Way to go, hackerman. Impressions: Yyyyup. This sure is another one of these hideous, atrocious things, and a relatively crappy one at that. I guess the music was kind of nice, so long as you ignore that it's rocking out to a dude browsing status screens and going through menus. This is after having […]
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