaj mahal

plush estuary
#

I was thinking of a present I want to get my gf

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and she likes plushes

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maybe the shark?

shadow spruce
#

i want a djunkelskong or however you spell it

sterile stone
heady rapids
sterile stone
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It’s like trying to convince someone from the older generation

carmine lance
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These are my 2 favorite plushes I own

sterile stone
#

They’re entrenched in their ideas

plush estuary
#

she doesnt like pokemon that mush

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much

heady rapids
#

but it learns fishious rend...

narrow mauve
#

corpo'd up my headphones..

glossy nimbus
long oasis
#

perfect timing

glossy nimbus
heady rapids
#

get her a big jake

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yk the long ass cat plushes

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there's probably one that's like jake

acoustic dune
glossy nimbus
heady rapids
#

that's gay

plush estuary
#

probably

#

lesbians for the win

ivory marlin
shadow spruce
sterile stone
#

I love how the mention of lesbians summoned jelly

ivory marlin
#

Hey

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No

ivory marlin
#

Slur…….

sterile stone
#

You don’t have to be a an angry wanamingo

carmine lance
narrow mauve
#

go lick silverhand's toes gonk..

ivory marlin
#

Yeah

shadow spruce
ivory marlin
#

With context clues you can guess what i want to say

heady rapids
#

what does he want to say

#

nobody knows

ivory marlin
ivory marlin
#

I call you it daily

acoustic dune
#

Woaw...

sterile stone
#

I saw that

ivory marlin
sterile stone
#

Allah take your ankle bones

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And your cartilage in your ears

acoustic dune
heady rapids
#

y'all missing out on dt modding they be droppin the hard r in there

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and I'm not even exaggerating

ivory marlin
sterile stone
#

Maximum security for the criminally insane

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Who couldn’t be quarantined off here

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Like that mf speaking in binary

obsidian prairie
#

I left

plush estuary
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I right

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?

obsidian prairie
#

Everyone there is some kind of banned

acoustic dune
#

I mid

plush estuary
#

I top

sterile stone
#

Idk I love it

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It’s like a zoo

misty ravine
#

You don't need to be unhinged to mod Darktide

But it sure helps

acoustic dune
sterile stone
#

You get to watch all the species of mentally unwell congregate in one spot

acoustic dune
#

I diagonal

misty ravine
#

I drive.

deft badge
#

I don't think you could pay me to use DT modding cord

acoustic dune
solar gorge
#

you could pay me

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wire me 5000 dollars

deft badge
#

Ask your father to man idk

acoustic dune
#

For 5000 dilla

solar gorge
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i'd just exist ig

acoustic dune
#

Would you rather get paper cut all over your body and get dip in lemon juice

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Or be me

heady rapids
#

I'd do that for free

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to lambda

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call me

acoustic dune
long oasis
#

yo

acoustic dune
#

Bye yom

carmine lance
long oasis
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cuz its not the fun type of unhinged

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its just unhinged

acoustic dune
#

Oh btw tong

acoustic dune
#

You said you do dnd story telling right?

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With fantasy setting

carmine lance
acoustic dune
#

@deft badge

deft badge
acoustic dune
deft badge
#

Yeah, you could say that

acoustic dune
#

What specifically?

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Genre wise

heady rapids
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knify has a dnd setting that's paraplegic exclusive

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don't tell him anything he'll turn your favorite character into a cripple

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and don't say I didn't warn you

acoustic dune
#

So an alligator in a wheelchair

deft badge
# acoustic dune What specifically?

Renaissance era tbh, it originally started as a dnd setting and eventually I went "I could just make an entire game system" so I've been basing a lot of it off D100 Degrees of Success systems

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Big focus on "the arts" and how they bring magic into the world

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Like the equivalent of a summoner is a sculptor and their sculptures

acoustic dune
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You ask people

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But yeah what's your inspiration