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Team Hobgoblin has earned the "Postcard" badge on the Octothorpean online puzzle hunt site, the second team to do so. It's been a little over three years since the first team earned that badge. Maybe I made that particular challenge too difficult. Good thing there are more-achievable challenges on the site or else probably people would throw rocks at me. Y'all should be impressed.

If you visit the "Postcard" badge page on the site, it doesn't show Hobgoblin as the second team, but as the only team. It's been so long since the first team Just Having Fun earned the badge, and the site only shows months of logs, not years. Wow, who thought new teams would still be showing up and playing years later? I had to read through the site's source code to remember how to award a team that badge. It involves using a web form on which I labeled a confirmation checkbox "YA RLY." When was the last time "YA RLY" even came up in conversation? I feel like I need to wipe the dust off of some of my neurons now.

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