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Warpy

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5. One of my favorites

Reply to Ocelot II (Original post)

Fri Oct 31, 2025, 11:30 AM

Friday

and I think of it often these days. Even these tyrants will become worm food, their monuments to themselves will crumble, their empires will split apart, and even the gods they used to keep the rest of us in line eventually fade away.

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