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Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Title. This term is probably the one where it finally happens but what are your thoughts on this topic? Do YOU support nonhuman heads of staff? Why??
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
It would be cool to have the option. It would create an interesting dynamic with the silicons for the acting captain to be nonhuman.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
100% no and if it does get slammed through I'll start rolling human just to law 2 annoy them. QM shouldn't be a head either infact just remove nonhuman from being secoffs too.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
no. i'm still in utter disbelief that QM became a head.
NT is an apathetic, cold and cruel organization. they don't respect non-human rights and it adds an interesting element to playing a non-human.
i personally don't like overt thinly veiled racism masquerading as "speciesism" because it's low effort but i think there is a lot of compelling depth to the asymmetric nature of humans having more rights and privileges than non-humans in a science fiction setting.
also, we'd have to make asimov give the same protections to non-humans unless the AI just decides to bolt and kill the lizard captain the moment they try to stop a human antag
it just feels like it would be sanding the sharp edges off the setting and will make it a lot less compelling in that regard. and i say this as someone who only plays a non-human static so i don't benefit from any of this.
NT is an apathetic, cold and cruel organization. they don't respect non-human rights and it adds an interesting element to playing a non-human.
i personally don't like overt thinly veiled racism masquerading as "speciesism" because it's low effort but i think there is a lot of compelling depth to the asymmetric nature of humans having more rights and privileges than non-humans in a science fiction setting.
also, we'd have to make asimov give the same protections to non-humans unless the AI just decides to bolt and kill the lizard captain the moment they try to stop a human antag
it just feels like it would be sanding the sharp edges off the setting and will make it a lot less compelling in that regard. and i say this as someone who only plays a non-human static so i don't benefit from any of this.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Nahh, they won't do it. It goes against the ss13 society too hard
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
i dont have a strong opinion either way but ive seen people suggest stuff like "ce should be open to plasmamen specifically because that would be something nt would do for the sake of convenience" and im more open to that idea of very selective nonhuman heads
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Yesterday due to acting captains and promotions we had a lizard captain, moth CE, cat CMO, and a moth RD.
Then a human captain joined and there was a power struggle but we had to leave due to a bad power sink before anything could come of it.
Then a human captain joined and there was a power struggle but we had to leave due to a bad power sink before anything could come of it.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
No
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
non human CE and CMO would be cool add it please
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Yes, non-human heads would be cool and just give people more options to customize their characters. I don't think there would be any issue with either asimov being expanded to include non-humans or crewsimov being the default. But I also think it would be fine for asimov to stay the way it is and still have non-human command. If you decide to play non-human command in that case you would just be accepting the risk of the AI fucking with/killing you, which is already how it works for QMs and non-human security, or really any non-human crew.
Asimov is soul and I think it's really cool that isaac asimov's sci-fi writings have become a part of this game, but humans don't NEED special asimov protections/command benefits imo, they're already pretty much the "best" race simply by virtue of not having any major downsides. I'd still like to see some kind of version of asimov as the default lawset though.
Asimov is soul and I think it's really cool that isaac asimov's sci-fi writings have become a part of this game, but humans don't NEED special asimov protections/command benefits imo, they're already pretty much the "best" race simply by virtue of not having any major downsides. I'd still like to see some kind of version of asimov as the default lawset though.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
NT's human supremacy is one of the few lore threads we can actually use
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
It's ALWAYS correct to arrest the qm for "trespassing" into bridge because he's not a real head. Having human supremacy is unique and awesome.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
No. There are servers that cater to that experience. We are not one of them, nor should we ever be. Doubt the headmins would consider it.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Absolutely not. No geckos, no space pussy, no bungus, no lamps. Only humans.
You start with the fleshless and the animals and the lamps and next you're asking if it's ok for AI to be command.
You start with the fleshless and the animals and the lamps and next you're asking if it's ok for AI to be command.
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Armhulen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:08 pmThe Spessmen Times wrote:Prohibition agent Sam Salamander bragged that he could find a metacord in any server in under 30 minutes. In Bagil it took him 21 minutes. In Sybil 17 minutes, and Manuel just 11 minutes. But Terry set the record of 35 seconds. Sam asked an assistant on the arrivals shuttle where to get a discord invite, and the assistant linked him one.
RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:52 pmIt would somehow manage to pick Birdshot Station for headmin if we did that
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
I'm actually more okay with AI being command than Lizards. Has anyone done a captain AI round?
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
I'm 50/50 either way honestly. I think it would be neat but I also realize that it would throw out interesting roleplay potential.
Granted, 95% of the time the only speciesism I see is just "I hate liggers" tier stuff though.
If it ever were to go through I'd probably just say "Oh, neat" and carry on. I guess that's because I play as a human and I don't like command roles so I'm as far away from having any stakes in this as I can be while still playing SS13.
Granted, 95% of the time the only speciesism I see is just "I hate liggers" tier stuff though.
If it ever were to go through I'd probably just say "Oh, neat" and carry on. I guess that's because I play as a human and I don't like command roles so I'm as far away from having any stakes in this as I can be while still playing SS13.
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Super Aggro Crag wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 5:11 pm I assume he did it elsewhere because it's fucking goofball and he never half-asses his shitty ideas, he full asses them so both cheeks are absolutely slathered in shit
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
I need to play Manuel more, then.RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 2:52 am I'm 50/50 either way honestly. I think it would be neat but I also realize that it would throw out interesting roleplay potential.
Granted, 95% of the time the only speciesism I see is just "I hate liggers" tier stuff though.
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Armhulen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:08 pmThe Spessmen Times wrote:Prohibition agent Sam Salamander bragged that he could find a metacord in any server in under 30 minutes. In Bagil it took him 21 minutes. In Sybil 17 minutes, and Manuel just 11 minutes. But Terry set the record of 35 seconds. Sam asked an assistant on the arrivals shuttle where to get a discord invite, and the assistant linked him one.
RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:52 pmIt would somehow manage to pick Birdshot Station for headmin if we did that
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
We occasionally have people who make it their sole personality trait to be speciesist but it usually gets beat out of them for lack of a better word. (often quite literally)conrad wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 2:55 amI need to play Manuel more, then.RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 2:52 am I'm 50/50 either way honestly. I think it would be neat but I also realize that it would throw out interesting roleplay potential.
Granted, 95% of the time the only speciesism I see is just "I hate liggers" tier stuff though.
The highlight by far was when a cargo tech kept rambling on about lizards using the word ligger and whatnot and suddenly three lizards came barging in, one stunprods the guy, the other ties him up with zipties, then they took turns head-bashing him into a table I set up by the cargo bay cargo console where I put the stamps and a folder for the reqi forms. They did it for a solid 45 seconds, but to be fair the guy was being annoying.
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Super Aggro Crag wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 5:11 pm I assume he did it elsewhere because it's fucking goofball and he never half-asses his shitty ideas, he full asses them so both cheeks are absolutely slathered in shit
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
I was once promoted to captain as AI by the prior captain who was going AFK. I sat in a meeting (as a hologram) with the HoP, as my assistant, and the QM, who wanted Cargonia as an independent state. We came to the agreement that Cargonia would return, or pay for, any equipment that they had obtained from the rest of the station, and that a wall with a border checkpoint would be constructed. Unfortunately, before we could set up the border, a Lone Ops spawned and silently activated the nuke.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Let people play how they wanna play
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
I think it'd be interesting to see non-human, non-captain heads of staff (possibly limited by department), but to keep on Asimov as the default. Yes, this means non-human command don't enjoy AI protections unless someone starts getting wacky with the lawsets, but that's part of the fun of it, isn't it? NT strikes me as a company that would gleefully talk up how progressive they're being while leaving every possible microaggression intact to remind the rank and file who's really in charge. This allows for people to roleplay characters in positions of authority while still being subject to bureaucratic pains in the ass. CentComm would no doubt be extremely passive-aggressive (or active-aggressive) about it if they think one of the charity hires is getting too mouthy, you know?
I'll note that I mostly run non-human characters who don't run departments, and I don't think I've ever formally invoked a law unless saying "please" over comms counts, so YMMV.
I'll note that I mostly run non-human characters who don't run departments, and I don't think I've ever formally invoked a law unless saying "please" over comms counts, so YMMV.
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Oh yeah that's me. I get beaten up, tied up and displayed for all too see. Love the attention. Never used ligger though. It's lazy, uncouth and now gets you valided. Much better to just call them silly lil' names and spray paint their face.RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 2:57 am We occasionally have people who make it their sole personality trait to be speciesist but it usually gets beat out of them for lack of a better word. (often quite literally)
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Armhulen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:08 pmThe Spessmen Times wrote:Prohibition agent Sam Salamander bragged that he could find a metacord in any server in under 30 minutes. In Bagil it took him 21 minutes. In Sybil 17 minutes, and Manuel just 11 minutes. But Terry set the record of 35 seconds. Sam asked an assistant on the arrivals shuttle where to get a discord invite, and the assistant linked him one.
RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:52 pmIt would somehow manage to pick Birdshot Station for headmin if we did that
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Having non human heads of staff might mean I will not get CE every round.
Actually that's a good thing. I think it's sometimes nice to be shoved into another role instead. A lot of non human engis/Atmos techs in Manuel are pretty good at it, and deserve to be CE.
As long as there are still lots of humans around.
Actually that's a good thing. I think it's sometimes nice to be shoved into another role instead. A lot of non human engis/Atmos techs in Manuel are pretty good at it, and deserve to be CE.
As long as there are still lots of humans around.
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challenging an unfair and prejudiced culture is part of the roleplay opportunities and rounds where people accept and elevate non-humans to command roles through IC promotions is part of what would be lost if we smoothed it all out
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NO XENOS IN MY COMMAND ROLES.
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Armhulen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:08 pmThe Spessmen Times wrote:Prohibition agent Sam Salamander bragged that he could find a metacord in any server in under 30 minutes. In Bagil it took him 21 minutes. In Sybil 17 minutes, and Manuel just 11 minutes. But Terry set the record of 35 seconds. Sam asked an assistant on the arrivals shuttle where to get a discord invite, and the assistant linked him one.
RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:52 pmIt would somehow manage to pick Birdshot Station for headmin if we did that
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
I don't hate it (especially the concept of it not being a blanket acceptance but something like "Plasmamen can be CE but nothing else") but also I don't care enough to push for it against entrenched culture.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Oranges already said ages ago that he'd approve it when I suggested it as a station trait as long as the chance of it rolling was low enough. Any coder can already make this a thing and there is nothing anyone can do to stop this.
I think the only thing it would change is allowing competent players who don't play human to take head roles and having more varied rounds rather than the same four people taking the role. The people clutching their pearls and crying "wahh m-my l-lore" can just handle it IC the same way some people still bully the QM for pretending to be a head.
I think the only thing it would change is allowing competent players who don't play human to take head roles and having more varied rounds rather than the same four people taking the role. The people clutching their pearls and crying "wahh m-my l-lore" can just handle it IC the same way some people still bully the QM for pretending to be a head.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
We need more command players
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you say this but I swear you've used a non-humans as a centcom commander at least a few timesdendydoom wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:44 pm no. i'm still in utter disbelief that QM became a head.
NT is an apathetic, cold and cruel organization. they don't respect non-human rights and it adds an interesting element to playing a non-human.
i personally don't like overt thinly veiled racism masquerading as "speciesism" because it's low effort but i think there is a lot of compelling depth to the asymmetric nature of humans having more rights and privileges than non-humans in a science fiction setting.
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ye this is an oversight on my part cus i'm using my default static when i observe. i should really make a human character for adminning rounds but it never crosses my mind in the moment to do so and when i need to drop in as a commander to do something it's usually on a time crunch.Bmon wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 3:07 pmyou say this but I swear you've used a non-humans as a centcom commander at least a few timesdendydoom wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 9:44 pm no. i'm still in utter disbelief that QM became a head.
NT is an apathetic, cold and cruel organization. they don't respect non-human rights and it adds an interesting element to playing a non-human.
i personally don't like overt thinly veiled racism masquerading as "speciesism" because it's low effort but i think there is a lot of compelling depth to the asymmetric nature of humans having more rights and privileges than non-humans in a science fiction setting.
basically i'm breaking the lore, being a hypocrite and i deserve to be destroyed
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
I'm very torn on this.
Cons:
NT is apathetic to life and doesn't care about people or rights, only profit margins.
It makes nonhumans more unique and builds RP where they can have non-violent conflict with command.
It would be weird with jobs that have technical access to the AI Upload not being allowed to law 2 the AI.
Many believe it's part of ss13's soul.
Pros:
NT is so apathetic that it makes me doubt if they would care about "species superiority" on the frontier.
We have more people willing to play command staff.
Nonhuman heads conflicting with the AI would be good for keeping the AI as a third party faction.
I've seen just as many servers with nonhuman heads.
Yeah I still can't decide.
Cons:
NT is apathetic to life and doesn't care about people or rights, only profit margins.
It makes nonhumans more unique and builds RP where they can have non-violent conflict with command.
It would be weird with jobs that have technical access to the AI Upload not being allowed to law 2 the AI.
Many believe it's part of ss13's soul.
Pros:
NT is so apathetic that it makes me doubt if they would care about "species superiority" on the frontier.
We have more people willing to play command staff.
Nonhuman heads conflicting with the AI would be good for keeping the AI as a third party faction.
I've seen just as many servers with nonhuman heads.
Yeah I still can't decide.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
No... Also get rid of felinids.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Noo u dont understand my oc donut cant be held down by the confines of the setting they're too quirky and crap u dont understand
dont u dare tell people how to roleplay u bastaard
dont u dare tell people how to roleplay u bastaard
Lower your tone with me if your tracked play time doesn't look like this:Timonk wrote:You have clearly never seen his dickWesoda25 wrote:Genuinely think they should be blacklisted.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Yes and no. Imo something like plasmaman Ce would make sense but I’m still not sure about it.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
And it was super cool BECAUSE that's not the default.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
It's only bait if you bite it.
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Armhulen wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:08 pmThe Spessmen Times wrote:Prohibition agent Sam Salamander bragged that he could find a metacord in any server in under 30 minutes. In Bagil it took him 21 minutes. In Sybil 17 minutes, and Manuel just 11 minutes. But Terry set the record of 35 seconds. Sam asked an assistant on the arrivals shuttle where to get a discord invite, and the assistant linked him one.
RedBaronFlyer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:52 pmIt would somehow manage to pick Birdshot Station for headmin if we did that
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
im very torn on this:
pros:
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cons:
- fucking nonhumans
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cons:
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joooks wrote:Quoting a legend, at least im not a faggot lolNaloac wrote:
In short, this appeal is denied. Suck my nuts retard.
See you in 12 months unless you blacklist me for this
Timberpoes wrote: ↑ I'm going to admin timonk [...]. Fuck it, he's also now my second host vote if goof rejects.
pikeyeskey13 wrote: ↑ ok don't forget to shove it up your ass lmao oops u can delete this one I just wanted to make sure it went through
Agux909 wrote:Woah bravo there sir, post of the month you saved the thread. I feel overwhelmed by the echo of unlimited wisdom and usefulness sprouting from you post. Every Manuel player now feels embarrased to exist because of your much NEEDED wise words, you sure teached'em all, you genius, IQ lord.Timonk wrote:This is why we make fun of Manuel
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Limitation breeds creativity
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
Banned for ERP
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I play Eugine Adrian Hynes on Manuel, I'm very uncool.
Cleaner of floors, eater of beef jerky, and long time coward.
I play Eugine Adrian Hynes on Manuel, I'm very uncool.
Super Aggro Crag wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 5:11 pm I assume he did it elsewhere because it's fucking goofball and he never half-asses his shitty ideas, he full asses them so both cheeks are absolutely slathered in shit
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
No. I want my Asimov to stay, and if we get non-human heads we will get some people bitching about how we should on crewsimov more then they already do.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
No, asimov and it's more interesting when they actually do become a head through other means.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
People commented on it and went "Hey that's weird" but other than that nothing really came of it. Maybe something cool would have happened if not for the aforementioned power sink and resulting delam.
On Bagil at least it feels like we have nonhuman captains more often than human since the pool of head players is already tiny, and acting captains are the norm most shifts anyway.
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Re: Nonhuman heads of staff, yay or nay?
non-human HOS sounds like the worst idea, its bad enough when the warden and officers are nonhumans so the AI completely ignores them.
kieth4 wrote: infrequently shitting yourself is fine imo
There is a lot of very bizarre nonsense being talked on this forum. I shall now remain silent and logoff until my points are vindicated.
Player who complainted over being killed for looting cap office wrote: ↑Sun Jul 30, 2023 1:33 am Hey there, I'm Virescent, the super evil person who made the stupid appeal and didn't think it through enough. Just came here to say: screech, retards. Screech and writhe like the worms you are. Your pathetic little cries will keep echoing around for a while before quietting down. There is one great outcome from this: I rised up the blood pressure of some of you shitheads and lowered your lifespan. I'm honestly tempted to do this more often just to see you screech and writhe more, but that wouldn't be cool of me. So come on haters, show me some more of your high blood pressure please.
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