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Profanity no longer a reportable offense in tso, but what does it mean?

Most of you know that TSO has announced (well, Tigger has announced) that profanity is no longer a reportable offense. RB has editorialzed on his blog that this shows an outbreak of sanity at EA, since profanity reporting was principally just a tool used by griefers to ban citicisms that get fed up with their [...]

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Of Mice and Roaches

Roaches plague the Miss Alphaville Pagent Well, in case you were wondering what that new monster download on TSO was about, we now know. In it’s continuing policy of customer abuse and humiliation, EA/Maxis has decided that what this game most needs are cockroaches, mice, and very ugly curtains. It’s funny: on Second Life, where [...]

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Editorial: Friendship Web or Snooper Web?

EA/Maxis picks its spots to champion the privacy of its users. If, as was the case, a user claims to have beaten his 8 year old sister and put her in the hospital, well that?s a case where EA/Maxis has said that they can?t notify the police because it would violate their privacy policy. But [...]

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EA Tech Support with Ozzy!

By popular demand, following is that cartoon about EA tech support from the now defunct EAsucks.com.

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How about saying what they really mean for a change?

by Kiss ?What we have here, is a failure to communicate?Captain, Road Prison 36, as played by Strother Martin in Cool Hand Luke There really should be a modern day remake of the 1967 classic that this quote is taken from ? Cool Hand Luke. I absolutely love the dialogue in this great flick. That?s [...]

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EA’s Jeff Brown Speaks Out!: Sex in TSO is impossible!

Jeff Brown, infamous smack talker, cheetah deleter, midlife crisis poster boy, and EA’s Director of Corporate Communications has circulated a press release to a number of media outlets (including CNN and Tech TV). In it he argues that cybersex in TSO is impossible and that simoleans have no real world financial value (hence cyber-prostitution is [...]

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