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My Absence
by SquatMastr- 1 follower
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Sorry I've been away for the past few days I'm a collegiate swimmer and last Thursday at practice a teammate of mine passed away from what is believed to be a rare form of heart attack. I'll be as active as I can in the next week or 2.
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XDBX Cruise
by Burgermauger- 5 replies
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Me and my partner are booked on Carnival Glory for a 7 day eastern Caribbean cruise. With stops in Amber Cove, Dominican Republic -> St Thomas, USVI -> San Juan, Puerto Rico -> Gran Turk, Turks and Cacos. It leaves Febuary 4 and returns Febuary 11. Now I think we should make it a XDBX Cruise ! Who is interested?
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Money Money Money
by grjkie- 16 replies
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Evening guys, I'd like to debate money with you guys here since we are all gamers, we all know a bit about gaming, a few of you work in finance and I'd like your general opinion on a specific gaming subject. Read this article please, http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/15/super-mario-run-downloads-soar-but-investors-arent-convinced.html?__source=yahoo%7cfinance%7cheadline%7cheadline%7cstory&par=yahoo&doc=104170593 Its about SuperMarioRun, will it work? What do you guys think about it, will it help drive the Nintendo stock up? I get it will take at least a couple of months for it to affect the Nintendo stock right? Occasionally I get urges to invest some of…
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Happy New Year Crew
by omarcomin71- 1 follower
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I'd just like to wish everybody a Happy New Year! I love that this crew is still running strong with so many great people! Welcome 2017 and good riddance to 2016! Cheers!
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Merry Christmas to the XDBX crew.
by Brainstick- 1 follower
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A very merry Christmas to all crew members and your families! Wishing you all the good things in life, not just for 2017 but for as long as you can enjoy. Health, happiness and lots of love in a world that's gone crazy. Enjoy each day and don't forget to tell your loved ones how important they are to you! Have a great one, cheers!
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What can you see from your window? 1 2
by Pb76- 1 follower
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Apart from fido le muet, what can you see?
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Just another day for a typical Aussie
by Skorpion- 8 replies
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"What Do You See?" game
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 14 replies
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The game is simple, post a picture and everyone except the host must guess what they see in the picture. There is no wrong answers. The host is free to quote everyone that answered his/her answer if they feel that it's been long enough. *The answer can be as creative as possible as long as it makes sense with the picture* Starting off: What do you see?
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The Start of something new
by Fido_le_muet- 4 followers
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Hey everyone. Some of you may know that the Mrs and I are currently in the process of buying our first house. It's kinda exciting and I can't wait to move in. Hopefully, in a close future, we'll be more than two to live under this roof. Can't wait for that. But before all that fun, there are a few things to work out as some of you, house owners already know. I'll post a few pics later but we need to do some little work before moving in. Thing is, I know absolutely nothing about that I can use a hammer and put together some IKEA furniture but that's about it So, I'm coming to you for some advice. I have tons of questions but I'll ask them one at a …
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Marilyn York, the man's lawyer
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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I seen a commercial for this lawyer and laughed my ass off, I thought it was bullshit but she is for real...
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I know this is a question that some don't like to answer/ rather keep for themselves and that's fine. Share it if you like or just tell me what you think about the candidates. I'm no expert on how it works over there but the media here in the UK is filled with things about your elections. Just wondering what it's like there and what your thoughts are Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere, not been able to find it.
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Random news articles
by Squirrel- 1 follower
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Didn't really find anywhere for this so thought I'd start something new for all the random "news" articles that always clutter my facebook feed. This first one is pretty relavent to us gamers. http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/26/15-undeniable-reasons-that-gamers-make-the-best-lovers-5905938/
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Number Game.
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 11 replies
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It's been a while since I posted a topic, so I'll post something school related, but no-so-math-related. How it works: I'm going to give you a set of numbers and you have to give me a set of numbers that you think fits my rule. Ex. My set of numbers is {25,30,35} and you guessed, {5,10,15} because you think it adds up by 5 each time. Another example My set of numbers is {1,3,9} and you guessed {4,12,36} because you think it multiplies by 3 each time Rules: You can post as many times as you want but the game will end when there is 2-3 page worth of guesses (3 if I think it should go on a little more) If y…
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Getting back to work
by JustHatched- 1 follower
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Most know but some may not that Rose and my business (florist, flower shop) burned back in January and was a total loss, well we are about to reopen with our new building. Opening date is set to October 3rd and we have been quite busy getting the shop stocked with supplies and all the shit needed to get back at it. I will post pics of the inside soon but here is the outside plus a pick of the old shop on fire Old shop
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How did you come up with it? I can never thing of an interesting tag that doesn't look naff, so mine is my initials followed by my year of birth. I do however eat about 76 jars of peanut butter a week.
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Foundations and NonProfit Organizations
by TECHFL227- 2 replies
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Does anyone have any experience starting a Foundation or Non Profit Organization? I would like to do this but am not too sure on how to get started. Google does not seem to be my friend with this topic as I am finding too much conflicting information. Any advice or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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Is buying Name Brand important to you?
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Things like shoes, clothes, electronics, food, whatever.... is it important to you to buy name brand items? I prefer name brand on most things, I guess I feel better with warranties knowing something like Sony for example been in business for years and isn't some 3rd world fly by night company. Clothes I could care less.
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The Diary of Prodigy
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 2 replies
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August, 18, 2016 [PAST] My Career in the Arts of Team Deathmatch and Regular Deathmatch We're all good at something in GTA Online, whether it be races, pvp or the cliche "balance in all aspects". My skill lies in TDM/DM, not so much Freemode due to the constant encounters with greifers, modders, or simply better players. From the start of online, I took interest in pvp that takes place in a certain area of Los Santos under rules. It wasn't that long until I got the hang of pvp and I kept playing it everyday and as a way to make profit online. Sadly I took in what I had to unknowingly, as it was the prime of TDM/DM. As GTA Online introduced Capture, I begun …
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Big changes
by Whiteford99- 2 replies
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My daughter will be leaving for college next week, out of state. I have been really busy getting everything ready. It is going to be a big adjustment for us, not having her around. The upside is she is going to Chadron State College, in my hometown in Nebraska. Where I am still good friends with both the police chief, and the sheriff.
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What is this?
by Lann- 1 follower
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Does anyone know what tree this comes from?
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One year later...
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 0 replies
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So it's been roughly a year since I started drawing during my free time. Thought I'd post some of my favourites. Haven't been drawing ever since Spring Break at this point, but this one is my latest, only and favorite drawing done. Just finished it yesterday. There are more that I've done, I have I think 40 sheets in total and had to use a duo tang to store all of them. Oh and my 1 year anniversary on XDBX is 8 away. Edit: Anniversary is not 6 days away, it's 8 days away according to my profile.
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Locsta (Complex)
by lIIlCompleXlIIl- 4 replies
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So, I've been a member of this crew for a year now, and a fan for a year before that. (ish) Some of you have heard bits and pieces of my story.... figured it was time to share it. I was born in Rockford, IL, lucky enough to have a loving mother and father. They split when I was young, because my father had become heavily addicted to crack cocaine. I moved around quite a bit throughout my young life. At 6 years old, I witnessed my mother being beaten by her boyfriend, and I still have nightmares about it to this day. I see my mother getting punched in the face, and knocked to the floor. The man then continued to beat her, and even bent a corner of the heating v…
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Prodigy's Story
by Prodigy_Rocks_- 1 reply
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Every story has a beginning. Every pro was once a novice, every veteran was once a private...and even the most well known players were once new. When you're focused on the destination, it can be hard the appreciate the journey, and that's what I had experienced on Grand Theft Auto Online. It all began with an ordinary pistol. On March,13,2014 I entered Online for the first time with the crew, Massive Network as my active crew. Immediately vulnerable of what Online had in store, I did what everyone did once during their time on Online and that was to grab a jet. Nothing really was accomplished afterwards and as the months moved forward, I began to play as a lone wolf. Soci…
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Hi guys!
by SBeezy093- 0 replies
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Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't been on much but I e been really sick this week. I've had strep throat and the flu. So I have no voice and my hand bought me a bell to call him ??. Hopefully I'll be on soon with a voice so we can gang out!
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Whats the grossest thing you've seen someone do?
by JustHatched- 2 followers
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Back in my wild drinking days and running around with idiots I once seen a guy get paid a 5 dollar bill to make himself vomit and eat the vomit...
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235Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
Bladerunner (1982) dir Ridley Scott For me, this is one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time. It's a film that has be re-released at least twice. I have seen the original theatrical release, the 1992 Director's Cut, and the 2007 Final Cut. The 1992 version, I think, set the trend for other director's to release Director's cuts of their films. It's certainly the first one I ever saw. However, despite the name, Ridley Scott did not have complete control over that version. He did over the 2007 one, and it's that one that I am reviewing. I could not remember the differences to the 1992 one without looking them up, but both of the later ones get rid of a voice over (a bit like a 1940s detective film) and different ending that got added to the original after feedback from test audiences (I think). It's based on the Philip K. d*ck novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”. The basics of the plot is the same as the book, but the specific story is very different in places. I would recommend the book to anyone who is a fan of serious sci-fi, but it's the sort of book you need to really concentrate on. It was written in 1968 and set in 2019 when that seemed a long way in the future. The world the story is set in is way more advanced than we are now. Harrison Ford plays Deckard, a retired LA cop, a Bladerunner, who specialises in tracking down and terminating rogue androids, called replicants. These are indistinguishable from real humans to all but the experts. Even people like Dekard can only tell for sure by lengthy interrogation of suspected replicants that is designed to show up lack of emotions that real humans have. Replicants are banned from Earth, only supposed to be used on off-world space colonies. Any that do get found on Earth can be killed on the spot. Deckard is brought back by his boss Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh) and his assistant Gaff (Edward James Olmos) because a group of replicants hijacked a ship that was later found abandoned on Earth. They are believed to be in LA seeking their creator, Mr. Tyrell (Joe Turkel). The replicants, at least those that have not already been eliminated, are lead by Batty (Rutger Hauer) and others are played by Daryl Hannah, Brion Jones and Joanna Cassidy. William Sanderson plays Sebastian, a lonely man with a premature ageing disease who makes his on androids (not realistic or dangerous enough to be classed as replicants) and Sean Young plays Tyrell's PA Rachel. The cast are, overall, good, but Rutger Hauer gives the best performance I ever saw of him as Batty varies from charming, to psychopathic, to child-like fearful naïvety. There is a big plot element to do with Deckard and Rachel that I won't spoil, and various things thrown in that have kept some fans speculating as to the true nature of the various characters. If you know the film you will probably know what I am referring to here. I will say that I don't see in the film all the things that some claim to clearly see, but I see enough to agree with the consensus. Also some of the theories about that do not apply to all versions of the film. The sets and cinematography are stunning. It still looks to me well ahead of its time, as does Ridely Scott's Alien, so to me it shows what great film makers could achieve well before they had access to sort of CGI and AI tech available today. It also has a pretty good modern score from Vangelis. The best scene is the penultimate one, just with Batty and Deckard and includes the famous “tears in the rain” monologue that, apart from a few hundred years of technological development, would not have been out of place in a Shakespeare play. 10 / 10 The theatrical version I would only give an 8 to because, although I have only ever seen it once, I do remember the voice-over annoying me and the altered ending, a little bit added on, pointlessly changes the story.- 1
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1,034Two Brothers Playlist (GTA & RDR)
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Up n Atomizers and NPC traffic on high. Each frog for themself. 5 min. https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/job/gtav/Ontwci9ufUu7sojP2x-DBg- 2
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235Rate the Last Film you Watched 2: Electric Boogaloo
What I Watched This Week #172 (Apr 14-20) Alien dir. Ridley Scott/1979/1h57m One of the greatest sci-fi horror films of all time, Ridley Scott's Alien stars Sigourney Weaver as a member of a deep space mining crew who takes a detour to an SOS message on the long journey back to Earth, finding a crashed ship full of eggs. My favourite thing about this film after seeing it so many times is how worn and lived in the ship is. I totally believe that it's real and functional and that this crew has spent months living in it. The opening sequence where we explore the empty ship while the crew is in cryosleep not only builds tension but allows us to take in the incredible details in the production design. Speaking of design, H.R. Giger's design for the xenomorph is the best in movie history (though the lil guy who bursts out of John Hurt's chest is kinda cute and goofy looking). The aggressively ph*llic look of it works well with the very male perspective fear of r*pe and childbirth. The whole cast is excellent, alongside Weaver and Hurt you have Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto, the latter two making a great comedic double team. 9.5/10 Lime's Film of the Week! Now You See Me dir. Louis Leterrier/2013/1h56m Now You See Me tells the story of a group of Las Vegas magicians known as the Four Horsemen (Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco) who rob banks live during their show, distributing the money to their audience. They are being tracked by Mark Ruffalo's FBI agent Rhodes who is determined to uncover their secrets. Totally forgettable fluff, there are some nice moments in here, and I liked the twist at the end even though you can see it coming a mile away. The big trick showpieces are entertaining in that artificial Vegas way that also feels hollow and meaningless. My biggest gripe here is with the four main characters and that I didn't like any of them. Like real magicians I found them to be annoying and so far up their own *sses that I was actively rooting against them every step of the way. The exception is Harrelson, though he comes close at times. There's solid support from Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, with Ruffalo giving the best performance in the film. This is the definition of inoffensive cinematic background noise. 5/10 Cinderella dir. Georges Méliès/1899/6m Georges Méliès here with some more ground breaking work from the dawn of cinema. Not only is this the first film adaptation of Cinderella, it's also the first film adaptation of any fairy tale and also the first film to use dissolves to transition between scenes (with this being his first film with more than one scene). Watching this is to watch the evolution of film in real time, and, like the rest of his work, it's nothing less than magical. This is Méliès becoming more innovative and inventive with his films becoming more complex and technically demanding. The sets and costumes are beautifully detailed and like illustrations come to life. It's amazing to me that a film from the 19th century can still be so magical. 8/10 How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies dir. Pat Boonnitipat/2024/2h7m This family drama/comedy from Thailand stars Putthipong Assaratanakul as M, a lazy young man who has dropped out of college to try and start a streaming career ("wow four viewers" his mother chides early on). When he learns that his grandmother (Usha Seamkhum) has cancer he thinks that he can weasel his way to the top of her will by moving in with her to care for her. A tender and gentle film that also surprises with some pretty dark humour, I found this to be incredibly charming with two excellent lead performances from Assaratanakul and Seamkhum. Seamkhum is particularly impressive in her late in life film debut as the wily old woman who sees through all the bullsh*t from her grandson, but also sees something of herself in him. The plot is fairly predictable - of course the two will grow closer to each other and form a real bond by the time she dies - but the journey to that point, and the touching epilogue, I really enjoyed. There's a lot of family drama with the grandmother's children but it always feels close to reality and not emotionally manipulative or overly melodramatic at any point. 9/10 Shock Treatment dir. Jim Sharman/1981/1h34m Shock Treatment is a sequel to one of my all time favourite films, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and picks up with Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff DeYoung and Jessica Harper) a few years later with their marriage now on the rocks. To rectify this they appear on a TV show with the result being Brad getting committed to a psychiatric hospital run by Dr. Cosmo McKinley (Richard O'Brien) and Janet getting groomed for superstardom. This is perhaps even more bizarre than Rocky Horror, certainly more cynical, with the world now seeming to exists as a series of TV shows, a live studio audience never leaving, sleeping in their seats as the film happens on screens all around them. It's a strange dystopia that seems to predict the dominance TV would have over our lives to an even greater extent in the era of commercialism and Reganomics. If there's not a camera on you then you don't exist, like the antithesis of Rocky Horror's theme of "don't dream it, be it". Many of the Rocky Horror cast returns with the exception of Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as Janet and Brad (though DeYoung and especially Harper do an excellent job in the roles) and most notably Tim Curry. I kept imagining him in the role played by Barry Humphries (most famous for playing Dame Edna Everage), a garishly sleazy host called Bert Schnick. Humphries is great, but we all know Curry would have been better. Another slight let down for me is the soundtrack. As a musical this doesn't really compare with Rocky Horror, though there are some catchy tunes in there, the main theme still popping into my head occasionally. 9/10 #21xoxo dir. Sine Ozbilge, Imge Ozbilge/2019/9m This animated short from Belgium shows a girl (Indra de Bruyn) and her experiences with online dating, hooking up with several men before finding a genuine connection. The most striking thing about this film are the visuals, with the film being rotoscoped, a process where live action footage is traced over by animators giving it natural movement, a process used by Disney for Snow White back in 1937. Here it's given a thoroughly modern makeover, with the screen bombarded with text and images and memes representing the experience of being chronically online. The aesthetic also calls to mind pop art of the 60's, showing that the digital world may be new but the problems of finding a partner are anything but. It's at times overwhelming, purposefully so, but there's still a cohesion between all these elements. The ending is a bit on the nose but it's well done, wrapping the whole thing up maybe a bit too neatly. 7/10 Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves dir. Chintis Lundgren, Drasko Ivezic/2019/18m Another animated short, this time from Estonia, this tells the story of Toomas (Drasko Ivezic), a wolf who is fired after turning down his boss's advances. With a wife and children to support he turns to prostitution and then gay p*rn. Meanwhile, his wife Viivi (Chintis Lundgren) is learning some things about herself thanks to militant feminist Alexandra Horn-Eye (Lee Delong). This reminded me a lot of Bug Diner, another charming and cheeky animation about sexuality and relationships starring anthropomorphic animals. That was stop motion while this is animated in a simple yet effective style, the linework wobbling between frames like Doug, the 90's cartoon. Like Bug Diner, this is also a very mature film with more human characters than a lot of live action films that tackle the same subjects. 8.5/10 No Home But Cinema: The Spaces of Chantal Akerman dir. Jessica McGoff/2025/14m (no trailer for this, so here's one for a similar film) This short essay film explores the films of Chantal Akerman through her use of space and locations, how she films them, how she moves through them and what they represent. McGoff doesn't narrate this film, rather her essay is presented as text on the screen over clips from films that illustrate her points. I like this approach and how it's executed. The text isn't presented in blocks but line by line and is edited with the rhythm of the film clips so that they're unobtrusive and allow you to fully immerse in the various worlds of Akerman. This doesn't go too in depth with any of her observations as they are things you will pick up on by just watching the films, but it would work as a good introduction to her and what to look out for in her work. 7/10 Hotel Monterey dir. Chantal Akerman/1973/1h3m (no trailer so have an extended clip) Staying with Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterey is an observational documentary in which she explores the titular hotel, a cheap one in New York where she stayed when she first moved to the city, from the lobby to the roof. It starts off at night where her camera captures people milling about in the lobby, taking the elevators up and down. She then prowls the corridors like a ghost, her very formally structured compositions bringing out the textures of the grimy yellow walls. Methodically we move upwards until we are on the roof, it is day now, and the feeling of escape is palpable. We do this all in silence, and I mean total silence. No music, no background noise, nothing. Not only does this make us even more aware of what we're seeing on screen, but it also makes us aware of our own environment. An exploration of space is happening on the screen and in real life at the same time and it's kind of amazing once you notice that. It's like Akerman speaking out of time saying here I am, where are you? This also feels like a prelude to her masterful film News From Home, in which she takes the same approach but expands it to the whole city, though this time with sound. This totally isn't for everyone, it's not even close to what you'd call entertaining, but if you give it a chance you'll get so much out of it. 8.5/10- 1
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