Thank Grog It’s Friday!
Yes. As the song by “The New Pornographers” says, “We’ve Been Here Before.”
For many of us, this feels like “Deja Vu all over again…” I love the phrase, which is attributed to Yogi Berra, my favorite Yankee of all time, on and off of the field. He was famous for his mangled use of phrases, (see some here) which always made sense….while being hilariously ambiguous. Two of my favorites are, “Always go to other people’s funerals, or they won’t come to yours,” and “nobody goes there anymore…it’s too crowded.” But I digress…
But, if it feels like we have seen “Moe’s Ark” before….it’s because we have. Kinda…
If you played the the “Christmas/Winter/Solstace” (it was convoluted) update in December 2015, then you likely already have “Moe’s Petting Zoo” in your Springfield.
So this entire event, may feel a bit like, “We’ve done this before.” Because, we have…kinda. But, in many respects, I’m going to have to say that like it or not (I’m not a huge fan), EA is listening to us once again, at least about a handful of things that we were complaining about. In this case, it’s not so much the content, as the way they played their hand(s) at placating some of the problems.
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