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Last time, we died multiple times, finally made it to Solomon Shrine, took down the evil wizard Jenocres, and then rescued a mysterious girl who no one seems to know from the shrine's basement. Now, it's time to go see what's going on in the depths of the shrine, since we still haven't found this mysterious black-robed figure people are talking about who stole the village's silver bell.

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"really, I prefer to call it sdo stew when it's being made, and sdi stew when it's being served."

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people mentioning "pure evil" makes me wonder just what the best process for purifying evil is

is it distillation? zone refining? total synthesis? can you use the czochralski process on evil?

i was wondering where that came from

oh did doom and animal crossing both come out today? is that why people have been making memes about isabelle and the doom guy?

that's enough stackexchange for today.... just saw someone asking what amounts to "i built a tesla coil but when i turn it on and touch it i get shocked, what did i do wrong"

( @connie not sure I understand why you're boosting that now! the stream's been over for a while now )

so uh

how does a rent strike actually work anyway

people are talking about it and we?? might want to participate? but don't know exactly what to do, how to not just get kicked out or forced to pay or

but our rent prices have been going up and are about 10-20% higher than they were when we started living here so

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had a thought about 4x games, civ in particular

you always have the generic "barbarians" faction who are in game design terms meant to just give you some fodder to train your early military against before you meet other civilizations

what if you had a game where, instead of that, or perhaps in addition to that, all other players' civilizations and all city-states appear as barbarians until you research the appropriate technology to communicate with them

*in particular*, ones who start close to you (perhaps on the same continent?) would be easier to initiate contact with, while ones who are far away you won't be able to have your civilization view as equals until well past the age of exploration, on the grounds that their culture and language is much too different for your age-of-exploration colonialist empire to recognise as civilized

it'd also help if starting times and/or technology costs were staggered or different for each player, so that there can be a significant imbalance even for players who know how to play the game

this would definitely give the player a bit more of an understanding of how Bad colonialism is in general by giving a more realistic simulation of how it happens, i think

...hmm. how terrible an idea would it be to add pepper juice to a vegetable juice mixture

is capsicum the best fruit?

probably not, but it's a pretty great one

it feels really weird and strange when someone with a photo of a human face as an avatar replies to me

actually I guess they probably did have wasabi, hmm

it's really weird to think that before european contact with the americas, the hottest spice europe, asia, and africa had access to was black pepper