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EA Uses ASCII Billboard To Woo Rivals

Posted by simoniker on from the cheeky-so-and-so dept.

Lard writes "According to Canada.com, videogame maker Electronic Arts has posted a billboard using ASCII character codes in order to poach programmers away from rival Radical Entertainment's Vancouver offices - 'the billboard is only about 100 metres from [Radical's] head office' and reads 'now hiring' using ASCII, alongside an EA Canada logo. You can check out a better image of the billboard here ."

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  1. Re:This shit is news? All it fucking says is tsark by l0tu53at3r · · Score: 0, Troll

    Moron frogs.

    I could have sworn that frogs were french.....

    french canadian perhaps

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    ---Excuse the bad English, I'm American---
  2. Re:This shit is news? All it fucking says is tsark by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And using such a bigoted term as "frog" to describe a nationality/race is less than ignorant, it's deplorable. Would you use a similar term to describe Chinese or Japanese people? Or perhaps someone from Africa, or the Mid East?

    Of course not. For them you use 'Chinks', 'Nips', 'Coons', and 'Jawas'. You would NEVER call them 'Frogs'. That's just ignorant.