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I'm on episode 2 of Tales from the Borderlands. It's just not grabbing me for some reason. I may be getting sick of the Telltale gimmick.

Tales from the Borderlands gets better by the end of the game. With that intro to Episode 2, I don't see how it doesn't grab you.

And I'm done with Episode 2 of GoT and I hate everything in it. Apparently the whole point of Game of Thrones is so that the good guys get fucked each and every time. Fuck that shit. That's not good writing, that's just a cop-out to show 'shades of grey.'

It gets much worse.

 

 

Well, George R.R. Martin can't write worth a damn then. People give him money so he can write his terrible books and grow his neckbeard. Have the good guys kick some ass, ok? If I wrote Game of Thrones fanfiction, I would have time travel and one of the families (Starks or something) find Tony Stark and he builds a fuckin' atomic bomb and drop it on Roose Balton's house. What are they going to do then? Fight the Starks with swords?

 

 

He didn't write the game. Are you playing the game without having read the books or seen the show? That's not too clever.

 

 

I know he didn't write the game, but he did make the universe for the series. I watched maybe one or two episodes (probably the infamous "red wedding" episode or that one where the little girl finds the dragon or something) and I tried to read the first book. I couldn't make it past one chapter -- it was about as boring as reading an IRS tax booklet and maybe just as exciting.

 

But what I can tell from looking at wikis for the series:

 

1) The good guys are fucked over each and every time.

2) The bad guys (and the writer) takes immense joy in screwing over the good guys. They get no comeuppance from the good guys at all.

3) Every single good guy character dies. Ned Stark dies. Jon Snow died in season 4 (maybe 5? I don't know I don't watch the show). What's the point of watching/reading if the author is doing this? Eventually, you have no attachment to any character, which is the sign of terrible writing.

 

It's like watching the WWE where Vince McMahon prevents Stone Cold from getting his revenge. Eventually, the fans will wait for their "fuck yeah" moment and it becomes a "fuck you" moment and they throw trash into the ring. George R.R. Martin is Vince McMahon, cackling over you paying him money so he can string his audience along. You want a sixth book?

 

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I have to be honest I found the books very tiresome after a while. Too many times you decide you like a character and then they just die, it's not fun after like the 20th time.

 

Really enjoyed the first three up until the ending of it, after that it was just a slog to me. Great fantasy world, lots of good ideas, for that matter lots of great characters (including a couple I really didn't like in book one that he turns around into being very interesting), but it reads like a series that got bigger than he ever really intended so he had to stretch it out further than designed to me. Like, I actually feel GoT's fame worked against it being a better book series than it would have been if it had been a cult thing.

 

There's more good than bad, but I'm not really stoked for the series to carry on.

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so let's talk about some games

 

INVISIBLE INC- my god I want to like this, but my emotional disposition is -entirely- wrong for this kind of game. I do not handle mistakes terribly gracefully, so the kinds of video games I enjoy are ones where mistakes feel big, but can be dropped for a new beginning. this is a game where if you make a mistake you must marinate in the Mistake Musk so that you may fit in with the rest of the Mistake Herd, or else you'll lose all of your funding for Mistake Study. I would embezzle this research grant money. It's EXCEPTIONALLY well made, and that's why I want to like it. I just can't make it to the end of this game without, like, being a hollowed out non-person by the finale.

 

Playing Invisible Inc has had one nice benefit, as I've gone back to...

GUNPOINT- ...which is starting to become vogue as a type of game to stylistically jack from. There was Ronin last year, and now the new game from the Risk Of Rain team looks more than a little bit like it, although focusing on Hell Of Guns And Blood. Anyways. Gunpoint is a fucking well-machined razor of a game. Everyone should play Gunpoint at some point (heh!).

 

DESTINY- I recently started regularly clearing 2.0 KDA in Crucible matches and winning or finishing second in Rumbles. So that feels pretty good. Stormcaller Warlock, light295, Hand Cannon (Byronic Hero w/ explosive rounds and quick targeting), Invective shotgun, and the FWC Machine Gun as my heavy. Preferred exotic armor is the Claws of Ahamkara so I tend to favor a high strength build to keep the two banks of Thunderstrike full. My only gear goal these days is this ship or one like it.

 

NEON STRUCT- Deus Ex Blows.

 

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okay now that the first wave of "wtf" has, passed, I'll explain. The part of Deus Ex that is actually cool and memorable is exploring the world and talking to people and sneaking around illicit places. The part of Deus Ex that blows is fighting. It's horrible. It's worse than a bad job. It's worse than several bad jobs. Neon Struct agrees with me. Neon Struct is the part of Deus Ex that's super cool without the part that wants me to redo all the filing. I will have more to say about it the further I get into it.

 

PUZZLE & DRAGONS MARIO WHATEVER ITS CALLED- I needed a puzzle game to play before I go to bed, because it's the easiest way to turn my brain power to abstract things instead of, well, anxiety things. So. For that, Puzzle and Dragons is amazing. There's a really huge wall to climb before the game starts making sense, but once it does there's really something there. It turns from a match 3 game to a maze game. Also there's RPG elements. I made a mistake and made someone in my party obscenely fucking powerful despite him being the complete wrong element for the zone I'm in.

 

PANDEMIC LEGACY IS NOT A VIDEO GAME IT'S A BOARD GAME BUT I STILL WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT BEFORE I FORGET- it's good. it's so good that it makes me mad. it's so good that it makes me scream and cry and all that emotion stuff. i want more board games to be like this. I want a lot of video games to be like this. I want a lot of my life to be like this.

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Jesus Christ. So in an effort to not forget any of the Games With Gold or PlayStation Plus games that I've downloaded (because I have ended up buying games that it turns out I already own a few times now), I went through the download history on all my consoles and made one giant master list of every game I own. It's much longer than I thought it would be. I gotta start playing some of these.

Here it is, spoilerized for size:

3DS

Donkey Kong 3

Pokémon Omega Ruby

Pokémon Picross

Pokémon Rumble World

Pokémon White Version 2

Pokèmon X

Pokémon Y

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

Steamworld Heist

Super Mario 3D Land

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS

PC

Age of Empires III

BioShock

Castle Crashers

Consortium

Gone Home

Grim Fandango Remastered

Invisible, Inc.

Jade Empire

Loadout

Marvel Heroes 2015

Marvel Puzzle Quest

PlanetSide 2

Portal 2

Psychonauts

Rocket League

Shadow Complex Remastered

SimCity

Star Wars - The Old Republic

This War of Mine

Undertale

XCOM 2

XCOM: Enemy Unknown & Enemy Within

PlayStation 3

Aaru’s Awakening

Badland

Beyond Good & Evil HD

Binary Domain

BioShock Infinite

Broken Age

Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons

Call of Juarez Gunslinger

Cloudberry Kingdom

CounterSpy

Dishonored

Dragon Age: Origins

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Fez

Fire Pro Wrestling Returns

Flower

Futuridium EP Deluxe

God of War: Ascension

Hitman: Contracts HD

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin HD

Hitman: Blood Money HD

Hohokum

Ibb & Obb

Ico

InFamous

InFamous 2

LittleBigPlanet 2

Marvel Puzzle Quest

Metro: Last Light

Niddhog

OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX

Papo & Yo

Payday 2

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

Race the Sun

Rogue Legacy

Shadow of the Colossus

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Sportsfriends

SSX

Stealth Inc.: A Clone in the Dark

Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones

Super Exploding Zoo

Super Meat Boy

The Swapper

Tokyo Jungle

Tomb Raider

Twisted Metal

The Unfinished Swan

Velocity 2X

PlayStation 4 (PlayStation Plus until 2-07-16)

Aaru’s Awakening

Apotheon

Badland

Bastion

Batman Arkham Knight

Blacklight: Retribution

Broken Age

CounterSpy

DC Universe Online

Dead Nation

Destiny

Don’t Starve

Driveclub

Ether One

Fez

Flower

Futuridium EP Deluxe

Gauntlet

Grim Fandango Remastered

Grow Home

Guns Up!

Hardware Rivals

Hohokum

InFamous: First Light

Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition

King’s Quest

The Last of Us Remastered

Lego Dimensions

Limbo

Magicka 2

Marvel Puzzle Quest

Never Alone

Nidhogg

Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty

OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood

Outlast

Peggle 2

PlanetSide 2

Race the Sun

Resogun

Road Not Taken

Rocket League

Rogue Legacy

Secret Ponchos

Skulls of the Shogun

Sportsfriends

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones

Super Exploding Zoo

Super Meat Boy

The Swapper

Terraria

Towerfall Ascension

Transistor

Uncharted: the Nathan Drake Collection

The Unfinished Swan

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Velocity 2X

War Thunder

Warframe

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Wii

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

Super Mario Galaxy

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Wii U

Advance Wars

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

Dr. Luigi

Ice Hockey (NES)

Mario Kart 8

New Super Mario Bros. U

New Super Luigi Bros. U

Pikmin 3

Super Mario 3D World

Super Mario Maker

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Wii Sports Club

The Wonderful 101

XBox 360

Battleblock Theater (BC)

Bomberman Live

CastleStorm (BC)

Civilization Revolution

Dead Island

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (BC)

Dishonored

Double Dragon Neon

Dungeon Defenders

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Fallout 3 (BC)

Frogger

Gears of War (BC)

Gears of War 2 (BC)

Gears of War 3 (BC)

Gears of War: Judgement (BC)

Grand Theft Auto 5

Halo 2 (for original XBox)

Halo 3

Halo 4

Halo: Reach (BC)

Happy Wars

Just Cause 2 (BC)

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Left 4 Dead 2

Lego Batman 2

Lego Marvel Superheroes

Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 3

Max Payne 3

Motorcross Madness (BC)

Operation Flashpoint (BC)

Perfect Dark (BC)

Plants vs. Zombies (BC)

The Orange Box

Portal 2

Rainbow Six Vegas (BC)

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (BC)

Red Dead Redemption

Risk Factions

Sacred 3 (BC)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Shoot Many Robots

Sleeping Dogs

Small Arms

Splinter Cell: Conviction

SSX

Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting

Terraria

Texas Hold’em

Tomb Raider

Toy Soldiers: Cold War (BC)

Uno

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (BC)

Walking Dead: Season 1

Walking Dead: Season 2

The Wolf Among Us

Worms Revolution

X-Men the Arcade Game

XCOM: Enemy Within

XBox One (XBox Live Gold until 9-13-16)

#IDARB

Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

CastleStorm - The Definitive Edition

Chariot

Child of Light

Crimson Dragon

Dragon Age: Inquisition

The Escapists

Evolve

Fallout 4

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

Guacamelee!

Halo: the Master Chief Collection

Halo 5: Guardians

Halo: Spartan Assault

How to Survive: Storm Warning

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing

Killer Instinct

Knight Squad

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris

Life is Strange

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Massive Chalice

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

Neverwinter

NHL 16

Ori and the Blind Forest

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare

Pool Nation FX

Project Spark

Rainbow Six Siege

Rare Replay

Rayman Legends

Smite

So Many Me

State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition

Strike Suit Zero

Sunset Overdrive

Super Time Force

Tales from the Borderlands

Titanfall

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

Tomb Raider, Rise of the

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Volgarr the Viking

Worms Battlegrounds

WWE 2K16

Zheros

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I've played around 10 - 12 hours of the new season of Diablo 3 with my barbarian. 

 

Loving it so far. 

 

Progressing nicely so far. Just completed my Hellfire Amulet. Up to Greater Rift 29 and do torment 6 with ease and torment 7 I'll die on if the elite packs are of the tougher variety. 

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Jesus Christ. So in an effort to not forget any of the Games With Gold or PlayStation Plus games that I've downloaded (because I have ended up buying games that it turns out I already own a few times now), I went through the download history on all my consoles and made one giant master list of every game I own. It's much longer than I thought it would be. I gotta start playing some of these.

Here it is, spoilerized for size:

3DS

Donkey Kong 3

Pokémon Omega Ruby

Pokémon Picross

Pokémon Rumble World

Pokémon White Version 2

Pokèmon X

Pokémon Y

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

Steamworld Heist

Super Mario 3D Land

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS

PC

Age of Empires III

BioShock

Castle Crashers

Consortium

Gone Home

Grim Fandango Remastered

Invisible, Inc.

Jade Empire

Loadout

Marvel Heroes 2015

Marvel Puzzle Quest

PlanetSide 2

Portal 2

Psychonauts

Rocket League

Shadow Complex Remastered

SimCity

Star Wars - The Old Republic

This War of Mine

Undertale

XCOM 2

XCOM: Enemy Unknown & Enemy Within

PlayStation 3

Aaru’s Awakening

Badland

Beyond Good & Evil HD

Binary Domain

BioShock Infinite

Broken Age

Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons

Call of Juarez Gunslinger

Cloudberry Kingdom

CounterSpy

Dishonored

Dragon Age: Origins

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Fez

Fire Pro Wrestling Returns

Flower

Futuridium EP Deluxe

God of War: Ascension

Hitman: Contracts HD

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin HD

Hitman: Blood Money HD

Hohokum

Ibb & Obb

Ico

InFamous

InFamous 2

LittleBigPlanet 2

Marvel Puzzle Quest

Metro: Last Light

Niddhog

OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX

Papo & Yo

Payday 2

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

Race the Sun

Rogue Legacy

Shadow of the Colossus

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

Sportsfriends

SSX

Stealth Inc.: A Clone in the Dark

Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones

Super Exploding Zoo

Super Meat Boy

The Swapper

Tokyo Jungle

Tomb Raider

Twisted Metal

The Unfinished Swan

Velocity 2X

PlayStation 4 (PlayStation Plus until 2-07-16)

Aaru’s Awakening

Apotheon

Badland

Bastion

Batman Arkham Knight

Blacklight: Retribution

Broken Age

CounterSpy

DC Universe Online

Dead Nation

Destiny

Don’t Starve

Driveclub

Ether One

Fez

Flower

Futuridium EP Deluxe

Gauntlet

Grim Fandango Remastered

Grow Home

Guns Up!

Hardware Rivals

Hohokum

InFamous: First Light

Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition

King’s Quest

The Last of Us Remastered

Lego Dimensions

Limbo

Magicka 2

Marvel Puzzle Quest

Never Alone

Nidhogg

Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty

OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood

Outlast

Peggle 2

PlanetSide 2

Race the Sun

Resogun

Road Not Taken

Rocket League

Rogue Legacy

Secret Ponchos

Skulls of the Shogun

Sportsfriends

Stealth Inc 2: A Game of Clones

Super Exploding Zoo

Super Meat Boy

The Swapper

Terraria

Towerfall Ascension

Transistor

Uncharted: the Nathan Drake Collection

The Unfinished Swan

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Velocity 2X

War Thunder

Warframe

Wolfenstein: The New Order

Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

Wii

Donkey Kong Country Returns

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor

Super Mario Galaxy

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Wii U

Advance Wars

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

Dr. Luigi

Ice Hockey (NES)

Mario Kart 8

New Super Mario Bros. U

New Super Luigi Bros. U

Pikmin 3

Super Mario 3D World

Super Mario Maker

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Wii Sports Club

The Wonderful 101

XBox 360

Battleblock Theater (BC)

Bomberman Live

CastleStorm (BC)

Civilization Revolution

Dead Island

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (BC)

Dishonored

Double Dragon Neon

Dungeon Defenders

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Fallout 3 (BC)

Frogger

Gears of War (BC)

Gears of War 2 (BC)

Gears of War 3 (BC)

Gears of War: Judgement (BC)

Grand Theft Auto 5

Halo 2 (for original XBox)

Halo 3

Halo 4

Halo: Reach (BC)

Happy Wars

Just Cause 2 (BC)

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Left 4 Dead 2

Lego Batman 2

Lego Marvel Superheroes

Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 3

Max Payne 3

Motorcross Madness (BC)

Operation Flashpoint (BC)

Perfect Dark (BC)

Plants vs. Zombies (BC)

The Orange Box

Portal 2

Rainbow Six Vegas (BC)

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (BC)

Red Dead Redemption

Risk Factions

Sacred 3 (BC)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Shoot Many Robots

Sleeping Dogs

Small Arms

Splinter Cell: Conviction

SSX

Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting

Terraria

Texas Hold’em

Tomb Raider

Toy Soldiers: Cold War (BC)

Uno

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (BC)

Walking Dead: Season 1

Walking Dead: Season 2

The Wolf Among Us

Worms Revolution

X-Men the Arcade Game

XCOM: Enemy Within

XBox One (XBox Live Gold until 9-13-16)

#IDARB

Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag

Borderlands: The Handsome Collection

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

CastleStorm - The Definitive Edition

Chariot

Child of Light

Crimson Dragon

Dragon Age: Inquisition

The Escapists

Evolve

Fallout 4

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

Guacamelee!

Halo: the Master Chief Collection

Halo 5: Guardians

Halo: Spartan Assault

How to Survive: Storm Warning

The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing

Killer Instinct

Knight Squad

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris

Life is Strange

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Massive Chalice

Max: The Curse of Brotherhood

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

Neverwinter

NHL 16

Ori and the Blind Forest

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare

Pool Nation FX

Project Spark

Rainbow Six Siege

Rare Replay

Rayman Legends

Smite

So Many Me

State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition

Strike Suit Zero

Sunset Overdrive

Super Time Force

Tales from the Borderlands

Titanfall

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

Tomb Raider, Rise of the

Valiant Hearts: The Great War

Volgarr the Viking

Worms Battlegrounds

WWE 2K16

Zheros

 

Making the master list is the hard part. Now you get to put them into http://www.backloggery.com/and feel organised.

 

I'm back to playing Dota 2 again, trying to figure out where I went wrong with my life.

 

Dota 2.

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I've played around 10 - 12 hours of the new season of Diablo 3 with my barbarian. 

 

Loving it so far. 

 

Progressing nicely so far. Just completed my Hellfire Amulet. Up to Greater Rift 29 and do torment 6 with ease and torment 7 I'll die on if the elite packs are of the tougher variety. 

Blah, I've put more time into my wizard and I'm not even close to where you are.

 

At least I already got my Furnace.  That'll help my progress in the rifts.

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I've played around 10 - 12 hours of the new season of Diablo 3 with my barbarian. 

 

Loving it so far. 

 

Progressing nicely so far. Just completed my Hellfire Amulet. Up to Greater Rift 29 and do torment 6 with ease and torment 7 I'll die on if the elite packs are of the tougher variety. 

Blah, I've put more time into my wizard and I'm not even close to where you are.

 

At least I already got my Furnace.  That'll help my progress in the rifts.

 

 

I need that weapon. Today I just gambled some Lut Socks which should help me out a ton with my leap quake Barb. 

 

If I get the furnace to cube then I should be able to push close to torment 10.

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So, since it was on the essensials sale, I went and picked up Final Fantasy VII and went to give it a play through.  After a few hours, I stopped and fired up Final Fantasy IX and am replaying that instead. 

 

I realize how important VII was to the overall RPG landscape, but shit is IX a superior game in every single way.

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Steamworld Dig is a really fun little game with solid exploration. I wish that there were more to the combat, but even so, the moments where a TNT barrel sets off a chain reaction that ends with lots of things/people getting crushed as I try to scramble away from the commotion are more than worth it.

 

I might have to give Steamworld Heist a try. 

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Steamworld Dig is a really fun little game with solid exploration. I wish that there were more to the combat, but even so, the moments where a TNT barrel sets off a chain reaction that ends with lots of things/people getting crushed as I try to scramble away from the commotion are more than worth it.

I might have to give Steamworld Heist a try.

Steamworld Heist is amazing, but it's a spin-off, not a sequel. The gameplay is totally different. It plays like a 2D, side-scrolling XCOM.

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So, since it was on the essensials sale, I went and picked up Final Fantasy VII and went to give it a play through.  After a few hours, I stopped and fired up Final Fantasy IX and am replaying that instead. 

 

I realize how important VII was to the overall RPG landscape, but shit is IX a superior game in every single way.

Eh, they're two very different games, really. Both have strengths and weaknesses. Both are very good, even great, at what they do.

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Finished Sleeping Dogs... how do you get level 10 in Triad level? I've got all the moves, all the cop upgrades, all the Health Shrines, all but two lockboxes, 17 races... need to win a bunch gambling and steal a bunch of cars, buy a bunch of cars, buy a bunch of clothes, that's all routine, but I'm level 9 Triad and don't seem to get any more Triad points no matter what I do.

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I think you have to do some replays and get near max on most missions to get it.  I think.

 

I never ended up maxing all my levels.  Neil's records taunting me made me give up.

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