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Sanjuro wrote:I just noticed that all of the description pop-ups for item drops from Nutcracker's hat are missing the "Comes from the December 2011 Item of the Month" thingy. I did some more checking and saw the same thing for subscription vouchers. I'm not sure if those were intentional.
Yeah, we're not super-consistent with those. Went ahead and added it in those cases, thanks!

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Impish villain too has gender issues. Pronoun is "It" while the messages have "he"

Gender all the things!
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Plural of witch's dress:
Your 11 witch's dresss have been moved to your memento case

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From one of Master Zyx's hit messages:
...so it's hard to breath, but...
breathe

EDIT: By the way, I LOVE my new avatar! Rarr!

Glad you like it :) And fixed.
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Master Zyx's acid attack message:
The wardrobe doors fly open, pelting you with ancient perfumes that seem to have gone terrible wrong.


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From the box:

"You unwrap your present... finding it\'s a box. A festive box intended to be set on fire."

Stupid backslash.

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Plural of yule box:
You have 2 yule boxs in your inventory.

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There are still some spacing issues when using the new IotM. Sometimes the paragraphs are directly above the line where you get the item and it shows the item image, instead of having an extra line break.
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Satan wrote:There are still some spacing issues when using the new IotM. Sometimes the paragraphs are directly above the line where you get the item and it shows the item image, instead of having an extra line break.
That's not really standardized at all, but there's some space now.

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The fire strike-back message:
With a WHOOSH! your firey defenses activate in response to your opponent's attack, reflecting 4 damage onto your opponent.

My dictionary insists it's "fiery".

Your dictionary is right, for as little sense as that makes. Thanks!
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ice cube ship use:
... care of Pykrite Cruise Lines.
Wikipedia has the material named "Pykrete", was the "i" intentional?

krete it is, thanks!
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Um, about Chlorine Lad's ladel...
According to my dictionary, it should be "ladle".
Of course, that ladel is from an alternate reality, so there's that.

Someone's been spelling that wrong for years. Spoiler Alert: It's me.
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From the description of the malevolent paraffin blob:
Unfortunately, it seems this particular paraffin met it's one weakness: fire.

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One of the critical hit messages with Argent Archer's arrow equipped:
The light of the moon glints off the Argent Archer's arrow, driving your opponent damage crazy.

"damage" was emboldened and em-purpled, so I'm guessing that was psychic damage, but how much?

Craaaaaaaazy damage.
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One of the possessed eyewash station's miss messages:
The eyewash station sprays your feet with some water, making you wish you remembered your galoshes or mukluks or even you bouffant.

EDIT: Macadamia!

Gazebo!
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Earl n' Meyer's acid attack message:
They play keep away with a flask, tossing it back and forth until it spill on you and you realize it was acid all along.
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From the description of the overwhelmingly cool duster:
You don't usually see coats like this any more, but it looks heavy enough to withstand a just about anything...
and
And judging by how secretly jealous everyone is of this awesome coat, you can bet you bottom nickle that it's going to be unwelcome attention.

A nickle is a type of European woodpecker, but I don't think that's what you meant.

The coat is clearly too cool for school.
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duster entrance:
You break through a conviently located skylight, coat flapping dramatically as everything around you bursts into flames for no discernable reason.
Conviently, I have people that will tell me when I forget some letters. Or apostrophes. Or, you know, halves of sentences. Thanks!
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A Noggin Scratcher noncombat:
"Aww, jeez, Phil! What are these, stainless steel? What're you trying to do, murder someone?\" he says.
Evil backslash of death :mrgreen:

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From the description of the Jug of Aquarius:
Who has time to worry about atrological ages when there's trouble with a captial T?

Captialized.
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you missed one Sanjuro :P
Who has time to worry about atrological ages
also, when buying:
It's only after several awkard moments...

That's awkard.
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My people have no tradition of proofreading >_>
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Sanjuro wrote:Earl n' Meyer's acid attack message:
They play keep away with a flask, tossing it back and forth until it spill on you and you realize it was acid all along.
You might have missed reading that one.

Thanks! No use crying over spilled acid.
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From the leering king's miss messages:
The king pours something on you that he says scalds like molten lead, but its not even above body temperature.
and
He just sits there in awkward silence and stares at you. It makes you want to hit him which, as look would have it, was kind of on the itinerary anyway.

From one of Gaius Cassius Clay's miss messages:
He points out that the fault is not in your stars, but in the stage right under your feet. You thank it and move to safer ground.
(pronoun mismatch)

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candied laurels:

single use=For reasons you\'re still not entirely clear on, you eat what\'s apparently a bunch of sugar-coated bay leaves.

multiuse=For reasons you\'re still not entirely clear on, you eat what\'s apparently a bunch of sugar-coated bay leaves. After the first batch, you content yourself with just licking the sugar off the rest.

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The last sentence of the pop-up description for the Superagent:
They're you're agent.
*your

Also, the image for the Superagent is the same as the basic understudy (a big question mark).

Should both show up now, thanks!
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using the dragonslayer opening:
You charge towards Schnozzie Smith like a mighty knight, spearing him as a mighty knight spears a dragon... or amnything else really.

Defeated the amnythingville horror.
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When purchasing Floyd's dark prism:
The shopkeeper stumbles out of the backroom looking someone dazed and hands you a dark prism.

"somewhat dazed"? "like someone dazed"?

I was apparently somewhat dazed when I wrote that. Thanks!
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impractical jokester description
She's finds just about anything outrageously funny, but she's not particularly good at executing jokes because her plans are always so outrageous.
Also, although working okay with every other foe so far, the floyds prism message is clumped together with this foe's description so I guess a line break at the end of this foe's description is the best fix.

Tweaked, thanks! Let me know if it causes you any more problems.
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Patojonas wrote:impractical jokester description
She's finds just about anything outrageously funny, but she's not particularly good at executing jokes because her plans are always so outrageous.
Also, although working okay with every other foe so far, the floyds prism message is clumped together with this foe's description so I guess a line break at the end of this foe's description is the best fix.

Tweaked, thanks! Let me know if it causes you any more problems.
Just got it clumped together with description of Mister Citrus, Mister Chill Out Man, Memphis Tofeles, Firefly and the Lightning Bug .. probably all villains?
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xKiv wrote:Just got it clumped together with description of Mister Citrus, Mister Chill Out Man, Memphis Tofeles, Firefly and the Lightning Bug .. probably all villains?
Should be fixed there now as well.

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Light is changing to shadow and casting its shroud. Floyd's prism splits the darkness, leaving you in a eclipse's shadow under a clear blue sky.

Summoned Captain N, thanks!
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Kinak wrote:
xKiv wrote:Just got it clumped together with description of Mister Citrus, Mister Chill Out Man, Memphis Tofeles, Firefly and the Lightning Bug .. probably all villains?
Should be fixed there now as well.

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Currently happening for the battle of the bands foes as well.

Sort of a case by case thing, should be good there now.
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Using Blockee power armor:
You disassemble your suit and reassemble it as a sweet ATV. You didn\'t even lose any pieces!

EDIT: Using Blockee ATV:
You disassemble your ATV and reassemble it as a sweet power suit. You didn\'t even lose any pieces!

Fix\'d!
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Using parachute drop:
You jump very high and parachute down towards fist-first.
towards what? thy foe? ( Battle of the Fist of the First Men reference?)
You jump very high away your opponent and parachute back down.
away....from?

These should be more... unvague now. Thanks!
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From the description of the master's yo-yo:
What most people don't know is that it's actually a mediation on life and the experiences we all have.
"meditation"?

EDIT: From the "yo" dictionary pop-up:
The transcendantal power harnessed by yo-yo masters...
"transcendental"?

The Yo transcends spelling. Also, thanks.
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to achieve a State of Yo, one must be prepared. That includes string maintanence. Now go grab your yo-yo before it rolls into the street.
also, from the pentapeony:
transcendant flying polyp
and
Cloaked in a glowing aura of transcendant Yo, <foe> rises from the ashes of defeat (or the not-burnt-stuff of undefeat, as the case may be).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transcendant

Stopped transcending the bounds of correct spelling. Thanks!
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I missed one from 2012...
The weapon-specific critical hit message for the bouncy battery ball:
...you pretend its opening day and show off your trademark fast (bouncy) ball 10 times for 152 + 275 damage.
*it's

See sig. Thanks!
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Now that the computer system has been revamped, here's the first of the typos!

Your watch beeps, reminding you that your computer has finished its decryption work.
You got an item: signal processing code
It's also automatically started up the penultimate item in your queue. Because it's the future!
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