The ALCHEMITER is upgraded with a huge metal bust of this awesome bro.
The device has been reduced to an utterly useless heap of shit.
Time to yank out all the shunts and start over.
Author commentary: Okay, that's it. "Dave: Use 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'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 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.