Quote from SirTawmis>>What is the biggest heartbreak your character experienced (besides their own demise)? Was it the demise of another character? An NPC? A weapon or trinket lost forever? Let's hear it.
I have two. My first ever character was a tiefling sorcerer who was being tutored in his magic by Jatt, a quirky old gnome wizard who happened to be blind. This guy was always getting into trouble and me and another PC he always saved him. Years it went on like that. Then the campaign started and as we were escaping the site of a terrible battle with a very angry ancient dragon Jatt, Strongjaw, and Nicco, three NPCs who saved us, were killed as we escaped into the astral plane. The worst part was, 4 or 5 sessions later Covid happened, we lost our game, and our GM moved to South Korea to teach. We never finished the campaign. They weren’t the first NPCs to die either. Besides Nicco, who we didn’t know that well (our GM was running four parties in the same campaign. We were the OGs, but we hadn’t met Nicco before. Jatt and Strongjaw were among our favorite NPCs, along with Evelyn, a sweet young woman who was brutally smashed into a wall by the BBEG after she tried to leap down and assassinate him while we were distracting him. Her plan, not ours.
Recently, my current character lost his magic space chair (spelljamming helm) to a very mean psychic ooze that is probably a great old one. He’s pissed.
All right - new question (because it's almost 4am and I've not fallen asleep yet) - What is the biggest heartbreak your character experienced (besides their own demise)? Was it the demise of another character? An NPC? A weapon or trinket lost forever? Let's hear it.
Oh man, my fighter's entire story arc was one giant heartbreak until the campaign epilogue.
- Falls in love with bard; bard dies saving her in combat - Evil goddess captures bard's soul as collateral to get fighter to be her champion; fighter refuses and condemns her love to eternal torment (cue guilt) - Is framed for serial murders, has to go on the run - Finds out her family is cursed with lycanthropy and her brother, wild with bloodlust, is the murderer framing her - Accidentally joins her brother on a rampage her first full moon - Realizes brother was possessed by evil spirit and reconnects with him the next day; he doesn't remember what he's done - Breaks the news of the murders to him and promises to help him figure it out after the party deals with side quest - and dies during side quest - Many levels later, fighter is resurrected and discovers the world she was trying to save is in ruins, her brother turned himself in to clear her name without knowing she'd died, and the bard is now the undead champion of the evil goddess
And this is only some of the crap she lived through, lol. She got her happy ending, though. Killed the goddess with an arrow through the heart, met up with her brother who was pardoned and living safely in another country, and restored the bard's soul such that he was resurrected and lived happily ever after with her. She's now existing as a high-level NPC in the next campaign, and she's continuing to stick it to the gods and not let life's BS drag her down. I wanna be like her, lol.
All right - new question (because it's almost 4am and I've not fallen asleep yet) - What is the biggest heartbreak your character experienced (besides their own demise)? Was it the demise of another character? An NPC? A weapon or trinket lost forever? Let's hear it.
I had a dragonborn monk whose entire clan got destroyed in a blizzard at his birth, (it was Auril). There was one other survivor, a dragonborn named Balasar who raised him in the ruins of the village. Balasar got some strange disease, and told my monk that he knew of a monastery where he could be healed, so Balasar was taken up there and recovered. They lived at the monastery for a few years, that is where he became a monk. Then, Balasar disappeared mysteriously with no explanation. My monk left the monastery in search of his father, and as the campaign went on he found clues and stuff, but he never found him. The campaign died out, which was really sad because he was a fun character. One of my only characters to not be a full spellcaster. My monk was actually killed by Lathander, but when given the choice, he chose to return from the dead instead of continuing to the afterlife because he was afraid that his father was in danger.
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Boo.
I've been a mod. It's a sucky, generally thankless job, and I try to give DDB's crew the benefit of the doubt whenever I can
But man, do they make it challenging
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Question: Do you punish your dice if they roll poorly for you? (Swap them out during the session for another dice) Do you use Digital Dice on D&D Beyond? If so, do you swap them out if they roll poorly for you?
Let's just keep the purpose of the thread rolling.
All right - new question (because it's almost 4am and I've not fallen asleep yet) - What is the biggest heartbreak your character experienced (besides their own demise)? Was it the demise of another character? An NPC? A weapon or trinket lost forever? Let's hear it.
Come to think of it, in don't believe I've ever played a character who experienced much heartbreak. Unless you count Errich Tosscobble, my first character, whose adventuring career came to an abrupt end after I lost his character sheet lol
Oh no hold on. A while ago, I was playing Curse of Strahd with a couple others. I had this dwarf barbarian who became a gladiator after his daughter was killed while he was out drinking. He never got to fulfill his goal of absolution, for his party was brutally consumed by a 10-foot tall bush monster, before he met with the same fate.
You have to watch out for those bush monsters... (I have no idea what monster it is...)
All right - new question (because it's almost 4am and I've not fallen asleep yet) - What is the biggest heartbreak your character experienced (besides their own demise)? Was it the demise of another character? An NPC? A weapon or trinket lost forever? Let's hear it.
I am currently playing a character who has an unrequited love for another PC. Does that count.
Quote from SirTawmis>>What is the biggest heartbreak your character experienced (besides their own demise)? Was it the demise of another character? An NPC? A weapon or trinket lost forever? Let's hear it.
I have two. My first ever character was a tiefling sorcerer who was being tutored in his magic by Jatt, a quirky old gnome wizard who happened to be blind. This guy was always getting into trouble and me and another PC he always saved him. Years it went on like that. Then the campaign started and as we were escaping the site of a terrible battle with a very angry ancient dragon Jatt, Strongjaw, and Nicco, three NPCs who saved us, were killed as we escaped into the astral plane. The worst part was, 4 or 5 sessions later Covid happened, we lost our game, and our GM moved to South Korea to teach. We never finished the campaign. They weren’t the first NPCs to die either. Besides Nicco, who we didn’t know that well (our GM was running four parties in the same campaign. We were the OGs, but we hadn’t met Nicco before. Jatt and Strongjaw were among our favorite NPCs, along with Evelyn, a sweet young woman who was brutally smashed into a wall by the BBEG after she tried to leap down and assassinate him while we were distracting him. Her plan, not ours.
Recently, my current character lost his magic space chair (spelljamming helm) to a very mean psychic ooze that is probably a great old one. He’s pissed.
Ugh - the first one sounds horrible. Mostly because the game never saw any closure. I was in the same situation, but rather, I was the DM in my case. I was DMing for a party of folks, six people - and only one of them had ever played D&D before - and even so, she'd only been playing 6 months - all the others were her friends. After two years of working in the same port town and laying down some repeating NPCs... I had the party on a wagon, headed to the biggest city on the continent, but it would be several weeks of travel - and had the party engaging with these NPCs who were also traveling with the same caravan - setting up connections - and blam - COVID.
That game hasn't returned. All the other games I ran all went remote. But not that one.
All right - new question (because it's almost 4am and I've not fallen asleep yet) - What is the biggest heartbreak your character experienced (besides their own demise)? Was it the demise of another character? An NPC? A weapon or trinket lost forever? Let's hear it.
Oh man, my fighter's entire story arc was one giant heartbreak until the campaign epilogue.
- Falls in love with bard; bard dies saving her in combat - Evil goddess captures bard's soul as collateral to get fighter to be her champion; fighter refuses and condemns her love to eternal torment (cue guilt) - Is framed for serial murders, has to go on the run - Finds out her family is cursed with lycanthropy and her brother, wild with bloodlust, is the murderer framing her - Accidentally joins her brother on a rampage her first full moon - Realizes brother was possessed by evil spirit and reconnects with him the next day; he doesn't remember what he's done - Breaks the news of the murders to him and promises to help him figure it out after the party deals with side quest - and dies during side quest - Many levels later, fighter is resurrected and discovers the world she was trying to save is in ruins, her brother turned himself in to clear her name without knowing she'd died, and the bard is now the undead champion of the evil goddess
And this is only some of the crap she lived through, lol. She got her happy ending, though. Killed the goddess with an arrow through the heart, met up with her brother who was pardoned and living safely in another country, and restored the bard's soul such that he was resurrected and lived happily ever after with her. She's now existing as a high-level NPC in the next campaign, and she's continuing to stick it to the gods and not let life's BS drag her down. I wanna be like her, lol.
Hah, that's cool that it all looped back around to a happy ending!
All right - new question (because it's almost 4am and I've not fallen asleep yet) - What is the biggest heartbreak your character experienced (besides their own demise)? Was it the demise of another character? An NPC? A weapon or trinket lost forever? Let's hear it.
I had a dragonborn monk whose entire clan got destroyed in a blizzard at his birth, (it was Auril). There was one other survivor, a dragonborn named Balasar who raised him in the ruins of the village. Balasar got some strange disease, and told my monk that he knew of a monastery where he could be healed, so Balasar was taken up there and recovered. They lived at the monastery for a few years, that is where he became a monk. Then, Balasar disappeared mysteriously with no explanation. My monk left the monastery in search of his father, and as the campaign went on he found clues and stuff, but he never found him. The campaign died out, which was really sad because he was a fun character. One of my only characters to not be a full spellcaster. My monk was actually killed by Lathander, but when given the choice, he chose to return from the dead instead of continuing to the afterlife because he was afraid that his father was in danger.
Ah, another where the campaign died out and no resolution was met... Yeesh. Those are the saddest ones, because there's a character, with a story, floating in the void, waiting to finish their tale...
All right - new question (because it's almost 4am and I've not fallen asleep yet) - What is the biggest heartbreak your character experienced (besides their own demise)? Was it the demise of another character? An NPC? A weapon or trinket lost forever? Let's hear it.
For myself, in recent times - I was playing in an Out of the Abyss game - and my Dwarf Fighter fell in love with one of the NPCs, Eldeth, because she was a warrior and he loved strong women.
Well
I am not sure if the DM did this - or it's a part of the Out of the Abyss game itself - Eldeth ends up murdered by another NPC named Buppido - as he was sacrificing and murdering other NPCs along the way - to either become a god or it was for a god - or demon? - Orcus? - I can't recall... but regardless, she ended up dead.
Well, a little while later, my Dwarf gets Madness - and starts hearing voices. Then he picks up an object where - I can't remember if they see their heart's desire was the thing or they see the dead - Well, sure enough I saw her - as real as could be.
I...
Found out Buppido eventually did it when we found him in a sacrificial room - and killed him, along with the party - then cut off his head and shoved it in my backpack - because my character's goal was to explain, if he got out - that she'd died and he killed the murderer and severed his head as proof and show it to them - the idea of showing them the severed head was because of the aforementioned madness... I am sure just telling them the murderer was found and taken care of would have been enough...
Lol, I don't swap digital dice, but I definitely have abandoned the dice roller for Avrae and vice versa.
My brother gave me a die time-out chair with a dunce cap that I use on occasion when I swap dice that are letting me down.
Interesting! You like using Avrae?
*big inhale* Hahahahahahaha.
Actually, Avrae's okay (it just hates me). I really like the lookup feature - monsters, conditions, spells, all with one little command I can type on mobile or PC. I don't use the combat function, but my players and I use it for pretty much everything else. We play over Discord and it's pretty easy once you get the hang of the commands. I'm also accustomed to it because my Discord PbP group has been using it for several years now.
Never tried Beyond20, but I can't stand Roll20's UI and I have no need for a VTT, so I've had little reason to shop around.
My art style hasn't changed much. Way back in 1998, playing 2nd Edition (and then into 3rd Edition eventually) - I had a book I'd bring with me every session - and I'd draw. My friend Paul was the DM.
Lol, I don't swap digital dice, but I definitely have abandoned the dice roller for Avrae and vice versa.
My brother gave me a die time-out chair with a dunce cap that I use on occasion when I swap dice that are letting me down.
Interesting! You like using Avrae?
*big inhale* Hahahahahahaha. Actually, Avrae's okay (it just hates me). I really like the lookup feature - monsters, conditions, spells, all with one little command I can type on mobile or PC. I don't use the combat function, but my players and I use it for pretty much everything else. We play over Discord and it's pretty easy once you get the hang of the commands. I'm also accustomed to it because my Discord PbP group has been using it for several years now. Never tried Beyond20, but I can't stand Roll20's UI and I have no need for a VTT, so I've had little reason to shop around.
You and me both hate the Roll20 interface. My games are 99.999999999999% theater of mind; the only time I use Roll20 is if the party is in a maze type setting.
As for Beyond20 - what's nice is that it's a browser plugin. And when you're on D&D Beyond, you can have the rolls go into any VTT pretty much, or to Discord (or both). So that way, when I am DMing and I have someone roll an attack (or skill check, etc) - I just look in Discord and see what their roll results are.
Question: Do you punish your dice if they roll poorly for you?
I've definitely thrown a d20 or two after five bad rolls in a row. But I don't really have a dice jail or anything; I usually have two or three sets on deck that I'll switch between as I feel.
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I don't punish my dice, no. They're inanimate objects. They have their opinions and their own secret logic and patterns, true, but it isn't possible to change them. You must either accept them or send them away.
Question: Do you punish your dice if they roll poorly for you? (Swap them out during the session for another dice) Do you use Digital Dice on D&D Beyond? If so, do you swap them out if they roll poorly for you?
Let's just keep the purpose of the thread rolling.
my dice are the will of the Powers That Be.
punishing them is foolish, for they all talk to each other in between games. I just grab a different die, lol. My metal dice are often last to be used, lol.
I don’t use digital dice anywhere. Some of my players do, but I don’t.
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I don't punish dice. Sometimes I switch up dice out of whim. Occasionally I'll use DDB dice, but prefer rolling physical dice.
I have never played a character nor run characters in a game that has experienced heartbreak. Characters have experienced death with a mix of fear, surprise, and fearlessness, but not heartbreak. Players, that's another story.
Question: Physical dice rolls. Do you prefer they be contained within something like a tray or tower, or do you encourage the "Stranger Things" style "shooting" of a d20 like it's a game of craps, or somewhere along a spectrum between those two poles? (Waiting for someone to say they insist roles take place between two poles).
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You gotta roll your dice right on the edge of the battle grid. That's the only way you can risk sending them off the table and also risk knocking miniatures out of position at the same time.
You gotta roll your dice right on the edge of the battle grid. That's the only way you can risk sending them off the table and also risk knocking miniatures out of position at the same time.
We call knocking miniatures over a "crit."
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I have two. My first ever character was a tiefling sorcerer who was being tutored in his magic by Jatt, a quirky old gnome wizard who happened to be blind. This guy was always getting into trouble and me and another PC he always saved him. Years it went on like that. Then the campaign started and as we were escaping the site of a terrible battle with a very angry ancient dragon Jatt, Strongjaw, and Nicco, three NPCs who saved us, were killed as we escaped into the astral plane. The worst part was, 4 or 5 sessions later Covid happened, we lost our game, and our GM moved to South Korea to teach. We never finished the campaign. They weren’t the first NPCs to die either. Besides Nicco, who we didn’t know that well (our GM was running four parties in the same campaign. We were the OGs, but we hadn’t met Nicco before. Jatt and Strongjaw were among our favorite NPCs, along with Evelyn, a sweet young woman who was brutally smashed into a wall by the BBEG after she tried to leap down and assassinate him while we were distracting him. Her plan, not ours.
Recently, my current character lost his magic space chair (spelljamming helm) to a very mean psychic ooze that is probably a great old one. He’s pissed.
Oh man, my fighter's entire story arc was one giant heartbreak until the campaign epilogue.
- Falls in love with bard; bard dies saving her in combat
- Evil goddess captures bard's soul as collateral to get fighter to be her champion; fighter refuses and condemns her love to eternal torment (cue guilt)
- Is framed for serial murders, has to go on the run
- Finds out her family is cursed with lycanthropy and her brother, wild with bloodlust, is the murderer framing her
- Accidentally joins her brother on a rampage her first full moon
- Realizes brother was possessed by evil spirit and reconnects with him the next day; he doesn't remember what he's done
- Breaks the news of the murders to him and promises to help him figure it out after the party deals with side quest - and dies during side quest
- Many levels later, fighter is resurrected and discovers the world she was trying to save is in ruins, her brother turned himself in to clear her name without knowing she'd died, and the bard is now the undead champion of the evil goddess
And this is only some of the crap she lived through, lol. She got her happy ending, though. Killed the goddess with an arrow through the heart, met up with her brother who was pardoned and living safely in another country, and restored the bard's soul such that he was resurrected and lived happily ever after with her. She's now existing as a high-level NPC in the next campaign, and she's continuing to stick it to the gods and not let life's BS drag her down. I wanna be like her, lol.
I had a dragonborn monk whose entire clan got destroyed in a blizzard at his birth, (it was Auril). There was one other survivor, a dragonborn named Balasar who raised him in the ruins of the village. Balasar got some strange disease, and told my monk that he knew of a monastery where he could be healed, so Balasar was taken up there and recovered. They lived at the monastery for a few years, that is where he became a monk. Then, Balasar disappeared mysteriously with no explanation. My monk left the monastery in search of his father, and as the campaign went on he found clues and stuff, but he never found him. The campaign died out, which was really sad because he was a fun character. One of my only characters to not be a full spellcaster. My monk was actually killed by Lathander, but when given the choice, he chose to return from the dead instead of continuing to the afterlife because he was afraid that his father was in danger.
I've been a mod. It's a sucky, generally thankless job, and I try to give DDB's crew the benefit of the doubt whenever I can
But man, do they make it challenging
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Question: Do you punish your dice if they roll poorly for you? (Swap them out during the session for another dice) Do you use Digital Dice on D&D Beyond? If so, do you swap them out if they roll poorly for you?
Let's just keep the purpose of the thread rolling.
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Lol, I don't swap digital dice, but I definitely have abandoned the dice roller for Avrae and vice versa.
My brother gave me a die time-out chair with a dunce cap that I use on occasion when I swap dice that are letting me down.
You have to watch out for those bush monsters... (I have no idea what monster it is...)
If the love is not returned, I'd say so!
Ugh - the first one sounds horrible. Mostly because the game never saw any closure. I was in the same situation, but rather, I was the DM in my case. I was DMing for a party of folks, six people - and only one of them had ever played D&D before - and even so, she'd only been playing 6 months - all the others were her friends. After two years of working in the same port town and laying down some repeating NPCs... I had the party on a wagon, headed to the biggest city on the continent, but it would be several weeks of travel - and had the party engaging with these NPCs who were also traveling with the same caravan - setting up connections - and blam - COVID.
That game hasn't returned. All the other games I ran all went remote. But not that one.
Hah, that's cool that it all looped back around to a happy ending!
Ah, another where the campaign died out and no resolution was met... Yeesh. Those are the saddest ones, because there's a character, with a story, floating in the void, waiting to finish their tale...
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Interesting! You like using Avrae?
My problem with Avrae, when this all first went digital was, not "feeling like" I was rolling dice. It felt like an old ... text adventure game.
"You rolled.... 12."
I don't see the dice rolling - the suspense of what I am about to roll.
So once I discovered Beyond20 - and how it can shove rolls into Discord... I was Digital Dice all the way since then.
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For myself, in recent times - I was playing in an Out of the Abyss game - and my Dwarf Fighter fell in love with one of the NPCs, Eldeth, because she was a warrior and he loved strong women.
Well
I am not sure if the DM did this - or it's a part of the Out of the Abyss game itself - Eldeth ends up murdered by another NPC named Buppido - as he was sacrificing and murdering other NPCs along the way - to either become a god or it was for a god - or demon? - Orcus? - I can't recall... but regardless, she ended up dead.
Well, a little while later, my Dwarf gets Madness - and starts hearing voices. Then he picks up an object where - I can't remember if they see their heart's desire was the thing or they see the dead - Well, sure enough I saw her - as real as could be.
I...
Found out Buppido eventually did it when we found him in a sacrificial room - and killed him, along with the party - then cut off his head and shoved it in my backpack - because my character's goal was to explain, if he got out - that she'd died and he killed the murderer and severed his head as proof and show it to them - the idea of showing them the severed head was because of the aforementioned madness... I am sure just telling them the murderer was found and taken care of would have been enough...
It was a lot of fun playing that character.
Was a fun campaign, despite it's oppressing, dark feeling... I even, throughout the campaign, was doing art in MS PAINT, knowing it was purposely bad...
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*big inhale* Hahahahahahaha.
Actually, Avrae's okay (it just hates me). I really like the lookup feature - monsters, conditions, spells, all with one little command I can type on mobile or PC. I don't use the combat function, but my players and I use it for pretty much everything else. We play over Discord and it's pretty easy once you get the hang of the commands. I'm also accustomed to it because my Discord PbP group has been using it for several years now.
Never tried Beyond20, but I can't stand Roll20's UI and I have no need for a VTT, so I've had little reason to shop around.
This art is amazing.
LOL! You need your eyes checked.
My art style hasn't changed much. Way back in 1998, playing 2nd Edition (and then into 3rd Edition eventually) - I had a book I'd bring with me every session - and I'd draw. My friend Paul was the DM.
It's linked in that post - if you want to check out the drawings I did you can see them on my site.
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You and me both hate the Roll20 interface. My games are 99.999999999999% theater of mind; the only time I use Roll20 is if the party is in a maze type setting.
As for Beyond20 - what's nice is that it's a browser plugin. And when you're on D&D Beyond, you can have the rolls go into any VTT pretty much, or to Discord (or both). So that way, when I am DMing and I have someone roll an attack (or skill check, etc) - I just look in Discord and see what their roll results are.
Check out my publication on DMs Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/browse.php?author=Tawmis%20Logue
Check out my comedy web series - Neverending Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wr4-u9-zw0&list=PLbRG7dzFI-u3EJd0usasgDrrFO3mZ1lOZ
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I've definitely thrown a d20 or two after five bad rolls in a row. But I don't really have a dice jail or anything; I usually have two or three sets on deck that I'll switch between as I feel.
That’s half the reason I post so little in these forums.
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I don't punish my dice, no. They're inanimate objects. They have their opinions and their own secret logic and patterns, true, but it isn't possible to change them. You must either accept them or send them away.
my dice are the will of the Powers That Be.
punishing them is foolish, for they all talk to each other in between games. I just grab a different die, lol. My metal dice are often last to be used, lol.
I don’t use digital dice anywhere. Some of my players do, but I don’t.
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I don't punish dice. Sometimes I switch up dice out of whim. Occasionally I'll use DDB dice, but prefer rolling physical dice.
I have never played a character nor run characters in a game that has experienced heartbreak. Characters have experienced death with a mix of fear, surprise, and fearlessness, but not heartbreak. Players, that's another story.
Question: Physical dice rolls. Do you prefer they be contained within something like a tray or tower, or do you encourage the "Stranger Things" style "shooting" of a d20 like it's a game of craps, or somewhere along a spectrum between those two poles? (Waiting for someone to say they insist roles take place between two poles).
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
You gotta roll your dice right on the edge of the battle grid. That's the only way you can risk sending them off the table and also risk knocking miniatures out of position at the same time.
We call knocking miniatures over a "crit."
Look at what you've done. You spoiled it. You have nobody to blame but yourself. Go sit and think about your actions.
Don't be mean. Rudeness is a vicious cycle, and it has to stop somewhere. Exceptions for things that are funny.
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