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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 01:45 AM
I was thinking that
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"
.hack//Grass Untouched
archaeo 03-Apr-22 01:45 AM
fuck that is so good
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shit
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damn
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I'm cussin it's so good
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 01:47 AM
time to stop Cyouni I don't think you can beat that one
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 01:48 AM
it's kind of my magnum opus
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archaeo
"bayonet" is just a lame way to say "gunblade" tbh
Happy Maria 03-Apr-22 01:48 AM
THIS
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 01:48 AM
Gonna tell that to the army
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 01:48 AM
thank you somebody's got to
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Happy Maria 03-Apr-22 01:48 AM
bayonet is just an AU term where the queen is named Bayonetta instead of Gunnhildr
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 01:48 AM
fuck maria coming in
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 01:49 AM
god
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 01:49 AM
with the chaos dunk
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 01:49 AM
now I'm thinking of how fie's swordpistols are just pistols with little bayonets
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 01:49 AM
little gunblades*
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"little gunblade" is a good band name
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 01:49 AM
Gunknife
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now there's a band name
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Happy Maria 03-Apr-22 01:49 AM
👏
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 01:49 AM
I have to write that one down hold on this thread may not be easily searchable
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 01:49 AM
threads are not easily searchable
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 01:50 AM
Changed the channel name.
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 01:50 AM
they're considered as part of all of offtopic
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 01:51 AM
I mean all I have to do
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all I have to do
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is get to writing chapter 5 before discord shuts down
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then I'll be fine :)
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honestly kind of wondering how long of a list I can get going
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 01:54 AM
I actually had been saving .hack//Gotta Unplug for later
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 01:55 AM
lol
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 01:16 PM
finishing up getting the magic weapons for the vol.
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sword cuddling
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🙂
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so that quest is done
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 01:23 PM
aw
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:16 PM
@Skeith unfortunately it's not really viable to like, read through the whole thing but you can join us if you want
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Skeith 03-Apr-22 11:17 PM
:salute:
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:17 PM
it rules
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we literally just did this last night
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Skeith 03-Apr-22 11:18 PM
Did you watch .Hack//Roots beforehand? You don't need to, but I feel the need to point down that Ovan has always been like this. On the day he met Haseo this conversation happened "What are your favorite color flowers Ovan?" ".....Black...."
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 11:19 PM
Shaia's called it out but it hasn't been required watching for the LP
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:19 PM
I have but not for many many years, though I have checked some stuff to remind myself of things
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I bring it up when it's relevant, such as explaining Phyllo's deal
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I actually was gonna talk about Ovan
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at some point before Vol 3
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 11:20 PM
.hack//Glasses Understanding
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:20 PM
Because Roots does give context to a few things
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surprise: everything is actually Yata's fault
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LettuceKitteh 03-Apr-22 11:20 PM
again
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 11:21 PM
shock
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:22 PM
quelle surprise
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:22 PM
So .hack//roots came out mostly between Vol 1 and Vol 2.
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and as it got late it actually explains a number of important plotpoints
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Basically if you'll recall Haseo's backstory in that what happened was that Ovan Vanished, and Shino explored the lost grounds like the cathedral to find out where he went. Which is where she was killed by Tri-edge--ovan
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What caused Ovan to go missing is this
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Yata had an Alt called Naobi and Naobi ran a guild called TaN that was, basically, a front for project GU
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GU noticed Ovan's super fucked up arm and wanted to find out what the hell his deal was
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 11:24 PM
so basically just Nala
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:24 PM
right--as I said at the time, Yata has a habit of doing this
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So Yata lures Ovan into a trap, and kidnaps him, essentially, and attempts to Analyze his AIDA arm
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this, unsurprisingly, has disasterous results, the arm goes berserk and busts him out of the trap and is now very unstable
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I honestly do not remember what Yata thinks happened with the Arm, I don't think he knew Ovan was AIDA infested but like
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it's Yata
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who can say
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in any event Ovan hides in Hulle Granz Cathedral when Shino finds him there. She runs to him and his arm freaks out and murders her
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:27 PM
oh okay so is his deal just "I'm a monster"
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it's obviously more complicated than that but
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that seems like a pretty solid villainous motivation
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:28 PM
Ovan's got a lot of complications
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:28 PM
he's a glasses guy
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:28 PM
But I can say that like, he didn't want to PK shino
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That was not a thing he could control
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:28 PM
johji
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 11:28 PM
.hack//Gendo Unbound
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:29 PM
also very good
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:29 PM
Indeed
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Ovan does confess what happened to Phyllo
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who, as I said previously
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promises to take his secret to the grave
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Ovan's thing is pretty straight forward though, I think. He's got his weird fucked up arm and he wants Haseo to kill him in such a way that it accomplishes something. And, to do that, he's been throwing lots of misery and complications in Haseo's way as a way of basically training Haseo (edited)
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I think I'm good to say that based on how Vol 2 ended
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 11:31 PM
extended Training Arc
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also Sakaki exists I guess
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:31 PM
yeah it's weird
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:31 PM
And it just so happened that one of the easiest ways to accomplish that involved inflicting tremendous psychological trauma on Atoli (edited)
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Oh, Sakaki was Ovan's tool
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:31 PM
looking forward to the next volume, etc., whenever it pops up, so on and so forth
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 11:32 PM
what a tool
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:32 PM
lool
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:32 PM
Ovan basically gave Sakaki all the rope he needed to hang himself with
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hope that helps clarify the state of play so to speak as vol 2 ends
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:37 PM
so to speak
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rudolf
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Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:37 PM
Heh
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 11:39 PM
the state of The World
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Skeith 03-Apr-22 11:39 PM
Ovan's cruel
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:39 PM
you misspelled "cool"
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we take spelling very seriously in wtichchat
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Skeith 03-Apr-22 11:40 PM
They're not antonyms
ThonkingButCool 3
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archaeo 03-Apr-22 11:40 PM
I meant to do that
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ironically
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 03-Apr-22 11:41 PM
johji
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Shaiapouf
In .hack OG, Skeith had this thing instead
Skeith 03-Apr-22 11:43 PM
Kid me saw this design, thought it was so cool, and now decades later it's my name
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johji
Happy Maria 03-Apr-22 11:51 PM
.hack//George Unrequited
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Skeith
Kid me saw this design, thought it was so cool, and now decades later it's my name
Shaiapouf 03-Apr-22 11:56 PM
Yeah that sounds right
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It's like I said recently, .hack is really the combination of some really bizarre, sometimes incompetent writing and gameplay choices, paired with some of the most absolutely kino shit you ever saw.
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Happy Maria 04-Apr-22 12:04 AM
there are no endrance gifs on discord's gif function
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just endurance
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is... is that what his name was supposed to be
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is this a belldandy situation
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エンデュランス Ende~yuransu
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Shaiapouf 04-Apr-22 12:07 AM
no I am pretty sure Endrance is correct
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you might be r ight though, no one has a good answer for where Endrance's name comes from, and they usually do
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like how Atoli is named for a japanese word for a type of bird
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a finch, specifically
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archaeo 04-Apr-22 12:39 AM
huh
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Zedd-Repulsa 04-Apr-22 12:46 AM
CH: my brain always goes to the recently found sunken ship but I strongly doubt Endrance's player knows more about Antarctica than maybe "it exists and is cold"
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Shaiapouf 04-Apr-22 01:01 AM
@Zedd-Repulsa hey maybe one of you remember, do you know where we learn how sakaki and atoli first met
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I can't remember if it's covered in game or not
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Skeith 04-Apr-22 01:03 AM
It must be in the game, right? Sakaki isn't in Roots and was cut in the G.U. film
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Shaiapouf 04-Apr-22 01:04 AM
It's mentioned on the wiki but unsourced
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Skeith 04-Apr-22 01:04 AM
Ooooh
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Zedd-Repulsa 04-Apr-22 01:13 AM
I don't know that one
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Shaiapouf 04-Apr-22 08:47 PM
Lets dot some hack
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I have two smaller updates planned out before Vol 3, of which this is the first, covering some lingering news related stuff. In a few days I'll dig into the terminal disk
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I've updated my background for the new plot arc lol
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first off, a sci-fi prediction about holographic TVs in The Near Future Of 2017
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mostly though
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we got our final ONLINE JACK of Vol 2.
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Skeith 04-Apr-22 08:51 PM
So little Salvador Aihara left....
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Shaiapouf 04-Apr-22 08:51 PM
As the two of them investigate why Sakaki also has an offline cult of children
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evil children
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"Somewhat related organizations"
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cops intercede (edited)
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So....yeah
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I do think the fundemental thesis of .hack is that children should not be online
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not because it is dangerous and they don't know how to protect themselves
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no no
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but because any sufficiently online 10 year old is a sociopath (edited)
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Atoli, I'll remind you, is 16 years old
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anyways, the last news story is this
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and also this.
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It is wild how Online Jack is only under fire now for TRYING TO FIND THE TRUTH
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As I recall In Universe the company that publishes The World is a subsidary of the company that runs Altimit which means they are basically a computing supermajority
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anyways
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after reading this article we actually get a new post in The Forums
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talking about what happened to Salvador
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"LOL"
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there is also this...very strange thread
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.........hey wait a second
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