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		shadowofneptune on March 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SimCity launched a decade ago, and it was so disas... > Same, they had a cross-promotion with Nissan, so your Sims would feel happy when they recharged their electric car, and the charging station has the effect of a park in your neighborhood. Perhaps not as bad as all the BP solar arrays and windmills in SimCity Societies! Game came out 3 years before the New Horizon spill.

ascagnel_ on March 6, 2023 | [–]

But it came out 3 years after BP's Deepwater Horizon spill.

shadowofneptune on March 6, 2023 | | [–]

Memory must fail me, Deepwater Horizon. SC: Societies was 2007, to be clear.

Pxtl on March 6, 2023 | | | [–]

New Horizons was the probe that went to Pluto.

shadowofneptune on March 6, 2023 | [–]

Looking deeper, it was only a year after the Prudhoe Bay spill. The gall.

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