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- author: Joey Comeau
- content: It's too late for the government to train me to be a weapon. For someone
- to approach me on the street, and to tell me I match a certain profile. I probably
- won't even learn another language well enough to speak it fluently. Giant crazed
- attack dogs won't ever suddenly act like scared puppies when they see me. I won't
- ever be a grandmaster of chess, either. I don't think at this stage I can even reasonably
- expect to make Expert. There are some things I regret as I get older, I guess. There
- are a ton of traditional ways to be bad-ass, and I missed the boat. But that's okay.
- It just means I have to be more creative. And then later that creativity will make
- people think I was an evil genius, instead of just so desperate for a world with
- monsters that I didn't mind becoming one myself. What I'm saying is - I stole an
- ice cream cone yesterday from the 7-11 and I have no regrets at all.
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