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From: Xocyll
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:33

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"Andrew Rybenkov" <aryb...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:10:20 +0400, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net> wrote:
>
>> The seeming dumbing down of games from all genres to be able to be
>> played with a console controller isn't helping either - it almost always
>> "forces" the developers to "streamline" the controls/gameplay.
>
>Deja-vu: somewhat 20 years ago they used to say the same when Sierra went
>"mouse-only way" in its quests. "They" included me.

Yep, the game companies have become so unoriginal, they're even
recycling their old mistakes.

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of 
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Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So 
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr

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