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Rick Lane

The only good Postal game is a spinoff expressionist boomer shooter that takes place entirely in the protagonist's depraved mind

Shooting weirdos in Postal: Brain Damaged.
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Like most sensible people, I long ago wrote off the Postal series as an idea that started terribly, enjoyed some fleeting glory in the same wave of cultural disaffection that brought us Limp Bizkit and the Attitude Era, and has spent the decades since thrashing around in search of relevance. Yet several times over the last few years, I've heard furtive whispers from various corners of the internet that there is one Postal game which is actually, genuinely good.

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