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Mr. Fowl posted:That's the theory I hold to as well--since the human battery theory in the film is a bit silly. You'd get more energy by burning the food that people eat than what you get from the body, let alone when you factor in what is lost in the growing process--all real estate that could be put to use for more practical forms of energy production, like synthetic petroleum or geothermal stuff. The original premise was hooking them up for processing power, but the story goes that the producers were too dumb to understand this and wouldn't sign off on it.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2015 04:31 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 13:33 |
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Jack Gladney posted:What would they need more clock speed for anyway? Like, what does an eternal machine empire do with itself after it takes over the world? Just keep killing Zion over and over because that's all there is to do? Self-maintaining processing? Humans are an easily-reproducible resource and it's just plug-and-play to replace them, going by the battery farms in the first movie. With silicon hardware (or any futuristic equivalent) eventually something's gonna break down and cause a major malfunction. Not to mention the complex effort of having to mine and process the limited planetary resources for new parts. But yeah, not much of a end-game there once you've got all that processing except to sit around looking smug and squish the humans for fun. Besides, that was the point of Zion and wasn't an awful idea all things considered compared to some other parts of the sequels. They knew humans were going to escape anyway, so they gave them somewhere pre-planned to escape to. Once it gets too big, they just knock it down and start again to maintain equilibrium.
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2015 04:50 |
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dijon du jour posted:Wait, there's a TV show now? And it doesn't even star Noah Wyle? Thanks for mentioning it I need to go check that out. Actually it does have him in a few episodes. I haven't seen the movies, but I quite like the TV show. It's very low budget, but the writing's pretty good and you can tell there's actual effort being put into it with what little budget they have to work with . I'm hoping it does well enough for a second season. Plus it has Bruce Cambell as Santa Claus.
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# ¿ Jan 31, 2015 02:49 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:The Escapist has been imploding for a while now, and the big issue seems to be the people upstairs. Jim Sterling quit after his boss at the Escapist willingly let the Gamergate debacle engulf the site, and then even hosted the opinions of a developer/journalist/somebodycan'trememberproperly who had publicly slandered Jim. Recently, they had a huge number of layoffs at the site for longtime employees, and they have been bleeding content for years without replacing it. There is almost nothing on the site anymore that hasn't been rehosted somewhere else first. Any time one of their big draws leaves or gets shitcanned, they just throw more Top Ten lists or repeats of old Game Theory episodes. Most of LoadingReadyRun's stuff is on Youtube already, and even the Critical Miss guy, douchebag he can be, is considering leaving the site and just going to patreon. Loading Ready Run does just fine on their own. iirc, only about four of them are actual full-time this-is-our-job employees, the rest are just their mates helping out for individual videos. Their last year of weekly videos was done off a Kickstarter just so they'd have a decent budget on them for once, and the only reason they're stopping them (aside from going ten years strong) is because they do a bunch of other projects as well now.
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 05:42 |
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DStecks posted:I loved Star Trek Into Darkness and thought it pantsed Trek09 despite its messy script. We must get a sample of Khan's blood and not one from the 72 people we have readily available!
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# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 17:32 |
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BigRed0427 posted:I think the bigger problem with Bioshock Infinite is that the fight between the Vox VS the Founders is a bigger part of the story than it should be. The true core to Infinite's story was Comstock and Dewit. The biggest problem is they took at least three different drafts of the same game and welded them together with a parallel universe premise. Considering how hosed the development was, it was probably the smart move though.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2015 02:48 |
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emeriin posted:@Jack Generic events: Doug insulted her acting in his reviews, his fanboys harassed her with his ~gospel~, she got rightfully angry, a load of people then bombarded her with "it's just a character!" and she apologized. And then Doug put her in his "Simple Wish" review as schooling him at the end. Oh I remember this one. If I recall right, it was actually a little on Mara Wilson too for misunderstanding them by misreading it as "Doug's such a character " instead of their actual explanation of "Doug's portraying a character".
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2015 03:32 |
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Hbomberguy posted:Oh yes, I remember this now. I was referring to the people in metropolis who were dying when Superman went to go save the world, and you got hung up on the word 'american' and went on a rant about how I could have said 'westerner', but actually shouldn't have said that either because of immigration(?). This was all to get around the basic joke I was making, that posters in the thread were really pissed off that Superman abandoned people and flew away - even though it was to save literally the entire planet. I guess I could have said 'people of metropolis', but what I wrote sounded better at the time. When I retracted the word, in the hopes you'd deal with the actual point of the post, you said 'your posts have improved my opinion of the movie' - strange, you didn't mention that part. There's two macguffins to blow up. One is in the middle of the ocean and an easy airborne kill. The other in a densely-populated city and much tougher to take down. They sent Superman to the one out in the ocean .
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2015 13:15 |
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Gyges posted:Yes in Smallville Superman is temporarily blinded by rage. He stops talking to Lois in mid sentence and takes off. He then yells at Zod for a good 5 miles about attacking Ma Kent. It's only after he sees Pete Ross that he realizes what he's done and then he does try and minimize the damage. Personally I rather like this fight because it shows him learning, realizing that he always has to be in control and can't let his emotions get the better of him. Open streets are the worst place possible for a fight though. Especially when you clearly see the streets are full of people fleeing for their lives. Hell, grinding Zod against a glass building just dumps a shitload of lethal glass shards down whoever's unfortunate to be down at street-level.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2015 14:18 |
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Annointed posted:I'm just glad that despite going through a personal hell, she's still able to retain herself and not turn into a bitter husk of a person. I would dearly love to see what'd happen if the FBI came down on gamergaters. It'd be a colossal shitstorm everyone could enjoy .
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2015 06:54 |
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PresidentBeard posted:I'm guessing gamersgate will be taken seriously right about the same time we see people punished for stalking Chris-chan, as it's pretty much identical crimes and motives for the more elaborate stunts. The people mostly in it for sexism/"ethics in games journalism" seem to mostly stick to making angry youtube videos and shouting in comments, which isn't illegal, despite being appalling human beings. True, but just going after some of them would kick the entire hornets nest.
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2015 07:47 |
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KayTee posted:For the record I have always hated the treatment Chris-chan received - even before the utterly indefensible 'Bluespike' poo poo, and have never bought into the whole "well he's (CWC) a scumbag who does and says scumbag things so it's karma, bitch" excuse used by the folks on Cwicki. Chris would be a hell a less hosed up if not for all that twisted 'enabling/trolling'. Was the bluespike thing the incident involving him getting arrested when he threw a shitfit in a retail store of a sonic figure?
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# ¿ Mar 11, 2015 13:32 |
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Yvonmukluk posted:Oh god. Tabletop playing Cards against Humanity. Skip to 18:25 to witness the crowning jewel of the game. edit: Oh god, Will Wheaton IS the worst human being. I lost it at that story . Neddy Seagoon fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Mar 20, 2015 |
# ¿ Mar 20, 2015 06:32 |
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So who had Loading Ready Run leaving the Escapist next in the betting pool?
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 15:51 |
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DStecks posted:Keep in mind that the fan reaction to Evangelion, specifically how fans sexualized Rei and shipped her with her kinda-sorta-clone-son, basically drove Hideaki Anno into a major depressive episode, and the result was End of Evangelion. The series is about dealing with anxiety and depression (the literal apocalypse serving as an apt metaphor for the sense of pervasive dread these engender); and End of Evangelion is about how lovely otaku are. If I recall right, he was depressed through at least the last third of the show, if not the whole production.
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# ¿ Mar 27, 2015 17:33 |
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achillesforever6 posted:Eureka 7 would be a fun show to discuss, probably my favorite anime other than Hellsing Ultimate and DBZ Abridged Go watch Hellsing Ultimate: Abridged. It's amazing . The only real shame is Team FourStar only do a single OVA of it every Halloween.
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2015 03:21 |
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Compendium posted:Hopefully I can survive long enough to get into the goddamn robot. Bandai's funded a five-year project to try and build a full-scale working Gundam. Frankly it's even-money on a teenager stealing it.
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2015 07:10 |
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OldMemes posted:Holly Christine's bisection of the game on twitter is pretty interesting. Apparently there are five more episodes rready to go. So it's not just a regular trainwreck, part of it's jumped the track and is now barreling downhill towards a suburb?
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2015 11:07 |
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Jay O posted:New musical countdown for those who dig such things: The Top 10 Anime Opening Themes of 2004! Wait, what? Origa's dead?! Noooo....
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 03:05 |
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Cyron posted:I am glad i only watched anime in the 2000's on aldut swim. Pandora agents and wolf rain was my ceiling In term of deep anime. If you want something good that's recent, go check out Death Parade or Mushi-shi.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2015 04:13 |
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Gianthogweed posted:Wasn't she wearing a zero suit of some sort in the first metroid when you entered the Justin Bailey code? Actually it went as far as a bikini depending on if you meet certain Time and Collection % conditions. For all of them through to Super Metroid.
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2015 07:23 |
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Cyron posted:in the first few games it was treated like armor that can be remove in pieces and with the art that show the x-ray in super metriod she wore something skin tight but it looked like something you where at the gym (at least the gym of the future). when the zero suit was brought in, the power armor became something like the power rangers where it morth away by bressing a button. it fine but instead of something in power rangers that is a belt buckle, it a one piece spandex jumpsuit with build in high heels. The high-heels only came in with Other M. And the less said about Other M, the better.
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2015 07:44 |
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Jay O posted:That's absolutely true, but at the same time, Gunpla's definitely available here too! You can even buy Gundam kits and models at Barnes and Noble! (Not the crazy amount of selection they have in Japan, but all the major stuff that gets released at least.) It's just like Gundam movies and TV where a small but passionate contingent of people buy them. It's a niche within a niche. I'd love to see what went into the decision to stock Gunpla at B&N. Just seems like a really weird choice for them. But yeah, it's not exactly hard to get a decent selection outside Japan. Most hobby shops in Australia have a decent Gunpla selection too. Testekill posted:We just need more series' like G Gundam with the Tequila Gundam. That would be Gundam: Build Fighters .
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 12:28 |
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Sad Mammal posted:There's a critic I'd really like to give a plug for since his latest episode is so well done. I give to you: Thew Adams, Transformers toy reviewer: Someone posted that exact video a page or two back . Thew's knockoff beatdowns are great entertainment.
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# ¿ Apr 13, 2015 02:57 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles was a surprisingly good show. How come more people haven't covered Starship Troopers? It was a miniz craze in the late 90s, with a good movie and a decent tv series, and its been popular enough to have three sequels and an OVA ripoff based on the film version and the book, respectively. The only internet critics I've seen touch it are Mike J and Decker Shadow. By the way, check that second guy out. He's a fairly standard critic, but he's covered a lot of interesting sf and horror films on his channel. Roughneck Chronicles was really good, and its an awful shame it got canned in the final stretch before it could finish properly. Seriously, it just ends about three quarters into the final Campaign arc on Earth.
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2015 04:14 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:Does anyone remember the Heavy Gear CGI series on Fox Kids? I think it had a similar sort of visual style. You, me, and maybe two other people in the world . And I'll see your Heavy Gear and raise you War Planets: Shadow Raiders. DRAGONS FOREVER!
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# ¿ Apr 15, 2015 09:54 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:Netflix's selection is slowly getting pretty awesome. Both FMA, Erureka Seven, , All three ARISE films (those any good?), Death Note etc. The Arise OVA's are a new continuity, but yes they're good. Jay O posted:Regardless! The links in this top four go to my reviews/writeups for the show, but all these shows are legally available streaming from either Funimation or Crunchyroll. I'll be reviewing the #1 entry all season long for daily streaming, so that link just goes to my review, but the others link to the multiple-reviewer pages for preview guide, so the one I wrote on any given page is marked "Hope Chapman." You can read everyone's impressions of All The Spring Things here, though! Lots of folks with lots of different reactions and takes. That loving credit song will stay with you for days . It's just a shame the opening theme's pretty generic, because the rest of the soundtrack is fantastically jazzy. It also really needs a good two-cour run (26 episodes) instead of the mere 13 it's getting, but at the very least it'll probably hit most of the "big" stories from the manga thus far.
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2015 07:24 |
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PassTheRemote posted:I liken the ending of AoT anime like the ending of a horror movie, so while I never read the manga, I was not bothered by it. iirc, they're waiting on the manga for more content.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2015 06:55 |
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PassTheRemote posted:I know Big O got its second season due to it's popularity in the US, with Cartoon Network co-producing the second season. Did Cartoon Network have a hand in Space Dandy too, or was it just the simuldub?
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2015 15:51 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:So sage put out another anime abandon video, this one looking at a title called landlock, which is only notable for having shiro masamune do the character design. Honestly, its probably the worst review that bennett has done in a long time, though its not surprising since he literally just plucked it off the shelf. But his jokes weren't funny and he was regressing into the "screaming manchild" internet critic archetype. He's way better when he's talking about a show he loves or has an in depth knowledge of. His "look at stupid poo poo and guffaw" reviews usually fall flat unless the source material is bonkers enough on its own, like ultimate teacher. Yeah, this one really just felt like filler to kill time until Tatsunoko Month.
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2015 06:47 |
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Jay O posted:Yeah, the movie was originally a 2.5 hour cut with a lot more character DO-RA-MA in it, and they made Whedon cut that stuff down to the bare minimum with greater focus on the action and plot. That's why he's said he won't be working on future Avengers films. His beautiful, brilliant character angst was cut. What remains in the film is like all Whedon character drama: effective if you're 13, eye-rolling if you're not. I really enjoyed Age of Ultron, but I fully agree that it got way too heavy-handed with the Whedonisms in the dialogue.
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# ¿ May 3, 2015 05:28 |
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SatansBestBuddy posted:Avengers 2 ditches that and depends entirely on the audience having watched, at the very least, Avengers 1 so you'd know what Loki's staff is, Captain America 2 so you'd know about Shield being destroyed while Hydra is still on the loose, and Guardians of the Galaxy so you'd know the finer details of the Infinity Stones. If you haven't watched those films, you're hosed, as they don't spend any time explaining anything that was explained in those movies, which is a problem because they all have things to contribute to this movie that you wouldn't know about if you'd just watched this movie. I'd disagree on the third one, just because there's enough on its own merit to know that Infinity Stones are bad and we've seen several of them do terrible things in the forms of Loki's Scepter and the Tessaract.
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# ¿ May 3, 2015 05:35 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:I wonder if Whedon has a guy who follows him around with a cue card that says "SHRIEK AS IF IN PAIN" that gets held up every time he finishes a sentence, or if they do it of their own volition, I wondered what the "SCREAM" guy had been doing since Freakazoid ended.
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# ¿ May 3, 2015 13:10 |
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Jack Gladney posted:Doug Walker you oval office Count Duckula is amazing and perfect put that gun in your mouth and pull the trigger Wait, what? How can you not like Count Duckula? Next he'll be saying he doesn't like The Trap Door. BERK! FEED ME!
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# ¿ May 8, 2015 03:57 |
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Tracula posted:Not saying you're wrong but can you cite this? I thought the biggest part of him leaving was his whole emotional meltdown and all. He did actually say exactly that in a blog post or video, I remember seeing it too.
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# ¿ May 13, 2015 11:48 |
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Terrible Opinions posted:I think it is actually directly related to Australia's out doorsy perception, that people think of them as heavy drinkers. In America and a few other places it's assumed if you live in a rural environment you're a drunk. Hence why so many white minority groups in America are assumed to be drunks. Appalachians are getting drunk off tree-bark moonshine made in their backyard stills, Midwest farmers are constantly drinking between murder suicides, trailer park dwellers are spending all their unemployment on booze, and southern yokels only survive their drunk driving by virtue of being the only ones on the road. That's just really, really off-base about heavily-drunk Aussies. They only live as far out as the outer suburbs .
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# ¿ May 15, 2015 15:20 |
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Terrible Opinions posted:Okay my bad. I don't know enough about Aussie stereotypes then. I naturally for an American assumed there was nothing but vast outback and urban Sydney. It goes City, Nice Suburbs (all the old historic/expensive houses), Suburbs, Outer Suburbs, Outback.
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# ¿ May 15, 2015 15:34 |
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Infamous Sphere posted:Great Baywatching episode...but what was the sketch/piece of paper that flew over Eddie's face? Did I miss something? Canberra is a hellish pit full of bloodsucking vermin. It's also built on a swamp and riddled with mosquitoes.
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# ¿ May 16, 2015 18:01 |
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How do you even come up with the idea for wrangling a bull on a beach as an episode opener?
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# ¿ May 16, 2015 18:12 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 13:33 |
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When shall we three meet again? When thy PC ceases to defecate betwixt the sheets of thine bed in constance.
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# ¿ May 19, 2015 02:47 |