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did you know synirc has a convenient web client? i'm just mentioning it because you told kittenmay you had trouble connecting. (if that was just an excuse to not talk to her, my bad.)
oh man i was looking at your cruise pictures in the photos thread but i thought it was the scary stories thread (for some reason) and i kept looking in the background for zombies or slenderman ._.
I saw your post about showdown, avast antiviruses webshield was what stopped me from getting on for a few days. If you have avast or another antivirus with a webshield try disabling it. If not sorry for the really random VM :P