( From the book: “Dave: Used a Punched GameBro magazine card” is the last reader command ever used in the story. I will always associate this ridiculous metal bro emerging from the platform with the cessation of all formal input from the readers…I was staring down the barrel of this smug, radical dude here, which was serving no purpose other than to utterly prevent Dave from performing alchemy, and I might have been like: okay, enough. The madness stops here.” )

( That game bro upgrade is where Hussie officially stopped taking reader commands, lol. “I will always associate this ridiculous metal bro emerging from the platform with the cessation of all formal input from the readers. I’m not exactly sure why this moment was the tipping point. The readership was already too huge to warrant ongoing command submissions before that. Maybe it was the critical mass of absurdity this particular convergence of ideas represented? I was staring down the barrel (½) )

( (2/2) of this smug, radical dude here, which was serving no purpose other than to utterly prevent Dave from performing alchemy, and I might have been like: okay, enough. The madness stops here.” )

You know what? I respect Hussie for allowing the readers to have some input into his story. And I respect Hussie for stopping the madness of reader input as well. Because if there was the straw that broke the camel’s back, it would be a statue of Rad Dude right there.