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stop complaining about terminal remember, you don’t HAVE to go “Escaping” is a luxury Not a privilege Sometimes you gotta make sacrifices g just like in the real world Not everyone is “hardcore” a lot of people don’t even know what it is to even be “hardcore” & that’s...

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