Wavelength |||game over|||

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/in ?

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I can't believe they've got you guys believing that lions are a thing

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I actually like this as a solution and I will probably instate the “psychics can’t use google” rule after this game ends, unless there is majority opposition.

I like this idea

Also, I googled the clue guy and he seems kinda boring from his description on the Your Turn To Die wiki

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Maybe like 60?

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Not from me!

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you're on my team, right? i can never keep track of these things

Yeah, sure! Only entirely upfront and helpful advice from mine to yours!

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Menalque Enterprises cannot be held liable for any subterfuge or deceit taking place in the name of winning the game hereby known and recognised as “Wavelength” up to and including the misrepresentation by any member(s) of Menalque Enterprises and their wrongfully and with malice of forethought influencing and/or impersonating players from the opposite team.

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Oh whoops, silly old me, birdbrained I swear!

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I thought they messed up by going 95 and not 96 to cover the right end of the spectrum

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If it’s actual 100 they’d only get 3 right?

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Look, irrespective of whether we go left or right, if the answer to this is not “100” I will be having

words

with your team’s psychic

(Also we’re definitely going right lol)

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sike, we’re going left! Or are we? Now you don’t know if your wifom worked or not. You’ve been out-wifom’d. Checkmate, liberals

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Plus while I don’t wanna make the game Not Fun, I’m pretty sure “right” is correct just strategically in that there’s basically no way that if it’s in the right it’s gonna be like 86-91 or something and as we’re in the lead if it is “right” then we reduce the amount they can open up a gap on us by, whereas if it’s like 0 then by going “right” we just maintain our current lead

Also, and I cannot stress this enough, the clue was

water

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Team Debt Star's guess of Right scores 0 points, unfortunately.

are u fuckin kidding me

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What, pray tell, WHAT is more wet than WATER that would justify giving a that as a clue for WET that only goes up to NINETY!?!?!!!?!!

*i would like to clarify for those who don’t know me that this is a Joke(tm), and I am not actually angry although any confusion you may be picking up is genuine

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My head went straight to “about 80” for this one. You need a bright light to work in a workshop and not cut off your fingers off but equally it’s not like, y’know, the sun

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I think we can google right it’s just the psychic who can’t?

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it also allowed me to play the other team like a piano

I’m quite sure that I have no idea what you mean

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mena is smort

Why must people insist on cursing me

What did I do to deserve this kanna D:

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Just kidding!!! It was actually left and northsidegal knew this, then used her superior intellect to manipulate me into telling you guys to guess right.

Mena was wrong.

i'm sorry team ✿

Oh no, it’s okay this is the ritual to undo the curse, we gucci

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it also allowed me to play the other team like a piano

!!!

Slander and yet also libel, enomis, don’t listen to a word she says

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Nah daylight is above 50 surely. Daylight is fucking bright, gotta have sunníes if you’re in that shit directly. I’d say like corridor lighting is about 50

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Bright enough to see everything fine but not really able to dazzle easily

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Oh you said indirect daylight? Like when it comes into a room through a high window? I’d say that’s around 50, maybe skewing slightly above (55?)

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I can compromise to 75 quite happily

Idk I guess I just don’t think my approach would be thinking about the brightest and darkest things ever and then trying to pinpoint what would represent on that scale the number I had. I think I’d just go “hmm, very dark, kinda dark, middling, kinda bright, very bright” and then choose something that seemed to match with that from my mind — in this case “workshop lamp” matches to “pretty bright” but not “super bright” and so it skews a bit higher for me

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I would definitely go left tbh, that seems like the safest bet. And would I lie to you about what I thought? Nuh-uh, that's the answer to that!

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ARE YOU KIDDING ME ???? HOW IS THE ANSWER 34 ?????

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how is a workshop lamp something that is more DIM than it is BRIGHT ????????

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hectic, I NEED answers

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No idea gang, I would say maybe left?

But equally standard yoga can be surprisingly intense so maybe it’s right

Sorry to not be more helpful

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B, second preference is C

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In terms of plain ness

shirt>trousers>jeans

So I think this is somewhere in the range of 60.

I made an error in terms of thinking about fancy in terms of clothes. So I put “smart casual’ as just on the fancy side of 50, and then worked down from there, without thinking about how dark jeans without that context could seem, well, plainer

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i just wanna let you guys know in advance to be prepared for how badly you're hurting menalque's feelings by calling his favorite clothes plain

Also, NSG gets me

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also just for awareness auro probably went with math for this, so probably we could find some chart somewhere that says that cheese is exactly 18.12 amount of solid or something

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I’d like to pre-emptively suggest we lock in right because NSG clearly misread the chart I found and foolishly suggested they go too far left

Why people don’t listen more to xtoxm I have no idea

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So it’s “right” right?

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Should be left right? Cheese is a solid food and is only liquid when heated up.

I am guessing this is to mean to be a general context and cheese is usually solid.

So LEFT?

left makes more sense to me. there does not seem to be any cheeses that are liquid at room temperature and the lowest melting point for any part of the cheese seems to be around 32 degrees for the dairy fat to begin melting.

But guys, the chart says cheese is like 85% liquid

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uh huh, i would definitely go with that

No mind games NSG, not this time

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uh huh, i would definitely go with that

No mind games NSG, not this time

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before I confirm left -- my only thought for right was that cheese is something that can exist in multiple states and so maybe it was meant to be something just to the left side of the centre? like you can have melted cheese and cheese sauces which would be more liquid-y

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Guess: left

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mod, can I just pre-emptively lock in 10- wait a second

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It’s a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy reference

I think it should be strongly towards “transient”? My instinct is like 90?

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Oh wait, the word is “temporary” not “transient”

Like 80 maybe?

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We could split the difference of the non-hitchhikers guesses so far and go 75?

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>if

Guess: 101

== allowed
____>

Guess: 101

____> else

Guess: 75

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is it really the clue you would give for something 75 and above though?

sure it is

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I think we’re by default in the 0-50 range by giving an F1 driver as a clue, maybe even in the 10-40’ range? As it, there are a few things I can think of faster than F1 (fighter jet, rocket, bullet etc) but it’s definitely meant to give the idea of fast

Seeing as we only need two points, I’m inclined to say maybe we split the difference and go for like 25? In case greater precision throws us off by a slim margin in which case we’re probably losing

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30-35 is probably fine though, I don’t really know F1

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Oh, wait, I misunderstood the rules, I thought the game just ended once we hit 20

Also I only just realised this isn’t my team’s turn, welp

I’ve had an entire bottle of win, I’m sorry, don’t @me

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Fingers crossed that xtoxm fucking

hates

Lance Stroll I guess

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Happy b day lilith!

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Yes!!!!!

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I thought you would be our psychic for sudden death, lilith?

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Rip

/in

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Also, can I steal everyone who's inned so far and put them on my team, lilith?

I'm good with this

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Yeah about 70 I’d say?

Jogging = more effort than walking or strolling or lounging, but less than running, sprinting

Kinda of steep is steeper than flat or mild incline, but less than steep

Semi-cold makes it slightly easier in reality imo, but it’s raining which is normally shitty to run in (personal opinion) so that makes it a bit harder

I guess the question is are all the things lightly more difficult to clue slightly above average, or is it meant to be a cumulative clue for like 80 or something as all these things add up to a lot of effort? I’m not sure, but splitting the difference at 70-75 seems good

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So maybe more like 65 then?

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I think it would be above 45 though right, isis? Like I think if our baseline is 50 then jogging is something active which would imply more towarda high effort and then the little things inconveniencing would also skew it that way I think

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Idk, I just think that because jogging is a form of physical exercise it skews it more towards right hand side than left

Like if sitting perfectly still is 0 then playing video games is like 10, walking is maybe 15, power walking is like 25?,

Huh actually as I pursue this chain of thought I see more what you mean

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Bump?

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Thank god, I have no idea either

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I think we go 1 tbh

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Or like, 3-4 to cover our base

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Isn’t it like 5 points wide meaning only like 2.5 each way?

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So if the original was literally 1 then it would only go up to 3 rounded?

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lilith would guessing 5 cover all the lowest possible options?

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Let’s guess 4 then?

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Wait, the scale is 0 to 100, let’s guess 3?

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Datisi, read what you just wrote

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4-point space

Hence, if it’s 0, that space would be (0,1,2,3)

So we guess 3 to account for the absolute bottom of the range, but it also covers (3,4,5,6)

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i thought when lilith said “4 space” she was correcting us in thinking that the block was “5 spaces” wide and saying each one was only 4 spaces wide

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Well in that case we should be guessing 4 right?

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I think this was “go as far left as you can”

I cannot think of anything I could clue as spicier than a ghost pepper without using google

Like maybe Carolina reaper but they’re like basically the same if I don’t have google to discern between the two

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Auro lives in India, I’d say it’s a safe bet that he knows his spices

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That was spectacular Isis, thank you

But still 4 to cover 0 right?

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Guess: 4

I know hectic is the representative but we all seem to agree with this and are stalling for no reason?

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Clearly the scale goes to -1 and -1 is the correct answer that we failed to go far enough left for

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You guys should totally go left

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME AURO

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THE SPICIEST PEPPER IN THE WORLD

WHAT IN YOUR MIND WAS AT THE ZERO END???!?!!!!

(P.s. this is jokey anger not real anger, just wanted to clarify that because I know tone doesn’t always come across great on le internet)

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so I guess it turns out the fundamental problem was that auro had TOO MUCH knowledge of spice and was like clearly delineating between "used to be the spiciest" and "currently the spiciest" whereas for me it's all just the same as like "extremely extremely spicy"

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I think this is, at its core, a question about how you view morality and redemption. I suppose also of identity.

If you truly believe deeply in that, then Vader is barely a villain because of the act at the end of his life which amounts to repentance.

There’s evidence for this in that he becomes a force ghost in the mythos — but this is where the question of identity comes in. Because it’s not truly *Vader* who returns as a force ghost, it’s Anakin. Fundamentally he is not the same person as he is when he’s Vader. Ani is the boy who fell in love with Padme in the sand dunes while acting as her bodyguard. He’s flawed, certainly — he’s still Anakin at the time when he massacres the sand people. Anakin is not a pure or wholly good person.

But by the time that he murders the younglings, I think he has become Darth Vader. He may still be using the name, but he’s de facto entered into his apprenticeship to Palpatine. In the duality of the character, evil has won, he’s become the villain who is Darth Vader and that interpretation is supported by almost all the actions we see from Vader during the original trilogy.

Vader/Anakin are two people contained within the same body. Anakin is the morally complex and conflicted one; Vader the one who has accepted evil and who can conduct acts unquestioningly. Vader is truly villainous, and for that reason we should go right.

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I would have said like 40 or so

Maybe even further left? Like 35-40 seems right to me

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I think anything internet based is fundamentally modern and think that means that we’re fundamentally in the left half of the scale

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But like, I will defer to you guys if you think kanna was thinking “clue only in the context of the internet”

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Look u can’t argue with that kind of logic

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Just like, if kanna wanted to clue the old fashioned half why does she use a tech example? Why not like candlelight or scything or horse drawn cart or something?

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Kanna is either cheering for me rn or kawaii facing the words STFU mena

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I don’t remember if hectic is actually on our team, and tbf it’s not helpful anyway bc I still wouldn’t know if this is a troll or serious

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I’ll raise you 37

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listen hectic, I'm a reasonable man, but you're just asking too much

I can't go a mite lower than 36

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35 and done, Hectic my good man! I’ll shake your hand and have my people draw up a contract this afternoon!

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no you guys it's 35 didn't you see that me and hectic agreed? auro just pulled us out of 4 point territory by sticking it at 37

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Lmao I’m sorry okay

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It’s so poetic that datisi has to submit the final answer on my clue and she’ll have to decide if she knows me better than everyone else or if she should go with the consensus

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I would like to say in my defence that my takes were very logical... just wrong

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Listen I’ll meet you at 36.8 but not a hair lower

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I say we go 4 again

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Fwiw on a serious level I think this is more likely to be on an individual level, so how often the average person gets a new phone

Idk how often that /is/ mind, but I’d say like 20-30 sounds good, maybe more towards 30?

The thing that does kinda throw me off is it being common-unique rather than common-rare, so I can see the argument that given that the opposite pole is unique (stronger than rare) that pushes this down towards 20

How often do you guys get new phones? I would say I get one like every 2-3 years on average

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Maybe 25, yeah? But I’d trust yourself on 20 if that’s where you’re leaning, I don’t have like ~strong~ feels on this one and even when I have had those that hasn’t made them any more accurate

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I also just sort of feel like if it’s not on a personal level then there are prob easier clues to give for how common that would make this? Like hydrogen atoms or something

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Honestly it’s an awkward scale because something being unique is binary making the whole 50-100 end of the scale very weird to me

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‘‘Twas a tricky scale dats, well done on the clue and well done kanna sticking to your guns!

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Big respect for just doing it, I would have voted right too

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I think blue milk is the best kind of milk, it’s just like blue cheese

Week old milk is like 75 because it hasn’t had enough time for the cultures to really grow

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now the lesson here kids is (1) if I pick a movie then WATCH THE MOVIE BEFORE U GUESS 15 MINS BEFORE DEADLINE and (2) let's just always go with datisi's gut instinct in future?

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also c'mon people read the synopsis a kid dies halfway through and they go to the funeral it was never gonna be more than 50

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it's an excellent film tbf, would highly recommend, I've seen it like 4-6 times I think and it's never left my top 10 films since I first saw it ~6-7 years ago

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i read the synopsis!! i just don't go against the will of the people!!

we need a daddytisi dictatorship

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Such an obvious 100, only degenerate scum participate in team building activities

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DADDYTISI HAS SPOKEN

Lock in the right

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Wait I have the power?

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right

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Tbh guys I’m just waiting for datisi to show up and opine and to then insta lock it in again

No pressure, dats!

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fuck, sorry everyone, I'm happy with 82 tho!

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EgroegYeliab?

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sorry, the teams are uneven!

lilith, given how uneven the scores are right now, can we not just have GeorgeBailey?

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only scum buddies would vouch for scums :3

That's not actually true.

I visited London about a year ago and Hectic took me to this very fancy schmancy bar. We drank an inexplicably large amount of booze and completely wrecked that place when they refused to serve us more after being just 45 drinks in.

When the cops visited us I vouched for my boy that we had never been to that bar despite overwhelming video evidence because that's just the sort of thing you do for your friends.

wait....... IRL? Seriously?

it's true, I was the barman serving them

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Above!

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For real tho we should go right I think

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I'm feeling good about 100 again guys

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oh, also, if we don't get 4 here I think we lose by default

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I think maybe we all have a very different definition of “perfect”

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okay pooky, explain to me how a perfect sunset is a 68