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I've received some "questions" where the bulk of the text is used to express views or opinions that would be better suited to social media posts. Although I may find the topics of these messages personally interesting I will reject submittals of this type. I won't have Ask Aaron turned into Reddit. Let's keep it to actual combat robot questions, please.


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