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EA decides to sell "SimCity" for $9.99 to mock Herman Cain
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WTF Indeed
2011-10-18 02:00:33 PM
GAT_00
2011-10-18 02:03:09 PM
WTF Indeed
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Excellently done.
cameroncrazy1984
2011-10-18 02:05:35 PM
Alright, now that's hilarious.
Shostie
2011-10-18 02:07:39 PM
Aarontology
2011-10-18 02:14:09 PM
smooshie
2011-10-18 02:15:26 PM
"It's an original idea, and to people who say it's modeled after a game --
it's a lie
," Cain said during a campaign stop in Tennessee. "That's all I'm going to say.
It is a lie
. You see, that's the difference when you become one or two in the polls. People
make up stuff.
That
is a lie
. I'm not going to take it back and not going to politically say, but unfortunately, that is
not totally true
.
It's a lie
."
Someone protests too much =/
mitchcumstein1
2011-10-18 02:21:56 PM
Does he, or does he not, have a mod for the traffic snarls all around town? That's all I care about.
And I want a country club, goddamnit.
Uncle Wiggly
2011-10-18 02:29:17 PM
Please, someone mock the XBox or PS3
The-Brain
2011-10-18 02:38:13 PM
Clearly he means to spend all the money first, and drop everyone's funding to 0.
Then he's going to give everyone maximum funding, and raises taxes to 20%
Then 999(999) will be achieved.
Diogenes
2011-10-18 02:40:27 PM
Herman Cain's got 999 problems, and biatching is one of them.
jehovahs witness protection
2011-10-18 02:51:04 PM
Uncle Wiggly
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Please, someone mock the XBox or PS3
WhoIsWillo
2011-10-18 02:59:03 PM
Rev.K
2011-10-18 03:07:14 PM
OH F*CK, RAPE STREET, I SURE HOPE THE BUS DOESN'T BREAK DOWN!
Wow. i lol'd.
gilgigamesh
2011-10-18 03:10:19 PM
smooshie
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"It's an original idea, and to people who say it's modeled after a game -- it's a lie," Cain said during a campaign stop in Tennessee. "That's all I'm going to say. It is a lie. You see, that's the difference when you become one or two in the polls. People make up stuff. That is a lie. I'm not going to take it back and not going to politically say, but unfortunately, that is not totally true. It's a lie."
Someone protests too much =/
You know, for someone who feels he needs to lecture the nation on having a sense of humor, that was awfully huffy and defensive, especially when the parallels are so obvious.
Why not just say, "yeah its an amusing coincidence, but I have a serious tax plan and it isn't true"?
WhoIsWillo
2011-10-18 03:19:59 PM
Soup4Bonnie
2011-10-18 03:25:54 PM
Showing Romney with a ghost dog is just too damn funny.
McManus_brothers
2011-10-18 03:37:31 PM
ha-ha-guy
2011-10-18 03:52:40 PM
Dear EA, produce SimCity 5 before I'm forced to start kidnapping the children of executives. That is all. Also if you produce another "The Sims"/"Sim City" hybrid, I'm going to kill you and sell your organs on the SE Asian blackmarket.
Love,
Your customer :)
meanyogurt
2011-10-18 03:54:53 PM
Dear EA,
Thanks for the free publicity
-Cain Campaign
Doctor Jan Itor
2011-10-18 03:56:43 PM
Trickle down economics worked well for growth in SimCity. Of course you eventually had to raise taxes after the city grew in order to pay for all the government services for all those people. Our cities are pretty filled out already.
/Growth and jobs, just not in the U.S.A.
Dalek Caan's doomed mistress
2011-10-18 04:03:06 PM
ha-ha-guy
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Dear EA, produce SimCity 5 before I'm forced to start kidnapping the children of executives. That is all. Also if you produce another "The Sims"/"Sim City" hybrid, I'm going to kill you and sell your organs on the SE Asian blackmarket.
Love,
Your customer :)
So much this. How hard can it be to polish the graphics a little and burn a few discs?
mitchcumstein1
2011-10-18 04:03:41 PM
ha-ha-guy
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Dear EA, produce SimCity 5 before I'm forced to start kidnapping the children of executives. That is all. Also if you produce another "The Sims"/"Sim City" hybrid, I'm going to kill you and sell your organs on the SE Asian blackmarket.
Love,
Your customer :)
And not that bullshiat Sim Cities Societies either. Sim City goddamnit.
thomps
2011-10-18 04:06:58 PM
ha-ha-guy
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Dear EA, produce SimCity 5 before I'm forced to start kidnapping the children of executives. That is all. Also if you produce another "The Sims"/"Sim City" hybrid, I'm going to kill you and sell your organs on the SE Asian blackmarket.
Love,
Your customer :)
i know right? why can't they give us what we really want: simcity, but with less building and planning and more first-person shooter urban combat. GET ON THIS EA!
ds_4815
2011-10-18 04:08:22 PM
FTA:
"As the feared
Grover Norquist
, president of the conservative Americans for Tax Reform, said on Monday..."
Apparently I just laughed in the face of fear.
/ "The GOP'er at the end of this book"
ha-ha-guy
2011-10-18 04:09:01 PM
thomps
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ha-ha-guy: Dear EA, produce SimCity 5 before I'm forced to start kidnapping the children of executives. That is all. Also if you produce another "The Sims"/"Sim City" hybrid, I'm going to kill you and sell your organs on the SE Asian blackmarket.
Love,
Your customer :)
i know right? why can't they give us what we really want: simcity, but with less building and planning and more first-person shooter urban combat. GET ON THIS EA!
Screw that. Sim Copter, AH-64 edition. You know you'd buy it. It would be like the disaster button, but more personal.
itsdan
2011-10-18 04:09:09 PM
Dalek Caan's doomed mistress
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So much this. How hard can it be to polish the graphics a little and burn a few discs?
I'm still fairly satisfied with SC4. I periodically get bored and then pick it up a few months later and start a new city. I'm currently trying to sort out a crazy traffic situation in what has turned into my 'downtown' area.
HellRaisingHoosier
2011-10-18 04:10:40 PM
thomps
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ha-ha-guy: Dear EA, produce SimCity 5 before I'm forced to start kidnapping the children of executives. That is all. Also if you produce another "The Sims"/"Sim City" hybrid, I'm going to kill you and sell your organs on the SE Asian blackmarket.
Love,
Your customer :)
i know right? why can't they give us what we really want: simcity, but with less building and planning and more first-person shooter urban combat. GET ON THIS EA!
It would be cool to create a huge urban city, then get to become a terrorist cell whose plan is to destroy the city.
Honest Bender
2011-10-18 04:13:52 PM
I vowed long ago that EA would never see a penny more of my money. I don't care if they give away their entire library with a complimentary blow job. For free. I'm not interested.
/DIAF, EA!
//That goes for you too, Activision!
Electriclectic
2011-10-18 04:14:27 PM
I'm surprised I don't already have this on Steam.
/It's still $19.99 on Steam.
Soup4Bonnie
2011-10-18 04:21:06 PM
I haven't played SimCity since 2. I'm thinking of getting 4 just for the hell of it. Is it worth the $9.99?
overzelus
2011-10-18 04:22:34 PM
itsdan
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Dalek Caan's doomed mistress: So much this. How hard can it be to polish the graphics a little and burn a few discs?
I'm still fairly satisfied with SC4. I periodically get bored and then pick it up a few months later and start a new city. I'm currently trying to sort out a crazy traffic situation in what has turned into my 'downtown' area.
Unless you have the traffic mod, that's going to be next to impossible.
The vanilla traffic AI uses a 'shortest path' algorithm to determine the route each car commutes on. They will ignore your freeways and take the country road if the route is even just a few tiles shorter. Road capacity and commute time be damned.
SomeoneDumb
2011-10-18 04:28:06 PM
Is SC4 the one where you get to (have to) drive around to put out fires or was that some weird add on or something?
ha-ha-guy
2011-10-18 04:29:35 PM
Soup4Bonnie
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I haven't played SimCity since 2. I'm thinking of getting 4 just for the hell of it. Is it worth the $9.99?
Yes, but only if you get the add on packs. Otherwise you will merely loath the farking AI the game shipped with.
mavexe
2011-10-18 04:29:44 PM
Tropico's better.
Joe Six-Keg
2011-10-18 04:41:59 PM
mavexe
:
Tropico's better.
So much this. More fun, more entertaining, and a much better soundtrack.
hicksfa2
2011-10-18 05:20:21 PM
Joe Six-Keg
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mavexe: Tropico's better.
So much this. More fun, more entertaining, and a much better soundtrack.
Seconded.
Though I did thoroughly enjoy that Sims 3 video EA provided of all the GOP frontrunners. lol
Geotpf
2011-10-18 05:32:47 PM
Electriclectic
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I'm surprised I don't already have this on Steam.
/It's still $19.99 on Steam.
EA and Valve are fueding a little bit right now over the ability to sell DLCs on Steam.
Ham Sandvich
2011-10-18 05:57:51 PM
37 comments and not a word about spline reticulation? I thought I knew you, Fark...
gadian
2011-10-18 06:00:15 PM
HA! How timely! I was going to "reacquire" my copies, but i guess I could throw EA some money for this.
Riomp300
2011-10-18 06:05:31 PM
ha-ha-guy
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Soup4Bonnie: I haven't played SimCity since 2. I'm thinking of getting 4 just for the hell of it. Is it worth the $9.99?
Yes, but only if you get the add on packs. Otherwise you will merely loath the farking AI the game shipped with.
Actually EA had SimCity 4 with the addon packs for 4.99 a few weeks ago on Origin. So they raised the price. Its pretty good. The economy is still hard. Still have to use cheat codes :P
Gilligann
2011-10-18 06:17:36 PM
You can buy SimCity 2000 on GoG for $6.
(new window)
Great game
drkdstryer
2011-10-18 06:24:31 PM
Aarontology
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Oh god I can't stop laughing at this.
Kuroshin
2011-10-18 06:28:27 PM
I just started playing SimCity 4 Deluxe the other day, after having it sit in my Steam list since the last mega-sale, so I'm getting a kick from having paid less than $9.99 for the game.
I always loved the original SC, and SC200 was loads of greatness, but SC3 was pure shiat. SC4 so far has been much better than 3, and nearly as fun as the original. The biggest problem is that it appears to be running on an old version of the Sims engine, and chugs like a Sterling Engine even on my top-of-the-line rig.
Performance problems aside (seriously, I can run Crysis on this machine at full settings...), the "anti-oops" assists when laying infrastructure are fantastic.
Totally worth the $4.99 I paid. :P
Goodfella
2011-10-18 06:30:27 PM
Because 9.99 rolls off the tongue just as well when you are talking about United States tax reform as it does when you are talking about a pepperoni pizza with olives.
MrEricSir
2011-10-18 06:44:04 PM
Ironically, SimCity is from EA, a company notorious for financing games with US tax dollars.
Some Beer Snob
2011-10-18 07:12:09 PM
MrEricSir
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Ironically, SimCity is from EA, a company notorious for financing games with US tax dollars.
Wait what?
Von_Ruff
2011-10-18 07:28:07 PM
Sim City Monster Hates Your City
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MrEricSir
2011-10-18 07:41:28 PM
Some Beer Snob
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Wait what?
Not keeping up on the news, huh?
Here, read all about it.
smeag0l
2011-10-18 07:47:08 PM
meanyogurt
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Dear EA,
Thanks for the free publicity
-Cain Campaign
Thanks for the free publicity
-EA
drewsclues
2011-10-18 07:50:58 PM
thar be gold in this here thread..
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