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Long before Sanctuary was ravaged by the terrors of the Burning Hells, the world had a smaller and much more annoying fear. This fear was known as Binkles. Binkles liked to talk. In fact, Binkles rarely did anything but talk. If Binkles caught a glimpse of you then your day was officially over. He would follow anybody anywhere just to talk. It didn't matter what he talked about because Binkles just liked to be heard. Eventually people started to ignore him.

At first, Binkles just moved on and talked to the next person. However, soon he realized that nobody would listen to his not-so-fancinating stories. This crushed Binkles and he brainstormed for a solution. After months of being ignored, Binkles finally found his salvation. He merely had to be so annoying while getting their attention that they would simply prefer to hear more of his stories rather than the endless annoyance he would feed them while waiting for their attention. So Binkles was happy again. He could talk to people for the rest of his life without any hinderance.

One evening, when Binkles was walking home to his swamp, he came across a small, floating white orb. Upon closer inspection he noticed the orb had wings. Once he had finally gotten right up next to it he could hear it crying. Binkles was confused by this creature, and asked what was wrong with it. The orb-creature spoke in a high pitched tone and said "I have never had any friends and I am very lonely," as the creature sobbed between words. Binkles felt bad for the creature, but he had an idea. Binkles exclaimed "This is your lucky day! My name is Binkles the Frog, and I am quite the expert in making friends! Everybody in my town wants to talk to me all day long! They can't get enough of it! I'll teach you how to make friends little creature, but could you tell me your name?" The creature spoke with relief in it's voice "Oh thank you so very much! My name is Navi, but What is your secret?" Binkles began to tell the creature about his life and how he got everybody to listen to him. He spent weeks talking to Navi, and she listened intently and learned from it's new master of friendship.

After the training was completed, Binkles sent Navi to town to practice. Navi approached one of the townsfolk and used Binkles' technique, "HEY! LOOK! LISTEN! HELLO? HEY! HEY! LISTEN! HEY! LISTEN! LOOK! LISTEN! HEY! LISTEN! HEY! LOOK! LOOK! LISTEN! HEY! HELLO? HEY!" The surrounding townsfolk all ran away screaming. Now they would have to deal with TWO of these horribly annoying cretins. Navi had a puzzled look on her face. Binkles' had assured her that this would work. She shrugged it off and trusted in her master Binkles. "Perhaps those people were running from something else?" Navi thought to herself. She continued on until she happened upon a young wizard. She approached the wizard and said, "HEY! LISTEN! LISTEN! LOOK! HEY! HELLO? HEY! HEY! HEY! HEY! LISTEN! LOOK! HEY! LOOK! LISTEN!" The wizard was known for his short temper, and was not going to deal with this for another second. "BEGONE, YOU PEST!" he exclaimed as he casted a spell. Navi had disappeared.

After hours of waiting, Binkles went to investigate and found out what the wizard had done. Binkles knew he could never defeat the powerful wizard, so he went home crying, as he couldn't even avenge his lost friend. Binkles never spoke again after that day. He still wonders what happened to his old friend Navi to this very day. The only thing he knew was that the wizard had transported her to another realm, and that a woman caught a glimpse of the destination in the instant Navi was transported. The only thing the woman remembered seeing was a large tree. The woman also swore that she saw a face on the tree, but even someone like Binkles couldn't believe such a claim. Even so, Binkles liked to believe the story. It made him feel like his old friend was alive and happy, making friends in a new world. He even thought someday he might go see her and her friends. Surely they would go on great adventures together and she would be happy forever.

THE END

Even zombies can't stand this damn thing.

I'm dumb and forgot image tags. Wish I could edit, sorry for double!

when is the cutoff and when will they announce the winner for this week

The contest ends today, so participants still have all day to enter and then the winner will be chosen. Last time it was announced on Sunday, so I assume the same is true of this contest. The contest is really sunday-saturday, since they need some time to view and vote between the cutoff and announcement.

Dropping your banner has a use. It was in one of somebody's beta videos, though i cannot recall who. My first guess says Force because he is the majority of the videos around atm (afaik), but it could've been hunter, husky, psy, or day9 as well.

Anyway, onto the less useless part of this post. Dropping a banner serves as a sort of "waypoint" for the "portkey" function you mentioned. if you drop your banner and run off to kill some shit, your friend can tp to you without appearing in the middle of 600 zombies as his low-grade computer takes 10 minutes to load all the animations going on. It has limited uses, but it's a nice little feature. Especially if you have a lame computer an loading in the middle of fights is hard on your rig. Still a neat little thing even if it doesn't get used a lot.

I think ol' Sigmund Freud would be proud that Blizzard is showcasing some of his work.

For some reason the soup nazi just called out to me.

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Don't call the witch doctor to heal your wife. It's just a title, he is much more witch than doctor.

Hah I didn't get to see that one among the too-many-pages. Personally I think the charlie brown bit is quite creative without being over the top. Good stuff imo, well played calvera!

The poor characters of children's accounts always suffer such a cruel fate...

GL all.