I agree no reason to feel bad or stupid. If I wouldn't have been playing the game from the beginning and TS4 was my first of the series, I just might have done the very same thing. I do not know the developing or let alone the publishing company from every game I play and I never will. It just isn't something I really care about enough to retain in my brain. Even though it wasn't intended as such, your wording of was rather hilarious and very innocent. Just always remember the words my dad used to say "If we were all perfect, we would live in very boring world."
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