Zero Punctuation: Far Cry 2
escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctua...Posted Jan 21, 2009, 5:03 PM UTC
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What's up with the accent? Anyone else notice that he's talking differently this time around.
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Has no one ever met a South African before? Be glad you haven't, most crime-ridden "developed" country in the world.
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Well I'm glad you generalized a whole country.
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Is it a generalisation to call something 'most crime-ridden'? It is possible to look at crime statistics for a country and it is possible for it to factually have the most crime.
If you said "everyone there is a criminal", maybe...
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The "be glad you haven't" kind of implied that connection.
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Hey, there's a good reason that the rest of the southern hemisphere has a lot of ex-pat South Africans. Though they tend to avoid New Zealand after the 1981 Springbok tour.
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Not really.. half the people in IT industry in NZ are from SA
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Have you been there? I have, and I agree with beedee.
Some advice, if you ever visit South Africa, and you're driving, NEVER obey a traffic light. If you're stupid enough to stop, don't expect to leave the corner alive.
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Hey buddy, I've lived in South Africa my whole life. You're talking through your damn ass.
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Dont spread ignorance, naaier. I live in cape town and have never seen a carjack or smash-and-grab. Ever. Besides, the robot rules only apply between 12am and 5am, everyone knows that.
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Some advice, if you ever visit South Africa, and you're driving, NEVER obey a traffic light. If you're stupid enough to stop, don't expect to leave the corner alive.
There are many days I think that my fellow South Africans are the stupidest and most ignorant people in the world. Luckily there is an abundance of redditors always ready and willing to prove me wrong.
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Yeah, and we don't sound anything like that.
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Everyone says that when they hear an impersonation of their accent.
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I've never met a nice south African.
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Yep, didn't sound anything like his accent although they had lived in the uk and may have started to lose the accents a little.
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I almost thought it was some unknown strain of uk/Australian accent from hell.
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It's part of a joke. At 00:43 he says something like "are there an army of mutants? yes but only if you classify a heelarius south african excent as a mutashun, china </bad attempt at writing with an accent>"
For the rest of the thing he sort of changes between his south african accent and normal accent. Don't know why he kept swapping.
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I would have posted this had you not. I think he's trying to parody south african accents the entire time?
It just sounds like weird pointy australian to me.
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Thats roughly what a South African accent sounds like. Just replace all your vowels with an 'eh' sound and you're good to go.
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Haha. That's kak, china.
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That sounds more kiwi then anything, though, they do sound similar.
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Nah, Kiwis replace every vowel with an 'uh' sound. See: beached whale
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And what's up with the police sirens in the background? Starts around 2:00
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Funny that his south african accent sounds just like the australian kid in that simpsons episode.
"Well, eef eets an eemeeeeegency then!"
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His accent already takes up 97% of my mental capacity to understand, his horrible, wretched attempt at an accent just put me in a dazed, glossy eyed trance trying to make sense of what I was hearing. In all honesty I was on the tippy top of the zoned out scale.
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It's like he has a harsh Australian accent and it's leaking into the video as he tries to hold back.
Edit: Was just corrected a bit ago.
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He's mocking the accents used in the game.
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That's like someone from Mississippi mocking an Alabama accent.
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Haha oh wow that supposed to Afrikaner accent?
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go back to digg
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yes, it became very obvious in the last part of the video; He just changed his fucking accent! It was so weird.
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did you not notice he mentioned the south african accent used in game in the beginning of the review?
he was just mocking that.
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Yeah, I did hear that. I didn't know if it was the same one. I wouldn't have without knowing what the accent sounds like. The way he did it was beautifully subtle, though.
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yes I did, and I don't think it was the same accent. Not only because intensity, but seemed Yahtzee's own accent taken to the next level. I just find it confusing.
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Wow, you're a genius. You could spot sarcasm like finding needles in a hay stack with a huge fucking magnet.
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He is talking a little bit different but it's not so obvious. I mean the accent is kind of weird.
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Anyone else notice the bit at the end?
"How many South African policemen does it take to break an egg? NONE IT FELL DOWN THE STAIRS."
:-)
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There's always an extra bit like that at the end of the episodes. Now you're going to have to go back and watch them all again!
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I've seen them all, this one just caught my attention because it struck me as especially funny.
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Pardon my ignorance, but... I don't get it.
:-(
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I'm no expert on South Africa but I suspect it has something to do with the brutality of their police.
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Ok I get it now. I remember back to the book Kaffir Boy. That is very funny, the joke not the book, the book had some sad moments in it.
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It's related to the torture and killing of a famous anti-apartheid activist.
On the morning of 28 May 1969 the Imam was summoned by the notorious Security Branch to Caledon Square. This was the Muslim 12 Rabi'al-Awwal, the day when the community was preparing to commemorate the birth of their Prophet Muhammad. Once there, he was detained by one of the Security Branch’s brutal officers, Spyker van Wyk, under Section 6 of Act 83 of 1967, referred to as the Terrorism Act.
... , the Security Branch tortured and eventually murdered him on 27 September 1969. They averred that the Imam had `fallen down the stair-case!'
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I was assuming it was a local (Queensland) joke he modified.
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Yes, it was a nice retro touch, took me back 30 years to when I first didn't find the joke even remotely funny.
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OKAY?
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Doing fine here mate. How about you?
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The quote is "NONE IT FELL DOWN THE STAIRS OK". It's funnier that way.
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in the apartheid days black activists used to 'disappear'. they were apparently totured by policemen and sometimes dropped off high buildings.
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Things I would have done differently with Far Cry 2:
For the "Destroy the Convoy" missions, make them timed, and give the convoy an actual destination so they don't just drive around in circles. That way you'd have to race to their location and destroy them before they arrive at their location, giving you a chance to actually fail and adding to the pressure and intensity of the mission.
For the "buddies", let the player recruit them to go along on missions. It was annoying having to switch from the driver seat to the gun turret every 30 seconds. That could've been fixed if your buddies could drive or man the turret for you.
Give the enemy A.I. something to do instead of standing around on guard. Like another redditor said a while back, it would be nice if there was more evidence of the two factions being at war. Like if you were driving along and came across a fire fight already in progress between the two warring factions.
Make the hang gliders playable. I only actually landed a hang glider once, and it didn't help me get in the direction I was needing to go one bit. Every other time I'd get noticed and shot out of the sky leaving my buddy to rescue me.
Oh, if a buddy is gonna die, don't let us pump our remaining syringes into them only for them to croak in our arms.
It would've helped the overall mood if we saw the factions beating, torturing, and killing the civilians. Plus it would be cool to be able to save civilians in those situations. Heck, that could've made for a whole other mission type. (which the game needed)
Overall, I had fun with the game. I loved the graphics, and the core of the gameplay (i.e. the gun fights) was fun. I only wish they could make a deeper experience. Something with more heart and soul.
p.s. Oh, and I was disappointed there were no thunder showers. I'm a sucker for random weather, and the wind and fog were nicely done. But the rain effect was lacking, plus I was really hoping to be engaged in a vicious battle with lightning and thunder going off in the background. Sadly, the weather never got that extreme. Good weather for a vacation, bad weather for a gritty video game.
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I enjoyed the game, but was very happy when I was able to uninstall it and never worry about finding a diamond on top of a rock again.
Loved the fog/sunrise/sunset effects. So well done. Worth it, but I won't get another cry* game until they are at 50% price anymore.
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Just don't buy any Cry games unless they're from CryTek.
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I think add decent Friendly AI and make it feel like they've made an effort to make an open-world game rather than just hack a plain FPS into one.
Adding more varieties of missions and just generally giving the early game some pace and goals.
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This game gives the feeling that Ubisoft just didn't want to make more content for it and just copy/pasted whatever they had at some early point.
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You know, all of those gameplay problems are things that Mercenaries did brilliantly. So they really don't have an excuse!
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Yeah, listening to Yahtzee's review, I kept thinking, "This is Mercenaries 2 in first person view." And, you know, South Africa rather than South America.
Which kinda explains why the merc who appears halfway through this episode has a blond mohawk.
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I can't watch the vid ( work ), but here was my take on FC2:
- I stopped playing at the end of Act I like a lot of people
- The vehicles are so retarded that it is just easier to get out and walk
- Vehicles that are burly and tough like the Jeep will get hung up on any rock that is sitting out
- The buddies suck
- The buddies really suck
- The landscape was awesome and really sucked you in, but there was no one around to kill half the time
- Needs more random warring between factions ( as per another comment )
- The multiplayer is awesome and super realistic
- Need more random weather
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I'm at 20% of act I and I'm uninstalling it... it's always the same crap, and I'm tired of having to kill a hundred guys to cross the fucking street or go grab a sandwich.
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I'll give the multiplayer a chance, maybe it'll redeem itself a bit, but for me the single player is dead.
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I just got so damn tired of the same cycle:
- Hey I got a nice truck as a reward
- I'm tearing down the road!
- Some guy just blew the shit out of me!
- Now I have another car!
- I'm stuck on a rock
- I have another car
- I'm stuck on a rock again
Ad infini
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Something else I learned... even if somebody's not looking at you, is shooting to their left... well they're firing at you even so.
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Buddies didn't suck. They just where a bunch of useless leeches asking for painful favors and never giving more then a rusty gun in return. Damn good you can shoot the bastards.
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They just where a bunch of useless leeches asking for painful favors and never giving more then a rusty gun in return.
Haven't played FC2 yet, but that sounds like suck to me.
Damn good you can shoot the bastards.
So they suck less than the buddies in GTA IV...?
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In GTA IV, if you shoot them, they end up in the hospital. In FC2 if you shoot them, they end up dead.
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I like this game already
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No, that's the whole problem.. if you shoot them in FC2, they die, yes, but walk away and come back and they're suddenly all alive again!
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Multiplayer was pretty good. Single player and shell were shit. I've been waiting for him to eviscerate this one for a while.
I guess if this is what passes for quality I don't play enough FPSes to know how grimy is the bottom of the barrel.
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I like the part where the video animates what he is saying
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lol the South African accent was hilarious =P though he wasn't saying much new about far cry, ah well, i laughed :)
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Very awesome, I've always wanted to hear a south-African accent imitated by a British person.
A+++++++ WOULD WATCH AGAIN!
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I've heard far better SA accents from fellow Brits. Christ, I can do a better one.
My only conclusion is that Lethal Weapon 2 isn't available in Australia from which the whole British society develops its SA accents.
'Diplomatic immunity' and all that.
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"But... But... You're black!" </quote>
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"But... But... You're bleck!"
fixed that for you.
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Tell me bwana... Have your brehns ever seen the light of day?
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Except that Yahtzee is originally british.
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Hence me referring to Britons and not Australians?
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Best bit:
"Make the game for us!"
"Fuck you steven fry!"
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Yeah, what was that?
Did Fry endorse Spore or something?
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He does all the tutorial voiceover work on Little Big Planet.
It's actually really funny, but I totally get where Yahtzee is coming from with that :D
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Fry was the announcer on Little Big Planet, I think.
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I got bored with the game after it became so damn repetitive. Driving down the same roads, by the same guard posts, killing the same guards on my way to get my missions from the same 2 places at the center of the map, only to be sent to the same far corners of the map that requires I drive down the same roads, by the same guard posts, kill the same guards I just killed 5 minutes ago, get to the mission destination, complete the objective, then have to return back to the same 2 places at the center of the map to complete the mission which requires that I drive down the same roads, past the same guard posts, and kill the same guards again...and again...and again....
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He has got this dead to rights. Everything he said is absolutely right. In fact, I think we've both stopped playing FC2 at the same spot.
Beautiful game world, awesome gunfights, but eventually you run out of new stuff to do. Had a lot of fun while it lasted, then it became repetitive.
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you both got much further than i did, what a waste of money
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For me, the pursuit of new weapons, weapon upgrades, and safehouse upgrades, in addition to the incremental story line changes, was more than enough to keep me happy.
I think the game certainly has its flaws, but overall was enjoyable.
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It sounds like a good game unless you're expecting it to be like Far Cry 1.
One is an open world sandbox, the other is a very linear plot driven game.
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Far Cry 2 has the worst speech direction in the entire game industry. It's like they were deliberately told to have no pacing or intonation whatsoever, so it makes every dialogue a fucking chore. Besides you already know what they are going to say. Go to X place and blow up/kill Y.
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Seems like GTA 2 has this game beat in every way except graphics.
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GTA 2 was awesome: warring gangs, awesome weapons, good city design, and better vecheal damage.
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I thought it was Australian but then again I don't hear South Africans very often.
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I could tell he was going for South African (because he mentioned it), but it sounds very much like Australian to my untrained ear.
So I Googled South African and Australian accents to see if other people had that same problem. This is what came up in the second link:
I think Africa is the closest continent to Australia.. though my geography isn't great.
I just thought of something. I know SA-English is influenced by British-English. Is Aus-English influenced by British-English? If so, that might be why they sound similar
Hey, I might not be able to tell the difference between SA and Aussie accents, but at least I know about the Indian Ocean and that English is named after England!
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As an Australian who has known quite a few South Africans, I thought he sounded like a weird hybrid of the two.
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I can see that happening. He does live in Australia.
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SA-English is also influenced by Afrikaans, and thus Dutch, which is why quite a few words are pronounced very differently ('Yes' becomes 'Yis' etc).
Aussie-English is a lot less influenced by any other factors, so is closer to 'British-English'.
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Sounded brummie to me...
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I think I was just thrilled to see multiple instances of TARDISes in this week's episode.
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They speak Afrikaans in the game and in his review where he mentions the South Africans there are written in the speech bubble: " Bloed poes" which is an Afrikaans saying meaning "blood cunt"
You must be Afrikaans to really enjoy the dialogue of the game as all the enemies speak and swear in Afrikaans.
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Yeah that game was a huge dissapointment. The multiplayer aspect could have been fun too but they totally destroyed that with the poorly ported match finding system. And man did I love getting kicked after EVERY RANKED MATCH!
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FC 2 sucks
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I'm sorry, but despite its merits, this game was just crap on the shitbus going nowhere; as Yahtzee points out there was justno sense of achievement or progression, and is the only game I own that I just can't bring myself to complete. So much potential wasted on so much rubbish. If I wanted something without a plot thats actually fun, I'll play TF2.
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Zordon ftw.
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It's zero punctuation, but there's punctuation in the title. hahaha, im so original.
jdfong, j'accuse! A few weeks ago, I said this, and you claimed you were only going to add "?" once because someone had done it the week before you. But it turns out you really have no justification, as in the past few times you've always gotten the first submission, until today.
Well, I was going to concede to your submission, but there were a few things about your submission that I thought was strange. First was that it said you posted it 11 minutes before it was posted on the Escapist. Not sure how you did that. But then I went to the gaming subreddit's new page, and your submission wasn't there. Then I went to your submitted page and the submission also wasn't there. So as far as I knew, no one could access your submission unless they tried to submit it themselves, so I thought I would let anyone see the submission.
What the hell did you do?
I have no idea. It's impossible for me to post it 11 minutes before it was on the Escapist, and I don't know why it is not showing up on reddit's lists.
Perhaps I should file a reddit bug?
It's not a bug, reddit just won't accept ZP being submitted by anyone else.
Well, maybe some kind of collision happened, reddit is acting a little weird today, but I am pretty sure that no one would have been able to see your submission unless I submitted too and you commented with a link to your submission in my submission.
Let us know what the police say.
Honestly, I think by now people just look/expect it to come from jdfong.
Jesus christ dude.
Oh, is it Wednesday already?!
I used to hate you for this, jdfong, but I have to admit, it's grown on me.
Upvoted for sheer tenaciousness...
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