Identity

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Omg its like all the best people

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sorry i glazed over the "erratparabola" part of the name.
i thought this said "N"
crazy hallucination, i know.

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I never actually changed my major, but i strongly considered it.
I had already applied to some of my colleges as computer science.

My frustration came from the lack of support from my parents. They told me that a lot of people have been coding for years and years, and that I would not be able to compete. After weeks of this constant opposition, I finally gave up and said fine, I'm going as some other major. So i intended to apply to the colleges with later deadlines as something maybe science or math related, I had no idea.

When I told my CS teacher that I would probably be asking another teacher for a rec letter instead of her for this reason (as I had told her before that I might need a rec letter), she asked me why I was changing majors. The discussion we had honestly changed my life and confidence and outlook on what I was willing to do to get where I wanted to be. I'm eternally grateful to her for that.

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you can put the tilde next to my name kittymo friend.

EDIT: i wanted to let you know that you are very cool so i edited my post and added "friend" to it.
the original post was just "you can put the tilde next to my name kittymo"

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Errantparabola, what celebrity did you get to meet?

kevin sorbo

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firstly rip Z you were a great letter even if you viewed the world sideways

lol

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not that anyone asked, but i thought i'd share. my identity from the last round was from when i met kevin sorbo at a TGIFridays and then later called his residence as part of working for a state legislator campaign

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one of the people in my music club does calligraphy. we had a gift exchange last winter. she was my secret santa, and I had mentioned to her that I thought calligraphy was cool, and so she got me a cheap brush set. it was great. just english.

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Step 1. Do debate
Step 2. Go to Dallas for 2015 nationals
Step 3. Have several broken elevators
Step 4. Let's do this

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My debate room was on the 29th floor

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you did really well realeo, nice job.
for the record, the first time you asked the stair question, I typed out this:

the setting is the year 2015.
the place is Dallas, Texas.
the building is... some large hotel that i do not remember the name of.
I am there for the NSDA (national speech and debate) national tournament.

I am very proud to get there-- it was not easy. I am in 11th grade, and it was my first year of my two years of debate. I had never debated in varsity before, and to qualify, I had to go 5-1 against some really strong varsity LD debaters in my district. The top two debaters from my district qualified for nationals, and I was second (the person who got first went 6-0 and eventually took 6th place in the nation).

This is the mentality that I have at nationals. I am one of the least experienced and qualified debaters here, but I'm prepared, and I'll just give it my all and try to learn from my experience and have fun. hundreds and hundreds of people from around the nation are there. There are 6 preliminary debates, with 2 judges each. To advance to the next rounds, you need to get at least 8 judges to vote from you out of 12.

It's my third round, and I wait for the information to be released online. It's the 29th floor, no problem. It's chaos on the first floor. Everyone is trying to get places, and it's packed. There is a semblance of a line for the elevator, so I decide I'll wait. I still have an hour, it's no problem. After a long time waiting in the lines, word gets around that some of the elevators are broken, which is slowing the process even more. It's not easy for just a few elevators to service a large number of people with so many floors.

Okay. I have 30 minutes left.
29 floors.

I got this.

I head towards the stairs and start one of the most grueling experiences of my life. I start running up, but that very quickly tires me out and I settle for a steady, brisk walking pace upwards. The stairs are crowded with people for the first 5 floors. The people begin to reach their destinations and the stairs thin out. By floor 15, I am alone.

The time blurs. seconds become minutes. minutes become years. it feels like I am spending an entire lifetime in this stairwell. Universes are created and destroyed many times over as my vision blurs and fades into the eternal, dizzying climb.

My legs threaten to fail me. I'm carrying a backpack with papers and a laptop on my back, but it feels like a thousand pounds under my struggling frame. My suit is rumpled from the constant upwards motion.

My body is on fire but I keep going, never slowing down, never stopping.
I am holding my phone in my hand and checking the time, but eventually I decide I can't spare the energy and put it in my pocket.
26. I feel nauseated, on the verge of collapse, but I keep climbing.
27. This is my hell. I can feel the tendrils of the Grim Reaper slithering up my shoulder and wrapping around my neck, making it impossible to breathe.
28. I brace myself and break out into a run. Just one more floor to go.

29. I reach the top. The final push. Every step towards my room is accompanied by a cry for help from my weak, overworked body. I struggle to open the door. I am still out of breath.

I am on time.

I end up winning both judges that round, and go on to go 8-4 in the first two days of the tournament-- enough to qualify to outrounds. I lose both outrounds, i was still able to count myself in the top 80 in the nation that year, and damn it if i'm not proud of that.

the end

by the time I clicked submit, you had retracted the question.

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can i be a stranger next?
also, what was the identity, realeo, from last round?

edit: oh i can't read

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/in to do the guessing

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lol. This is weird because it was that at the time, but it's completely different now.

Basically, that was around the first time i took the effort to start liking songs on youtube, so I could come back to them and listen to them all at once.

Rising Star came from a video I watched of the person who plays Heather Duke in Heathers the Musical (alice lee), who also was in the USA version of that, and it sort of spiralled from there. hillsong was from one of the guys I used to tutor and he would send me a lot of stuff. I don't recall how eurovision song contest started, but a ton of my music comes from other people, so I'm guessing that as well was one of my friends who introduced me to it, and I can probably guess who.

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Hi sorry i think i inned for contestant sorry i was vague

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I'll be bad at this.
Will think about how I want to split.

Notes:
Canadians-- Aristophanes, RadiantCowbells, Shadoweh

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Feel like real adults-- Shadoweh, Equinox, racefan, Vi, SC
Lively 20s-- Aristophanes, RadiantCowbells, DeathRowKitty (I think), implosion, KittyMo
Babies-- Vijarada (if not lying about age), Realeo

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I'd like to split like so:

{Card game, Mommy, Sea sponge, Neil Simon, Tequila}
{Not those things}

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shadoweh to canadian idol hands

i really hope i'm not wrong

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RC and implosion: what made that card the best one?

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Match implosion to Best Card

ughhhh this is gonna be wrong dang it

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RC to best card

Vi and Equinox forced me to guess

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hi yes i am here

match implosion to sea sponge

reasoning: implosion doesn't seem like a drinking type, a mommy type, or a theatre type.
i do know for sure that he has 3D printed things before as he looked at a board game piece and could tell that it was 3D printed.

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is that a "wow EP that's the stupidest reasoning i've ever seen" silence

edit: or is that a "wow EP is clearly doing something wrong and everyone can see it but EP i can't believe it" silence

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is this cheating? did i unintentionally cheat?
was that silence a "wow EP is cheating and is therefore morally bankrupt" silence?

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don't forget you have a phone to friend

alright, any phones want to friend me?
the bigger split group is the one i need help with

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Tridentity on Jigglypuff

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Kmo, how did you put that costume together?

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This identity seems at least somewhat consistent with both kmo and equinox's past identities... less so on aristo.
hmm.

I don't know if I should be burning another question on this, but I really dont want to get it wrong.
Equinox, what celebrations happened on the day you wore this costume? (and when was this, unless that compounds the question)

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Sorry. Still taking offers for phone a friend.
I might as well not have blown a question on asking equinox because that tells me literally nothing.
I'm gonna go with

kmo to jigglypuff

it seems like the right time for pokemon to be big, whatever.

*braces for wrongness*

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reasoning: implosion doesn't seem like a drinking type, a mommy type, or a theatre type.

let us follow up on this.

RC is a drinking type and a mommy type. probably not a theatre type. not card game confirmed.
DRK is maybe a mommy type. is she a card game type?
strangercoug is a wild card cause I don't know much about him.
Vijarada is possibly the card game by elimination. Seems too young for drinking or using "when" for high school.

I think that semi-maybe-possibly-almost-hopefully puts me at
RC - shots
DRK - mom
SC - theatre
Vijarada - cards

The most confident POE I'm doing is

strangercoug to theatre

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vijarada to cards

lets ride this train of newfound confidence

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yas

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tentatively:

RC for tekwilla?

although RC also seems like the mommy type, to be quite honest.

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dont feel bad forme that just makes me feel worse (unless this is trolling)

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ugh fuck

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I am very much not a mommy type

im really sorry
i'm terrible at knowing things about eople

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Please do not do that again.

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I'll be your friend, ep!

Thanks! Can ani be my friend?

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I'm gonna trust my number one guy ani and

match racefan to flash

edit: if I get this right, I still have one more right answer before I can't use superpowers, right? if not, then hold off on that cause I want to use my double dip first.

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Okay, so assuming number one guy ani is correct and Aristo = Idol
I have to use my double dip now and it would be suboptimal to use it on aristo because I trust ani with my life right now.

Equinox and Vi:

What was your favorite part about specifically pretending to be an allosaurus?

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Double Dip: Equinox and Shadoweh to paypal

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Aristo -> Idol

Sorry, not gonna use questions.

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No thanks.

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English, Korean, Japanese, French: 5+ songs in each lang.
Counted Mandarin and Canto as two separate languages (they are mutually unintelligible so I have an argument there)
Christopher Tin knocks out Swahili and Italian
Tagalog and Portuguese from Camp Sawi and Tiago Iorc, respectively

(oh, and I don't have them on my phone, not enough space for that)

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i'll make a poor decision and in again as a contestant ;>

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piegirl to manga

watch me be wrong though

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SPLIT:
{surgeon/chef/slinger, poem, pizza drive, bobandgeorge}
{the rest}

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racefan: What roleplaying game were you playing?
N: why was the campaign reviled?

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Sorry. I'd like to match N to the hand dryers.

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Aristo and Shadoweh, same question regarding roleplaying game.

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Roleplaying’s gotta be

Shadoweh

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Wrecked.

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Okay, fine. Kmo gets the question too. I’ll get this one or die tryinf

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It’s you, Kmo, that’s my guess

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racefan to forums

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Shadoweh to forums

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fuck me up i'll use my double dip to match the final 2 in that one

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tridentity on paper towels :>

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I'd like to ask all 3 of them the following question:

What was your game plan regarding the paper towel campaign?

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Oh worm— sorry, I forgot Maria answered.
Vijarada to hand dryers.

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Okay-- wickedestjr, Regfan, N: How did you end up babysitting for that family?

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And I think the reason I managed to match Vijarada was learning from N's lie on the hand dryers. Like, I realized that it was a very believable story but I don't think he would have been widely reviled for it. And I felt the same way about Maria's answer and Regfan's answer.

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Regfan.

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Maria's had 12 surgeries.
implosion broke his arm.
N has gotten the tile in 2048.
Wickedestjr sold dinosaurs.

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Hey, not bad. Sorry for all the delays kmo.