The Bridge

kalina

11:05 AM

in other news, I just caught up with @OrigamiRobot

mmmm salad for breakfast

badp

11:21 AM

btw

some fields of Maths don't put parentheses around the arguments of their functions

some fields of Maths are retarded

(My sister just asked me to decode l'x/lx = d ln × lx/dx, which is a pretty damn confusing notation even without the transcription mistake.)

kalina

@badp can you delete this please

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Q: What was the first 3D game with camera relative movement?

I know Super Mario 64 from 1996 has it. What 3D game featured camera relative movement as first? Was it that SM64?

camera

badp

@kalina There you have it

kalina

ta

and this one

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Q: Why do instruction manuals still have a Notes section?

I suppose they were used to write down passwords when games used them, but nowadays it feels like a nostalgia section. Is there any other reason I'm not aware of?

manual

badp

@kalina There you have it

kalina

ta

badp

11:31 AM

what does "ta" mean anyway?

kalina

thank you, it's not an acronym

badp

I figured that's the meaning

tombull89

informal "thanks" really

badp

I just don't know how'd you go from "thank you" to "ta"

kalina

the same way you go from what's up to sup

well, not quite

more like "hello, what's up?" to "ey up"

how the hell do I retag this question?

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Q: In-game dialogues

Is there any tutorials or even communities which are devoted to in-game dialogues extraction (text + audio)? I've managed to do this for Portal 2, for instance. But there's a plenty of games to operate on. :) The main purpose is learning the language (yes, I'm not native english speaking person ...

manual

only two tags left to burn

save-games and lan

and then every other tag needs fixing

kalina

11:51 AM

gah

I walked outside and got hit by a barrage of snowballs

Lazers

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Q: How do I get to the new area(s) in the Prepare to Die edition?

I originally played through Dark Souls on the PS3 and now am playing the Prepare to Die edition on the PC. I've gotten to the point where all I have left to do is kill Lord Gwyn, but I haven't stumbled upon any of the new areas. What are the new areas, and how do I get to them?

dark-souls

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

12:11 PM

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OrigamiRobot

12:22 PM

@kalina What a creeper

fredley

@kalina If it makes you feel any better, I'm taking advantage of the day at home by cleaning the oven

kalina

@OrigamiRobot well you knew this day was coming

@fredley that sounds like a fun day

are you high off oven cleaner?

OrigamiRobot

@kalina You don't need the exact same amount as me.

fredley

@kalina I put the cleaner in last night. Three buckets of black sludge came out this morning

Turns out our oven has a window though

kalina

@OrigamiRobot don't worry, savour the moment, it won't last long

@fredley lol

OrigamiRobot

12:23 PM

I don't want it to

fredley

@kalina And a light

kalina

I was reading through last night in the bridge

so many people post pictures of themselves

I get to see @fbueckert in suits

@fredley A LIGHT?

my oven probably needs cleaning but I never use it

fredley

@kalina Yeah! What I thought was an extra large crusted on piece of shit turned out to be a light!

OrigamiRobot

@kalina scribbles evidence

fredley

@kalina With what do you reheat pizza?!

kalina

12:24 PM

@OrigamiRobot and a picture of what I assume is you in a steampunk outfit

@fredley microwave

I also have no aversion to eating cold pizza

fredley

@kalina Incorrect. Oven is the best way to reheat pizza.

kalina

@fredley you never said anything about 'the best way'

therefore I cannot be incorrect

OrigamiRobot

@kalina No, that's what I always wear.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot oh I see

so I went on a mission against my better judgement to find a picture of me

I have found several and I'm posting none of them

Lazers

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Q: What level will I be on Borderlands 2 after completing the main game and all DLC?

I have just completed Borderlands 2 main campaign and all of the side quests (except for the infamous Terrormorphus) and am sat at level 35. I am aiming to hit level 50, and feel that instead of just grinding through TVHM I might enjoy playing the DLC instead (I will be getting this either way). ...

borderlands dlc

fredley

12:26 PM

@kalina Microwave is always incorrect, even if there's no question.

kalina

@fredley no

Microwave is the bestest thing ever

OrigamiRobot

@kalina chicken

fredley

@kalina Chicken.

kalina

@OrigamiRobot negative, they're all wearing outfits that you guys just wouldn't understand

fredley

@OrigamiRobot Robot

kalina

12:27 PM

or really dodgy pictures of me stoned

fredley

@kalina It's ok, Gnome isn't here

kalina

or even more dodgy pictures of me in pajamas

fredley

@kalina No suit photos?

OrigamiRobot

@kalina I posted a picture of me in a steampunk costume!

kalina

@fredley lol no

I am camera shy, therefore every picture I can find of me was taken with me caught off guard or trying to hide

OrigamiRobot

12:28 PM

The only requirement is that you be wearing a hat.

fredley

@kalina This is the problem with being camera shy

kalina

@fredley it's fine by me, I have no problems with there being no good pictures of me

I found an alright picture of me

fredley

@OrigamiRobot I have found a picture wearing a hat and holding a pancake

kalina

but I'm wearing a tshirt that says "I have issues"

and therefore you can't see it

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Are you wearing a hat?

kalina

12:31 PM

no

fredley

Lazers, pancakes and hat

kalina

I can do lazers

I have lots of pictures of me in nightclubs

OrigamiRobot

HATS ARE REQUIRED

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Sorry, you said you wanted hats

kalina

@OrigamiRobot sorry not much of a hat person

OrigamiRobot

12:35 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Cupcake hats are best hats.

@kalina Your loss. Hats are awesome.

kalina

hats mess up my hair

OrigamiRobot

Excuses

kalina

eugh

I need to delete all of these pictures

pictures of me playing drums in a skirt, I did not realise that left me that exposed...

fredley

@kalina :-S

I had a FB photo purge yesterday, felt good

So many photos that no longer exist in public in such a discoverable way

kalina

I don't use facebook

in fact I don't think there is a single picture of me on the internet attached to my real name

I am so completely unsearchable by the real world

LessPop_MoreFizz

12:54 PM

@Fluttershy I wasn't but I am now.

fredley

@kalina I don't use my real name on Facebook, or almost anywhere on the internet

badp

@kalina That is only a problem once you stop wearing your hat.

fredley

@kalina @badp makes an excellent point

Hats are good as a snow repellent also

badp

@fredley This may or may not be true given the hat's ability to absorb water

fredley

@badp Snow != water

@badp Snow falling on an unhatted head will melt and become wet

badp

1:05 PM

@fredley Snow is water. Both are wet, anyway.

fredley

Snow falling onto an appropriate hat will gather and slide off

badp

@fredley Hard hats aren't as comfortable.

fredley

@badp Not hard

@badp A thick woolen hat will not heat up enough to melt snow

badp

@fredley so? It'll still get your hair wet.

fredley

@badp No, because the hair is underneath the hat

badp

1:07 PM

@fredley the wet hat.

@badp The hat is dry

@fredley Depends.

@badp Of course

I have just retaliated against the snowball barrage

in my traditional style I have taken the act performed against me and magnified the effect

by burying the employee in question's car under 6 inches of snow

badp

1:26 PM

@kalina Never clone yourself, please

kalina

@badp cloning myself is the objective of my life

I figure an army of 50 of me would be able to change the world

badp

@kalina That sounds suspiciously like politics

kalina

@badp I never said anything about standing in public talking gibberish

badp

besides, it would suffice to make 2 of you. 50 is overkill

Lazers

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Q: When are two identical "bugs" questions not identical?

Regarding this question (which I asked): It was originally closed as a duplicate because it appeared identical to a known bug in the game that was supposedly fixed by an unofficial community patch. When I first asked the question, I did not think it was a duplicate for two reasons: The circum...

discussion reopen

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Q: Minecraft full version

I want to get the full version of minecraft but I'm on of those creative types. What's better in the creative of the full version?

minecraft terminology

badp

1:29 PM

That would already be plenty of world changing.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@Lazers Wut

kalina

@badp 50 is the right number

it means I'd have replacements once some of the clones get gunned down in battle

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina FUN!

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone just like that

I would unleash terror on a whole new level

badp

@kalina The process would simply be repeated by other people

kalina

1:34 PM

@badp I would destroy the cloning technology

badp

No one rich would ever die for good.

kalina

either that, or sell individual clones for thousands of dollars

badp

Countries would just look for the one perfect soldier to multiply by one million.

kalina

and then be rich

and thus have all of the power

and then do the deus ex thing of buying the debt of every country in the world, so that I owned all of the governments

badp

@kalina I have trouble imagining a human duplication machine that wasn't able to also duplicate non-living matter.

@kalina SPOILERSSSSS!!!1111one reaches for banhammer

kalina

1:36 PM

@badp I would replace your ban hammer with a hammer made from marshmellow

since you're just a big softy really

I DO NOT FEAR YOU

badp

My ban hammer is made of nothing but bytes

Probably a couple bits, really.

kalina

I would unleash my killer-bytes on it

badp

@kalina Until then...

kalina

@badp until then, I still do not fear you

badp

Besides, I'm a big softy, so not much of a threat anyway.

kalina

1:38 PM

I thought this was obvious after I attracted some mods yesterday and didn't care

badp

@kalina Who says I wanted to be feared? People tell me what to press and I press it. That's not particularly scary.

Some of those people may or may not live in my head.

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kalina

I have people living in my head too

It's ok

some of those people speak a lot louder than usual when I'm intoxicated

it sometimes makes me question if I'm being sensible still

OrigamiRobot

@badp Voting to close @badp as Confuses badp.

badp

@OrigamiRobot They do not confuse me

They are me and I am them. Kind of. It can be hard to understand for a robot.

OrigamiRobot

Now you're confused about your confusion. Poor thing.

StrixVaria

1:51 PM

OrigamiRobot

@StrixVaria When Lackey updates, you should practice for the prerelease.

StrixVaria

@OrigamiRobot Oh yeah that's a good idea.

kalina

@badp stop slacking

!

gaming.stackexchange.com/a/102336/27134 needs deleting, since the user has now posted it again as a comment

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

And into her own reflection she stared
yearning for one whose reflection she shared,
and solemnly sweared not to be scared,
at the prospect of being doubly mared.

kalina

TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

1:56 PM

Now you just need to find the pond

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone ...of being doubly... horsed?

kalina

@badp ta

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp The poem you use to clone yourself.

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I just tried it, it didn't work

I'm sad, because if it had, I would have sent my clone back to work and gone home

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone "Mared" still isn't a word!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:01 PM

@kalina Well yes, you still need the pond

Lazers

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Q: Getting the most out of AC3's Wolf Pack multiplayer

I've been really enjoying AC3's new Wolf Pack multiplayer, but it's proving very frustrating. When you get a good game it's brilliant, but more and more games are filled with players who completely miss the point of the game. To win at Wolf Pack you need to hit a score threshold to get to the ne...

multiplayer assassins-creed-3

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Q: how can I check a server if it is up in Cs:Go?

I try to create dedicated server. I can join but I wanna know if it is available for online to my friend. is there any tool for this ?

counter-strike-go

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone well I have a huge puddle from the snow

it didn't work in that

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Hmmm, no, didn't think so. Otherwise you'd see clones rising out of random puddles all over wherever you're living

Which would be... interesting

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone She also needs the poem.

...and to be a mare in the first place, apparently.

...and the excited post-cloning acute giggle, which somehow I don't quite think is how @kalina rolls.

kalina

@badp I giggle

all of the time

even more so when high

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:05 PM

@badp I think all the @kalina clones will be screaming "BORED"

Or maybe just moaning

kalina

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBOREDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

"moaning" ?

I... what?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

One doesn't usually scream bored

kalina

I don't moan

well...

no, I don't moan

badp

moaning as in "ewrgh, you just had to go ahead and say the damn poem at the damn pond, did you?", not as in sounds of sexual gratification

at least that's what I believe @YiJiang'sEvilClone's meant.

kalina

@badp see, I had it the other way around

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:07 PM

Oh for goodness sakes, get your mind out of the gutter

kalina

I don't moan... well...

you guys are just special

badp

at least that's what I hope @YiJiang'sEvilClone's meant.

kalina

stop making me laugh

it is too obvious to those around me that I am not working when I laugh

badp

Fine

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

badp

2:09 PM

So, France should be having elections pretty soon right?

kalina

when is arqade having elections

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Are they?

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I can only trust bronies so much, sorry.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I thought Hollande was only recently sworn in

badp

@kalina We could've been having some now, but there was no need so the answer is "none in the next few months"

kalina

2:10 PM

@badp there is always a need, have you seen our current moderators?

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone oh, maybe regional level elections? city? What about the Major of Paris!

kalina

;)

badp

@kalina They have waaaay too much time on their hands to mod abuse people on chat. They certainly can handle a little more traffic.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp I don't think those matter to people outside of France

kalina

honestly, I think I only interact with two moderators on a regular basis

badp

2:11 PM

@YiJiang'sEvilClone You'd think that, and then people care about Holland banning pot and pals.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

kalina

I don't think I could name all of our moderators either

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Took you long enough to dig for this one.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Yes, I need to bookmark it

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone No you don't.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:12 PM

Also, speaking of elections, elections.stackexchange.com is down.

Ben Brocka

@kalina games have instruction manuals?!

kalina

@BenBrocka I don't know

I've never read one

badp

@BenBrocka Haven't you seen the one for TF2?

kalina

tbh, I don't even google for solutions anymore

Ben Brocka

I think the last time I've cracked open an instruction manual was several years ago for one of the Xenosaga games

kalina

2:13 PM

whenever I have a question about games now I just arqade.com > ask question

Ben Brocka

Though I've peeked at the digital PS1 manuals the PSN downloads have just to see

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Digital manuals aren't good substitution for physical ones

You can't flip through them

kalina

you can't use them as fuel for a small fire either

Ben Brocka

You can page through them. And they're a great substitution; people don't read digital manuals, just like the physical ones

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka The instruction manual for Steel Battalion is amazing.

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:16 PM

You have to alt tab out of games to read them

Ben Brocka

If your game needs that much explanation and there's no way to get that information in-game, you're doing something horrifically wrong

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone multiple displays

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@BenBrocka That is true. But still, I remember fondly pasting the AoM tech tree on my wall

@kalina Yeah, well surprisingly enough not everyone has those

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone sorry but all modern PCs should have two screens minimum

I would personally say three, but I'm struggling to argue that point with my managers about getting three at my desk at work

three is ideal for everything

OrigamiRobot

But monitors are expensive.

kalina

2:19 PM

not really

£150 each ish

OrigamiRobot

Yes huh

That's expensive!

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Speaking of monitors, there's something really weird about this monitor

I keep seeing flickering and artifacts, but I can't tell if they're illusions or actual problems with the screen

OrigamiRobot

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Maybe both

Ben Brocka

@YiJiang'sEvilClone These were on PS3/PSP/Vita anyway, so you had to close it to continue the game

OrigamiRobot

I also have no room on my desk for a 2nd monitor

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:23 PM

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone I've noticed that chat jumps around every second as it refreshes

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Looking at these swatches, I keep seeing a faint line next to the left border of the box

kalina

well, as it checks for new messages

SaintWacko

Ffs the network here is slow today

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

The line doesn't exist, and if I zoom in the effect disappears

SaintWacko

2:24 PM

30 seconds to load a page

And my touchpad drivers are broken -.-

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I really don't know why

SaintWacko

Neither do I, but it's pissing me off

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

You see the line?

SaintWacko

The what?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Never mind

kalina

2:26 PM

sorry @OrigamiRobot

SaintWacko

Oh, in the swatches? I don't think so

OrigamiRobot

@kalina For?

kalina

@OrigamiRobot we no longer have the same rep

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Good

kalina

@OrigamiRobot you still have more rep than @Wipqozn though

OrigamiRobot

2:27 PM

It was creeping me out

You stalker

Ben Brocka

@OrigamiRobot I have room for two but not 3, at least not without the edge ones half hanging off the table

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

I just finished the first three episodes of BBC's Sherlock. It's quite good; certainly feels authentic to it's source material

OrigamiRobot

@BenBrocka I'd have to buy a new desk and a new monitor.

Then put the desk together!

badp

@BenBrocka Aren't there those monitor bracer sorta things?

Ben Brocka

@badp Yeah, but I've never used one and they're fairly expensive

badp

2:36 PM

@BenBrocka Well if they fail they'll just plummet your monitor on the ground, corner first

OrigamiRobot

@kalina is just made of money with her three monitors and $150 gaming mice and $200 headsets and monthly $500 payments to @Wipqozn

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kalina

@OrigamiRobot I frequently make $500 payments to Wipqozn

to be fair though, it's Canadian dollars

which is like £25

OrigamiRobot

It's none of my business.

kalina

and I don't use a headset

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina doesn't matter; still moneeh

OrigamiRobot

2:39 PM

@kalina Even worse. You're just throwing money away!

Wipqozn

@kalina I've never seen any of that money.

kalina

@Wipqozn taxes

badp

(btw 500 CAD + £ 2 = 500 USD)

kalina

@OrigamiRobot rephrase: I don't own a headset

badp

(roughly)

(More like 1½ maybe)

(Still)

kalina

2:40 PM

(talking in brackets)

(talk talk talk)

(these brackets inform you that I am speaking out of character)

(not sure how relevant that is in a chat room)

badp

@SaintWacko (I talk in brackets whenever I'm 99% sure no one cares)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

(Sorry

badp

)

kalina

(@YiJiang'sEvilClone can't even do brackets properly)

badp

(No worries man, fify)

SaintWacko

2:41 PM

(What's going on in here?)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

*yawn*

SaintWacko

@badp {Oh.}

OrigamiRobot

@kalina So you bought it and gave it away.

badp

@SaintWacko ((Okay, okay, parentheses. Double parentheses because the not caring level raised to 99,99%))

SaintWacko

@badp :P

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:43 PM

@badp (\_/) ← look ma, I gots bunny ears.

Wipqozn

►

OrigamiRobot

() Parentheses
[] Brackets
{} Braces

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SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot <> Chevrons

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko Gross

SaintWacko

@OrigamiRobot You're gross

badp

2:44 PM

@OrigamiRobot ("Parentheses" is a rather awkward word to write.)

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp Oy

OrigamiRobot

@SaintWacko Non-conflicting data accepted.

@badp Quite

SaintWacko

⌊ ⌋ Corner Brackets

〚〛 Double Brackets

badp

two hours later

SaintWacko

"And that's a list of all existent brackets!"

kalina

2:49 PM

@OrigamiRobot brackets

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Your language is so inefficient

kalina

@OrigamiRobot brb upvoting you until you have the same rep as me again

SaintWacko

@kalina What about them?

OrigamiRobot

@kalina NO!

SaintWacko

Oh ffs

I have to restart again -.-

kalina

2:50 PM

@OrigamiRobot too late

OrigamiRobot

Stop rep stalking me!

badp

@OrigamiRobot I have a solution to this problem

OrigamiRobot

@badp Kill all humans?

badp

@OrigamiRobot Find three questions and bounty them for 500.

kalina

@badp does this solution involve doing anything detrimental to me?

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

2:52 PM

@badp Suspending one of them will do the trick

@badp Oh that is no fun at all

kalina

@badp for best results, he could bounty me 3 times for 500

I'd never be able to upvote him enough

badp

Keep doing this until either @kalina stops or we have to ban her for vote abuse

kalina

I am allowed to vote whoever I want

it isn't abuse

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp You could always jump straight to the last step

kalina

it's not my fault @OrigamiRobot has so many good questions/answers

badp

2:53 PM

Since I am the supplier of this wonderful idea I require at least one of the bounties.

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Who am I? @Wipqozn?

kalina

@OrigamiRobot no

OrigamiRobot

Then don't use your wiles on me!

kalina

you guys just hate me

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maybe @GnomeSlice is right

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Darh-ling, where in the world did you get that idea from?

OrigamiRobot

2:55 PM

@kalina is @GnomeSlice's sockpuppet!

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SaintWacko

@kalina Let's not get hasty now

kalina

so much corruption here, that the moment anybody with ideas turns up you all whine and bitch until they leave again

@OrigamiRobot I am one hell of a sock puppet if that is the case

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@kalina Maybe it's the other way round

OrigamiRobot

@kalina Or vice-versa

kalina

@YiJiang'sEvilClone @GnomeSlice has been here longer

badp

2:57 PM

@kalina We are not, in fact, your real father.

kalina

@badp thank god for that

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

@badp We? We!?

badp

@YiJiang'sEvilClone Mater certa est.

kalina

fortunately I don't really speak to my family

Wipqozn

I repeat, fuck EA

kalina

2:58 PM

some could say I really dislike them, in fact

really

@Wipqozn wooo microtransactions

Yi Jiang's Evil Clone

Mater semper certa est

Mater semper certa est ("The mother is always certain") is a Roman-law principle which has the power of praesumptio iuris et de iure, meaning that no counter-evidence can be made against this principle (literally: Presumed there is no counter evidence and by the law). Its meaning is that the mother of the child is always known. Since 1978, when the first child was conceived by the technique of in-vitro fertilization, the principle of "Mater semper certa est" no longer applies, since a child may have both a genetic and a natural ("birth") mother. Since then some countries have converte...

You silly Italians, invading our lawbooks

Ben Brocka

@Wipqozn Aw fuck you EA

Of all the games to mess with it's the one I'm still willing to buy from those idiots

kalina

@BenBrocka SIMCITY

the last EA game I will ever buy

until Mass Effect 4 anyway

...10 years later...

SaintWacko

@Wipqozn Ahaha, holy shit

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