This gif makes me sad

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Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
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Originally posted by: BoomerD
It SHOULD be painfully obvious...if it's not, how do you manage to turn on your keyboard to type? :D

When I find that keyboard on switch you mentioned, I'm going to have a really fucking witty reply for you.

Just you wait.
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: UberNeuman
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: UberNeuman
If you've played Animal Crossing, you'd get the joke.

care to elaborate?

In the game you create a virtual "you" to live in a town - and your virtual moms sends you gifts every so often....

and if you don't go into your town for awhile it becomes overrun with weeds and your mailbox gets stuffed with mail - meaning all these gifts from yur moms..

/knowing this, makes me hate myself even more....

I must have played the wrong game...I just sexed the virtual moms.
 

Crono

Lifer
Aug 8, 2001
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http://www.krunk4ever.com/blog...imal-crossing-tragedy/

"when you create your character in Animal Crossing, you select your favorite relative: Mom, Dad, Grandmother, Grandfather.
Then periodically the game will send you random items in the mail from the ?favorite relative? you selected, saying things like ?Just thinking of you, Love, Mom.?
Most likely all the letters he got were generated by the game, not by his mother.
It?s an example of great game design, not maternal love
."

Still sad, though.
 

ProfJohn

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Whether it was really his mom or the game mom is sorta irrelevant.

Imagine losing your mom and the logging on to a game like this to find that mail box full of stuff.

At the time it had to be highly emotional for that person. I remember calling my mom's cell phone the day my step-dad died and when it went to voice mail it was his voice. Pretty emotional moment.