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      5 hours ago

      The phrase mammoth accounting error sounds like a joke from David Macaulay’s cartoons in The Way Things Work, with a mammoth wearing a green visor and looking up from a mechanical calculator with a perturbed expression.

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        if i could find my old copy of The New Way Things Work, i would absolutely go find the seven-segment LCD section and general-purpose computing pages to post her

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        probably more of a shin megami tensei deal where you have to fuse one with a mushroom or something and you get the other

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      9 hours ago

      Closest abilities I have off the top of my head are maybe “Own Tempo” or “Hustle”. Or the held item “Blunder Policy”

      E: also: Unaware, Cloud Nine, Oblivious