hatkirby: if i felt like I did a bad job explaining the treehouse timed laser door during my GDQ run, it doesn't compare at all to how bad a job I apparently did at explaining reference counting a decade ago https://www.fourisland.com/quotes/461 tinylittlegremlin: i love this quote snippet hatkirby: yay! i'm a new object! i exist! [<- something created just to be tormented] tinylittlegremlin: :owo: tinylittlegremlin: i will love it and hold it forever tinylittlegremlin: and place it in many many many situationsTm hatkirby: just like a pathetic fictional man! tinylittlegremlin: :blobaww: :owo: yeah... heehee hatkirby: puts dipper into a situation tinylittlegremlin: (reb) tinylittlegremlin: yes... Yes.... YES...! tinylittlegremlin: :smugne: hatkirby: it's quite an oblique situation hatkirby: oh..! and it seems he is not handling it well! [i am suddenly in a sportscaster's booth talking over a speaker system] tinylittlegremlin: (i am suddenly next to you) fascinating fascinating turn of events here really- lets see how this plays out! hatkirby: now wait a minute... do my eyes deceive me? is he succumbing? tinylittlegremlin: it appaers he may very well might be! hatkirby: and i thiiiink that's a sympathetic figure reaching out to him-- and he's lashing out! tinylittlegremlin: ooooooooo a bood move on his part- what will the sympathetic figure do next? will they retaliate? try again? give up? lets watch and see hatkirby: grem this is fascinating but i think i am bleeding from the eyes tinylittlegremlin: (hands you a tissue) likely effects from the lashing out- well be fine tinylittlegremlin: (someone walks into chat tomorrow morning to see us both slumped over foaming at the mouth in the announcers booth ) hatkirby: [it in fact turns out we've been below delta brainwaves for like three hours] tinylittlegremlin: [wheeze]