{"id":577,"date":"2011-09-19T14:32:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/talk-like-a-pirate\/"},"modified":"2011-09-19T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T13:32:36","slug":"talk-like-a-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/talk-like-a-pirate\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk like a pirate&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Today it\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day\">Talk like a pirate day<\/a>\u201d, and a friend of mine reminded me of an Easter Egg we added to the unreleased game \u201cBlitz and Massive\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The game, on every 19th September would activate the \u201cPirate Talk\u201d mode, which would add some phrases to the dialogues, and change some other words to match pirate talk:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Screen00001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Screen00001\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Screen00001\" src=\"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Screen00001_thumb.jpg\" width=\"598\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Screen00002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Screen00002\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Screen00002\" src=\"http:\/\/shadowcovenant.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Screen00002_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the many Easter eggs we\u2019ve built into the game\u2026 <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; 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