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[quote name="Entropy Stew"]Steel is an interesting material. Two chemically identical samples can have radically different properties. Heat up one, beat the shit out of it, then introduce massive shearing force through rapid cooling and you have made sample A four times harder than B. The irregularities introduced into the crystalline lattice through such action are what lend steel its strength. Writing is not steel. Idea fragments are butting up against one another like tectonic plates in yours, even within the span of a single sentence. What happened? Look at this: [quote]So with games, I don�t care to spend countless hours on top of the other countless hours I waste because I just plain suck at all computer games, trying to figure out what the fuck some pale, overworked, fidgety game developer thought at 4AM, after straight downing a 1-Liter Fun Size Mountain Dew, would be a totally boss way to kill the Unholy Dungeon Clown of Lower Buggeria in Faggots of Might and Sodomy VIII. He needs a nap. So do I, but fuck that; I�m a fucking warrior, man.[/quote] The fuck? I needed to break out the slide rule, two protractors, and a fucking plumb bob to calculate what contextual level of nested clause I was mired in before moving on. [quote]Okay, so, another facet of my Brave Sir Strokey McBeard RPG persona is that I almost never ever ever ever ever use special magickal (see, I use the cool spelling of magic � take that, Mr. Internet Dork Tester) items that are consumable and non-replenishing.[/quote] WHY IN GOD'S PERFECT AMERICA ARE YOU WRITING LIKE THE JANITOR? -/ES/-[/quote]