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athletes just walk around undiagnosed as fuck i can’t

No but imagine you’re a kid and you think all the other karters want to be your friend and your dad tells you “bite or get bitten” and you try to take it to heart but then you’re 19 and the driver academy gives you a 17 year old and you cant bite him so you go to another team and then another and suddenly you’re the more experienced teammate by far but they give you a little 19 year old and you teach him to be a good teammate instead of biting him and you rebuild the backmarker team together into something that has a spark and then you go to a top team and now you need to bite but you don’t and sometimes you and your new teammate snap at one another but it’s not serious and always forgiven and then that team replaces you with a 7 time world champion after you helped develop their car into a title contender because you never learned to bite but does it matter? Does it matter to you when all of your garages still sing your praises and all your team principals and engineers will miss you and your teammates want to stay your friends? Should you have bitten?

Trying to join a big Discord server when you're not really that familiar with Discord servers somehow manages to combine the social anxiety of trying to make new friends or ordering at a fancy new coffeeshop for the first time with the general chaos and technical barriers to entry of an MMO. I shuffle up to the counter and go "Um, hey, can I get---" only for someone named ☽ 𝓖𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓷 𝓕𝓾𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓻 ☾ [👑 Mod] [👺 Dark Wizard] [♣︎ BUNT] [🔮 Pengis Time 2022] • he/him to manifest in a cloud of bisexual coloured animated lightning, turning me instantly to dust and then announcing to the shop at large "Hey guys, please remember to read the #2026-updated-rules-terms-and-conditions and choose your role before you speak, also remember that ordering should go in #ordering-drinks, #ordering-cakes, or #ordering-a-cake-and-a-drink, unless you're 🔉just-using-the-bathroom. Thanks"