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"ref": "1993 April 13, Edward B Stokes, “AEon Flux killfest”, in alt.tv.liquid-tv (Usenet):",
"text": "A few nights ago I saw a REAL cool AF. The chick got it at the very beginning, after killing about 50 guys, but then the \"super agent\" who killed her became the focus, killing and killing and killing (cool move sliding down the rope w/guns, if you saw it) then HE got killed, and the focus switched AGAIN. This repeated about 4 times. Heh, heh, heh... It was cool :)",
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"ref": "1993 September 10, Capt. MeatHead d'Bronco, “On The Usefulness of the BB and DD”, in rec.games.netrek (Usenet):",
"text": "The one use I've found for the BB is going into a major killfest. For instance if IND is agri and independent, and I'm a romulan. In such a case first I go to the killfest and die, then after dying I re-enter the game as a BB.",
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"ref": "1994 April 6, RJK, “Werewolf Comic Book”, in alt.games.whitewolf (Usenet):",
"text": "all the comic truly is is just a killfest. nothing wrong with a killfest, as long as it's done well. the comic, i'm afraid, is not. i don't mind that it's a kiddie book, but it needs to at least be a good kiddie comic. now if you want a truly adult, violent comic, go get Faust.",
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"ref": "1996 October 21, Michael D. Brown, “Sad :-(”, in rec.games.computer.doom.playing (Usenet):",
"text": "I've found the difference between those who enjoy Quake oand those on doom's^([sic]) side. Most Quake fanatics enjoy a massive killfest...while the doom fans prefer a hide and seek approach to the game. While it is cool to go on a rampage and just slaughter everything in your way from time to time, I do prefer the cautious approach.",
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"ref": "1997 December 26, Silverlock, “Interplay Mangling TSR License !!!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg (Usenet):",
"text": "On the contrary the history of CRPg's^([sic]) is simple. You start with a gauntlet style killfest and add features. Diablo was the beggining,^([sic]) Diablo 2 will have many more RPGish features and Diablo 3 and 4 (yes hey will come even if under different names) will have even more. Seperating the killfest parts from the puzzle/adventure parts is going to ta[k]e effort and balance but it can be done.",
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"ref": "2000 October 29, Eidolon Dragon, “Planescape : Torment”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):",
"text": "My game hit the merciless slowdown deathbug round about the time that Curst slipped over. That part of the game I actually really disliked, from there up until I got back to the Hive, mainly because I wasted far too much time playing at a killfest instead of just using Annah in stealth mode or Nameless One in regenerative indestructible mode to run through the battles (my Ultima VIII technique ;)).",
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"ref": "2002 March 18, Jason Eric Nelson, “well, I was only the fifth person to see THIS site...”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):",
"text": "So you don't consider the death (or else kidnapping, displacement, and working without remuneration other than for subsistence until death) of 200+ million people as \"mass murder\"? Just because it happened over 300 years instead of compressed into 10 doesn't make it any less of a killfest, nor the fact that they weren't all killed immediately.",
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"ref": "2002 September 26, TwoHead, “Grr”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):",
"text": "Well DF may have been a huge zerg rush brainless killfest to you, but not to everyone . Some folks were playing a very different game than that I can assure you. Belly crawling and sniper rifles was a much more entertaining passtime than the SAW festivals I used to see down in the valleys.",
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"ref": "2006 December 29, <floresrikitic@hotmail.com>, “SNOW IN JERUSALEM -- Israel snowed in”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):",
"text": "She probably wasn't serious about the attack on Lebanon causing global warming, she was just still angry about that senseless killfest over the capture of two Israeli soldiers who weren't harmed, as any decent person would be.",
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"ref": "2018 June 23, Trump's NRA Gunfest - Only In America, “Only In America - Gunloons Go Crazy In Another Gun Killfest As The Trump / NRA Chicago Gun Problem Sees More Gunloon Savage Bloodshed”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):",
"text": "12 shot in Chicago, including 5 wounded in Bronzeville attack",
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"text": "The one use I've found for the BB is going into a major killfest. For instance if IND is agri and independent, and I'm a romulan. In such a case first I go to the killfest and die, then after dying I re-enter the game as a BB.",
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"text": "On the contrary the history of CRPg's^([sic]) is simple. You start with a gauntlet style killfest and add features. Diablo was the beggining,^([sic]) Diablo 2 will have many more RPGish features and Diablo 3 and 4 (yes hey will come even if under different names) will have even more. Seperating the killfest parts from the puzzle/adventure parts is going to ta[k]e effort and balance but it can be done.",
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"text": "My game hit the merciless slowdown deathbug round about the time that Curst slipped over. That part of the game I actually really disliked, from there up until I got back to the Hive, mainly because I wasted far too much time playing at a killfest instead of just using Annah in stealth mode or Nameless One in regenerative indestructible mode to run through the battles (my Ultima VIII technique ;)).",
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"text": "So you don't consider the death (or else kidnapping, displacement, and working without remuneration other than for subsistence until death) of 200+ million people as \"mass murder\"? Just because it happened over 300 years instead of compressed into 10 doesn't make it any less of a killfest, nor the fact that they weren't all killed immediately.",
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