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Charlie after he tried to talk to people and got killed immediately:

"WHAT'S THE POINT OF ANY OF IT? NO ONE'S TALKING, NO ONE'S COMING TOGETHER, NO ONE'S EXCHANGING LANGUAGES AND CULTURES. THIS ISN'T PURGATORY, THIS IS HELL. THIS IS HELL. EVERYTHING WE HAVE, EVERYTHING WE KNOW, HAS BEEN THROWN AWAY. IT'S OUT THE WINDOW. THEY DON'T CARE. THEY DON'T WANT TO. EVERYTHING I LOVE, AND EVERYTHING I STAND FOR, IS GONE. DUST IN THE WIND. FOR TWO WEEKS. TWO WEEKS OF THIS"

".............................................."

*re-enters vc*

"hiya :D"

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Games for Gaza is a collection of 256 games on itchio, which you can grab for only TEN DOLLARS, with all profits going toward Medical Aid for Palestinians. these are the 10 games I'll probably play myself:

Neurocracy 2049 is a mystery game, in which you solve a murder by sifting through an in-game 'wikipedia' for clues

2. Multiplicity is a short cosmic horror game, with a retro aesthetic and interesting art direction

3. Slasher U is a horror-comedy dating sim with 18+ content and very fun visuals

4. Mysteries Under Lake Ophelia is a fishing sim that looks rather peaceful.... but is it? there might be something unsettling, waiting to be found beneath the water

5. The Corridor is a short meta game about the experience of playing games. more specifically, about the experience of walking down a corridor. what does that mean? I don't know.

6. Nuts is an eerie narrative game about.......watching squirrels?! and it doesn't disappoint, there are a large number of squirrels. the world you can walk through looks gorgeous, with stylized surreal colours.

7. Brassica - A Marry Tale is a gay dating sim with a charming art style

8. Orchids to Dusk is a short wandering game about an astronaut on an alien planet with only a few minutes left to live

9. Extreme MeatPunks Forever is a hybrid visual novel/ brawling sim, following the lives of a handful of gay mech pilots

10. Evolution is a game where you build lifeforms, and help them evolve to perform tasks

and that's just 10 out of 256! there's plenty to appreciate, so check out the bundle yourself

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I feel like I should explain ENEM, aka why the brazilians have been grieving since the date of the november 4th event was announced

ENEM stands for Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (National High School Exam). It happens once a year since 1998, and, although at first it was just to gage how the education was on a national level, it soon became a gateway to university.

The test takes place on two days (that are now two consecutive sundays), from 13:30 to 19:00, and each day the student has to answer 90 questions. The first day is always human sciences and languages (Portuguese language and literature, foreign language (English or Spanish), history, geography, sociology, and philosophy) plus an essay. Nobody knows what the essay is about until the moment of the exam, so there’s always a lot of speculation. The theme is always about a social issue: last year's, for exemple, was "the challenges for the appreciation/respect of the traditional communities and peoples of Brazil", like the quilombolas and natives. The second day tests the students' knowledge on maths and exact sciences (biology, physics, and chemistry).

ENEM is famously a very "read-y" test. Every question requires a lot of reading comprehension, interpretation, and interdisciplinarity. Maybe the internet has done americans wrong, but the SAT's look so easy in comparison. We always make fun of them by saying Harvard it's not actually hard, it's just expensive.

Which brings me to my next point: college! The grade you get on the ENEM can get you into a university using three different programs

SISU: gets you into a public (and free) university (the best university in the country is public btw, University of São Paulo - USP)

PROUNI: gets you a scholarship in a private university (it can get you a 100% scholarship but you need a VERY good grade)

FIES: student loans

And, obviously, the better your grades, the better your chances. You are graded from 0 to 1000 in every subject and also get a general grade. So if you want to study physics, you don’t need to do great in literature, but you should still try to get a decent grade. The more competitive courses, like medicine (there's no such thing was pre-med), can get down to the decimals, especially in prestigious schools.

ENEM isn't the only test you can do to get into a university, though! Some schools have their own test. USP, for exemple, has the FUVEST, so you can get in through either test, but FUVEST is always paid and you can only do it in, like, three cities in São Paulo, while the ENEM happens countrywide, which is why it's so important. The tests are called "vestibular" and the people taking them are "vestibulando".

Therefore, most 3rd year high school students take the test. It's basically a rule to do it if you want to get into a university, but if you are not on your last year of high school, you have to pay to take it (my case). Some people have to go to another city to take the test, it's a whole thing.

This year, the first day of ENEM is happening on Sunday, November 5th. And QSMP's most important event so far is happening on Saturday night, November 4th. May the Lord have mercy on our souls

You can check out the "atrasados do enem" for some giggles though. It's the "event" that happens because some people always arrive after the gates close at 13:00 and then break down crying in the middle of the street. It got so famous people started hiring actors to pose as vestibulandos just to go viral.

Now you know a bit more about brazilian culture!

Here's a link to download last year's exam if you want: first day | second day

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they’re going to purgatory… and there’s gonna be sand. im calling it. Fit’s Master Broom is going to be the deciding factor

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I cant get over Bad during this event.

Every second he could, he took a picture or a screenshot. Im pretty sure he had 2 albums full of photos of the eggs. He never let them out of his sight.

He played with them like he does with the other eggs, like racing Bobby back to his grave. He talks to them in his egg voice. He kept every flower, food, item in a separate backpack.

Bad loves this eggs so much and blames himself for their deaths.

On a number of occasions, Bad said that he blames himself for the egg deaths. Not walking Tilin home, not doing Trumps tasks when Max couldnt, not going to the dungeon with Roier and Bobby.

Also the reason why Bad was so upset at the enderchests being banned was because the last things the dead eggs gave him were in that chest.

I think this event gave Bad a peace of mind in some way or another. He got to say goodbye to the eggs and even helped some of them back to the other side. He got to spend time with them and get items from them that he can treasure, other than just graves.

Bad got to take care of the eggs he couldn’t take care of in time

I hope that this event helped him forgive himself in some sort of way.

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something about q!BBH being the very last one to leave the Dia de los Muertos event area,,, something about him staying until the very last egg - little Trumpet, the first to die and the last to leave.

Something about the grim reaper holding on as long as he can

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its like how can you hate bad for what he did when you see him being the way he is with the kids? he loves them so much. they're his kids man. everything he does he does for them.

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it really does seem as if the islanders are going to have to split up and go to separate islands using their tickets (since the train station opens the day of the event) to save the eggs... i really hope no one dies

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The sand??

Hello?!?! Sir??

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Inktober Day 11: Wander

Bring back Robin’s cowboy hat, Toei you cowards.

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he made a discovery

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pac having a mental breakdown bc in his first ever long awaited interaction with wilbur he accidentally taught him the portuguese word for small pp then the server immediately crashed

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[wilbur gettinng distracted by charlie on the ground]

baghera: oh.. oh you are like that..

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wilbur coming back to the qsmp is everything I've ever wanted and more

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will ur making me fuckinng cry GOD

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phil casually saying if he had his wings he could fly at mach 5 and break the sound barrier...

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WAIT HER TATTOOSSSSSSSSSSSS guys.... sobbing face emoji.... jaiden is so fucking cool guyssssssssss