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* [[Meaningful Funeral]] - Reset 7 had one for President Magruder, which also served to memorialize the veteran player who played him. A [[Tear Jerker]] for many of the longstanding players who knew him well.
* [[Memetic Badass]]: Hayden.
* [[Mexicans With Machine Guns]] - play a starring role in Reset 7, first as [[Punch Clock Villain|antagonists]] [[Just Following Orders|serving]] the Mexican [[President Evil]] (who turns out to be a [[The Man Behind the Man|pawn]] of [[The Cartel|drug cartels]]) and taking part in a [[False
* [[Next Sunday AD]] - the resets begin in earnest at the next upcoming presidential or midterm election. It then transitions slowly to [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] as the resets usually last until the 2020s.
* [[Old Soldier]] - USG includes dozens of esteemed veterans who no longer play, but choose to lurk in discussion boards and occasionally shoot stories of their past exploits. When one returns to play (almost always briefly) it is a source of much speculation.
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* [[Reset Button]] - pressed after about a year or two real life time (during which time the in game year has advanced to the early 2020s)
* [[The Rival]] - ask someone about AGS. Just try.
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]] - what happens after a reset is announced
* [[Rules Lawyer]] - put it this way: there is a pinned thread in the general discussion forum entitled "The Law School Thread" and something like a third of the admin staff are lawyers in real life.
* [[Serious Business]] - players have compared the commitment involved in running in a presidential election to holding a full time job
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