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Okay.  So I’ve been playing GTA IV for about an hour today.  Mostly side missions with bits of random mayhem and Euphoria experimentation thrown in for good measure.  I was jumping on cars in line at a red light, and the last one was an ice cream truck.  As I jumped on it, I noticed that the ice cream truck song started playing.  About 30 seconds after this, I was randomly run over by a truck and killed.  As the screen went all black and white and deathlike, I noticed that the ice cream music was still playing.  If that wasn’t creepy enough, it kept playing through the load screen.  Then, when I respawned, the music kept playing, causing me to think that something had glitched out.  I played on for about 45 seconds and the music stopped.  Happy that the glitch was resolved, I went about my mission.  About 5 minutes later, the music came back.  No ice cream truck was to be found anywhere in my vicinity, but there it was.  I tried to ignore it, and in about 45 seconds, it faded away again.  I finished my mission and went outside to have a cigarette.  As I stood up, the music started again, even though the game was paused.  I figured I’d restart once I got back inside.  I got to my porch and sat down just in time to see the ice cream truck roll by.  

See, I had basically forgotten that there was an outside world, and never thought that it might be an actual ice cream truck.

It’s getting bad.

P.S. – I swear by all that I hold holy that while I’m writing this, thinking “this game is taking over my life,” a SEPTA bus drove by with the huge GTA IV ad on the side.  Make of that what you will.

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