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/in

I too have a hat

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What if Ariel meant avatar the last airbender though. Bet you guys didn't think of that.

My first instinct would be to guess lower (better).

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I hope you meant -9450 there, popsofctown. I don't think a 1v1 right now is very healthy for the gamestate

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I have no knowledge of annadog so if you feel you have a good metaread on her than

maybe

we go higher. I think lower is safer because of the overall reputation of being a box office hit and the relatively high (>6.5) ratings online.

pops' anecdote made me laugh. I've never been able to nap inside a movie theatre - it's just too loud - unless it's after hours and I've managed to sneak in for a free place to stay.

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Perfectly balanced

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All the while I was thinking Annadog must be Ariel's main, and this is some convoluted joke.

I assumed this too lol

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My first instinct would be to say around 60 maybe. An Olympic swimming pool is 2m in depth. Closer to the shallow side than the abyssal reef side.

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On the other hand, an Olympic Swimming pool is 3m deep, and a teaspoon is 1mm deep. An Olympic Swimming Pool is 3000x deeper than a teaspoon. We lock in 100.

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I've changed my mind after hearing pops' case actually. There's a lot of easy things that come to mind that are more shallow. The range of numbers you'd consider the sea is like 0 to 10, a lake maybe 10 to 20, and rivers 20 to 30. So an Olympic swimming pool would be 30 to 40.

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I'd say a swimming pool would be about midway. An Olympic swimming pool has a larger depth than an average swimming pool so I think she's trying to make us go 55 to 65 (deeper side).

But you two overrule me if you're convinced it's on the other end.

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It really depends if she considered stuff like bowls/pans/saucers.

If she was thinking entirely in terms of obvious things you associate with "deepness", like puddles/ponds/pools/rivers/lakes/seas then I'd say a lake is 70ish.

If she considered household stuff like the aforementioned and stuff like sinks/bathtubs, then I think lake would be more at 80ish.

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My guess would've been 60 so you should definitely guess deeper

although is this a bad time to mention Kanna is a lifeguard and might consider an olympic swimming pool to be pretty shallow

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Hectic have mercy on my porcelain soul

Is okay, I blame the Olympics for not making their pools deeper.

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Might as well lock it in, don't think we're getting anything better than this, guys

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I think so; that looks like the confidence of someone who can lift. Maybe around 30?

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But also, what if she misspoke and meant OWL. In that case, it'd probably be a lot cleaner, maybe in the high 70s.

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Might as well lock it in, don't think we're getting anything better than this, guys

Nice undercover work, agent hecgear

Don't blow my cover froje21#E"!!

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100 - Llamas
90s - Disinfectant
80s - Soap
70s - Towels??/toothbrushes
60s - Sponge/Cutlery
50s - Rags, mittens
40s - Table/chairs/surfaces?
30s - Keyboard/doorbell
20s - Carpet
10s - Recycling Bin
0s - Olympic Swimming Pools

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How dare you

I saw that edit btw, Jumble. Sneakily removing "cutlery" from 60s, eh?

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Hectic why didn't you give me this before I got flulike symptoms today

Sorry. I could send you a llama by post if you'd like.

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I'm hammering right when I wake up if I see no objections.

Btw, you alright, pops?

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Guess: Right

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I'm ok. I have almost no symptoms now

Awesome!

I need a llama though because when I was lying in bed fatigued i asked my alexa to play random NPR stuff and they told about a farm that will let you pay for a cute farm animal to cameo in go-to-meeting conferences calls and now i need a llama to audiobomb one of my calls

No need to contact that farm, I'm sending you one over now. It's terrified of cats though which might pose a problem.

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Yay a Pokemon clue, has to be either 45 or 50. Ball = Pretty round, Ultra = higher end

might be overthinking this but if it was 50 maybe she'd put master ball as the clue, maybe it's 40-45.

...I can't tell if this is ingenious or makes no sense.

My initial thought was to take it more literally. Ultra balls are completely round except for the button in the middle, so I was thinking ~10.

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I don't think that's how people have been playing the game though? As far as I can tell, pops would put the Sun at 0, and a floor tile/still water (can't think of anything flatter right now) as 100.

Left is rounder. Right is flatter.

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Oh, are you saying something that's round but not flat would be closer to 0, like a mace head. But something that's BOTH round and flat should be close to 50?

ALSO, what if pops was talking about one of these fancy ultra balls:

Spoiler:

Maybe we should go for 90 then.

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Nah I'm saying that don't look at the scale as a whole. Look at it as two parts, 0-50 and 51-100 of two different things.

Do you have reason to believe pops would view it like this though? Her earlier posts indicate she's been viewing it as a 1-100 scale and not splitting it into 50s and differentiating each half like that.

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Actually, if you look really closely at them, the stripes are very slightly indented, which make the ball less perfectly round than I thought. However, that doesn't make them "flatter" either. I think by having the button/indent, it retains its roundness while not being perfectly flat.

Maybe we go for 15-20? 15.

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Well, not all of them have the indents on Google images, and there's no guarantee pops considered them. Let's just play it "safe".

Guess: 10

Lynch me next if this flips town.

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shiki! You're still freezing yourself and doing neck exercises in that snow, huh.

I'm not entirely sure whether that was the clue-giver's interpretation of it, but Left seems better even if we take it by the other interpretation.

VOTE: Left
Quickhammer!!!1

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No, but I just asked someone I know who has. Apparently, he's pretty funny and says/does outrageous things, but isn't self-aware. She said she'd put him as 10 on the scale.

Knightmare, have you watched Brooklyn 99?

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shiki for best solve of the year. Isis for best sheep of the year.

Thanks for modding, Lilith; this game is a lot of fun.

/in again on

Team Debt Star

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Running two games simultaneously is a good idea if we have the same amount of people wanting to play again.

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You're amazing, Lilith

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I think 4v5 would work better than trying to rotate between 3 teams.

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Oh wow, we got Doro on our team? This should be easy then.

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Composition VI by Wassily Kandinsky:

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You're a genius, shiki. Shall we wrap this one up and take our 4 points?

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True, without it, we'd have a crisis.

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I was kidding about 73 lol. That's a very interesting take, Isis. This is a difficult one actually; I might have to read some shiki games to see how she would interpret it.

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We can interpret "dark" in a figurative sense, but "colourful" isn't used often as antonym of that interpretation. But if we follow Isis' line of thinking and go by the author's comments, I would say 40 to 50. If we judge it in a literal sense of colours, I would say 30.

Shall we go 35?

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Or do you feel really strongly about 60 to 80, Isis?

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enomis and Kanna seem to agree on ~40. If it's much higher, Isis, we can all change our avatars to Puzzle & Dragons characters for a minute of respect.

Guess: 40

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I just assumed you were putting some complicated mindgames to use. Maybe this is all WIFOM and you already knew that.

I do want to see what that post contained before you edited it out now though lol

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What if they're smoothening their fur on them
Because of how smooth rugs are

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The round would be over if it was 56-61 for the 4 point range. I don't think you ever say rug for below 50. So as long as we don't think it's 50 to 55, it's an easy right.

@lilith: If we submit 3 Lefts, would you accept that as a Right?

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the same would apply if the intended range were 61-66 in terms of the round being over, so i think you've narrowed the range too far. however, i agree that it's a pretty easy right.

Good point. It's probably around 70 and we're fineee. Happy for you to submit Right.

Lilith, I think I enjoyed the discussion phases for more of the straightforward cards than the wacky cards (colourful/dark was fun though). That might just be the topics and how they turned out however.

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He acted in a show called "Smallville" apparently, so it shouldn't be any higher than 30.

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The important thing to consider here is whether Ian is standing, sitting, or even lying down while measured.

While standing, he is 1.77m or 5ft 9.7in tall. 58.
While sitting, he is 3ft tall. 29.
While lying down, he is 0.5ft tall. 10.

I think playing it safe and going for the middle is best, so 29.

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On average, it'll be lower for the whole world though.

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Never heard of him, I haven't watched the shows he's from either.

There's probably a running gag in his shows where he's made fun out of for being short despite being a perfectly normal height. Since you did the work for Brooklyn 99, shiki, I'll do it this time and binge all of Lost real quick to check. I'll report back soon.

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While standing, he is 1.77m or 5ft 9.7in tall. 58.
While sitting, he is 3ft tall. 29.
While lying down, he is 0.5ft tall. 10.

not sure how .5 ft when applied to a human's height could correlate to 10.

You think it'd be more 5?

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I'm back from my Lost binge. I can confirm there is no running gag about Ian's height in any of the episodes.

I love the research about acting roles and perception of good/bad characters, but don't you guys think enomis would've also searched up Ian's height and average human male heights? Probably.

I like 58.

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I think we should go with 100

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I think unicorns are a strong, sturdy, safe, solid, sound, secure, sure 100. Therefore, we should be going Right.

Isis' interpretation was a little flawed however. Unicorns are actually a cross between a Komodo Dragon (also has 4 legs), a Werewolf (also has fur), and a Cyclops (also has at least 1 eye). As all of these creatures are real, this should be fine.

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VOTE: Right

I think it's quite an interesting clue tbf. There's obvious mythical creatures you can put for 0, like Llamas, but what if you get 45 to 55? Platypus isn't a bad shout from shiki. Maybe you just go for real animals that are in popular TV shows. So: Great Dane, Pink Panther, Pink Pig, Purple Dog (are these allowed?).

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For 45 I would use a Pokemon that is based on a real animal like keldeo

This is becoming the Isis equivalent of a rickroll

Also, good point. I was completely tunnel-visioned on using animals/creatures. It'd be hilarious if Xtoxm submitted something like the moon landing and then we'd have to debate whether he was a conspiracy theorist or if he's doing a meta thing...etc

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Maybe Kanna is talking about the ratio of the blade to the hilt on a katana. A Nice 80 then.

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...I love the conspiracy theory but I'd be pretty surprised if she didn't mean the sword. Searching "Katana" doesn't yield any results related to the rendering software on the 1st page for me, so she'd be putting a lot of faith in us to take the far more obscure interpretation.

HOWEVER, I just noticed a distinction between this clue and all the others. We've been provided

speechmarks

around the clue this time. I assumed those were provided by Lilith, but since this isn't the case for any of the other clues, it seems that Kanna included them intentionally.

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Wait, the fact she's given the speechmarks probably indicates she's referring to the name of something specific, and suddenly that rendering software looks a lot more plausible, shiki!1

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From my Kanna-trivia-knowledge and based on her field: she's most likely to be talking about the visual effects software from the wikipedia page.

The question is how we get a measurement of smooth/rough from it. Maybe she wants us to render an Olympic Swimming Pool inside the program and see how smooth it turns out. Good thinking, Kanna.

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Woah. Good work, enomis. I think we actually go 96 then.

My only concern about guessing 95+ however, is wouldn't Kanna just google "smoothest surfaces" and submit something like an atom mirror? Maybe she felt it was cheaty or wanted to go for style.

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I was assuming the whole of the 4 point range would always be on the scale, shiki... but maybe not. I think we should go for 94 then.

One of us could buy it and test it out to see how smooth it is?

Spoiler:

Any volunteers? It's not too pricey.

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Maybe it's actually way to the left because all projects start out rough on Katana, before in some cases becoming real things irl when it comes to modelling.

There's a lot of focus on that and templates here:
https://www.foundry.com/products/katana/features

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That said, VOTE: 96

Because I don't want to look like a fool if we're right and I manage to derail us.

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Oh, sorry. I meant to link this:

https://www.katanaremastered.org/projec ... view=Kanna

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We will blame Hectic if we were originally right and he manage to derail us.

Just joking.

AaAAaa

I should never have mentioned the speechmarks.

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I just assumed it was completely random. You guys are going way too high right now though.

You need to consider all types of toilets.

Spoiler:

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Yeah, around 40 looks pretty good here.

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I've always imagined Not Known's voice to be booming and powerful. I reckon he was probably going for ~80, and Right is a safe bet here.

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Isis, you're in denial; one of those is NOT a real animal. I mean, I've never met a Dino in real life before. I'm pretty sure they're a conspiracy.

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!!!!!!!!!1

I take everything back, Dinos are real.

Spoiler:

Mene has a point about those "Lions" though. I dunno about them.

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Remember to use the predetermined codes we agreed on, Isis. Should be an easy 4-pointer.

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Of course it's a Your Turn to Die clue lol.

Calling in Kanna.

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Just in time for my first Psychic turn! No, but I do think that's reasonable to get rid of the maths-meta.

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Nothing more dry than water though. There's a reason when you have a dry mouth, the first thing you think of is water.

I like shiki's idea btw. Sounds like it could be fun and would certainly get rid of the maths meta if it limits the range of clues you can give. It'd increase the difficulty but considering all these 4-pointers we've been getting, I think we need one.

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I personally know Tatsuya and he doesn't believe in the concept of water. Fools.

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hectic, I NEED answers

Uhhhh, so I was thinking in terms of volume of light rather than concentration of light when I gave the clue. So I considered a lit room as 50, and lamps below that. I know... I see the problem here. I should've given it a little more thought. Maybe just a little.

I want to be hipster and guess the "grim reality" side of forty

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Mm, these do look pretty fancy.



Okay, I'll lock in 20 if there's no further objections.

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Guess: 80

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I think there's more obvious things for "temporary" if they wanted to go for 80+. Life is temporary on a case by case basis, but less so if you look at it as a concept.

I'm happy with 75, since it might also be a reference to life expectancy as someone mentioned before.

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Happy birthday, lilith! I have some important questions for you:

Should I keep spelling your name without capitalisation or do you regret that decision?
Where is your avatar from?

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Maybe Debt Star was a bad idea...

/in for Team

Wealthy Star

We will overwhelm them with our affluence.

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

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Ma bad...

The first few assessments were correct. I think for less than 50 I would've given stuff like climbing a ladder, lifting a chair, walking, standing, clicking a mouse...etc.

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I think they said criticism as the base subject to apply some gentle modifiers too, and not to show it should be skewed slightly right because it's "criticism". I'd say Left.

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Guess: Left

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You guys some kind of amateurs that can't handle spice? I'd go an easy 80.

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I could see it being 9-15, but only if Auro isn't familiar with his spices and couldn't think of anything to fit in there. I say we go for 4.

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Oh, whoops. I thought another representative took over since I was it last round, but we haven't completed the cycle yet. Apologies.

Guess: 4

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Darth Vader seems like a good lad - hard working and has a great work ethic. 30 would be my guess.

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Isn't Kanna obsessed with Club Penguin to this day? She gives me those vibes. 10 was my initial thought.

If my vibe read is incorrect: I'd like to think Kanna regarded Club Penguin to be fairly modern, given it's on the internet and all. If she meant in the context of the internet, we are become dead.

This feels like a clue where we take it one way or another and don't compromise down the middle. We go for 25 or 70

*taps head*

I want to go for 25.

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I am lol

The last 3 lines are serious.

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/r/bannedfromclubpenguin will live on forever.

We could haggle I suppose. How about 30? Final offer.

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Hm, I guess I could cut you a deal. I don't normally offer these prices, but I could do 33.

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You drive a hard bargain, Mene. My manager would fire me on the spot if he heard of this... but I'll give it to you for 34. Basically free at this point.

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I'll sell it to you for 110, Hectic.

You're out of your mind. You've disrespected me, this establishment, and most of all yourself. I'd like you to leave now and think about what you've just done.

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Deal, an absolute steal but 35 it is. Pleasure doing business with you!

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36 surely

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Nice, Pooky will carry this

That's why he's got our backs, because it'll all be on his back

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Depends if it's a best before or expiry date tbh

My scalding take is that we go right

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I volunteer as tribute to volunteer Datisi and Pooky as tribute to watch this.

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...how'd the marathon go?

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Hmm, 13 minutes, eh? I could probably binge a few seasons in that time if I speedrun them. brb

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Great news, Datisi. After some extensive research, I have found that it's actually a movie, and a comedic one at that.

I managed to haggle with someone in the industry for some insider-info about the film:

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Yeah, I could see the film having some heartfelt/touching moments between the bros which might add to the dramatic factor.

Still, it's primarily a comedy, is it not? I was thinking right of 50 for sure.

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I was thinking 60

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Go with the heart of the cards, Datisi. Menalque has faith in your PR dreams so he probably has faith in your comedy/dramatic judgement skills

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how about 57?

Surely 56

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no,

you're

the best

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Lock in the right

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Lock in the left

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Lock in the left

wrong team hectic!

All part of the masterplan, Pooky

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Oh no, Noraa is dangerous, we need to play around her. I can chainsaw her, and

@Datisi

and

@Pooky

, you two focus on deathtunneling her?

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@mod: I've had enough of this. I'm sick of being incorrectly scumread game after game. Reveal me as IC.

Thanks for backing me up, Pooky <3

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That was a fun time. I'm glad you didn't mention the disappearance of the hour hand from Big Ben, or the mysterious vanishing of half of the water from the river Thames. Funny coincidence that these strange things happened right when you visited...

Cops were kinda sus given how convenient the timing was and all, but I told them Pooky had their backs and that pretty much settled things. They handed over their backs on the spot and crawled out of the room.

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Anyone have a 7 year old on hand that they can ask to draw a horizontal line?