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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Predict which Wii U games will be considered timeless classics in the future

« on: May 24, 2016, 02:10:41 PM »

I still think Splatoon will have a cult like following where people will brag about how the first was the best even if they can't play it. Nintendo will not keep the servers running forever but the hacker community will, plus Nintendo will incorporate elements from it as a throw back in later games if it takes off.

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General Chat / Re: Anyone else on the Twitterverse?

« on: May 24, 2016, 02:08:01 PM »

I have this blog I been dying to turn into a proper website. I will PM you for details if interested. Also if you ware looking for web developer work my company is in desperate need to update our website.

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General Chat / Re: What are you hyped about today?

« on: May 24, 2016, 10:58:23 AM »

I wrote a letter to my congressman a couple of weeks ago addressing a certain hot topic in the media right now. He took the time to give me a personal phone call to discuss my views on the issue. We've talked before a couple times, I have interviewed him from time to time. But it still feels great to be recognized by someone important once in a while.

Also they served lasagna at the sports banquet I went to last night. First banquet to serve edible food all season.

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General Chat / Re: Anyone else on the Twitterverse?

« on: May 24, 2016, 10:50:15 AM »

I wonder if this was just a ploy to get Phil more followers? Anyways followed you too Perm. Man remember when we used to be on Myspace. I miss Myspace it was fully costomizable I hate how Facebook and Twitter give you no control whatsoever over anything.

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TalkBack / Re: Codename For Next Nintendo Handheld Revealed?

« on: May 24, 2016, 10:47:12 AM »

The handheld is being code named MH, is that short for Monster Hunter?

If DS is any indicator I wonder what MH could mean?

Also if they are a new platform how does NX and MH relate. Are there any Japanese myths that contain characters with those initials?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NX Rumors and Speculation Thread (#Team2017 Wins Again!)

« on: May 24, 2016, 10:41:06 AM »

I think it will do fine if it has the major third party games and the major Nintendo stuff. The biggest complaint I keep hearing is the current gen is all ports and remasters. The timing of NX is perfect to get into the real console exclusives for this gen and if Nintendo can get their good games out next to the 3rd party games their exclusives alone sell systems, their exclusives + 3rd party games that aren't gimped = SNES sales easily. Don't underestimate the Playstation gamers who were once die hard SNES fanboys making a return if the right games come along.

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Nintendo Gaming / Predict which Wii U games will be considered timeless classics in the future

« on: May 24, 2016, 10:35:02 AM »

The console is in it's twilight years. There might be a handful of games between now and NX launching but we all know it is pretty much dead at this point. So here is a change of pace from all the NX speculation that is getting nowhere productive.

I will list the games that I personally feel, based on past experiences and previous console generations, that will become timeless classics gamers will look back upon fondly. I am limiting this to games that are exclusive to the console or where the Wii U versions is a true exclusive in that it has stuff none of the others have but isn't missing stuff the others have. I am personally discounting digital only games for the most part unless I see them as having a lasting impact. Partly because I am not convinced they will be available forever. If a gamer in ten years can't gain access to a game it will be hard for them to go back and check it out.

This is not another top ten list, please don't let it turn into that. I am hoping to get people to discuss the merits of these games as having a lasting impact on the world of gaming. I am even going to list games I personally don't like but do believe they will be remembered fondly on the Wii U in the future.

Feel free to chime in with your own list, bash my list as irrational or just argue endlessly over what makes a good Nintendo game.

Sadly unlike previous console generations I am not seeing that many I think will be truly timeless classics. But I think there are a few.


Super Mario 3D World

- I think this is a given. Pretty much every mainstream Mario game appeals to the masses. These are still the flagship games that drive people to Nintendo every generation.

Captain Toad

- I see this game as gaining traction in the years to come. I think many just saw it as a spin off to Super Mario 3D World, but Mario was just a spin off of Donkey Kong at one time, and the game play was very neat. I hope they make more.

Wonderful 101

- I think this was game was overlooked upon it's initial run which will make people talk about it in the years to come. I suspect that it will find a cult following in the near future.

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

- I see no reason why one of the best DKC games ever won't be remembered fondly. I think in time it's importance will grow to myth-like proportions and gamers will point to it as proof the Wii U was underrated.

NES Remix 1 & 2

- I don't think the importance of these two games should be over looked. They were the first time in a very long time that Nintendo made an effort to mix up their NES properties outside of All stars and the occasional remix of Dr. Mario. I think these two games made up a large part of what owning a Wii U meant in the early months and they were big draws for the loyalists and the retro gamers.

Splatoon

- Years from now at the annual competitive gaming Splatoon tournament gamers will look back on the original and see it as a point where Nintendo revolutionized the squad based shooter forever. I see this game evolving in years to come to be a regular staple in the Nintendo library and the Wii U original will gain cult status as a result.

Hyrule Warriors

- Anything with Zelda and friends is going to be remembered fondly. This is no exception as it not only combines retro gaming with a franchise Nintendo gamers are not familiar with, in many ways it is a fresh take on the Zelda formula at a time where the franchises future was somewhat uncertain. I think this game will go down in history more favorably than Four Swords Adventures before it.

Rayman Legends

- I think once the anger from the supposed bait and switch dies down gamers will forgive Ubisoft and point to this game as something that could have been spectacular on Wii U and come to realize, it was spectacular. It will gain a cult following in years to come as the game some people point to to remind gamers what could have been had it remained exclusive. It wouldn't have mattered but the myth behind it will grow I suspect.

Sonic Lost Worlds

- Good or bad the game will be remembered fondly as all past Sonic games were. I see it being compared to the next really low point in the franchise and gamers looking back fondly when the games were "still good" and putting this up there with Sonic Adventure once nostalgia kicks in and the games flaws are replaced by, remembering the good old days. It will always have it's detractors though.

Nintendo Land

- This game was infamous for a very long time but I think that in years to come people will look back and judge it a little more fairly. It was a poor game to launch the console with but not a bad game overall. It won't gain cult status or mythical legends but people will come out and defend it once they start to look past how sour it tasted that first year.

Bayonetta 2

- This games legendary status will be like Eternal Darkness, as time goes the games following will become more cult-like and it will become the stuff of lore. It was a good game but it's quality will be greatly over-exaggerated in the coming years and gamers will clamor for a sequel for decades before realizing it wasn't really that special. It will then be lost to time in two or three generations down the road. It mostly will stand out as a Wii U exclusive and it's power to persuade gamers to check it out will be tied to that.

Smash Bros. for Wii U

- I think this will be a major turning point for Nintendo where they realized they could get any character from any franchise in the game. Between this and all the DLC gamers will look back at this as the definitive Smash for a long time. I think there won't be a true sequel just this game ported to NX with tweaks and new DLC.
I think it will also be remembered fondly as the last game whose launch was an actual event, as I think future games will just be updates rather than true innovations. At least until the world goes true VR or whatever comes next.

Wind Waker HD, Twilight Princess HD

- These will become the definitive versions of those games reducing the originals to for collectors only. But there will be a Lucas-Like cult who wants the original unaltered games released in the future for posterity's  sake.

I think that is about it.

Mario Kart will be forgotten once the next one comes along and it will be judged by it's peers as which was the better Mario Kart but it won't be the game you point to as *the* Mario Kart since that doesn't exist.

Yoshi's Woolly World will be lost to time and people will look back wondering what Nintendo was thinking when the next Yoshi game changes the formula yet again.

Kirby will be forgotten as it was pretty to look at but the core game was not that memorable and people tend to overlook Kirby games anyways.

Those are my observations, I could be wrong of course but I just think that is how the Wii U's library will be remembered.

I can't comment on Zelda U because it still might not happen if it gets moved to NX.

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General Chat / Re: Anyone else on the Twitterverse?

« on: May 23, 2016, 05:34:04 PM »

Followed you both.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NX Rumors and Speculation Thread (#Team2017 Wins Again!)

« on: May 23, 2016, 05:31:28 PM »

The easiest and simplest solution is do away with the console entirely and stick to their guns with a handheld. BUT to satisfy the console crowd, give it HDMI output and allow it to connect additional controllers for the end user to use it as a true hybrid. Then they can throw all their support at one machine. Or a dedicated gaming tablet that has buttons with HDMI out and support for additional controllers but that is too far-fetched to work.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo To Reorganize Board, Branch Presidents Taking Larger Role

« on: May 23, 2016, 10:17:04 AM »

I was watching an episode of a show called Halt and Catch Fire where the engineers were pitching a game for sale to different companies. They had a meeting with a company that was clearly supposed to be Nintendo. In the episode they had the "American" executives in a closet office tucked away out of sight of the Japanese executives. The old boy from Texas who had dealt with Japanese companies before saw through this and went straight in to talk to the Japanese boys and got his game sold. I imagine that is how the real NOA operates sometimes, the "American" executives are really just the janitor walking around in a suit.

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TalkBack / Re: Link's Gender Doesn't Matter

« on: May 23, 2016, 10:13:58 AM »

If you really want to get into a topic of this nature there is a whole can of worms waiting to be opened.
The Link Avatar doesn't need to be a female to represent females or for females to identify with. They could always just assume Link is transgender and is a girl trapped in a mans body living in a mans world.
I personally am all for giving players options so I have problem with that but I am also a fan of tradition. Nintendo has a long history of traditions and it is mostly when they break from that things go south, when they do things the traditional way people feel safe and warm inside, like Nintendo is a safe place they can return to their childhood if they need to. Make too many "modern" changes to a game as traditional as this with a long history and you are bound to get negative feedback from the community.

This takes me to my real issue. I am all for change, I am all for improvement and I am all for giving the players options, but if you are going to change the game so much it is no longer recognized as Zelda, then why not just make it an entirely different game? Nintendo has been hurting for new franchises for a while why not just not make this game Zelda and just throw out a new game set in the TP engine since they got that all retooled anyways? Minor changes though are tolerable enough as long as the core game is still the same.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: THE RAT is officially no more.

« on: May 23, 2016, 09:55:12 AM »

This was the guy who approached Nintendo with his postbox record company right? The one who went out in a blaze of fury claiming Democrats hated america or something.
It's been a while. I'm just beginning to emerge from the drunken stupor of my twenties and things are coming back into focus.

Yeah he wasn't very smart then. But he grew up and is now a professional writer whose politics you NEVER knew because he never shared his true feelings. Or so the story goes. Welcome back old friend, I missed you. Although I am almost certain you are just another SUPER dupe account, it's all good either way.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NX Rumors and Speculation Thread (#Team2017 Wins Again!)

« on: May 23, 2016, 09:52:26 AM »

I don't think Nintendo will improve if they go back to being too different like Wii. They need to get all the third party support back they can and motion controls limits the games your system can have. I think it would be in their best interest to wipe Wii from their memories. I understand the fans of Wii-Games like Wii Sports and the like won't like that but I think the Wii brand image is to tarnished for Nintendo to embrace it. At least with Game Cube there was a cool factor and now there is the retro factor. Wii will have a retro factor for some but I liken it to the split between Car Robots and Beast Wars in the Transformers universe. The number of people who responded to Beast Wars was large, at first, but dwindled over time. Same with Motion controls the people who responded favorable were large numbers at first because it hit a fad everyone was into. Once the fad wore off they showed their true colors and all but the really devoted remained interested.

I never liked them at all. I was sold on the concept before hand but in practice they don't add anything useful they distract you. The ONLY way motion controls fit in now, B/C be damned I say, the only way they fit in now is if NX implements VR. And then it needs to be something akind to an actual glove where you can still have our fingers pressing imaginary buttons if that is what makes you comfortable.

Either way no matter what they do it needs a traditional controller as the pack in option not as some expensive accessory on top of the fad controller. But my dislike of Motion controls is my own problem I am not sure how the market as a whole feels outside the constant trash talking people do of the Wii these days.

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General Gaming / Re: Was Super Mario All Stars the first Remaster?

« on: May 23, 2016, 09:21:24 AM »

When did the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy for SNES come out, I think that would count as a compilation/remaster wouldn't it?

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General Chat / Re: Anyone else on the Twitterverse?

« on: May 22, 2016, 11:51:10 PM »

I sure am. Follow me and I will follow you.
@RichardATodd

I don't use it as much as I should but will be using it more for work in the near future. I am a journalist by profession so I mostly repost stories journalist friends of share or discuss stories I have written or am working on. Actually I don't use it much but our paper is starting to expand into the digital age so I should be using it more.

If you find me on Twitter I am not hard to find on Facebook but I am selective who I connect to on LinkedIn. I only connect to other professionals in the media industry or politicians I am close to.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo To Reorganize Board, Branch Presidents Taking Larger Role

« on: May 20, 2016, 03:01:20 PM »

Reggie would turn localization into americanization.

What's wrong with that? He is the president of the US branch. Canada has their own branch don't they? Plus I am not sure if you are aware of this but Canadian culture and US culture are, for the most part, interchangeable. The little things we differ on aren't likely to show up in a video game anyways.

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NWR Forums Discord / THE RAT is officially no more.

« on: May 20, 2016, 02:38:03 PM »

Ladies and Gentleman, forum readers, friends, "enemies", Nintendo fans a like. This is my first truly serious, and last ever, post in the "Fun House."

It has been brought to my attention that I was naively mistaken as to what goes on in here. I also believe that I retaliated negatively because I was harboring a lot of resentment from the past. But I realize now, through talking to some good friends who have pointed out where I was mistaken, that I wasn't behaving well as I thought I was. You see I originally created "THE RAT" as my own version of Slim Shady, you know who Marshall Mathers, Eminem is well when I was a teenager I lived in a town in Nevada where I was the only white kid. I had a rap persona because I was a DJ in a hip-hop group. When the group slit, well I took it hard so I became frustrated and took over as primary rapper. Yes at the time I was less mature than I am now and I was a hateful person.

When I came to this forum, it was at a time when Game Cube was winding down. I was frustrated as a gamer from going into game stores like Game Stop and being criticized for asking for Game Cube stuff. Anyways after a while I began mixing my offline frustrations with my rap act into a persona that I played because it was therapeutic for a while. Then real life got me down, I became a major jerk and pushed all my friends away. This was the time I became somewhat harsh towards non-white people because being the only white kid in a ton of non-whites and being hated for it, well it made me bitter. So I started mixing that aspect into the character I was playing.

When I FIRST came here I guess I didn't compose myself well which garnered some negative reactions. Fair enough but I mistook some of it as bullying and retaliated accordingly. As you can see my spelling and grammar have greatly improved. I chalk much of that up to my college degree in journalism, had to write a lot of papers and spelling is important.

Well over time when I was pushed into really frustrating anger I lashed out, I said hurtful things and was banned. I took it personal and kept coming back partly to continue to lash out, I regret that. I also kept coming back for the same reason I came here, to talk about Nintendo. Also to keep in touch with a few online friends that I have become somewhat close fond of over the years.

So for all my past sins, I am sorry and I am officially and formally dropping the rat persona for good. Also you should all be pleased to know that through the last two years of therapy, school, and now having the greatest job I have ever had, I am far more emotionally stable than I was. Since I made mistakes by making false assumptions I will put those in the past and start over just sticking to the Console forum and talk back for the time being. Just to be clear I will from now on only be posting as me, my real self, not as "the rat" so my tone, style, prose, and views are going to change as I will no longer be playing a character that I should have let die years ago. Or better yet never created in the first place. I put part of the blame on MTV for idolizing Eminem back in the day. 

I hope going forward I can show you people I really am a decent person and stop digging up the past. Stay cool friends.

Richard A. Todd,

aka (formerly) the rat.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: original Wii disc drive acting funny.

« on: May 20, 2016, 02:13:55 PM »

Oh I already Home Brewed the thing. I got a spare which disc drive does work and a Wii U for Wii games if I need it. I got a pair of them at a flea market for $5 total. Not a piece but total so for me it's all good. Thanks for the reply Mop it Up.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Off-Topic Wise-Ass Comments About Other NWR Forum Threads And Also Other Stuff

« on: May 20, 2016, 02:11:19 PM »

You did say that Nintendo's half-assed treatment of GC caused it to fail. That is, in my opinion, saying the GameCube wasn't great. Now, your later discussion of its greatest titles goes against that, but those are just opinions. The fact is, the GameCube sold like ****. Maybe my whimsical summary was a bit too shallow.

But joining the forums to defend Ian Sane was your first mistake, dude.

I don't think people hate you, but there's a difference between your persona and say, Khush's Lucario persona, in which Lucario is just a guy that says really stupid stuff a lot but doesn't get all riled up about people calling him out on his absurdity. He also rarely talks about video games, which might help his case. Also I know that Lucario isn't a Khush's dupe but if this gets quoted with that reference taken seriously I'm done.

We all have moments of immaturity- I used to get real riled up on these forums myself, and had several unhinged moments even in the past two years, but it's important to not let arguments on the magic TV box get to you. There's a difference of perspective here, where victimization leads to paranoia, that is going to become an endless cycle. Don't let it happen.

Might read the entire thread then, it was a thread on why the Game Cube failed, I was chiming in with my thoughts. Don't you also hate Paper Mario? And yeah I was a punk idiot back then, I freely admit it although I shamefully regret it.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Off-Topic Wise-Ass Comments About Other NWR Forum Threads And Also Other Stuff

« on: May 20, 2016, 02:09:26 PM »

My very presence is offensive. 

Not as  much as mine brah.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Off-Topic Wise-Ass Comments About Other NWR Forum Threads And Also Other Stuff

« on: May 20, 2016, 02:08:56 PM »

Please post more large, poorly formatted blocks of text no one wants to read. I'm sure that's what we all need.

Will do thanks for asking. Please come again.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Off-Topic Wise-Ass Comments About Other NWR Forum Threads And Also Other Stuff

« on: May 20, 2016, 02:08:13 PM »

I would have given rat a get-out-of-ban-free card if he ever dropped one of his raps on the forum

There is a thread in the general chat forums where I did post a link to my digital album that I did a few years ago. The links are probably dead now but I could repost if you want. Plus, well I hope you and I are cool we made our peace years ago I thought. Maybe I thought wrong.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: NX Rumors and Speculation Thread (#Team2017 Wins Again!)

« on: May 20, 2016, 02:06:34 PM »

I have a good feeling about NX just like I did Wii. What makes me optimistic it will sell well to the audience is if this two machines in one approach pans out. The lack of games, or rather the need to buy two  machines to get all the games, is what hurts Nintendo the most. They have mindshare in the market with DS and Youtubers, they just are a laughing stock in the console business. But many gamers, myself included, grew tired of the need to buy two machines to get all the games. I haven't bought a handheld since the DS Lite launched.

With a unified machine where I can get ALL the games Nintendo makes there is a much stronger chance the machine will sell to the larger fanbase. Unlike, pay attention Perm, people like me who WILL buy it anyways because I am a Nintendo nut and can't live without my Mario games.


Case in point and where Ian seems to be mostly half right.
Take going from SNES to N64. For the most part the games left Nintendo and went to Sony. Half true. Except they didn't LEAVE Nintendo they migrated to the handheld. Okay so I could still get a very good Mega Man, Castlevania, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, TMNT, Metroid, Zelda, etc, on the handheld plus gems like Pokemon and those amazing DBZ games. Well yeah if you bought BOTH machines you could get a decent library. Well with SNES you could get a really great library on the console and if you wanted more pick up a Super Game Boy.

Game Cube sorta had this with Game Boy Player but GBA wasn't quite there yet. I see the same parallels with a lot of the e-Shop stuff, games designed to play like retro handheld games or retro SNES/NES games. The problem is we don't get the exact same games but a lot of them DO make it to the DS brand. Well with DS finally catching up to where the handheld games are good enough then if there was a shared library, or even a way to play 3DS/DS games on the Wii U, it would have sold better. How much more I am not sure but so many of the games that used to grace the console that have migrated to Sony, not just literally but also the spiritual successors or modern takes on the concepts, well that makes it harder to justify the console. But when every game that gets made is on one machine people are more likely to buy that one machine. If you sell a machine that is a home console at home but the controller can detach and become a handheld on the go and you get all the same games, the Pokemon, and the Monster Rancher, etc, then you have an ace people will buy.

The reason people went to Playstation was the games went to Playstation but they never left Nintendo they just left Nintendo's consoles. This won't exactly ensure they make it to the new "platform" as it means starting over and many western devs have left the portable machine behind as well. but there is hope that the machine could sell better especially if they could sell the handheld separate for those that just want it and ensure more games get made but mandate those games scale up to or are playable on the console, most problems are solved.


The other issue is not giving consumers an excuse to not buy your machine, in other words don't give them fodder for jokes that will turn into bad press and lower mindshare. Wii sold well but not to gamers, it sold well as a second console to gamers sure but most dismissed it. Game Cube sold terrible to gamers, it only appealed to die hards and a few stragglers who got it cheap because it was inexpensive and had most of the major games.

But honestly I think the world really isn't big enough for three and in order for Nintendo to truly succeed Microsoft has to exit the space and give them room to breathe, because Sony depends on Playstation they are sticking around MS leaving is Nintendo's *best*, but not only, chance.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: Off-Topic Wise-Ass Comments About Other NWR Forum Threads And Also Other Stuff

« on: May 20, 2016, 01:47:59 PM »

BUT SOME IDIOTS KEEP THINKING I REALLY AM THIS HATAEFUL RACIST PRICK I PLAY. WOW.

You do realize that, aside from the occasional mafia game, this isn't a role play forum, n'est ce-pas?

Honestly no I didn't realize that. I thought that was how it was everyone plays a character in here. That was my impression if it all along, until JUST NOW, nobody bothered to say otherwise. In fact the typical response is don't take what is said in the funhouse seirously. As for the other racial slurs, I apologized for that, I explained it in private to those I discovered I inadvertently offended. Everyone else I keep apologizing to, what more do you want? I will make it a point to stay out of the funhouse entirely and as of today I will permanently retire the rat persona once and for all, I buried the ill-begotten attempt at trying to be a "rapper" years ago. And I have matured, I just forgot to stop playing the character because old habits die hard.

Sorry for all the trouble I am retiring the rat so if we can all put him/it in the past I will myself drop it.
I will try to be more careful and not do stupid things just to piss people off.

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NWR Forums Discord / Re: PSA: DO NOT Put the ferrets in their place

« on: May 20, 2016, 01:43:27 PM »

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