Mods: share some of your experiences with us from the dark side?

Mods: share some of your experiences with us from the dark side?
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It’s not at all what I was promised. We’re prevented from eating for days at a time so we’ll “keep our edge”. And then Augustlan won’t let us play with the hot pincers and thumbscrews cause they’re “for business use only”. So yeah, it’s frustrating. But it is awfully fun swatting down questions at random and ignoring the plaintive little pleas for explanations (snort).
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