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by astrodust 3421 days ago
It was just a test for the venue provider, which is a really clever way of sneaking in a kill-switch as well.

> So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl ... well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you're going to arrive at a technical error. They didn't read the contract. Guaranteed you'd run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.