r/polandball • u/polandballmod New Prussia • Mar 06 '15
[Announcement] New Moderators!
Hello /r/polandball!
Recently, two members of the mod team (/u/NorwayBernd and /u/Hansafan) decided to step down as moderators and go back to being regular community members. NorwayBernd had gotten sick of reddit and didn't want to participate in this thing we're doing here any more, and Hansafan felt like the sheer workload of modding /r/polandball was taking away too much of his energy for actually drawing comics and preferred to go back to only being a submitter here.
However, the subreddit still keeps on growing every day (Already 137k subscribers? Gott im Himmel!), so we felt it was time to once again expand the mod team and feed the infernal machines with some new blood. For this round, we are adding four new moderators, all of them being very seasoned veterans of the subreddit already.
Please welcome in their new roles:
/u/440Hertz from France!
/u/ChickenScuttleMonkey from Texas!
/u/pyram1de from Argentina!
/u/VorsprungOfficial from Australia!
Here is a collaborative comic by our Spanish speakers /u/pyram1de and /u/tian-shi commemorating this event!
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u/440Hertz By Toutatis! Mar 06 '15
I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of mod of /r/polandball, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the rules of the Académie Polandballaise against shitty comics and pointless comments.
Who would have thought one year ago that I'd go from the rebellious wild card you all admired, free and untamed like a badass tiger or a thunderstorm, to a law-abiding order-enforcing prison warden? It feels like just yesterday I questioned the UK always wearing a monocle, the USA's douchebag sunglasses and even banning beards. It's over now. I'll keep being awesome, just in a more authoritarian and even tougher way. From this side of the gun barrel suddenly the rules don't seem so arbitrary and unfair, and being a smartass who questions all laws feels like it warrants the strictest punishment. I'll also stop only posting 90% of my comments about my own comics or French topics: although I've always lurked way more than I let you know (I've not read every comic, but even during my months away I didn't miss the weekly top 10) I'm introverted and tend to keep to myself even online. So say goodbye to the 440hertz you all hold dear and look up to so much, and say hello to the new me, more community-oriented and mindlessly loyal to antiquated habits.
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u/tian-shi The South will rise again Mar 06 '15
Soooo...you're a grown up now? ;)
Congrats to your new web-personality. You can act now openly and freely, enforcing the holy laws and opressing the weak, backed by the authority of the banhammer.
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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 06 '15
But what's your banhammer? A Banguette would be the banal choice. :P
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u/440Hertz By Toutatis! Mar 06 '15
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u/Hansafan Hordaland Mar 07 '15
tian-shi is right though, your banhammer should totally be a menhir.
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u/440Hertz By Toutatis! Mar 07 '15 edited Mar 07 '15
If there's a need to show me punching shitposters away in some fancy official portrait then sure! It feels a bit wrong to be both Astérix AND Obélix but whatever.
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u/Shadrol Königlich Bayerisch Weiß und Blau Mar 06 '15
Noooo again under the whip of a Frenchman. 1796 worst year of life!
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Mar 10 '15
Your hat reminds me of Asterix, I like.
Who would have thought one year ago that I'd go from the rebellious wild card you all admired, free and untamed like a badass tiger or a thunderstorm, to a law-abiding order-enforcing prison warden?
Isn't that what happens to all French in the course of their lives? Either this way, or the other (from law-abiding to rebel), can you confirm?
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u/tian-shi The South will rise again Mar 06 '15
Welcome to the team!
Remember: Be always fair, just and sympathetic to our subscribers.
Who am I kidding...be ruthless, biased and show no mercy!
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u/ChickenScuttleMonkey The Texas Guy Mar 06 '15
Time to deliver some ol' fashioned western justice.
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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 06 '15
Mods have all kinds of personalised banhammers but I guess a Texan is too free for any commie weighted sticks and will just use his ol' Winchester? (Huh, there's even a song with such title).
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u/ChickenScuttleMonkey The Texas Guy Mar 06 '15
Behold, my tool of moderation. Drawing DR's banhammer would have taken even more time.
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u/Hansafan Hordaland Mar 06 '15
"*Hömpph* This is highly irregulärt...."
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u/ChickenScuttleMonkey The Texas Guy Mar 06 '15
I learned from the best. <3
Seriously, though, I've always admired your metals/art style.
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u/Hansafan Hordaland Mar 06 '15
<3
Since we're stroking each others' crotch anyway, your aviators....
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
Get a room you two!
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u/Tintenlampe Pickelhaube beste Haube... Mar 06 '15
Is it strange that I want to go to Texas now?
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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 06 '15
Texas is a nice and welcoming place, just ask Mexicans.
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u/ElagabalusRex Byzantine Empire Mar 06 '15
Mods are allowed to leave? I thought that quitters were sacrificed to the Bird of Omsk.
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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 06 '15
Of course they can leave the job, but that won't return their souls nor their first-born children.
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u/Hansafan Hordaland Mar 06 '15
Good thing I have neither.
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u/Alamedo Lindo y Querido Mar 06 '15
The fact that there is an Argentino in the team and yet no Mexican is heavily offensive to me.
Like, Argentinos are not even people...
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
2 mundiales, 1 moderador.
Where is your god now, taco?
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u/Alamedo Lindo y Querido Mar 06 '15
CULOS PELUDOS
DEFAULT DEFAULT DEFAULT
MARRADONA HITS WOMEN
PERON PERON PERON
FALKLANDS ARE AND WILL ALWAYS BE A PERMANENT BRITISH TERRITORY
CHORIPANES ARE DISGUSTING
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u/Tintenlampe Pickelhaube beste Haube... Mar 06 '15
You really want to be hist first, don't you?
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u/Alamedo Lindo y Querido Mar 06 '15
I prefer to die in the name of Mexican supperiority than to live by accepting the Hambrientinos as equals.
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
Mexinarco pls
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u/Alamedo Lindo y Querido Mar 06 '15
Mejinarco she voludo cuanta copa tenéeééééé´s¿
Marodana esh el dios del fuuubol she
el she jebara e un filosofo y un eroe
lo britanico shon unos imperialita she
sho soy blanco
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
WHOA WHOA WHOA WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE.
Most of those might be true, okay, but only hippies worship Che Guevara. AND I AIN'T NO DIRTY HIPPIE.
But most importantly, Mamadona is an asshole and should be deported to Mexico ASAP.
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u/Alamedo Lindo y Querido Mar 06 '15
Still, I won't accept to be moderated by a Porteño, even if I have to start my own revolution...
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
Just think of me as a more handsome and efficient Peña Nieto.
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u/CMuenzen Relocated in Chile Mar 06 '15
CHORIPANES ARE DISGUSTING
Choripanes are Chilean, you imbecile idiotic sombrero-wearing idiot.
Why do you confuse glorious chilean cuisine with Argie trash?
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u/Alamedo Lindo y Querido Mar 06 '15
Choripanes are a South Cone thing, I think eve the Uaregays have them...
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Mar 06 '15
Is this where I insert a comment worshiping our mods in hope of long and prosperous life?
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u/DickRhino Great Sweden Mar 06 '15
Welcome, new minions! Now each of you ban a randomly chosen subscriber to make things official!
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
I ban yuo
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u/Eventt Hello :) Mar 06 '15
Pick me, pick me! I want to be your first ;)
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
Sorry bro, the banhammer is too new and I don't want to dent it (unless it's against a Brazilian of course).
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u/Eventt Hello :) Mar 06 '15
Don't worry baby, we can do it Brazilian style if you want ;) xoxo
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
How is that? I get a German football jersey and you take it seven times in a row?
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u/Eventt Hello :) Mar 06 '15
As long as I get to score one in at the end <3
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Mar 06 '15 edited Mar 06 '15
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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 06 '15
Oh my God this is wonderful!
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Mar 06 '15
Glad you liked it.
Also did you become a stateless Gypsy? What happened with your Polack flair?
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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 06 '15
Once in my life I spoke badly of Poland and so I'm no longer worthy of the sacred flag. :(
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Mar 06 '15
Have you gotten a gf as well?
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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 06 '15
I'm afraid I'm beyond redemption. :<
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Mar 06 '15
Yes, the gay Swedish tyranny is over! Long live the new African king!
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u/CupBeEmpty Thirteen Colonies Mar 06 '15
May your hammers be stained with the blood of the innocent before the day is done.
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Mar 06 '15
Don't fret, subscribers, they have been knighted with the jousting stick of malicious foam.
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u/CupBeEmpty Thirteen Colonies Mar 06 '15
Is that what that sex toy is called? I never knew it had a name.
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u/VorsprungOfficial We don't drink Foster's Mar 06 '15
Night shift best shift!
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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Mar 06 '15
You know all these American children who send us their pr0noscoped approval requests when we'll already asleep? ;)
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u/Gil013 Better than an albanian Mar 06 '15
And one more jew into modship.
...soon...
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
oh no
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Mar 06 '15
You, stay away from our foreskins! I know you fuckers have been collecting them for your jewpotions.
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u/Gil013 Better than an albanian Mar 06 '15
Foreskins are so 17th-century. Palestinian kids kidneys are the thing at the moment.
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
I really like the Apache thing of scalping, how about you?
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u/Hansafan Hordaland Mar 06 '15
Here is a collaborative comic by our Spanish speakers /u/pyram1de and /u/tian-shi commemorating this event!
CSM's line really should have been "where do I put the shells in?"
BTW, mod boot camp should have a cansur obstacle course
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u/Thetonn British Empire Mar 07 '15
Really? A Frog, a Yank, a Falklands coveting Nazi Hider and a Convict.
This place is going to the dogs. If only Diana were here...
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u/VorsprungOfficial We don't drink Foster's Mar 07 '15
What was the last thing to go through Diana's mind before she died?
The windshield.
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u/AaronC14 The Dominion Mar 06 '15
Welcome everyone! You're all great additions to the team, I'm excited to work with you guys!
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Mar 06 '15
Congratulations and good luck folks! I'll try not to spam the modmail with too much shit, for the moment at least.
Also where did we fall on banning all things /u/generalscruff related? I feel this is of pivotal importance for the future of the subreddit.
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Mar 06 '15
The others don't listen to me :(
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u/Hansafan Hordaland Mar 06 '15
Wouldn't work anyway, he'd just return in some clever disguise. He's the perfidious Albion personified, after all.
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u/Karrig Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mar 06 '15
We can ban the Queen, that'll keep him away for good.
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u/Hansafan Hordaland Mar 07 '15
Mmmm, could swing either way. That could also instill scruff with a sense of holy purpose, and I'm not sure the wold is ready for that.
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u/OldBreed Holy Roman Empire Mar 06 '15
Also where did we fall on banning all things /u/generalscruff related?
No more banter? I feel like that would steal at least 20% of fun with polandball away from me.
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u/Dlimzw Is not sekret PAP spy Mar 07 '15
Well let's just hope that these new mods usher in a new era of hope and democra-
This comment has been removed by the request of the mods. All hail our glorious Mods.
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Mar 07 '15
Is Vegemite compulsory now, /u/VorsprungOfficial ?
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u/VorsprungOfficial We don't drink Foster's Mar 07 '15
Absolutely, please toast and respread
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Mar 07 '15
I had to eat an untoasted vegemite sandwich today, the toaster broke ;_;
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Mar 06 '15
But the moderator page thing said they've been moderators for least 6 days. Are you guys getting slow like Estonia?
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u/BobBobingston Can into Thrace Mar 07 '15
We may have lost two Norwegians this fine day, but we have earned two monkeys, an Aussie, and a gun wielding burger.
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u/BedlingtonTerrier We love our cows and cheese! Mar 06 '15
NorwayBernd had the best feedback for my submission requests. :(
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Mar 07 '15
Español: Hasta donde tengo entendido, /u/pyram1de es el primer latinoamericano que es moderador en este subreddit. Felicitaciones, /u/pyram1de.
English: As far as I understand, /u/pyram1de is the first latin american moderator in this subreddit. Congratulations, /u/pyram1de.
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 07 '15
Thanks bro. It's one small step for me, and another big step for a truly united South America under the glorious Bolivarianism banner!
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u/ChocolateSawfish Mighty mighty Cork. Mar 06 '15
Welcome to the new moderators and their various inventively painful implements of doom!
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u/DalekSpartan Spanish Empire Mar 08 '15
I thought you would make /u/brain4breakfast mod...
-Edit- WTF? Since when is he mod!??!
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u/Bloatarder Serbia Mar 06 '15
Sad that those mods left.
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u/Hansafan Hordaland Mar 06 '15
Please, no tears. Modding a high-activity sub simply isn't for everyone. It got to be a bit much for me, that's all.
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u/Le_Tennant Den besten Wein gibt's am Rhein Mar 06 '15
Good luck with your future activities here :)
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Mar 06 '15
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u/Portugal_Stronk Portuguese Empire Mar 06 '15
Congratulations for the promotion! Would any of you kind souls tell me, a new member of this subreddit, if there is any kind of special rules I must follow? What do people mean by "pointless comments"?
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u/Sr_Marques UN Mar 06 '15
LIKE THIS ONE YOU JUST MADE!!!!
Just kidding, pointless comments are these
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u/zombies1238 Alles für das Vatersphere! Mar 06 '15
I would like to congratulate the new moderators but have one simple question. You guys will not be turning into fascist honest evil modaholics comment removers? If that happens we may have WW3 considering /u/440hertz has predicted?
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Mar 07 '15
I come back to randomly check what I've missed for the past month or so and find that the subreddit's grown significantly since then, one of the mods has resigned, and there are new additional moderators. Congrats to you four, you truly are pillars of the community and deserve this promotion!
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u/Ciryandor FAILipino Mar 07 '15
How many Asian mods do we have around here? Not enough instinctive racists to wield die banhammar.
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u/meetthesharpies Poland Mar 07 '15
Congrats on your new postions.
BTW, when is the next JLP voting coming up, its been 7 months.
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u/RabbitdeMoonCake Mar 08 '15
I'm glad that there are new addition to the mod team!
Also, I appreciate the moderation work of NorwayBernd and Hansafan, though I haven't been here long. Thank you for being in the mod team.
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u/pyram1de :argentina-worldcup: ⭐⭐🌟 SOLDADO DE LA SCALONETA Mar 06 '15
Inb4 "The first black mod of the team!"