Hint
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Answer
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There's no feeling more intense than ________ ____.
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starting over
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If you've _______ ____ ________ the day before it was due, as I have,
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deleted your homework
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Or if you left your ______ at home
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wallet
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and you have __ __ ____
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to go back
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after spending an hour in the _______,
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commute
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If you won some money at the casino and then put all your winnings on___
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red
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and it came up _____,
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black
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If you got your ____ _____ dry-cleaned before a wedding
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best shirt
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and then immediately _______ ____ on it,
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dropped food
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If you won an argument with a friend and then later discovered that they just ________ __ _____ ________ ____ ,
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returned to their original view
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________ ____ __ ______ ____ ________ __.
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Starting over is harder than starting up
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If you're not ready for that, like if you've already ___ _ ___ ___,
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had a bad day
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then what you're about to go through might be ___ ____.
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too much
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Feel free to go away and come back. _'__ __ ____.
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I'll be here
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Alright, thanks for coming with me on this trip. I'll understand if you have to take a _____ at any point...
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break
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Just find a safe place to stop, and ____ ___ ____.
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quit the game
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Don't worry, I'll save your progress, always. ____ ____ ________.
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Even your mistakes
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This game is a homage to a ____ ____
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free game
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that came out in ____, titled
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2002
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(Question 20) '____ ______'.
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Sexy Hiking
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The ______ of that game was Jazzuo
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author
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a mysterious _____ designer
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czech
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(Question 23) who was known at the time as the father of _-_____.
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B Games
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(previous answer)s are rough assemblages of found _______.
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objects
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Designers slap them together very quickly and freely, and they're often too rough and __________ to gain much of a following.
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unfriendly
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They're built more for the joy of building them than as ________ ________.
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polished products
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In a certain way (Answer 20) is the perfect __________ of a (Answer 23).
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embodiment
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It's built almost entirely out of found and ________ _____, and it's one of the most unusual and unfriendly games of its time.
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recycled parts
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In it, your task is to simply drag yourself up a ________
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mountain
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with a ______.
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hammer
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The act of climbing, in the _______ _____or in real life,
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digital world
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has certain essential properties that gives the game it's ______.
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flavor
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No amount of forward progress is guaranteed; some cliffs are to _____
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sheer
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or too ________.
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slippery
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And the player is constantly, unremittingly in danger of falling and ______ __________.
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losing everything
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Anyway when you start (Answer 20), you're standing next to this ____ ____, which blocks the way to the entire rest of the game.
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dead tree
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It might take you an hour to get over that tree. A lot of people _____ ___ ____ __.
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never got past it
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You prod and ____ at it
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poke
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exploring the limits of your reach and your ________ , trying to find a way up and over.
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strength
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There's a sense of _____ in that lack of compromise
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truth
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Most _________ in videogames are fake
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obstacles
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you can be completely confident in your ability to get through them, once you have the correct method or the correct equipment, or just by spending ______ ____
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enough time
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In that sense, every pixellated obstacle in (answer 20) is ____.
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real
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The obstacles in (answer 20) are unyielding, and that makes the game uniquely ___________.
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frustrating
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But I'm not sure Jazzuo intended to make a frustrating game—the frustration is just _________ to the act of climbing
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essential
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and it's _________ __ ___ _______of building a game about climbing.
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authentic to the process
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A funny thing happened to me as I was ________ this mountain:
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building
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I'd have an idea for a new obstacle, and I'd build it, test it, and... it would usually turn out to be ____________ ____.
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unreasonably hard
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But I couldn't bring myself to ____ __ ______.
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make it easier
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It already felt like my inability to get past the new obstacle was __ _____ __ __ ______, rather than as the builder.
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my fault as a player
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Imaginary mountains build themselves from our ______s to climb them,
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effort
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and it's our ________ ________ to reach the summit that turns those mountains into something real.
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repeated attempts
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When you're building a videogame world you're building with _____,
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ideas
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And that can be like working with _____-___ ______.
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quick set cement
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You mold your ideas into a certain shape that can be ______ ____,
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played with
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and in the process of playing with them they begin to ______ and set
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harden
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until they're immutable, like ____.
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rock
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At that point you can't change the world—not without breaking it into pieces and starting fresh with ___ _____.
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new ideas
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For years now people have been predicting that _____ would soon be made out of prefabricated objects,
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games
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_____ __ _ _____ and assembled into a world.
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bought in a store
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For the most part, that hasn't happened, because the objects in the stores are _____.
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trash
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I don't mean they look bad or that they're _____ ____,
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badly made
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_______ _ ___ __ ____ ___,
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although a lot of them are
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I mean they're trash in the way that ____ becomes trash
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food
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as soon as you put it in the ____.
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sink
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Things are made to be ________ and used in a certain context
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consumed
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and once the moment is gone they transform into _______.
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garbage
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In the context of __________ those moments pass by in seconds.
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technology
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Over time we've poured more and more refuse into this vast digital ________ we call the internet.
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landfill
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It now vastly __________
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outnumbers
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and _________ the things that are fresh and untainted and unused.
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outweighs
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When everything around us is cultural trash, trash becomes the new ______, the lingua franca of the digital age.
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medium
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And you can build _______ out of trash
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culture
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But only _____ _______
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trash culture
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B-_____,
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games
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B-______,
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movies
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B-_____,
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music
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B-__________.
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philosophy
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Maybe this is what this digital culture is. A monstrous mountain of trash, the ash-heap of creativity's ________.
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fountain
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A landfill with __________ __ ____ ______ __ in it
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everything we ever thought of
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Grand, infinite, and ________.
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unsorted
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There's 3D models of _________
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breakfast
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gen-xers' ______ novels
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fanfic
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_______ magazines
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scanned
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_____-______ Shia leBoeuf
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green screen
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banned snuff scenes on ________
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liveleak
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facebook's got lifelike bots with unbranded _______,
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adverts
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and candid shots of _____
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kanye
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taylor swift
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___ _____ epic fail gifs
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car crash
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Russian
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discussions of ______
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McRibs
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discarded, _________, unrecycled
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forgotten
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muddled, rotten, and ________
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untitled
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Everything's fresh for about ___ _______
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six seconds
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until ____ _____ thing beckons
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some newer
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and we hit _______.
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refresh
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And there's years of ____________
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persevering
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___________ into the pile
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Disappearing
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___ __ _____,
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Out of style
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___ __ _____.
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out of sight
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In this context it's tempting to make ________ content...
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friendly
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That's gentle, that lets you churn through it but not ____ __.
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earn it
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Why make something _________, if it just gets piled up in the landfill,
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demanding
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Filed in with the _____ ______?
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bland things
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When _____ ____ ___, they wanted a lot from you.
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games were new
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Daunting you, taunting you, _________ ___ ________ you.
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resetting and delaying
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Players played stoically. Now everyone's ______ ___ __ ____.
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turned off by that
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They want to burn through it quickly, a quick ___ for the fickle
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fix
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Some ______
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tricks
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for the ______ of the feckless.
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clicks
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But that's not you, you're an _______
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acrobat
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You could _______ _ ________ ___.
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swallow a baseball bat
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Now I know, most likely you're watching on Youtube or ______
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Twitch
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while some dude with 10 _______ _____ does it for you
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million views
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Like a ____ ____ being fed chewed-up food.
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baby bird
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_____ _______ ___.
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That's culture too
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But on the off-chance you're playing this, what I'm saying is: Trash is disposable but maybe it doesn't have to be ____________.
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approachable
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what's the feeling like? are you ________?
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stressed
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I guess you don't hate it if you got this far. Feeling frustrated,
it's _________.
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underrated
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An ______
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orange
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is a _____ _____ _____
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sweet juicy fruit
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Locked inside a ______ ____.
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bitter peel
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That's not how I feel about a _________.
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challenge
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I only want the bitterness Its ______,
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coffee
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its __________,
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grapefruit
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its ________.
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licorice
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It feels like we're closer now: ________ ___ _______
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Composer and climber
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________ ___ ____
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Designer and user
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You could have _______ but you didn't
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refused
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There was something in you that was ______
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hidden
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That chose to _______.
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continue
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It means a lot to me, that you've ____ ____ ___.
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come this far
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_______ this much
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Endured
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every ________,
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wisecrack
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every _____________,
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insensitivity
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Every _______ you've forgiven me
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setback
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Is a ______ ____that you've given me.
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kingly gift
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We have the same taste, ___ ___ _
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you and I
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It's not _______,
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ambition
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It's (previous answer)'s _______:
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opposite
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An obdurate mission to _____ ______.
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taste defeat
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_____ ____ ___ __ ___ ___
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You'll feel bad if you win
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__ _ ___ ____ _____ __ ___ ___.
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So I put this snake in for you
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Have you thought about who you ___ __ ____?
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are in this
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Are you the ___ __ ___ ___, Diogenes?
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man in the pot
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Are you his ____?
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hand
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Are you the top of his ______?
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hammer
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_ _____ ___-
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I think not
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Where your ____ moves,
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hand
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the ______ may not follow,
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hammer
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nor the ___,
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man
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nor the ___'_ ____.
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man's hand
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In this you are his ____.
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will
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His ______.
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intent
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The embodied resolve in his ______ ______.
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uphill ascent
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Now you've conquered the ___ _____,
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ice cliff
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The platforms the ______ and rectory,
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church
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The ______ room and the factory,
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living
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The __________ and the construction site,
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playground
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The granite rocks and the ________.
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lakeside
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You've learned to ____.
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hike
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There's no way left to go ___ __.
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but up
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And in a moment I'll ____ __, but let me say
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shut up
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_'_ ____ ___ ____.
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I'm glad you came
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I dedicate this game to you, the one who ____ ____ ___.
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came this far
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I give it to you with ___ __ ____.
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all my love.
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