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Which item?


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From the new work gloves:

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No weapon fumbles. Unless it's balanced by other effects which make you fumble. Or the effect is broken, which is most certainly is. So really, for now, you're gonna fumble until I fix it. No need to report this.
I think that first "is" is supposed to be an "it". :D

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Got a few too:

Sanatarium should be sanitarium (too many occurances to list the specific ones)

In A Septic Scandal (without bland sack):
"Off to either side you can see broken pipes where more sluge is trickling in by the minute." <--- Sluge should be sludge

When using Black Sand:
"You pull out the pouch of and try to figure out how to use it" <--- Pull out the pouch of...?


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Kon-Tiki wrote:
Sanatarium should be sanitarium (too many occurances to list the specific ones)


No, it shouldn't:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Sanatarium

The others are good catches, though.


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Remember the rule, guys. Look it up at http://dictionary.com first. You'd be surprised how many words have multiple different minor spellings.


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I think Dictionary.com actually has a mistake too then :P When googling for sanatarium, there's 61.100 results and the correction: "Did you mean 'sanitarium'?" while sanitarium has 2.640.000 results and no "Did you mean" thing above.


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Hehhehe. >.> <.<

People r teh sillyz! :P


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In the "What The Hell?!" event:

"The eyes are entirely black, the the mouth juts forward" <--- "the the"


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Another one:

Description from "Spiked gloves"
"These gloves are armor-plated and mounted with several sharp spikes, which which help both defense and offense." <--- "which which help" should be "which help"

Isn't there a merit badge or something for finding 10 typos? :mrgreen:


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Introduction to the Troutmaster:
"He's not not what you expected: short, balding, slightly overweight, and pale green. Well, the pale green skin isn't so surprising." <--- "not not"


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You don't. That's just code for "you have used up your allotted time for the day."

Game manual, FAQ section, third question.

Questions 4 and 5 ought to have their answers starting on the next line.

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When installing an electronic computer:
"You set up a electronic computer in the first space in your computer lab." <--- a should be an


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Kon-Tiki wrote:
I think Dictionary.com actually has a mistake too then :P When googling for sanatarium, there's 61.100 results and the correction: "Did you mean 'sanitarium'?" while sanitarium has 2.640.000 results and no "Did you mean" thing above.
Google is concerned with what's most popular on the net - Dictionary.com is concerned with what are actual words.

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Description of working gloves:
"Or the effect is broken, which is most certainly is." <--- Should be "it"


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Another one:

When using Trample of the Rhino:
"Channeling the spirit of the rhinocerous you charge your opponent with the intention of trampling them underfoot." <-- rhinocerous isn't in dictionary.com. Rhinoceros is, though.


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Tiny, tiny one when selling items...
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31 hunks of gold coast ivory

"Gold Coast" should be capitalized.


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Step 2. Select a quantity to sell. You this quantity as one package, not in multiple separate auctions.

Dunno what is should be... Not sure why nobody noticed it yet...


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Because I just posted it yesterday in response to a couple of "I picked two items and thought they would be separate instead of one lump package" comments. I'll fix that tonight.


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In my Journal for the new Level 5 quest:

"C.H.I.P.S. (Casino Heroes Invesitgate Purported Scandal)"


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On the front page:

The level 5 quest has been implmented.


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Reading the description for the new Aegis Flux Incapacitor (December's IoTM)...
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It's like this thing was pushed forward into the past from some dystopian future where they've stopped holding sporting events...

This may not be a mistake, but something about "pushed forward into the past" seems a little bit off to me. How can something go forward to the past?

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In small print on the inside of the shield says "Aegis Protection Corporation is a subdivision of Bregna Industries. Aegis Corporation: now with less ligature!"

The first part of this sentence seems gramatically incorrect. Shouldn't it be "In small print on the inside of the shield, it says..." or "Small print on the inside of the shield says..." or something like that?

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Tviri wrote:
Reading the description for the new Aegis Flux Incapacitor (December's IoTM)...
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It's like this thing was pushed forward into the past from some dystopian future where they've stopped holding sporting events...

This may not be a mistake, but something about "pushed forward into the past" seems a little bit off to me. How can something go forward to the past?


Sounds right to me. We are all traveling through time with our backs to the future -- you can see the past, but not the future, therefore we must be facing the past. Now if you push something forward, you'll be pushing it towards the direction you're facing.


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Tviri's second point is good and has been fixed. Tviri's first point is a joke that has been misunderstood.


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Being pushed forward into the past and the Ægis Flux are related somehow?

Sorry, never seen that series.


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Try oddly phrased time travel and the Flux (in)capacitor being related.

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"bat out of hell". Isn't Hell a place-name, and thus a proper noun, and thus something that should be capitalized?

Also, it seems the crib sheet should follow the standard of the Hero's Cape and be capitalized as well.

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Never noticed this before...

cup of coffee wrote:
This is a cup of regular caffeinated coffee. It's nothing special. Unless you happen to consider something that keeps you warm when you're cold, picks you up when you're down, and keeps you going in the face of adversity to be something special. In which case this might just be the most special thing on the planet.
Looks like you lost track of where you were going with this. It should either be "Unless you don't happen to consider..." or "...to be nothing special."

Personally, I think the second is better because it mirrors the first sentence.

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I think the current description makes sense, then again; english is my third language so don't trust me.


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Cristiona wrote:
Never noticed this before...
Looks like you lost track of where you were going with this. It should either be "Unless you don't happen to consider..." or "...to be nothing special."

Personally, I think the second is better because it mirrors the first sentence.


I think the quote says what I wanted it to. Consider this example:

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Godzilla isn't very tall. Unless you consider 200 feet to be tall. In which case Godzilla might be really tall after all.


The coffee one is more subtle, which I think makes it funny in a way that the Godzilla line isn't, but it's the same thing.


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Summon Water Buffalo wrote:
You let out a series of grunts inaudible to humans, but perfectly clear to ... water buffalo. You're not exactly sure where they from--the zoo, maybe?--but one shows up in short order and stands at your side.

I think the bolded text should be: where they come from


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Ryme wrote:
The coffee one is more subtle, which I think makes it funny in a way that the Godzilla line isn't, but it's the same thing.
Hm. Okay, I see your point. Guess I just have a snarkier world view, heh.

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From the Nagual Mystic:

"You think you fight their phsyical..."


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The problem with typos I make the first time is it means I also tend to overlook them the second, third, tenth, whatever time if you just copy and paste it here without highlighting the word. Totally a failing on my part, but it means I start pulling out my hair first until I catch on to the actual issue. Any help with the highlighting/explanations is always appreciated.

Fixed.


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I think I've caught up with the spelling errors listed here.


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Figuring it's just going to disappear if you leave it hear, you take the pack with you.


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In a newer choice adventure, it says that you see 4 people, but then only specifically lists off 3 of them. Intentional?

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"Here" is fixed.

The 4/3 people would be because I trimmed a choice out. Just assume the fourth isn't doing anything interesting. I may expand it later.


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Quest prompt for Dank and Rusty Maze:

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We're not really sure what it is, but something seems to be spillng over into the sewers from some neighboring tunnels.

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[spoiler]advanced medkit

As it's name implies, this thing is both automated and a medkit.[/spoiler]

I think its name implies it's advanced, rather than automated.


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Man, can't believe I messed up "its" -- that always drives me crazy when others do it. That's what I get for scrambling to write a description after 7 hours of coding. Fixed.


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