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One of the consequences of accidentally releasing a developer's build of the game is the possibility of revealing removed content or inside jokes, as illustrated by a report on Kotaku about a discovery within the build of Dead Island inadvertently released on Steam (thanks nin). Word is a hunt through the game's code reveals the Gender Wars skill that allows Purna to deal extra damage to male opponents was originally called "Feminist Whore." This is confirmed with Techland, who indicate that while there weren't necessarily dire consequences for releasing a debug build instead of the final build of the game, there may be for this incident, as they say: "The person responsible for this unfortunate situation will face professional consequences for violating the professional standards and beliefs Techland stands for." Deep Silver also disavows this, saying: "These unfortunate actions were of one individual at developer company Techland and do not in any way represent the views of publishing company Deep Silver." Here's more of the response from Blazej Krakowiak, Techland International Brand Manager: The line in question was something a programmer considered a private joke. The skill naturally has a completely different in-game name and the script reference was also changed. What is left is a part of an obscure debug function. This is merely an explanation but by no means an excuse. In the end that code was made a part of the product and signed with our company name. We deeply regret that fact and we apologize to all our customers or anyone who might have been offended by that inappropriate expression.
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Sep 8, 2011, 19:41 |
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Prez wrote on Sep 8, 2011, 18:54: With all due respect to YOU, sir, I will inform you that your assumptions about me are categorically incorrect. Rather than imposing your strict, narrow-minded perception of how certain people of a certain stature MUST conform to a certain way of thinking, you could have simply asked. Hell, you don't even know that I am NOT a woman, or black, or gay, yet, you draw assumption based on the tiny interaction we have had here. So who is being "prejudicial"? You're absolutely right that I assumed a lot about you, and I'm sorry if I got it wrong. (For the record I'm cis/white/male.) I doubted that someone who truly believes the pendulum has swung far away from racism/sexism, or someone who would throw around some of the words you did, or someone who would spend all that text telling me why I had no right to be offended by the subject of the OP; could also be someone who actually deals with what women, gay people, etc. deal with in their daily lives. I apologize if I drew the wrong conclusions. Hey, you play a Les Paul, you can't be all bad.
But please don't let my possibly bad assumption about Prez diminish the rest of my point: I see a ton of "aw, it doesn't bug *me*, so everyone should just shut up about it" type comments in these threads. The amount of anger and defensiveness makes it sound as though being asked not to use phrases like "feminist whore" is some kind of gargantuan sacrifice. It's really just basic decency.
Which takes me back to my first post: I'd really like it if the girls and women in my life felt comfortable gaming with me, but the fact that so few dudes stand up to say "hey, man, 'feminist whore' might not be cool," and the fact that the few who do are instantly derided by the "you have no right to be offended!" crowd... yeah, I'd stay away too. |
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Sep 8, 15:03 |
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Sep 8, 15:18 |
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Sep 8, 15:23 |
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Sep 8, 15:23 |
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Sep 8, 15:28 |
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Sep 8, 15:35 |
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Sep 8, 15:44 |
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Sep 8, 16:01 |
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Sep 8, 16:09 |
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Sep 8, 17:51 |
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Beamer |
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Sep 8, 23:15 |
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Sep 9, 10:43 |
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Beamer |
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Sep 10, 18:35 |
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space captain |
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Sep 8, 15:10 |
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eunichron |
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Sep 8, 15:10 |
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Sep 8, 15:17 |
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Draugr |
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Sep 8, 15:49 |
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Sep 8, 16:27 |
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Sep 8, 16:40 |
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Sep 8, 16:53 |
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Sep 8, 17:36 |
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Kitkoan |
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Sep 8, 17:59 |
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Draugr |
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Sep 8, 18:19 |
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Kitkoan |
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Sep 8, 19:04 |
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everyone |
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Sep 8, 18:20 |
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everyone |
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Sep 8, 18:24 |
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Beamer |
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Sep 8, 16:45 |
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^Drag0n^ |
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Sep 8, 16:50 |
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Yaogun |
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Sep 8, 16:53 |
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Prez |
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Sep 8, 16:54 |
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DNForever |
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Sep 8, 17:07 |
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Sep 8, 17:16 |
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Rhett |
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Sep 8, 17:35 |
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mag |
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Sep 8, 18:26 |
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Sep 8, 18:37 |
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Sep 8, 20:42 |
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Draugr |
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Sep 8, 21:37 |
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everyone |
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Sep 8, 21:56 |
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Draugr |
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Sep 8, 22:18 |
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Beamer |
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Sep 8, 22:31 |
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Sep 8, 22:48 |
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Sep 8, 22:57 |
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Sep 8, 23:08 |
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Sep 8, 16:38 |
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Sep 8, 17:35 |
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Sep 8, 15:24 |
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Sep 8, 15:46 |
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Prez |
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Sep 8, 15:53 |
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Sep 8, 15:58 |
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Prez |
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Sep 8, 16:20 |
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Sep 8, 16:28 |
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Sep 8, 16:44 |
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Prez |
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Sep 8, 17:02 |
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Sep 8, 17:22 |
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Prez |
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Sep 8, 17:31 |
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Blue |
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Sep 8, 17:38 |
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Oprah |
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Sep 8, 17:39 |
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Prez |
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Sep 8, 17:42 |
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Oprah |
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Sep 8, 17:46 |
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Sep 8, 17:58 |
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Sep 8, 20:05 |
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Sep 8, 19:37 |
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Sep 8, 20:03 |
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Sep 8, 20:08 |
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Overon |
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Sep 8, 20:27 |
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everyone |
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Sep 8, 17:51 |
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space captain |
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Sep 8, 18:27 |
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Sep 8, 18:35 |
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Sep 8, 18:54 |
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Prez |
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Sep 8, 19:41 |
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Yaogun |
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Sep 8, 17:53 |
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Beamer |
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Sep 8, 18:49 |
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xXBatmanXx |
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Sep 8, 18:57 |
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Mashiki Amiketo |
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Sep 8, 20:10 |
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Beamer |
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Sep 8, 20:30 |
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Jonny |
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Sep 8, 21:29 |
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Yaogun |
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Sep 8, 23:12 |
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Sep 8, 15:28 |
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jsmith |
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Sep 8, 15:38 |
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SirKnight |
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Sep 8, 16:20 |
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PropheT |
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Sep 8, 16:33 |
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SirKnight |
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Sep 8, 15:21 |
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Pankin |
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Sep 8, 15:27 |
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EddieTheHack |
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Sep 8, 15:32 |
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McSterls |
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Sep 8, 16:29 |
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Draugr |
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Sep 8, 15:35 |
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wtf_man |
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Sep 8, 15:52 |
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CommunistHamster |
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Sep 8, 16:14 |
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DangerDog |
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Sep 8, 16:15 |
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Sep 8, 16:17 |
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Sep 8, 16:34 |
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Quboid |
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Sep 8, 16:24 |
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Sep 8, 16:47 |
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merloid |
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Sep 8, 17:18 |
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Creston |
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Sep 8, 17:01 |
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SirKnight |
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Sep 8, 17:05 |
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Jivaro |
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Sep 8, 17:04 |
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necrosis |
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Sep 8, 17:11 |
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Tumbler |
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Sep 8, 17:19 |
Re: Dead Island "Private Joke" Goes Public |
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Sep 8, 17:37 |
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xXBatmanXx |
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Sep 8, 17:51 |
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^Drag0n^ |
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Sep 8, 18:21 |
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Creston |
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Sep 9, 00:23 |
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^Drag0n^ |
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Sep 9, 05:31 |
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Jonny |
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Sep 9, 08:25 |
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Prez |
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Sep 9, 08:29 |
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Prez |
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Sep 8, 19:18 |
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Sep 8, 19:29 |
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Sep 8, 19:26 |
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SirKnight |
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Dev |
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Sep 9, 10:11 |
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Sep 9, 10:43 |
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Sep 9, 11:42 |
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Prez |
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Draugr |
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Draugr |
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Slashman |
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Draugr |
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Slashman |
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Draugr |
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Slashman |
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Sep 10, 01:31 |
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Sep 10, 02:48 |
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Sep 10, 03:37 |
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Draugr |
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Sep 14, 14:16 |
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