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Some Thoughts on Coffee

Over the last fifteen years, I've spent more than $10,000 on CalRef, its licenses, its hosting, and various requisite fees, taxes, and registrations. And, while I'm definitely the majority at this point, I haven't been the only one who has chipped in a lot. Weirdly, big number go up when it carries on for half your life, through its various Cher-like eras. Everyone who has contributed has had their own reasons for doing so, not the least of which is belief in the place.

For me, I've done this largely because I think that people should have nice, ad-free things, and that hosting those things can make a community possible when it might not have existed or survived otherwise. I've contributed to other projects for the same reason. There are a horde of admins out there who aren't even willing to host a $5 server, sell out to TapaTalk, then watch their data get destroyed, etc. It really just frustrates me.

For most of our history, we had something called Money.CalRef for kinda crowdfunding the place. I took this down when I became Arch-Admin because:

• I didn't like how funds were used up to that point.
• I didn't think there were enough in-tact services after the collapse to justify it.
• I didn't want someone lording their contributions over me for the rest of time.

I am, still, conflicted on bringing its idea back, due to the above reasons and more. However, working in this role has been more than a part-time job's worth of effort for me over the last five years, and I don't think that I'm going to be able to either afford the time or motivation to carry on at the rate that I have been. Yet I know there are things that should be done and need to be done, and that poses a dilemma.

The CalRef Discord server was recently split off from Refugia's governance to reduce the complications that NationStates brings. This, coupled with my extreme burnout, has caused me to ask myself if the type of development I've been doing is still something I want to do, or should do. And I'm not sure that it is. But scanning RMBs, forum posts, discord channels, and my own internal metrics, I know that a lot of people use my software. Dot, Eyebeast, and Tart all have thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of uses per month, each. I would guess that their operators would, ideally, like to keep using those things, and I would guess that they enjoy their things being operational, accurate, relevant, etc.

So, my internal compromise is that I will keep developing things like I have been, at a more responsible pace. I will keep maintaining Eyebeast and Tart, fixing them when they break. I will keep developing Dot, adding more features (including NationStates features), and enhancing existing ones. I will keep making new webapps, especially those that let people wrap their minds around bulk data and understand it. But I will also bring back a way for people to contribute, financially, to this site and the stuff I make on it, if they want. Because, while it is intensive and stressful at times, it's better than housekeeping, and it does seem to be doing something for its target audience.

I've picked Ko-fi because it's less creepy and corporate than other options, and it allows me to put links in places without it being overbearing (in my opinion). I'm putting a link to it in the main site page, and I'm rolling it into the footers which adorn our subdomains. I've also added three links in Dot, one in Dot's documentation, one in the help command, and one in the version command. So five places across all sites and services.

You can find the Ko-fi page here, directly. I'm still extremely aware of #3 on my above list of reservations, so I'm going to be making it clear upfront that no one receives any rewards, roles, perks, features, or access when they make a donation through Ko-fi beyond the innate knowledge that I will be mildly more empowered to keep developing, and my expenses will be mildly more paid-for.

But I would appreciate it, and make the best use of it that I can.

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I guess my thinking is that if they resign, leave, or are destroyed, it would be incumbent on the Arch-Admin to dismiss that nation from the designation and appoint someone else.

Bump.

[Demonstrations]

Dot 3.9: Sounds Familiar

Still somehow easier than interacting with the provincial government.

Demonstrations

    Familiar   

At long last, the nightmares can end. And also begin?

Hope everyone enjoyed the warning time, for it has now elapsed. The new reign of terror begins today, and all things previously mentioned are now the state of affairs.

Important things:

• There is no longer any limit on the servers Dot can be in. If you have been wanting to add Dot to your server, you can freely do your thing now.
• There is no loner a minimum human requirement for servers. Whether you have five, nine, etc, people, Dot will remain in any server she is invited to.
• The eyebeast command is retired. (Dot cannot see messages, and so cannot report their changes/deletions)
• Dot is unable to see message text of any message unless you DM her or ping her. This means that you can no longer use "I cast" as a prefix.
• Slash commands are presumed to be the main thing people will use, but you can also use "@Dot" as a new command prefix and that's probably what I'll be doing.
• The documentation is slightly less ass, and now also accurate. I think. And the standard invite now asks for many fewer permissions.

I had planned to release an improved version of the stock market from 2.4, but it's turning out to be markedly more complicated than I anticipated. I will still do this, but I wanted get the server restrictions off and reconcile the command scheme sooner rather than later. It was already finished, I know people had been waiting on it, and there's no sense in delaying them because of economy minigames.

So! You get one new feature today and I'll send in the stocks system when it's ready.


Wait there's a new feature?

Yeah, sure, why not?

This command is a sort of cross between the fortune command, and many other bot's "dailies" payout commands.

It allows you to have a "familiar", or guardian, assigned to you for the day, where a "familiar" is an entity, location, or conceptual idea. That familiar will provide a static payout in planets, according to its innate quality. There are five* quality levels, with the lowest level paying out at 100 planets, while the highest pays out at 1,000.

In addition to the payouts, the familiar also comes with a certain stance or attitude towards you. This attitude is determined by the innate disposition of the particular familiar, the day's global dice roll (is it a good day, bad day, or middling?), and the operator's personal roll. Some familiars are innately hostile, but can be encountered as superfriendly if the stars align, just as the reverse is true as well.

Unfortunately the familiars take a lot longer than fortunes to throw together, so there aren't as many of them. However, with every major update, I plan on installing a pack of 100 new familiars into the system. I, further, plan on doing this at the very least until we have 1,000 familiars (although ideally 2,000).

This first OG set of 100 familiars is called the Demon Hill pack and I hope you enjoy it.


No minor notes today

I am extremely tired.

[Luca we've been on 3.8.3 for a while]

Dot 3.8.3: Economy II

Yes, I have my ID, and my documentation, and my usecase, and my blood sample, and my demonstration videos.

What do you MEAN you can't accept demonstration videos that aren't uploaded through dropbox for "security reasons"?

Luca we've been on 3.8.3 for a while

Quite correct, this is really an "update" of a different kind, and I'm also here to clear out the backlog of my recent improvements and fixes.

But primarily, I'm here to give you guys an update on the immediate future of Dot. If you have had no idea of anything going on, let me bring you up to speed. Dot has grown from being a help in a chat of about 50 people to one of the most widely used bots in NS servers. This is both neat, and extremely inconvenient with regards to the restrictions that Discord puts on me, the developer.

We have been at the server capacity for the last month, and during that time, Dot's verification application has been in limbo. They apparently just threw the verification application (along with everyone else's who applied in February and March) into the garbage after admitting they have no idea where that data went. Then they lost my intent request application, saying that they cannot accept the old form in the application I had submitted twice. But after reapplying for a third time, the dark deed is done. But there are strings, and one of those strings is that message content will be invisible to Dot.


Unfortunate News

Rejoice! There can never be a conspiracy that I'm scanning messages because it's literally impossible unless you ping her or DM her. But the downsides are that:

• The "I cast" command prefix will be dead
• Eyebeast will also be dead.

The first is very sad because "I cast" is iconic and I can't think of any other bot that has something that isn't a passionless punctuation mark as a prefix, but what can you do. The good news is that I have been anticipating this moment ever since Dot's 3.4.3 update back in August, where all commands were converted to hybrid commands. This means you can use them with a prefix or as a slash command.

I'm aware that Discord's slash command system is buggy and bad. When it goes down, through no fault of my own because they fuck something up, no one can use slash commands. I don't think that's too great, especially when some commands might be time-sensitive. Consequently Dot's command prefix will be changing to a ping. So you can do things like "@Dot banish Luca" and it will work the same as "I cast". So if you want to avoid slash commands, you can do that, if you want to use a kinda emergency method to get around slash commands when Discord breaks them, you can do that too.

Obviously Dot will not have the ability to report edited or deleted messages with the eyebeast command, and there is no workaround possible for that. I could remove the features that deal with message content there and just have the command report user changes, but I don't see the point of a feature that's so limited. So eyebeast will be retired entirely, with any settings data you may have established being deleted as well.

You can use this time to locate a bot that provides that moderation service.


Positive News

The positive news is that there are many things that will not be breaking that Discord will continue to allow me to do. This primarily relates to welcomes, farewells, autoroles, reacts, the ability to locate members with commands like bank and info, and the ability to have reminders function coherently.

I will also be removing the restriction on how many humans a server needs to have for Dot to stay in it -- since I will have no restrictions anymore in that department, neither will you.

These changes will be all take place when I push the 3.9 update, which is planned for approximately four days from now, April 10th, 2023. Until then, Dot cannot be added to any servers without the sudden lack of access breaking commands after we cross the old server limit.


Free Stuff That Already Happened:

Demonstrations

    Annoy   

You probably already noticed, but I added a little meme generator command.

Annoy allows you to generate a meme image, where a quote of yourself annoys someone with the block of text of your choosing. Naturally, both a target and a quote are mandatory fields.

In this command, you can provide those by separating them with a comma. The speaker will always be the display/nick of the operator, so you can spoof the speaker name in the image by changing your nick. If you are in a server where you are not allowed to have a desired nick, consider leaving that server.

There is a nifty demonstration to the right.

Minor changes:

• Reported errors are now more helpful at diagnosing problems
• Infinity badge slots have been expanded to how many poop badges currently exist in inequality OR the top 3% of donors. Whichever is greater.
• autopins to use raw listeners and compare timestamps instead of the cache
• colour can be used to take the primary colour of an attached image
• colour max increased to eight
• farewell will now display how long someone was a member on their departure
• give remade to operate via component UI
• nation command gets a full on re-work
• region now tells you the total influence points and influence gain in a region, update times, position
• set will try to add a successfully set react
• version's service graph is now linear
• version now displays a graph of all commands, last 60 days & 10 most used commands, last 30 days
• Fixed a bug where recruit silently drops nations during high-volume found times
• Fixed a bug where slackers and WAs can generate empty rows in otherwise perfectly fitting tables

CalRef II: Irrelevance to Laws
CalRef II: OBLITERATE ☁️ THAT LIKE BUTTON
CalRef II: The Ghost of Starbucks' Past
CalRef II: Hey Party People. Got a Lot of Metal There. Be a Shame If Someone Were to Eat It
CalRef II: Answering Dora the Explorer With Whale Songs
CalRef II: The Anime Total Conversion Mod for Skyrim (Which Launches Genshin Impact Instead)

HumanSanity: 81
Emily: 67
Luca: 58
Argo: 30
Kal: 16
Aav: 14
Wasc: 10
FLP: 7
Ziz: 5
Dyll: 5
Fox: 4
Zuk: 2
Catherine: 3
Sueloc: 1
Istillian: 1
Rubywednesday: 1

There's always a ship in the ocean.

CalRef II: The Strategic Use of Being a Mouse
CalRef II: Though a Candle Burns in My House, There's Nobody Home
CalRef II: Gotta Go Fast (Chronologically)
CalRef II: Code Red Panic at The Disco Elysium
CalRef II: If You See a Wild Pig, Open Your Heart to It
CalRef II: I Looked in The Fridge and Realised We Don't Have a Fridge

[Demonstrations]

Dot 3.8: Economy II

As the quest to determine the BOAT GOAT begins, here is an (unrelated) picture of Nancy Reagan

Demonstrations

    BOAT   

    Colour   

    Inequality   

    Infinity   

    Telegrams   

We're Kick-Starting the Economy Again

It's been a little longer than expected for restarting the economy. Generation I was shut down for the 3.5 update when stocks exploded, destroying game balance and killing everyone. Now the gears of industry are turning once again.

On-Message credit generation has resumed. Under the new rules, you have a 50% chance of adding 2 to your bank account if you have spoken in the last sixty seconds, and a 100% chance of 5 if you have not. This allows people who just show up once and a while to still get some credit, but also doesn't forget the heavy chatters.

Recruitment credit has been reinstated. If you are fond of using the recruit command, you may also be fond of the fact that every addressee you send a telegram to will generate 2 in wealth to you.

It's the Battle of All Things!

Long has the day been awaited when the Ultimate Showdown received not only one ill-conceived sequel, but two. Like a Nickelback cover band, it's literally impossible to get us to stop. To coincide with the Battle of All Things in Refugia, Dot will also be participating with the release of a corresponding betting command, called BOAT.

 In each round, you can make a costless bet where a correct answer yields 5,000 planets, the in-game currency. You may change your bet as many times as you like, up to the time that the competition you are betting on begins. There is no penalty for incorrect guesses.

At any time, you can also lodge a prediction of who you think will be the final and ultimate champion of the Battle of All Things. You can change your answer whenever you want and as often as you want; however, the earlier you make a correct prediction, the higher your reward will be. The rewards timeline is tied to what the match is when you place or change a bet.

For a correct final bet placed placed during...
 • Round A: 150,000 Planets
 • Round B: 120,000 Planets
 • Round C: 100,000 Planets
 • Round D:  82,500 Planets
 • Round E:  68,500 Planets
 • Round F:  55,500 Planets
 • Round G:  46,000 Planets
 • Round H:  38,000 Planets
 • Round I:  31,000 Planets
 • Round J:  25,300 Planets
 • Round K:  20,500 Planets
 • Round L:  17,000 Planets
 • Round M:  15,000 Planets
 • Round N:  10,000 Planets

Because of the exponential system, it is prudent to try to reach the correct prediction as early as possible. Since answers can be changed, players whose original choice of champion was defeated may continue playing, and guess again for a lesser prize. It also gives players with surviving champions the decision to stick with them to the end, or jump ship to a more likely champion as The Battle of All Things goes on.

Activate the command with /boat or I cast boat


The Return of Infinity and the Rise of Inequality

       

It is, perhaps, inevitable within a game's economic system that inequality will appear. Ours will be no exception. This time, however, I am planning on it from the start. Unlike last generation, the only way that you will be able to receive a Gen II Economy badge at the end of season will be to donate planets through the infinity project. The Infinity command has returned with a freshly emptied account, and an even snazzier, paginated leaderboard feature. The top 2% of players who contribute to Infinity will receive the badge. In the unlikely event that there are less than 50 nations at the end of the season qualifying for a badge, the number will be expanded. But for now, it's 2%.

In order to encourage (or discourage??) people donating to the Infinity Project, there is a new command called inequality. This command brings a separate leaderboard of the wealthiest players by unspent bank. In this command, the top 1% of players will be receiving the legendary Gen II Shitlord Badge of Extreme Wealth Hoarding. Whether this is something you are aiming to obtain or aiming to avoid is up to you. I suspect many may try to avoid being saddled with this trophy for the rest of their days, plagued by it in the upcoming profile command. Fear not, you can escape it simply by keeping your balance low and donating to Infinity. Alternatively, embrace being a shitlord!

Something that I missed during the stock hype of the last economy generation was that inflation made it less possible to use the economy for events and activities. We have that opportunity again. Consequently, at the end of the Battle of All Things competition, there will be more fine sources of income added to Dot as well, and new events that will arise. The economy functions will continue to expand even after this update, and the season will not be closing any time soon.

Everyone will have ample opportunity to pursue their goals in our various events.


Notable Enhancements

The colour command has been pretty substantially improved in this update, and will likely be substantially improved again in the next update. But as of now, the output of a given colour comes with a label in the created image of the hex code it represents.

When you input a hex code, you will get back the name of the colour you are searching in the footer, or at least the closest name by euclidean distance. If you wish, you can use those colour names to as inputs, themselves. This means you can search colours even if they are outside the CalRef traditional colour palette, like "kelley green" or "very light pink". You are also now able to use commas to separate inputs, generating up to seven images in at a time, with the output image organising them nicely into the same image dimension as usual.

Two other commands getting an upgrade this update are info and timestamp, which can now be used as context commands. Context commands appear whenever you are interacting with a certain type of object in Discord.

You can use the info command by right-clicking or long-tapping on a user's name or profile picture, which will skip typing the command entirely. You can use the timestamp command in the same way, by right-clicking or long-tapping on a message to query Dot for the exact time it was sent. When using timestamp as a context command, the time object will also be a URL to the message, just so there is no confusion or dispute about what is being queried.

Finally, the telegrams command has been enhanced by providing an optional button to see the found rate over the last 28 days. Telegram queue history and newly founded nation history have a strong correlation; however, telegram queues heavily depend on how fast NationStates actually sends a message. They could linger in the queue for some time.

Still, this contextual information can be useful if you wish to study found trends and how recruitment might impact the queue.


Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• Map and RRS, despite being the oldest still-existing commands, have just now been added to the documentation
• RRS, for whatever need, can now be used outside of the CalRef server
• The commands / help command layout is improved and links to the CalRef server for support
• Fixed a bug where Eyebeast stopped reporting the user that deleted a message
• Fixed a bug where hail could not be used in a DM, if used as a slash command
• Resolved an issue where Discord did not permit recruit to function as a slash command
• Fixed a bug where roster could not display role data if that role had an icon
• Fixed an ancient bug where save caused Dot to crash when saving a region with mixed-case BB tags
• Fixed a Transitional Council error where tart's websheet led to a 404

Report all errors to the local authority.

What do we think of the above?

I don't know if it's intentional but the February transitional period assumes the existence of a leap day, and the transitional periods vary between two and three days. Otherwise, I like this a lot. It's a good way to stir up activity.

This is true, I'm not super sure how to handle the existence of leap day and February's schedule itself. There will never be a four month rotation where all the terms have the same number of days so that the dates align.

Shorter terms good! Shorter transition period also good. It does seem kind of confusing having all of them be the same dates except February, and also having the variation in transition periods - would it be possible to shift it to January/April/July/October, with some kind of provision for them happening late for the first go round?

That might be a better strategy.

Ideally, we'd not be holding elections during an ongoing site-wide event, but unfortunately with NS' new Event Calendar (wherein they rerun the same events at a faster pace), it will be less predictable when things will arise, and an ops councillor will likely always have to deal with multiple site-events during a given term from here on.

Or time them so they start at the start of the month so that there doesn't have to be all the date variation? But it's not a massive deal, so.

Mostly my own neurotic interest in having the terms actually align with the way that we record their dates, which is itself a spin-off of how staff records are recorded.

I'm not super sure what "and initiate such referendums to the stipulations their respective laws prescribe" means but other than that looks good.

It's meant to mean that the councillor should follow the procedures for whatever type of referendum it is. There's only one type of referendum that would be under their domain at present, and that's an RRS amendment referendum (as opposed to a CoFA embassy referendum). If it sounds confusing, I can change it to specifically cite RRS 6.

Remember when this thread used to be a blog? It was all the way on the last page. Anyway.

It's is "often" said that the internet has a 1-9-90 paradigm. This represents a ratio that all content on the internet is produced by 1% of its population, aggregated or remixed by 9% of its population, and silently consumed by 90% who make no additions or changes to it. In some ways, this naturally works because you often have people who show up to just read something to unwind. At the same time, you have people who have a vested interest in doing things, themselves, but either don't get a lot out of consumption or have the time to do both.

A while back, Natalie raised the issue that the over-arching gameplay of NationStates is inclined to produce power-users, or those in the "1". These users make things aimed at the 90, such as info pamphlets which really should have been made by NationStates, itself, or programs and activities where extremely limited energy and interest is expected in advance, for it is all theatre anyway. While there is a remote possibility to get players from the 9 via regional officership programs or as staff of active ministries, it is true that if someone is in the 9 on NationStates, they might as well be in the 1, for that is to where power and prestige solely flow.

Yet I feel there is more at play than just the habits attached to users from a browser-based political simulator from 2002. In the earlier days of the internet, people were jumping at the chance to add their talents to the new community that they were a part of. Whether this was sharing music or art or just writing about whatever they want, the freedom of the platform and a strong personal drive to make their mark within it was powerful motivator. That motivator has since been lost, and I've wondered where it has gone.

In the modern day where internet accessibility has scaled things up to a massive userbase, is it that people do not feel able to compete? Do they feel that their contributions are valueless against professionals? Are they over-strained by late-stage capitalism demanding every moment of their time and creativity? Perhaps the answer is "yes" to all of the above. Perhaps their time as 90-consumers are spent in communities of the internet with 100,000 members which have full-time paid development staff making software, stories, and media that were previously communally-sourced.

This is the point where it is patently clear to me that I am a stubborn admin, running a community on an increasingly outdated meta. In a world where things ARE more top-down, in a world where staff roles ARE increasingly perceived to be a separate class of people. In a world where membership is transitory and yielded to those that can come up with the best new media, perhaps it is no surprise that the end result is consolidation and monopolisation.

The new meta is a paradigm of 1-99 -- exemplified by the YouTube culture of power-users chasing after the purest algorithm adherence, as smaller creators are erased from the face of the earth. It is the same force that drives the destruction of forum RP, where the only worlds and characters are those you make yourself. That format is now lost to Discord's gif-sticker-react culture where you may select an ambiguously safe, prepackaged message that you anticipate will be more predictably-received than putting yourself out here.

These are thoughts that need to be considered as Calamity Refuge enters its fifteenth year. It is unlikely that we will ever have a paid development staff, and it is as possible as ever that we will be erased from the face of the earth when led by an increasingly aging and depressive admin. As I open up discussions, commands, threads for input, I do become bothered by when they receive no feedback, no messages, nothing at all, for we are no longer at a point where I am able to do what the community needs.

However, since it is unlikely that the Refuge will join the monopolisation meta, one thing is clear: The community is unlikely to survive without the 9. It is unlikely to survive without communally-sourced ideas and creativity, talking and sharing amongst friends. People figuring out what they want to do, what they think it should look like, how things should work, what we should be working ON. It will fall to everyone in the coming year to determine this community's fate and vibrancy, for everyone has a share in it and of it.

[The Councillor of the Interior]

Castle of Bureaucracy Part II: Lithransir's Bane

RECOGNISING. The Councillor of the Interior was created from the passage of SR 6, Definitions and Responsibilities of Regional Councillors and,

Observing that said Revision was vanquished entirely from time and space by the passage of SR 15, Dissolution of the Interior,

Aware that there are, in fact, a great many areas of responsibility where a Councillor of the Interior could excel and benefit the Region,

Whereas the author of SR 15 was wrong and should feel bad,

Spontaneously generates the following additions to the Refugia Revised Statutes:

RRS 6 f. The Councillor of the Interior, whose responsibilities are defined as undertaking the practices and procedures of Revisions to the Revised Statutes, as well as maintaining articles and records via the Office of the Interior. This Councillor shall:

• Receive and validate requests for referendums to the Revised Statutes, and initiate such referendums to the stipulations their respective laws prescribe.
• Announce any referendum in a well-seen public area, and update any laws with the conclusion of the referendum's outcome.
• Determine and manage the portfolio of instructional material and Regional records that will be maintained by the Office of the Interior.
• Appoint and dismiss staff of the Office of the Interior for the purpose of keeping the Office's portfolio helpful and current.

Authored by:
Seconded by:

[Candidacy Period]

Castle of Bureaucracy Part I: A Question of Vengeance

IT IS KNOWN. While some members of the Region are inclined to run for fifteen minutes in one direction, there exist those who shall not;

Whereas the democratic inclinations of the voting public selects 'those who shall not' as their champions of the season, it remains unclear why such rest stops need be four months instead of three;

In an effort to facilitate the rotation of exhausted personnel to those whose spirits remain alive,

Revises RRS 12, in its entirety, to the following content:

RRS 12. The succession of the Arch-Administrator is subject to the succession laws of Refuge Isle, and verified by the presence of an anchor stone and Administration Tower. The Arch-Administrator will call elections for all democratic Council seats according to the following convention:

Candidacy Period	Feb 12 - 19	May 12 - 19	Aug 12 - 19	Nov 12 - 19
Voting Period	Feb 20 - 26	May 20 - 26	Aug 20 - 26	Nov 20 - 26
Transition Period	Feb 27 - 28	May 27 - 28	Aug 27 - 28	Nov 27 - 28

Authored by: Refuge Isle
Seconded by: A Million Dreams and Tiralta

After falling asleep in the grass outside the tent, as you do, Kaegan awoke to the sound of distant rustling. Like leaves being driven out of the way by some kind of wind, or perhaps a mad, rushing boar. At first, Kaegan wasn't sure if perhaps he had been imagining it, after all he was in a new magical forest where anything could happen -- and wasn't quite, himself, awake. But this sound seemed to be legitimate. It persisted, but it was too consistent to be the wind. Woosh-woosh-woosh-woosh, it grew louder and louder. At last, it came to a crashing sound of tree branches being battered out of the way by a frantic hand or foot. Suddenly, a man burst through the tree line, clad in animal hides. He had clearly been running for at least three days.

"I just wanted to let you know that I'm Scottish," he said before turning in the opposite direction and running with the same frantic speed.

"Ok, thanks," said Kaegan, who was not.

CalRef II: Could God Throw a Party So Big He Couldn't Lift It?
CalRef II: The Inhaler Is for My Azimuth
CalRef II: Hand signs are in all of Japan's greatest documentaries. Like Naruto
CalRef II: I have trained in Ikea. My flat-pack furniture is as good as my four-pack abs
CalRef II: Well, Well, Well. It looks like a well is just a device. Worshipping water
Phantom Thieves World Tour: An Army of Arrancars Are Destroying South America
CalRef II: Home of Aesop, Famous Fan of Orrin Hatch
CalRef II: Name-dropping Yourself as a Reference
CalRef II: Excessive Piano, but Just the Right Number of Hands
CalRef II: Eating a Goddamn Egg Out of a Shot Glass
CalRef II: 🤝Refrigerated