90s Nonsense: the WizardWorks Holiday Collection CD-ROM

Simply taking a look at one of the many Christmas-themed software packages from the mid-90s filled with random junk that the publisher had lying around. Holiday games, labels, clipart, fonts, screensavers, a MIDI jukebox, a t-shirt designer and more! Even a cassette tape, ooh.
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● Download an archive of the CD here:
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● Jazzy holiday background music courtesy of:
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#LGR #Christmas #Shovelware

[@Fazeshyft]

"Golf. It's not a game, it's a disease." WHAT EVEN IS THIS??!

[@OriginalBongoliath]

A generic, boomer phrase they use for any hobby they really like.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Golf is 100% a disease. Do you know how much more room we would have for housing and schools and businesses and public parks, if we just rezoned all the world's golf courses?

[@0311Mushroom]

Golf is not a sport. It's men in ugly pants, walking.

[@absalomdraconis]

@@imveryangryitsnotbutter : Urban development only takes up 1% of the world's surface, golf courses don't matter.

[@camwoodstock]

I don't even believe in golf. I'm a strict ateeist.

[@JanusKastin]

"It's printing out a picture of the tshirt!" I shot coffee out my nose at that one.

[@pistool1]

6:00 For some reason, those xmas ball icons just look like a b00bs with a nipple :)

[@EdEckersley]

ahaha

[@SUB1KOIRA]

I know right? One of the funniest moments in LGR

[@TheRealAbeFroman]

Instant classic!

[@jk9554]

and yet: no cutting marks on the disk label.

[@travtotheworld]

Please start selling "World Peace. It Could Happen." shirts.

[@David-xj7vu]

But printed backwards.

[@plan7a]

As David says below - ".neppaH dluoC tI . ecaeP dlroW" (perhaps with - "syaS ttiB bbiR" (or near enough, due to the needing of turning the letters properly backwards). It might be better to copy the clip art into another program to make the t-shirt! Then you would be able to leave out the 'border'.

[@thndr_5468]

Yes I need it

[@joshuajayne8926]

It has to have the image of the t-shirt too.

[@somoneelse3488]

Personally I want Rib Bit shirts

[@ash36230]

No lie, you could make a line of Rib Bitt tshirts and they'll likely sell

[@Zeeruss]

I want one. lol

[@austinnort2749]

Please it’s all I want for Christmas haha

[@mattcat234]

No kidding you could easily sell them now. Hell id buy one

[@randompastry]

I’d buy one too 😂

[@thndr_5468]

I want one now

[@mechanizedmanifesto]

"Well, that's the games out of the way. It's only downhill from here, I imagine." Little did he know.

[@gowildmouse]

"WORLD PEACE IT COULD HAPPEN" Ah yes, realm of possibility i see!

[@travtotheworld]

I have to assume it's a bad English translation from German. They must have been trying to say "World Peace is Possible" or something but translated it too literally.

[@alalalala57]

@@travtotheworld When the mistranslation is better.

[@mightyfilm]

Every so often, these videos will have that iconic and legendary LGR moment. Your "Fresh Oats," your pole of pubes at a Goodwill, your the entire Read-a-Rama experience. That whole thing where the video on the computer screen goes out and cuts to the screensaver that says "penises." "Rib Bit" would have sufficed as just its own existence. However, printing the entire t-shirt the wrong direction and having it fall apart on the shirt until it came back smeared is the epitome of the LGR Cinematic Universe.

[@mechanizedmanifesto]

Wait which video is the penises one? I've been watching for years but I must have forgotten.

[@mightyfilm]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d57LopeYn5WpprM

[@axeliasalaria8905]

@@mechanizedmanifesto 1997 DVD ROM (Encore?) video

[@mechanizedmanifesto]

@@axeliasalaria8905 Thank's. Happy holidays!

[@axeliasalaria8905]

@@mechanizedmanifesto No problem! Happy holidays too!

[@SharewareWizard]

it's like when you order a custom mug from ebay and they send you a mug with a photo of a custom mug on it.

[@sidremus]

Man, I miss the 90s. Back then you could just kick back on a Sonntag around Christmas, listen to some banging Christmas midi tunes and print RibBitt-T-shirt shirts for you and the entire family. Sometimes, after some eggnog you might even contemplate some of larger questions in life. Like, world peace. It could happen...

[@Obsidian762]

I could not stop laughing at the T-shirt part 😂 Merry Christmas!

[@OddZealot]

Same here, I didn't laugh that hard in quite a while. :D

[@needfortweed8734]

yeah, especially when he tried to fix the first transfer and just buggered up the image even more!

[@tiamarie6719]

It's not that funny, but it is sort of funny to me.

[@mannyichi]

I want that football shirt now. “addiction, can it be cured?” lmao

[@kintozero3169]

There is a blank at the top, for you to put the name of your team at the top. Like "New York Giants Addiction, Can it be cured?"

[@nulltrope]

Rib Bitt is gonna be the hottest new streetwear brand just you wait

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

That description on the back though. 'The whole family will love this collection of holiday "goodies" for your computer.' Why is "goodies" in quotes? Should I be worried?

[@TheTuttle99]

Such an old person thing to do lol

[@robertharris6092]

You should be very worried.

[@molten_software]

good-deez ... nuts?

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

Nah, when you open it Graham Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie are in there.

[@SimonCallahan]

"Clark McCallister" absolutely has to be a pseudonym. It's literally the first and last names of two main characters from famous Christmas movies. If they just happened to find some guy with that name to do the liner notes for a Christmas-themed tape, I'd be amazed.

[@FinestCitizen]

Clark Griswold...Kevin McCallister...

[@absalomdraconis]

Well, Simon, would you really put it above them to just page through the phone book until they found someone with the right name, and offer them $50?

[@CptJistuce]

@@absalomdraconis The state of this CD makes me suspect WizardWorks wasn't paying anyone.

[@purpleperil7485]

So being curious I actually looked him up, he is an American composer who just happens to have the perfect name for this tape www.discogs.com/The-London-Symphony-Orchestra-The-Nutcracker-Suite/release/3345785 www.discogs.com/artist/2579846-Clark-McAlister

[@pierreo33]

@@FinestCitizen yeah no shit

[@krzysztofczarnecki8238]

I like how the box around the cassette box has just the right mix of Christmas and nuclear missile launch button aesthetics

[@zatramander]

The T-shirt templates are an absolute treasure.

[@joecool9739]

"whoa, your computer has CD-ROM...so sick man" -random 90's dude

[@BG_NC]

Me now

[@SilverBullet93GT]

and check out my dot matrix printer...

[@BubblewrapHighway]

@@SilverBullet93GT Ladies......................................................

[@SilverBullet93GT]

@@BubblewrapHighway lol that's a lot of dots

[@AkosJaccik]

I can't explain why, but I absolutely adore the Sonntag Floppy.

[@Damaniel3]

Sounds like a person saying Santa with a weird accent. " SONTA!!!!...g".

[@prinzvalium242]

Sonntag means Sunday in German... *Edit Should have finished watching the video instead of replying to the first comment vaguely related to my native language 😅😅😂 My bad

[@Middcore]

Anybody else feel like the Bell Saver screensaver has way more of a Taco Bell vibe than a holiday one?

[@somestrangecircus5505]

Absolutely

[@HoveringNebula]

Just imagine the police blotter... man arrested attempting to install Screensaver on Taco Bell POS systems. Suspect was quoted screaming "it's just so fitting!"

[@alalalala57]

@@HoveringNebula LOL

[@wraser]

"Who knows if we'll get a copyright strike for that, but we're gonna roll the dice and see what we can do." The bravery of this man! 😁👍

[@jaelynnberry4892]

I used to watch LGR in 5th grade now in my last few months of high school. Merry Christmas everyone! And cheers to a better new year (hopefully) 😅🥂

[@NewWaveEnthusiast]

I used to watch his sims pack reviews when I was buying one to hype it up.

[@TheTuttle99]

So wholesome I love it

[@jaelynnberry4892]

@@NewWaveEnthusiast same! I had a really old pc so it used to download really slowly, so I watched his reviews throughout that time. Brought me a lot of joy!

[@elitheothercomputerguy5436]

i found him i think the year i started middle school and now im starting the second half of 12th grade. there's not too many channels that i've watched almost consistently for more than 5 years

[@outerfroggy1]

As a young gen Xer it makes my heart happy there are still youngsters out there watching and enjoying the kind of tech I grew up with!

[@AnomalyArcadie]

I swear to god if you ever make these shirts as merch I'll wear an "Addiction, can it be cured?" shirt when I pick up my next yearly chip at my weekly AA meeting 😂

[@nikkid1759]

this whole thing could be summarized with the 10:13 timestamp. "wizardworks, no!"

[@Patrese_X]

"Doom Guy Santa Head" was not something I was expecting to hear today, and I thank you for that and all the other cool videos, LGR. Merry Christmas!

[@james2175]

This made me shout! LOL!

[@tomaszlis993]

I actually started crying out of laugh at that t-shirt. Now my wife thinks I'm emotionally unstable.

[@parishna4882]

Your wife?

[@revivedfears]

Your wife? 😂 Stop telling lies on thr Internet.

[@NikkiWrightVGM]

KZbin: How dare you play copyrighted music! Here, play the exact same song just played by a different orchestra.

[@stevethepocket]

I'm impressed that it can still tell the difference. These days it seems designed to assume every piece of music is stolen and look for the closest match no matter how far of a stretch it is.

[@user-xr3rb6pn9m]

Guys in the US, I know you can do it. Just write a letter to your congressman or senator and ask them to end this DMCA-related stupidity

[@scaper8]

@@user-xr3rb6pn9m We do. They go unread. At best we get a auto-generated response. They don't care to fix the laws because they get paid more by the lobbies behind them and a sizable enough portion of the people they need to convince to keep them in office don't care or have been convinced that it hurts someone they don't like. Welcome to American politics.

[@kintozero3169]

@@user-xr3rb6pn9m reread what you just wrote. Do you think they care about what we want? I have contacted congressmen & senators. It changes NOTHING

[@user-xr3rb6pn9m]

@@kintozero3169 well, some form of collective action is definitely needed. A representative is not going to care about one voter, but he/she will have to listen if the movement is big enough to affect this rep.'s chances of being reelected.

[@fragglet]

Fun fact: it's really easy to hack the Flying Windows screensaver by changing one byte of the file to show a different character. Even the Starfield Simulation screensaver is just a modified version of Flying Windows that just shows a "." instead.

[@Nukle0n]

Was thinking "that's a really good sounding cassette" before seeing the message about you swapping out the audio. oh well.

[@Wkterr]

"Rib Bitt on a T-shirt" t-shirt

[@maighstir3003]

"ȷ̵ȷ̵iƐ︳diЯ" even. Well, that's as close as I could get using only Unicode. There is a "reversed R", but the Cyrillic "capital Ya" is much better. "latin small letter dotless j" with "combining short stroke overlay" makes an almost-convincing "reversed t". d - obviously - is a great reversed b, and the "reversed capital B" I managed is easily the worst of them all, "︳" takes up so much space but was the one character I could find being a vertical bar with as little space on the left as possible (instead having roughly half a universe's worth of space on the right).

[@setcheck67]

@@maighstir3003 It's the kind of shit I could see myself wearing just to make people confused and ask questions about what the fuck that shirt is supposed to represent. "Like, I dunno, it's about the backward corporate culture causing the masses to seek pleasure off displays of misery and low intelligence. Look at that frog, he wants to say Rib Bitt, but he can't, he's trapped backwards in reality and his misery is proudly displayed on a shirt, on my shirt."

[@AndyMelton]

"andy Cane" OOOOOOH MYYYYYYYYY!

[@justme002]

I love that Space Tree attack just has a tiny Santa floating forever in space after your ship blows up.

[@cominatrix]

this is exactly why i dont get content ID/all that music match and use stuff. nobody is coming to LGRs channel to listen to 10 seconds of a cassette of an orchestra recording from 1992 that was literally given away two and a half decades ago. but that 27 year old orchestra gotta make a third of a penny. great shirt tho

[@69inetails]

Plus the nutcracker music is public domain...

[@cominatrix]

@@69inetails right?

[@69inetails]

@@chyler1397 I can believe a bot watching every move creators make. KZbin has eyes just watching for someone to ever so slightly screw up.

[@cominatrix]

@@chyler1397 i love stuff like shazaam but i imagine it only adds to the bots ability to pick up every weird obscure thing there ever was

[@BOYD1981]

The piece of music may be in the public domain but the composition/recording itself can be copyrighted. Copyright law is strange like that, but yeh noone should be getting dinged for an excerpt especially as someone could hear it, decide they like it and then go buy it for themselves. Also it seems that the whole thing is already available to listen to on KZbin anyway.

[@CaptainJimp]

5:30 Don't think that nobody appreciated the editing prowess on the transition from film to capture on that one, clint. That was lovely.

[@bojcio]

I immediately started contemplating if I'd feel like putting effort in editing for a one second transition like this. The answer was no.

[@juannunez5767]

I want a "World Peace: It could happen" clip art tattoo.

[@furious_gaming14furious_ga91]

Merry Christmas to everyone! May the retro pc gods bless you all to have a great time!

[@jaelynnberry4892]

Hopefully a better new year as well! 🥂🍾

[@StillTheVoid]

Hugs for everyone! 🤗

[@carterjacob1000]

Thanks buddy

[@TENSE1983videos]

Same to you all!

[@DefiantPunk0810]

Clint is like a retro God, always putting up archives for us to enjoy when possible

[@acompletespiral]

That tee shirt maker...I just couldn't stop laughing at that total awesomeness of it.

[@4everblacknite]

Clint laughing until he runs out of oxygen is my favorite thing.

[@IamNotANumber]

Those off-key MIDI files are ace! We have a guy who gets up by our local shopping centre playing off key jingle bells on his accordion. It'll go on for about five minutes and then the jingle bells bit comes in and that's the only bit i recognise. I love it.

[@gnydsmelt2215]

Happy Holidays LGR and everyone else!

[@matthewbauman8122]

I absolutely love when you get so obviously tickled over something. Thank you for the great Christmas videos!

[@gregcushing6195]

Holy shit, this cheered me up when I needed it. Thank you. What a shirt. Wow.

[@HollyCancer]

Been binging LGR the entirety of 2020, thank you for helping me get through this year.

[@patrickhurley7029]

Your videos are great. Last night I was sick in bed and awoke to videos from 8 years ago. As much as it made me want to give in to being sick and just die because of time, it was quite relaxing and helped me sleep. It was like watching my 9 year older brother play video games in the 90s...that might of sounded sarcastic but I love your channel....new subscriber

[@AunCollective]

I love that Santa screensaver. I need to track it down to leave on my office computers when I leave for work to help keep my wife in the Christmas spirit all year round.

[@brandonb3279]

There's so many things about your channel that I love, so it's hard to say precisely where any specific attribute ranks... But the lovely, mellow Jazz -like putting on thick slippers and sinking into an over-stuffed chair infront of a crackling fire- is so warm and soothing, it's definitely a heavy-weight contender. 😊

[@brianahoneybee2487]

I have never heard Clint laugh so hard. Great Christmas video 💚❤

[@RandomRetr0]

The sad part is, back in the day we’d have spent hours working around the shortcomings of the software and printed out something that looked half decent, and would have given ourselves a huge pat on the back and bragged to our friends that we knew desktop publishing 😂

[@LGR]

Truth.

[@RandomRetr0]

@@LGR aldus pacemaker came immediately to mind 😂

[@bryondillon1302]

I want this just for the T-Shirt software. That was hilarious!

[@MrChrodo]

I laughed SO hard when it printed out Sonntag instead of Sunday. It looks like the software has been developed in the US. And even if it was done in Germany, how did it pass any QA test for the translation process? In addition to that, the overall amount of laughter and oddness in general made it one of my most favourite episodes.

[@qbeam]

That price sticker is from MediaPlay. I'd recognize that anywhere!!

[@yellowblanka6058]

I miss the days when Computer City, CompUSA, MediaPlay etc. existed.

[@gillesgeeraerts5751]

8:35 Boeder was a very popular brand of computer supplies like printable labels, products to clean screens, diskettes, mice, and whatnot here in Europe. I remember buying, with my parents, some of their labels for our dot matrix printer when I was a kid. The company disappeared in 2006. Thanks for the fun! Best wishes!

[@AndrewBehm]

This is the exact sort of things your Grandparents would get you for Christmas and you would use on Christmas Day and never again

[@Sirbelmont]

Thank you so much. I had this growing up but I could never figure out exactly what the name of the collection. I only had a few PC games, so I actually played this a lot. Now I know the name and have the ISO, you've more than made my day! Ninja edit: in the games look under the controller options there's funny stuff, for instance if you pick joystick it says "Oh the joy of sticks!"

[@Shin_BakaSensei]

26:53 Clint: Perfect Me: Indeed Great video, your laugh is contagious.

[@viliamhromada7708]

You sir, are awesome! Merry Christmas to you and to all the lovely people enjoying your videos!

[@bestmillimeter1858]

It’s amazing to think that hasn’t seen air in the last 25 years.

[@sotirisvog1367]

Most accurate phrase on such 90s software packs: "It brings back memories of disappointment".

[@WhatIsKevinUpTo]

I never laughed so hard at tee shirts in my life. This was perfect!

[@squidud]

As soon as Clint posted that he made rib bitt merch, I bought one. No hesitation. I need one in my life.

[@GrandCorsair]

That is the type of Christmas music you play when you want to drive someone absolutely mad.

[@CannedMan]

Dude, whenever I need to cheer up, I watch your vids. Believe me, that T-shirt made my day - and so did you.

[@ArtyomPlatonev]

Merry Christmas all

[@LannaDru]

I SECOND that. No pun intended.

[@dannyboy8816]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@swishfish8858]

Most*

[@jaelynnberry4892]

Merry Chrysler

[@carltonleboss]

And a merry Christmas to you too

[@willmosher1373]

Seeing this video actually means a lot to me. I forgot how silly this game was but I was also extremely young when I played it on the computer - mid 90s. I remember by the time I was 11 or close to it that this game would no longer run on the newer operating systems - XP I think. For years (now I’m 31), I had hoped somebody would post a video just so I could see it again because I could not remember the games exactly. I had not seen any videos when I checked in the past. This is the first one. I did not remember there was anything other than games. I remember landing Santa on the roof, dropping the presents boxes with the sharks, and the squirrel. I did not see it in the video, but I think if you played in 2 player mode that the second player Santa was actually dressed in green rather than red. Thank you for posting this because it actually means a lot to me and brings back very good memories. 👍

[@jacobsekela8691]

There’s just something about these weird programs and collections that Clint checks out that are so charming and hilarious 😂

[@telekineticguineapig7419]

This is possibly my favorite LGR Christmas video ever. I've never laughed so hard at one of these.

[@--BiZ--]

its a good day when LGR posts!! Merry Christmas!

[@FreihEitner]

Ah, this was enjoyable to watch, especially the t-shirt transfer bit. Thank you for the smiles. :-)

[@juakol]

"[slurps] Ah!" love it

[@apinakapinastorba]

Oh god I cannot breath, that t-shirt episode is hilarious XD

[@V1admir]

The midi files made me laugh out loud. Thanks for the smile

[@nickwallette6201]

I think this is a problem with Base and Extended MIDI maps. I don’t remember which is which, but one supported channels 1-9, and the other supported channels 11-15. On one, drums were on channel 10, and the other on channel 16. If you had files written for the wrong map, you usually just got silence because nothing was mapped to those channels. Some MIDI files had duplicate content on both mapped channel sets, so it would play on either. Then we stopped using those maps, and you’re free to use channels 1-9, and 11-16 for melodic, and channel 10 for drums. Some of the old files play fine on that map, some play double (trying to cover both Base and Extended setups), and some play with the drums and one melodic channel swapped, which usually means you get a percussive piano and sometimes random drums everywhere. In this case, he probably has either B or E mapping enabled, and the MIDI expects something different, so some channels aren’t playing at all. What we’re hearing is the accompaniment track, not the lead instrument, so it sounds wrong in isolation.

[@Kintsugi23]

​@@nickwallette6201Yeah, it sounds like the MIDI files are playing just the alto/tenor/bass lines and they forgot the melody.

[@AirknightTails]

1. I actually would SO use that Candy Cane Font 2. As soon as I saw the Listener's Choice label on the Cassette. I dug around my room to find one of my Beethoven CDs and sure enough. It had that same label as well, Awesome Merry Christmas BTW Clint and to everyone else who reads this message

[@tehcooler]

WOW That intro! :D

[@trueCresc]

LGR's holidays video intro never gets old.

[@jasonmetcalfe4695]

I love watching you go through these kinds of disks it's oddly therapeutic

[@UltravioletX]

90's was a home of weird CD-ROMS...

[@tero581]

Skunny.... I have been trying to figure out what this old game was from my childhood for ages.... THANK YOU!!

[@spectacledWolf]

I love your Christmas videos. Happy Holidays everyone!

[@ryansimmons3935]

This was by far the funniest LGR episode I have seen!! Thanks for the laugh!!

[@VlogDoPajamas]

I'm P.C.

[@greysky1252]

Microsoft did a whole commercial where this exact phrase was its tag line years later.

[@kintozero3169]

I've been thinking about this one & judging by the letters/spaces on the bottom, I think you're supposed to turn your name into an acronym. Like I'm A.D.A.M. & on the bottom, Amazing Dashing Awesome Marvelous

[@emilyvu207]

P???? C????

[@bwagner23]

This year must really be getting to me, because I lost my dang mind as soon as I saw the outline of the t-shirt come out of the printer. Pure comedy.

[@miikasuominen3845]

Heh, everything is made as cheaply as possible ;D Love that Santa's laugh xD Merry Christmas, folks!

[@justanothercuriouscat]

Lmfao. This is the most hilarious episode ever! Hope you find more stuff like this haha

[@RS250Squid]

Inspired by this video, I am going to change my surname to "Cane".

[@songarrhea]

The tshirt portion made me laugh out loud in a way that i have not laughed in some time. So good lol. Love the content man! World peace.... it could happen :D

[@trustweb99]

"Appropriate" for current locked-in christmas ~ Oh, and merry christmas everyone :D

[@lynndavinci4753]

This looks like something you’d see in Costco during the winter back in the day lol. I remember being young and going to Costco with my parents as there was this whole section of computer games/ software in big boxes and they were all like this or bundled with other things.

[@fordxbgtfalcon]

So basically it’s the PC counterpart of the Star Wars Holiday special?

[@BubblewrapHighway]

That's an insult... ...to the 1995 WizardWorks Holiday Collection CD-ROM.

[@TheDarkestPhoenix]

The scuffed T-Shirt is really what this year has been about. Have a good rest of your holidays!

[@senseicorey9979]

Gotta be honest, missed the "pssst ,ahhhh" intro

[@rickthinkstech]

Holly smackeroo that T-Shirt transfer bit had me in stitches hahahaha! Is it weird that I'm watching this in the second week of 2021 and already feeling Christmas nostalgia?

[@italialainenkissa4116]

I swear I always end up laughing at some point when watching your videos, I love it. "Nice 90s smell, yes smells like plastic" haha. Merry (late) Christmas and happy (early) New Year!

[@JdarceyMCR]

Really enjoyed this on boxing day in the UK. Nice to see a little face time from the Clint as well. Thanks for all the memories.

[@DarkRequiemFilms]

I never laughed so hard while watching an LGR Video 🤣🤣

[@brent73rn]

Thank you so much for making this. I needed the laughs with the T-shirt maker.

[@avp5964]

WHO WOULD EVER WANT THE TSHIRT OUTLINE PRINTED ON THE SHIRT

[@highpath4776]

but an outline for a floppy disk would have been useful. I suspect read the help there are settings more in it.

[@0311Mushroom]

They were being meta before it was a thing.

[@CptJistuce]

Sounds like Clint did. He just didn't know until it happened.

[@MrJonline]

Lots of people want it, just check the link in the pinned comment

[@avp5964]

@@MrJonline Didn't think it was possible for someone to be this dumb. What are memes?

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Merry Christmas to all and happy holidays to those who prefer that. And Clint, thank you for a decade of joy.

[@PeterVC]

That t-shirt is so "wrong" on so many levels xD

[@dorpth]

Oh shit! VU meters built in to the tape deck along with analog timer counter. I had totally forgotten about those but watching this instantly brought me back. The only thing that deck is missing is a vinyl player on top to play your square records you got out of magazine inserts!

[@NekoiNemo]

26:48 "Mr. Clint, i don't feel so good, ribbit..."

[@kintozero3169]

Rib Bitt