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In Line for Episode II
Dave_B93 writes: "They're at it already! According to The Force.net, Two Guys have already started lining up for Episode II (To be released May 16, 2002). Updates will be posted at www.SeattleStarWars.com and at their own website www.WaitingForStarWars.com will be up soon."
I _know_ I have better things to do - that's why I'm here replying to such drivel @ 6:30am ;)
"Sanity is not statistical", George Orwell, "1984"
Come on I would have committed suicide after waiting in line 3 months and finally seeing "Phantom Menace"
Wait a minute, waiting for Star Wars E2 or Lord of the Rings E2?
Now, if it was LOTR, I'd be much more sympathetic.
They must be some really big 'N SYNC fans!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
One day, this will be something they'll tell someone else's grandchildren about.
well I guess 4 months of suffering beforehand might make episode 2 actually enjoyable (maybe a lot of mind bending drugs would be needed as well).
Is it me, or does this seems like one of those cons from the old days. Where you have a few guys start screaming I want one I want one, to get the crowd in on the hype.?
Episode II? I waited in line a whole month for this? What the hell!
Why bother.
Just because there are two people waiting to download it off the internet already, doesn't mean their waiting in line.
No, really...
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By having these guys stand in line, they're effectively removing themselves from society where they cannot be a danger to the rest of us.
I wonder if, while they're waiting, they're listening to N'Sync CDs.
I have suddenly changed my opinion on human euthanasia.
it would be nicely ironic if one of them got cancer right after the movie (which will suck) and ended kicking themselves for wasting such a large block of their life.
Maria Gardner, UConn 1983, 7 month, 14 days, 18 hours and 12 minutes.
By having these guys stand in line, they're effectively removing themselves from society where they cannot be a danger to the rest of us.
It is extremely likely that these men will never have sex. Thus, they will be unable to procreate. However, there's no telling how frequently they've donated sperm. Luckily, I'm sure it can be tracked and destroyed.
Why bother.
"To be released May 16, 2002"
That week in May is the time when college students are cramming last minute for finals and finishing up the semester. bad timing...
There is no
Can someone please explain to me how standing in line for a movie three months ahead of time is a good idea? No matter what you weren't the first to see it. Plus, not only does it preclude gainful employment, it brands one's forehead with the words, "Utterly Pathetic Dork."
You know, the funny thing is, I'm not even trying to flame -- it's just that most of the world looks at people like that with the same sort of expression that they reserve for hare krishnas.
"Look, Helen, it's one of those Jedi weirdos...I wonder if they know it isn't real."
What a scam...if they're standing in line, how are they updating their website?
Not my cup of tea anymore. I saw Episode 1 and
did not like. I doubt I will like 2. Star Wars now sucketh and I accept that with great despair but I move on with hopes for other things. LOTR was nice. And there's always hope for a Neuromancer movie that has a Radiohead/Janes Addiction soundtrack to it.
Are these people youngsters living with their parents still? Or "oldsters" living with said mommy and daddy?
They don't appear to have jobs, but yet are tracking everything with "cameras and journals." Is this some sort of government-sponsored "art" project?
Seriously, where does the part about making a living and contibuting to society come in?
Or do they each have to take an hour a week to run down to the unemployment office for their checks, and let the lady know that they applied for work at "Vandelay Industries..." (They make rubber; I'm going to be a rubber salesman.)
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These guys may be a bit extreme in their enthusiasm, but that just shows how good the previous movie was, to inspire such devotion.
This little stunt will only end in tragedy. They'll get their names in the papers, and wind up meeting Uber-Trekkies. The resulting union will result in offspring that will make the monsters in Aliens, seem like the Olsen Twins.
I weep for mankind.
Everyone knows finals week is a time for getting drunk and laid. I don't know about this study thing that guy was talking about.
That is fucking stupid.
Now they can't jerk off for four months(i assume they don't have girl friends...)
Maybe they are enuchs...
lets-do-something-outragious-and-get-slashdotted dept.
Come on. This has to be another one of those "look at me" stunts. Would they do this if they didn't have a web site, and subbmitting it to slashdot? Mike, how many submitions did you get about this?
Hey I've got a web site. How about I go wait in line for LOTR:TT? At least it will live up to the hype...
Masturbation?
If you were these guys, would you be attracted to yourself?
Here's a summary of the basic categories expected to appear in this story's discussion:
1. "This/these guy(s) will never get laid! Dork(s)! huhuhuh. No kids for this/these guy(s)."
2. "Phantom Menace sucked! Why would anyone bother with another George Lucas thing."
3. "Back in my day, Episodes 4,5,&6 were really decent...(blahblah)... Now we've got N'Sync in SW."
4. "Check out these hot Natalie Portman sex shots!"
5. "Here's a post summary for this story..."
Did I miss any?
Why bother.
I'm gonna sit here at home for 2 years until it comes out on TV!! Top that you posers!
I think their girlfriends will keep the site up to date for them.
Why bother.
The site will soon be down if you continue posting it on Slashdot... :)
Hey, Jeff?
Yeah, John?
Just in case there is anyone out there who still doesn't know that we have absolutely no life whatsoever, let's put this on a web site!
Great!
Ad luna, Alicia! Ad luna!
Well, I have to admit, this is one way to get your '15 Minutes of Fame.'
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Think about it. They're, what, 20-something? And what they are doing now they will remember as being the best time of their "lives." They didn't cure cancer, they weren't the first on Mars, no, they stood in line for five months for a two-hour movie. They'll be sitting around the "retirement village" and boring those around them with the retelling of what happened on day 37 for the umpteen millionth time.
It's entertainment. It's not real, it's meant as a temporary escape. If you're willing to spend five months waiting for a two hour escape, forsaking all real human contact for a brief work of fiction, what you should be waiting in line for is a shrink.
Seriously, how can these people differentiate what they're doing from what the crack whore is doing just a few blocks away?
I wouldn't even stand in line for 3 minutes to see this.
If episode I was anything to go by, episode II will be a pile of steaming dingos turd !
Someone do us all and mankind a favour and get those guys eliminated from the face of the planet !
May the fart be with you
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Hm. My birthday. Will this follow the trend of "even year, good present" or "even year, moldy socks"?
"Why Subscribe?" Good question...
I don't think I could get away with taking a four month leave of absence to stand in line for ANY movie. Then again, I actually have to work for a living, so who am I to judge.
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After the Jar-Jar debacle, it just seems this is a bit less prestigious. Not as bad as, say, WIL for Grease II, but certainly not the glorious pursuit of WIL of LoTR. But with the rise in unemployement maybe there'll be more doing this. There's always retraining thru the local Uni Extention or Community College they could do on-line, assuming they're wireless and someone keeps their batteries charged. Best of weather to 'em.
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I just happen to have the place in line that's the exact distance from the movie theater to my house.
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... what a sad pair of tossers!
"Wow, if this is all some people can think of how to spend their time and money, the economy must be worse off than we thought."
Humorless sig goes here.
that SW fans are the geekiest. They even beat out those weirdo ST fans who learn klingon. Some say SW and ST are fiction. I say it depends who you ask.
Talk about not having something better to do. These guys would be beter off if I told them how it ends...
Skywalker dies...
At the hands of his son...
In another movie.
Now you can go home and take a bath.
Fast machines, powerfull AI, impulsive invention,... All I lack is a good espresso machine!
I mean it's not like the MPAA would ever limit it's opportunities to wring every last possible copper out of moviegoers. That's one reason I refuse to line up for movies...or almost anything else for that matter. I'll give someone money for a good or a service, but I sure as hell don't consider it a privlege to do so and won't waste MY time waiting in line just so I can make them wealthier.
You're using her as bait, Master!
Hire a battlebot to stand in for you, put a web cam on it, remote it from your cubicle, head over once a day to change fuel, and you can keep your job.
That spinning one made by the nice amish-hat guys would do nicely, methinks.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
So two guys are camping outside a movie theatre for 4 months. Couldn't they eventually be forced off the premises or arrested for vagrancy?
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
I remember my mom telling us that when she was a kid in the 30s, the 'rule' was that you had to have 27 cents on your person or else they could haul you in for vagrancy... wonder if there is in fact a number value still? There's always the 'attractive nuisance' statutes.
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Up here in North Dakota two guys waited in line for Episode 1 for like 2 weeks, had tents out and everything. Then the day of the show, 2 hours before they could get in, they got arrest for smoking pot. The guys in line started a fund to bail them out, but noone really cared. They were all just happy to get further up the line!
It's not the OS it's the user that sucks. If it's user friendly, you get stupider people. - clinko
I want to make it known, here and now, that if I ever do anything like these two are doing I want somebody to have the common decency to shoot me.
Please.
Who did what now?
Please note that all 5 categories will go to see Episode II, regardless of how badly they think it will suck.
Why bother.
We wanna.
It will be captured by time-indexed photographs taken every hour as well as pictures and video of the people we interact with.
We know that the citizens of Seattle will see right thru this ruse and we're armed to the teeth with the Big Book of Geek Snaps and a fart machine. Bring it on, coffee boy.
This project also explores the issue of the pursuit of happiness.
We wanna we wanna we wanna!
It asks how much will a person sacrifice for a temporary acquisition, and questions whether a person can be happy with just food and shelter in pursuit of that acquisition.
Yeah, and peeing. Oh, the peeing. Dude, we sooooo underestimated the peeing thing. So just "food, shelter and a place to pee". The catheters cost way too much and we've never seen a Jedi wearing one.
It also asks, will society as a whole fear or accept people for not desiring the things they desire, or for desiring things they consider frivilous or ridiculous.
It also asks, will scientists be able to detect the altered precession of the earth due to all the spin we're putting on this crapfest.
Finally, as we move into the next millennium, I wonder if our fast-paced society has become unwilling to slow down and wait for the things that bring us the greatest joy.
Oooh! 'Millennium'! Doh! We forgot to use 'paradigm'!
This wait will test my mettle as I attempt to do just that."
It will really test my mettle when children in their parents' arms on this very sidewalk speak their first word - "Feh,"
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
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Isn't waiting in line nowadays not only pointless, but actually a BAD idea. These guys could wait in line for the first show, and it gets sold out by advance tickets ala LOTR. They would be the biggest losers of all time (although that may be a redundant statement). ;)
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Irony - if the theatre the TwoGuys were waiting in front of didn't end up showing Attack of the Clones.
Although from reading their comments on the Seattle Star Wars page, I imagine they'd twist that around so that the situation, like their current one, would be "art". Somebody on that end of the country has a really loose definition of art.
Her: Can we go down and see them?
Me: Sure, we've got 4 1/2 months.
Her: But I want to see them now...
Man, I hope they like sabotage.
--Bernie
Aren't they usually referred to as bums?
I'm really amazed someone would start a line for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones so early. (rolling eyes heavenward)
This kind of boggles me considering that I thought there would have been a waiting line started months earlier for the first Lord of the Rings movie (which kind of surprised me that it didn't really happen).
William Shatner's famous remark GET A LIFE! really applies here, that's to be sure.
1.) Learning there is no Santa Claus
2.) Wasting a part of your life waiting in line to see a movie starring "Jar Jar Binks"
3.) Learning that George Lucas "Did it all for the nookie"
4.) That you read this comment
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Check them out they look like pretty cool guys. No wonder they're sitting out there for 4 months. I have just one question. What the hell is all that gear they have on? the phones and the like. They seeem like the perfect type to be doing this.
Now i better get going to start my own cool star wars club.. so i can wait in line forever! fun fun!
And they wonder why they can't get laid!
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
This is very clever. I wish I had mod points.
* Stood around on the sidewalk waiting for a movie, called it "art".
* Directed scientific analysis of homeless people urine through unique collection system of personal clothing.
-Legion
Wow, what lunatics.
Now we know how the rest of society views regular Slashdot readers.
(I am one, btw.)
;-P
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
People have done stunts like this, for various reasons, since the dawn of time. For example:
An 173 day dance marathon in 1930, to set a Guinness World Record.
A 2 year treesitting vigil to protest against logging.
A continuous 100 day ride on a roller coaster.
etc. etc. etc. These guys have merely concocted a new category.
>;k
Ok guys, Slashdot posted your story, you can go home now.
Gonna have to place Star Wars beside D&D in my list of sexual repellents. I recall the following posts:
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D&D Nitpicking (Score:5, Informative)
by taion on Saturday December 01, @06:55PM (#2642311)
AD&D is generally taken to refer to the second edition Dungeons & Dragons Rules.
Neverwinter Nights will be based on the 3rd edition D&D rules (D&D3e), which is different from AD&D.
A link to the 3rd Edition System Reference Document with all the core rules released to the Open Gaming Foundation (including Psionics!) may be found here [opengamingfoundation.org].
Re:D&D Nitpicking (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 01, @07:13PM (#2642382)
You my friend will never ever have sex.
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The coolest voice ever.
When the NEXT person in line is going to be there maybe 4 hours before the movie. That, and how the movie is going to blow goats.
And moreso, I take this quote from their website:
"I wonder if our fast-paced society is willing to slow down and wait for the things that bring us the greatest joy."
I really don't think this one is going to qualify guys. In fact, I think that as you mature, you're going to see this episode of your life as a massive waste of time for something that wasn't that great. As you grow older, you'll probabably realise that in fact, this movie isn't one of the greatest things in life, but just a shallow facade that will put lots of money into George Lucas' wallet. If you're intellectually older than 8 years old, you will probably realise this even before the credits start rolling at the end of the movie.
What's really funny though is the fact that you'll get to see commercials for Coke, Smirnoff, and Porsche for the priviledge of seeing it for free on TV, as well as paying to see it on the big screen.
"No problem. I have the capacity to do infinite work so long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero."-Dilbert
Marketing: Don't worry. We still have Plan B.
GL: Plan B?
M:Yes. Plan B. We're going to secretly fund two guys to stand outside a movie theater for 5 months.
GL:5 months?
M:Yup. Apple is only hyping their MacWorld show for 5 days. We decided to go for 5 months! In Seattle! And we'll web cast it!
GL:Excellent! May the force be with you!
As predicted last September, here's our comic about this.
EnJoy!
"I wanted to wait in line for two years, but just couldn't do it,..."
...by the time the movie is actully released, they probably will have been waiting 2 years !
These guys are actually standing at the BACK of the line!
"And like that
And I thought it was all because of Nsync getting Cameos! Silly me, I guess that's what the 13 year old girls in line behind them are doing.
"Lord of the what? Who's Peter Jackson?"
Finding God in a Dog
"What are we waiting for?"
"We're waiting for Star Wars Episode II!"
"Let's just kill ourselves..."
Get a life, guys. Episode I was absolutely awful; Episode II is shaping up to be even worse. Just goes to show that once fans buy into a franchise, cognitive dissonance prevents them from even admitting to themselves that it's time to move on. How many die-hard Star Trek fans, for instance, like Star Trek V?
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These guys have already opted out of the reproduction game...
Playing with light-sabers is the next best thing, I guess...
Ringthane
Friends help you move... Real friends help you move bodies...
I recall seeing Jar-Jar for a split second in one of the trailers. (The one where Anakin is a whiny asshole -- wait, that's all of them!) He's dressed in robes at some sort of council meeting, it looked like to me.
...we have a lot of "crazies" here...especially in Ballard and Belltown (where the Cinerama is). We apologiuze for their idiocy and hope we did not put any of you off:\.
Imagine getting a seat in the cinema next to two guys that have lived in the street for over four months - I mean, it is bad enough when some local hobo is taking the seat in front of you on the bus.
:)
They are gonna have their own Stench Wars going there.
Once a troll has enough "content" that it is indistinguishable from a regular comment, is it still a troll? You didn't dupe anybody. Moderators probably thought the goatse.cx link was a joke.
I can see hanging out at the theatre the night before the tickets go on sale, not just to be sure to get a ticket, but because its usually a fun group of people to hang out with for a night.
:)
But when PM came out, I went later that day, when there were no lines, and got a ticket for the second showing. The 12:01 was sold out, but the 12:30 am showing still had available spots.
now... I DID go to the theatre 3 hours before the movie started, and one hour before showtime the theatre was packed solid. And when I got there 3 hours early, there were already about 100 people ahead of me.
But still.. There is NO sense in waiting 5 months to get a 30 minute advance over everyone else. Chill.
-Restil
Play with my webcams and lights here
There's a guy who's been lined up here in Vegas for some time. He is at the freeway offramp with a sign saying "Please help, God Bless." Talk about a super-fan! He even dresses in Tatonoonie Bounty hunter clothes, and looks like an alien.
Often in Error, Never in Doubt.
I saw this earlier, but didn't reply to it then... I personally liked Episode 1, but waiting MONTHS on E2? YIKES! I know as techies we tend to have little or no life, but come on, that's just STUPID!
In any case, for TPM I simply bought my tickets on opening day with no problem whatsoever - the ticket drought was contrived.
I hear a lot of "no life", lot of "insane"...
;-). Go for it guys!!!
Well, considering how The Phantom Menace fared, these people might not be doing this for the movie itself you know. Ever heard about the best part about something great is waiting for it? Well it's often true (here it definitely will be).
People go climbing Mount Everest. People cross the poles. Nations send people to the moon. People work all day and night to make themselves the richest people in town, even long after they've filled whatever needs money could ever hope to fill.
Here, some people have decided that waiting in line for Episode II will be a worthwhile thing to do. Pure rationally, how is that different from climbing Mount Everest? Did humanity gain anything from that? Did the climbers gain anything? Of course they did, they got an EXPERIENCE, they got MEMORIES, they had A CHALLENGE. The view on the top might be impressing, but it's hardly the main reason for doing the climb. And unless they're doing it to boost their egos: It might matter to you that they climbed the highest mountain in the world, and you might think it is a lot more important than standing in a theatre line, but all they did was doing something they (hopefully) wanted, getting a change from everyday life, perhaps getting a sense of purpose and knowing why they were where they were. Is that so awfully different from what we see here? Yet, people spending smaller or larger parts of their life trainloads of money/climbing mountains/walking the poles....you say *those* people have a life...me, I say they're (or we're) all doing the same thing as these people lining up for the biggest anticlimax in history is.
If these people had gone camping in the woods for four months instead noone would have reacted this way...I mean, once you remove a purpose it's ok?
I wouldn't have pursuited something like this myself (for starters, I like trees better than concrete, I'd go for the wood camp). But I can see why they would. And if they make some documentary about this or whatnot, it will be enjoyable to watch. Not to know what extremes people are willing to go to, but to perhaps get a feel of the chilly morning air blowing across your face as you enjoy a steamy cup of boiling black coffee, watching people getting to work and knowing that sitting there on the street has some purpose. There and then, what that purpose is doesn't matter. It's how the human mind works, observe people not knowing what started wars once they've been started...we only occupy different states of living and are not as rational about our purposes as we like to think. What purpose does your "get a life" fill? People make their own purposes these days (getting more money than they could ever hope to spend being a totally fruitless but very common one), and in my opinion I can't see why this is worse than trying to climb Everest.
I think this is cool. And I don't even like the films (that much, that is, must admit I'll try to catch an early ticket myself
[It's late and I'm tired so this may or may not make sense...I think you can get the jist of my general view on the matter though]
To buy a ticket, just click it.
And you don't even have to go outdoors until the day of the movie! It's like ordering groceries on the web!
line1 (lIn)
n.
A group of persons or things arranged in a row or series: long lines at the box office; a line of stones.
They aren't in a line, as they are the only ones. Instead, they are just a few morons, waiting a lot longer than they have to.
(reminds me of that 'Fandango' ad...[almost as stupid])
-twb
...could this qualitfy for a darwin award?
You must remember, average slashdoter that every penny you will spent for SW II will be turn into commectial for N'Sync. I'll bet anything, there will be N'sync album where they all be dressed as jedis with lightsabers on the cover. And the songs like I'll flight trough the space to be with you together , forever:)))
But don't get me wrong... You can watch it. There is a think called screener:)
I hope these guys have a great time and let us all know what the experience is like.
This would have been an intresting idea.
That bears in mind that the internet were in existance in its present form, and that one was waiting for Empire Strikes Back instead of Episode II.
Were that the case I could see doing this, after being disappointed with EP:1 though waiting online for that long really seems kind of odd. It was cool for EP:1 because, lets face it, at that point it was more star wars! I was so psyched for that movie, for so long, at the time I didn't care about the flaws of the film and the things that annoy me about it now.
But time changes opinions, I think these people are nuts, but if that's what floats their boat, we live in a semi free country still, they can do whatever the hell they want. More power to them.
"We're so tough we're made of nerf!" --D&D Character Tagline
Dude, get a grip. Those guys are going to smell pretty bad (this may of been a pre-existing condition). You should try to find another theater and steer clear of the art-that-stinks crowd.
bnf
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Of course, I'll see it... when it comes out in ASCII!
Where exactly does one line up for tickets this far in advance? You can't park yourself in front of a teller as people need to use those to buy tickets now. Nor can you simply stand at a random point in front of a theater, someone is going to come along 3 months from now and decide that they are at the front of the line (remember lining up in grade school?). The only thing I can see working is some representative of the movie theater placing a "line for Attack of the Clones starts here" sign somewhere in front of the theater. Of course this will never happen - who wants a couple of dirty, shiftless bums in front of their place of business scaring away the other customers?
Oh, well then, it's okay.
when I drop by those dudes on Monday. It's only two blocks from where I work.
The funny thing is that I'll probably get into an earlier screening than they will.
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Will in Seattle
Someone bring them a laptop or PDA so they can look to the great internet to find out how pathetic this movie is going to be. But do it after they've been camping out for a few months, that way they'll surely kill themselves when they realize they could have been leeching pr0n off Kazaa all this time.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
and report this to the S.P.D. Have em moved on, for vagrancy.
"Yeah, we'll be here for months, and... hang on... hey, Officer.... Four months..... Move? Why?..... uh, OK.... no, no, put the baton away, I'm going, I'm going!"
This'll be over in two days.
--- Jump!! Fire!! Bullet time!! - Lego version of the Matrix
They will be telling someone else's grandkids about this. He was implying that they would never have kids, so they will therefore never have grandkids. So they'll be left having to tell the story to someone else's grandkids.
I modded the Troll Investigation and I got
In Sanfrancisco a Lifetime or so ago, 16 of us friends ,lovers, and family were a block and a half back waiting for show two on opening night Episode 4 {Star Wars}. Being a media junkie I had or had read/seen almost everything. We had snacks and sang and gibbered and laughed our way to the front. The first group ,who got T-shirts were coming out,happy. The show was a toy joy and much fun. In the intervening years I have become less fanatic but I never wanted to be blocks back to finally sit too close in a great theatre. For these two guys it's just paying homage to a guild of good craft, the magic shop of creative skill at good fun. I'll cheer there enthusiasm and remain warm....for now.
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