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Re: Mixom bolts and other faulty parts about the UAC base

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From: Raymond Martineau
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 01:21
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On 21 May 2005 20:37:46 -0700, "mattchu" <wintlerpark@hotmail.com> wrote:

>What's with the Mixom jokes in Doom 3?  Their hardware seems to fail
>all the time based on the user logs and e-mails.  Who is id poking fun
>at?

It's traditional in Sci-Fi horror games to have system failures or
malfunctions...  It's no joke, but the name is allowed to have similarity
to post fun at something, although it isn't close enough to Microsoft to
qualify.  
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