mystery box of silver 15: i'm killing hostages (negotiated)

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VOTE: koba

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i feel like part of me getting old is acknowledging that its okay to like sports sometimes

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synth organ sounds fun by the way

next weekend i'm gonna give synthesizer lessons to someone i just met :0

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{Doctor Drew}
{Meuh}
{Alisae}
{MUSHSHAGANA}
{DKKoba}
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why is your reads list upside down and why are you voting your second strongest town read

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can we turn this game into a compilation album project

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pooky: im competing with you in that regard

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the getting killed first not giving reads. i will give scummy reads

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sorry for drunk/nicotine-withdrawal posting all over your game schadd

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{Doctor Drew}
{Meuh}
{Alisae}
{MUSHSHAGANA}
{DKKoba}
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why is your reads list upside down and why are you voting your second strongest town read

you alrdy did more townie shit than i did so sux to be you

excuse me but is that a read i see

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i uh hardclaim scum or something

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hardclaim town

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in a whisper voice

: i am claiming

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i had too many white claws and pasta bolognese

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*eminem voice* a little bit of weed mixed with some hard liquor

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if my brand of drunk posting is too much let me know and i'll stop btw

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fitting that the baseball game has everyone show up drunk

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anyways my friend got back from a 6 week trip to caretake for her dad and got me this cute bag :')

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i had too many white claws and pasta bolognese

does white claw even count as alcohol

i had 6!!

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tbh im usually a natty boh drinker (feel free to roast me if ur a baltimorean) but they had watermelon white claw on sale and i couldnt help myself

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re: natty boh

The company's mascot, the one-eyed, handlebar-mustachioed Mr. Boh, has been a recognizable icon since his introduction in 1936 by company president Arthur Deute.[9]

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According to Dawson Farber, who was promoted to vice-president of marketing in 1950, he has "no idea why he only has one eye." Farber confesses. "I don't think anybody does."

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is my drunken rambling that potent to make me your second highest townread ranger

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i'm not really on mainstream social media anymore and i'm starting to wonder if i accidentally treat mafia games as like an anonymous facebook page or something

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you all are cool i hope all of you are town

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just saw a bumper sticker that said "honk if you let your animal of a soft body love what it loves" and that has inspired me to try out a new genre of posting i invented called "bumper sticker posting"

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honk if you think koba's entrance was scummy

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my shitposter child is funnier than your straight-A obvtown child

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The posts are scummy tbh VOTE: Koba

no they aren't?

yes they are

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you aren't really gonna squeeze an answer out of me that goes deeper than "vibes" but i genuinely believe that was a scummy entrance

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piggybacking a wagon that i was on since page one

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ya

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certain mechanics in this game interact with the hostage killings and cause them to be carried out slightly differently than it is stated here. however, it will always retain the same essential character (of malice).

i mean between this and dead players being able to replace out and their replacements having wincons and etc i wanna see the homerun thing play out for sure

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ya

wild that it took you so long to even mention it then, esp when multiple players it seems talked about me in my absence. i would think if that was the case that drunk you would have said something about it.

so yeah, calling BS, this vote sticks.

drunk me likes shitposting more than embarassing herself with potentially bad reads

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you have clearly not seen me play drunk as scum before lol

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perhaps we could select the universal scum read with a majority vote

good post

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lean town on dannflor and bulge

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nicotine-withdrawal

anyways if i'm more fiery than usual i refer you to this. please let me know if i'm a jerk but i don't think i will be!

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correct

VOTE: cakez

bad entrance

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tbh i got whiffs of town koba in that exchange. amused that they're probably currently researching my drunken ramblings

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it has come to my attention that i might not be playing scummy enough so i just wanna say that i think iavh is a mason

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ofrhz (3): The Bulge, Dannflor, MUSHSHAGANA

hell yeah i'll sheep this
VOTE: ofhrz

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omg hi

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the strat is working

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whoops wrong thread

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i havent touched my laptop in like a month and i have 413 packages updates to compile so i'll be phone posting tonight (similarly to drunk me apparently, there will be no discernable difference)

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i feel like i'd be fun to hang out with in the dead thread

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hi ofhrz do you have any other townreads besides pooky

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shit

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this is a mafia game on the internet and I don't even think it's that serious to begin with

hey!! i am taking things very seriously

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in what world am i obvtown here tho :x

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i predict tommy edman gets three slam dunks tonight

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unfortunately three slam dunks are extremely unlikely. i think it can still happen maybe

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unfortunately three slam dunks are extremely unlikely. i think it can still happen maybe

quick, someone bring a hoop out to center field in tampa bay

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i can't wait to watch jon bois do a video about this game of mafia and how it inadvertently led to a radical shift in tommy's batting prowess (this is a prediction)

this made me realize that jon bois and jomboy are two completely separate people that i conflate all the time for some reason

i have seen too many jon bois videos for this to have happened

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i predict tommy edman will throw a touchdown this inning

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i know very little about baseball but "struck out looking" in the play by play felt like a roast

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well at least someone on the cardinals can hit a home run

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says me, a person that can hit zero home runs

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i had the espn play by play in a tiny lil window on my computer screen. for the actual game you probably need like a tv or espn subscription or a willingness to get nasty letters from your isp

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iavh is probably going to be hard to sort

i wanna keep playing with ofrhz; someone do something scummy so i can vote you instead

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hi!

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why are the mouthless men winking at me

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do they call them homers because the other team goes "doh!" when they happen?

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i'm going to continue to stubbornly avoid game relevant content tonight mostly because i'm tired

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i am cringe but i am free

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to anyone else with hulu or disney plus: apparently that comes with espn+ and i couldve had these games on in the background the whole time

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i feel like my roommate will walk in and ask me why i'm watchin baseball and i could be like "[schadd] is running a mafia game and killing players every time tommy edman hits a home run" and she would be like "cool," completely unphased after attending two walrus sessions

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i was on the edge of my seat

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fly out :c

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you can trust me

trustworthy is my middle name

they call me 'un trustworthy jones'

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i have this unsubstantiated theory that the dead thread gets to play a part in selecting deaths. if this is the case, the bulge should kill me to confirm this.

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trying to think of what other role the dead could play in this to still play to their wincon in some way and thats the only thing ive thought of that gels with my brain so far

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unless it's the return of the olfs but i feel like there wouldn't be a promise of "[the killing] is kind of the only substantial mechanic"

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graveyard replacements would also make sense for the dead being able to kill i think

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i think if the bulge can kill they should kill me to confirm that fact bc i think schadd *probably* wouldnt kill me next? and then if we know that's the case, town can select people for the dead thread to kill, and if those people don't die we know they're scum.

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this is probably the only setup spec i'll do because i'm probably wrong since we're so in the dark and it'll be useless in most cases, but if i'm right then there's a way to confirm it in this case and strategize around it

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*useless to setup spec in most cases

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the bulge, if you have the ability to influence the kill, then kill me; we could then, in theory, utilize the role kind of like a loyal vigilante driven by town consensus and potentially guilty scum

now we just gotta wait for tommy edman's next home run

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certain mechanics in this game interact with the hostage killings and cause them to be carried out slightly differently than it is stated here. however, it will always retain the same essential character (of malice).

this is the line in the ruleset that got me thinkin about this

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my boss is out tomorrow so i may have time to like actually try and sort people

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i'm an obvious townie

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i do agree with that logic but for the first go i think i should be first on the list bc we don't wanna nominate someone that schadd might find scummy bc then we'd have false info if schadd is in charge of the kills

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granted schadd could find me scummy which would cause a false positive but then i'd be in the dead thread which could possibly be an interesting place from what we know about the setup

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going back to olfs, i played in a mbos game where i was one of the third-party olfs that could subject the town to fun mechanical stuff; that also sort of informed my thinking on what could be going on with the dead this game

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this is probably a fruitless endeavor though so i'll leave it at that

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im down for rangers plan it sounds fun

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tbh i thought this was a vanilla game; the existence of roles definitely have me leaning towards me being wrong about my setup spec

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Skygazer is REALLY good at coasting on vibes and being funny as scum from what I've seen, and I want a bit more substantial content from him to feel comfortable sorting. The setup spec was cool, but is also really easy posting for scum to make. There's been more good game content from them than in scum games in general though, so I do generally feel good about Skygazer at this point. I'm fine with letting her stick around for a while at the very least, cause I think she'll be sortable later.

i might possibly even be sortable soon

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VOTE: alisae

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good replacement

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supposedly the plan is to have a majority towncore designated by ranger eliminate the rest of the town very rapidly and see what happens

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your slot is in that towncore

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i don't know how i made it onto the towncore tbh i've been shitposting

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hopefully theyre easier for schadd to replace when theyre dead too

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yeehaw

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waiting for something to happen is in the spirit of baseball to be fair

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VOTE: ofrhz

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i think the major question is did whoever set the blocs do it in a way to encourage the strat or try to stop it

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oh so thats what ofhrz meant by pattern recognition

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i'm of the mind that a town flip doesnt necessarily invalidate a town bloc but the purge definitely has its drawbacks

i think its funny tho

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i do think ranger is town for suggesting the purge

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UNVOTE:

for now

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i think schadd said in the setup or elsewhere that tommy edman hits a homerun on avg every two weeks

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its like way easier on your body than say, american football

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69 page bottom

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coolllll

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exciting times

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skygazer looking at bulge and praying

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4 deaths in 48 hours is exciting

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i think schadds metric for scumminess may not always align with the towns tbh

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maybe hes waiting for the bulge to select a kill

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what a magical two days of a game

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"killing the townie that seems scummiest to schadd" isn't the same as "killing the townie that seems scummiest to town"

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oh god this avatar okay i'll change it soon sorry

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oh god this avatar okay i'll change it soon sorry

that's better

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i think it's optimal to wait for a homerun bc it looks like ending the day will take scum out of the tommy kill pool based on how schadd worded this day's opening votecount? feel like we're bound to have another homer before the game is over anyways so why not just chill and vibe for the next homer and hope it hits scum

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apologies in advance for when i inevitably succumb to mob mentality in two days

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My arguments are simply: schadd will kill whoever he views as scummiest and his views do not match ours, so waiting will result in someone (likely town) dead we wouldn’t want dead.

I have the backing for this off his actual past kills.

counterpoint: maybe the people who died died because the scum are obvscum

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just do what ive been doing (not reading)

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thank you tommy

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will this be the second time i win in a schadd game by doing nothing smh

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all three flipped scum have interesting associatives with you and ranger

but that might just make y'all town idk. the three scum don't really mention each other that much interestingly

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then idk play mafia for the next one or something.

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iirc schadd said "a player" rather than "players" so i don't think so

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i think skygazer could be a shallow wolf

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i think skygazer could be a shallow wolf

"oh you're not the alpha of the pack? sorry, next"

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i think my vanilla slip is probably within my scumrange tbh

im down for more purging tho

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my bloc buddy is voting ranger so

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VOTE: ofrhz

i could *maybeeee* sheep you on ranger but more out of a place of respecting your reads than anything, ranger doesn't scream partnered to me in the flipped scum's isos

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idk morning tweet and xyzzy never voted ofrhz and bluesnake's ofrhz push could've easily been a distancing attempt. ofrhz was initially a counterwagon to koba it seems like and i like their wagon's composition early on too.

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i could see MUSHSHAGANA being scum tbh

i mean it looks town on the surface so this is just a thought

but right now im thinking xyzzy's role name could indicate that the scum team may have known xyzzy would possibly explode at some point, and i think that would lead to scum preemptively distancing from them

MUSHSHAGANA pushed xyzzy but never really voted there and i could see its xyzzy read as maybe tmi

but i dont remember blue snake or MT distancing from xyzzy substantially or vice versa, and i think its more likely scum are just frozen in the low posters tbh

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i vibe with a lot of its posts tho so i think its probably just town

complacency can lose games tho so i dont wanna fall in that trap

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bc i don't like to play mafia

just do what i do

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ye i still need to peek at the other xyzzy pushers too

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this game, mechanically and flavorfully, has been maybe my favorite of all time so far

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i thought that was anti partnery for rce

same

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beet juice

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these blocs might get annoying huh

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5 on ofrhz i think

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damn i wanted it to keep going

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maybe the people who died died because the scum are obvscum

yup!

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posthumously kill us