Codenames (Game 65 in progress)

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I vote we play it risky and take a chance

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I like STATE and DWARF more or less equally, I’m very unsure what the third would be and propose we skip it unless someone thinks very strongly they have the third and can give a compelling argument for why

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Tbh COOK honestly feels like it’s stretching here to be connected

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I would support passing

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honestly, I'm kind of rooting for the others to win this now with the big 6 in-a-row play

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Bump?

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I thought ALPS and TIME although I’m p fucked up rn and I’m not sure what scalar is

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Like I said, scalar isn’t something I like, get

So let’s do it!

part

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/in as spymaster specifically when lilith comes up

other than that /in to guess

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EYE is for sure 100%

I would lean BED for the second word but I see the merits of SPACE. I think we might just wanna skip tho, after we guess EYE

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I feel quite strongly that skipping is the correct choice

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space

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Space is blue, turn passes back to Blue Team

uh, you saw that we already got EYE, right?

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GRACE seems obvious

the second idk? you SAVE oil maybe? the CHICK in horror movies needs to be saved? it would be good for the environment to save PLASTIC?

I was thinking for private it could be WALL? as in, something that separates an area and turns it from a public space to a private one, but idk if that's better than BED or not

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I wonder if it's significant that it's SAVE and not SAVING, given that SAVING would fit perfectly with GRACE

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like I think SAVING would go better with CHICK or JACK or something, whereas SAVE maybe implies that it's an imperative, so OIL or PLASTIC

I think we should prob skip tho

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*after guessing grace, obviously

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Yea, but we’ve only had 6 words clued

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Still think we should pass

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The time for passing is over if we want to have any chance of winning.

PLASTIC

had a reasonable amount of support.

That's blue

*deep sigh*

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you'd put one of these(v) in a soup? shame on you!

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here we go...

CHICK

CHICK is Blue

You monsters

GG wp

/confirm to play against lili if she still can, if not I’ll sit this one out

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Oh wow, these are great teams!

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Is

blue

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Chemistry 3

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Date is red

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Is blue

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Are both blue

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Stained 3

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Also red

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The blue team wins with a perfect score!

However, I’m curious to see if my team would have got my final clue, if they’re up for the challenge:

sonata 2

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Congrats to lili, and thank you to CM for modding!

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/in

I was trying to go for a connection between moonlight and shadows with my final clue, rip

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A bit

Eulogy 4 was just too stronk

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How do you get more than 4 for romance?

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Mercury and shadow seem very reachy for me there and the problem was that I couldn’t come up with any 4s where the remaining 4 would fit together

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Plot jumps out at me

Plane too but less so

Then maybe match or fair?

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Fair idk, like stats makes me think of probability and there’s a “fair” chance of something happening

Plane is because there was that famous study on survivorship bias by that US statistician in WW2 that determined that they needed to put more armour on the bodies of planes not the wings, because the fact that the ones with holes in the wings were the ones making it back meant that was what they could survive, not that they needed more wing armour. I think it basically launched applied statistics as a discipline?

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And I guess that just seems like the sort of random knowledge that jake would be aware of (at least to me!)

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Can you explain match?

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Is there such a thing as a “fair” distribution in statistics? Like as a formal technological term, it’s been a long time since I studied stats

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I think there’s a good case for holding off on the third one if y’all don’t think that plane is that obvious

I’d also ideally like to hear from NM before we submit

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fair

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Sure, I’m not as confident on it as everyone else but let’s do it

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I’ll submit

bomb->plane

but I’m not 100% on “force”, and think we should consider theatre

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Or passing and deciding later

If bomb and plane are correct we have a healthy lead and there’s no reason to give the other team a chance to get back in the game rather than leaving the pressure on coug to give a big clue where they might go wrong trying to catch up

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I think third statistics was probably plane tbh

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It’s a typical location for terrorist attacks — Bataclan, the Batman movie shootings in the USA etc

Force is also likely as in “use of force” but if we don’t have to guess yet then I’d rather wait and if we have to take a punt later we always can

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Just waiting for gypyx and tris to weigh in then

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pass

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Diver and maybe pants? But I have no idea either

We could go force from last time tho, now that theatre is resolved

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gg wp

I think I’m out for a couple

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/in for next

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Next game:
The Bulge v Sirius with: Menalque, Datisi, lilith2013, Charles510, Not_Mafia, StrangerCoug, Nancy Drew 39
Still taking sign ups

can i be on the team with mena and lilith, if they're fine with it?

yes please!

very onboard with this!

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Battery and game my two most confident tbh

Sorry, didn’t realise we’d started our turn

My mind went to compound and lab after the first two, but I wasn’t really thinking status as in social status in which case agree that maybe limousine/king could fit better?

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I’m definitely more confident in game > king, fwiw

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I’d lean pass tbh, but if the other 3 of you are happy with king then let’s go for it!

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What lili says rallies with my memory. I think that robot -> lab are the safest, and then compound and bug as likely right but not to the same degree

We’re well ahead tho, so I’m inclined to say best play may be to get the two safe ones and then leave the pressure on the reds to try and catch up by forcing bigger clues, and we leave them a board where they have more potential to hit one of ours or just go wrong on a bystander

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“Biotics” i, I’m like 80% sure, a neologism made up of the words “biology” and “robotics” rather than being connected to “antibiotics” or “probiotics”

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Guess: lab

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my thoughts without looking at what you guys said were: definitely LIMOUSINE, probably THEATRE, and the third that came to me was ROSE but it could also be OLIVE

I'd like to go LIMOUSINE and THEATRE, and then BUG from biotics

then we consider if we try to win this round or if we leave the pressure on them and get an easy 1 clue win next turn

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we're going second so we only have 8 words whereas they have 9, yes?

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I think LIMOUSINE has been clued twice now, under status and under sophisticated, which means that I think all our status words are done, leaving only 3 for sophisticated and 2 from biotics -- I don't see anything that makes sense as overlapping between sophisticated and biotics

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I don't think we should overthink this, I think it's hard for sophisticated to not be cluing both of LIMOUSINE and THEATRE

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I'm submitting limousine and we can debate theatre more later, but I think we all had the thought that it matches + I really don't see how it can be /not/ limousine with a clue like that

guess: limousine

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I think we should go theatre and not overthink it

like we all immediately thought "okay, limousine, theatre + 1" on sophisticated

I think that means it's v likely right

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The most recent clue is the most relevant, we were clearly confused on biotics so maybe theatre connects in some way we’re not seeing because we don’t have enough collective knowledge to make the connection? But we were confident on bug, so I think that’s likely it, and I think Bulge figured we’d guess that so decided to give us a 3 that would let us close out the game

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Also theatre could be “operating theatre” which is a stretch, but I don’t think it’s any more of a stretch than duck is for sophisticated

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I also really think we should consider olive, which is a fairly sophisticated nibble food and is used in things like martinis which definitely fit the bill for sophisticated

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guess: bug

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lol biotics

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/in on lili's team

sorry for missing the end here team but I would've hard pushed theatre so uh, wouldn't have helped

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bulge is right that I mixed up bionics and biotics but I did recognise biotics, I just only realised now where from: it's in Mass Effect lol

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when does it ever?

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Hmmm, okay

Gonna put my thoughts in a spoiler to try not to influence what y’all think:

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first thought is WAKE seems likely, as a duck leaves a wake behind it when swimming

Close behind is BALL followed by BAT and BOLT as things you would probably want to duck under

FRANCE also seems viable as last game we talked about how eating duck is sophisticated and I think it’s something they cook in France

Last thoughts are that maybe it could be PHOENIX or EAGLE due to the bird connection

I’d encourage people to only comment after forming their own impressions of the grid

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Kinda think we shoulda waited for dats to weigh in

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Fingers crossed

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I will again spoiler my thoughts here:

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Obviously SUPERHERO is one. CLOAK seems likely as Thor wears a cloak, I believe. Third choice I'm torn between JUPITER (as another God figure?) and BOLT (does Thor make lightning bolts? I don't know but maybe someone else does.

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sorry for absence, this was the busiest week of the year for me so far

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should we try to think more about what was in duck or Thor? for overlap/outside of the cook clue

cook might only be cluing like, 1 thing and the unlimited is to let us guess the other clues

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yolo

Jupiter

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okay so:

THOR (3) - Jupiter, Bolt, Superhero
COOK (unlimited) - Ham, Stock (probably not gonna be more than 2 as an unlimited one?)
leaving us with DUCK (5) - Eagle, Bat, X, X, X (probably stock was also for duck?)

I really think we should go WAKE here tbh. Ducks leave a wake when they swim, it just connects v strongly for me. I also think that as we discussed ducks and cooking last (?) game, there's a decent chance it might be FRANCE in reference to that?

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like I might be going off-track here but the only ones left that fit with the duck clues (assuming that's where we need to look for the final ones) are Wake and France

maybe France is safer because I can also see a potential connection to Cook there, given how famous French cuisine is

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I really think it’s a duck word and would say WAKE > HOTEL

i really doubt it’s organ and that lili found something with 3 cook words that were fairly obvious that she didn’t choose to clue before?

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P much, yeh

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how many clues left?

/in again on lili's team

also, sorry gang, I was just super lost on how anything else could connect there other than WAKE, I definitely didn't foresee the connection with any of Nancy's clues

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I just looked and have tried not to read other posts but my thoughts are:

BELL -> STRING -> TUBE / LIFE

logic:

Bell — a telephone can sound like a ringing bell?
String — like wire
Tube — is there an expression like “heard it on the tubes”? Or am I nicking that from a sci-fi show or something? Unsure on this
Life — phone a friend is a lifeline in who wants to be a millionaire and idk what else phone could clue

Okay gonna look at what y’all said now

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I think robot is a little loose for my taste?

Apple is a good point, but also seems like the sort of thing Farren could easily overlook the connection with (as I did and I think lili did initially too?) so while I think it’s got good chances I’d prefer not to lead with it

I like game over tube/string I think

I think we probably shouldn’t guess life if nobody else thought of that but if we hit neutral we could revisit it maybe

I think I like BELL -> GAME -> APPLE -> ROBOT/TUBE having read

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Uh

Farren is our spymaster, NM

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apple

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robot

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pass

Good effort team!

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chocolate

My thoughts without reading spoilers were also that HIMALAYAS is v likely due to mountains etc, Switzerland doesn’t even have a border with Czech Republic so I think it’s unlikely to be that

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I think it’s a bigger leap to go Swiss = nationality, Czech = nationality than Swiss = mountains, Himalayas = mountains but I’ll defer to majority opinion

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Is Farren likely to know enough about Euro geography to be thinking about geographic proximity? I mean he may do but unless he’s a geog nerd like me I wouldn’t expect him to necessarily

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As in: I would expect Americans to maybe know where a couple of major countries are in the same way I’d expect brits to know Cali west, NY east, but I wouldn’t expect the average Brit to have any idea where Idaho is

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Hmm

Does that blue have shades of a geography nerd in it I wonder

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Damn guys I really wanna drop a HIMALAYAS while I’m on this hot streak but I guess I’ll wait for some feedback

(NB: 1 correct guess is still a hot streak)

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Marashu beat me to it, I felt the exact same before checking the spoiler

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/in on team lilith

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Should we spoiler our guesses for each other or nah? I think there are two obvious ones and one that I’m not 100% on

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yeah, I'm not fussed about being a player up or down, my theory would be that it probably does make it harder the more people you have lol

okay pooky, I'm thinking

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iron, copper, marble, and maybe Mexico or compound -- Mexico bc it's close to Arizona and hank was obsessed with minerals in breaking bad, and compound as mineral compounds seem like they'd be a thing?

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iron
copper

I’d probably say marble then compound? Mexico probably is reachy, yea

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cool

marble
compound

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okay pooky, look at the board, now look back to me, and tell me if you see the one that suddenly seems glaringly obvious

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I agree on horse foot, and yeah, ground is the one I felt was obvious after, so I’d say that as our extra

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horse

foot

ground

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I think that’s it yeah

Looking at it definitely makes me think compound easy right, and date for sure

Contract probably makes the most sense of what’s left? But idk if we leave it and hope they don’t hit 3 on their turn, seeing as even if we go for 3 now I’m still not sure what our final word would be

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okee

date

compound

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I guess lets see if those are right before we decide on whether to pass?

in case the third throuple one suddenly leaps out at us

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why were you thinking contract?

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nice!

my only thing with contract is that while none of the others stand out to me more, I also don't see a clear connection between contract and throuple other than I guess you'd need an agreement if you were

in

a throuple and an agreement is p close to a contract?

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okay

skip

I'd rather not risk it and if lili gives us a 1 clue next time I think we can safely assume that it's contract, yeah, if she gives us a 2 that isn't clearly contract-related then I guess that's a sign we're not on target

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triangle (holy trinity, bermuda triangle)

this is so clever

+1

/in as operative

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Spoiler: thoughts

my thoughts before looking at you guys were LASER --> TEMPLE --> PART/BOOM

I think boom is the weakest here but part is so general that it makes me iffy about it so maybe I'm back to boom for the third?

I'd def wanna go laser first and I think temple is strong here -- why not go something like TANK as the clue if it's part/boom/laser?

do we go for 3 here or 2 and then pass?

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I could be assigning myself too much credit here, but I think I started the spoilering thoughts thing? I can't be arsed to go back and check but the idea was to avoid being influenced by the bias of already seeing what your team had thought and to get everyone's perspective "fresh" so to speak -- which is why the last person to arrive/comment doesn't need to

not that anyone needs to ofc, but I think it does help? at least for me it does lol

and sure I see your point, okay, I'm happy to defer to you guys but lets wait until N_M gets here too -- I don't feel super strongly about my own guesses here

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so let's go boom first, as everyone had that included? then we can work through the other options

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Fuck it, furtive seemed okay with it and we have 3/4

boom

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Oh cool, I'll do that next time.

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Fine with doing that

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O shit i forgot about this

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Sorry I totally missed the prod!

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gg lmao