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Darren's Mailbag

Fri, 20 April 2007
by: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it | vaguely related link: Beanbag City (hey, they're sort of like bags) | thanks: tumbleweeds

It's Friday, and you know what that means. It's time for Darren's Mailbag, which might prove something of a challenge, due to the total lack of contributions received during the week. That's right: not a single person aimed their electronic mail device in my direction. For shame. Still, I'll give the mailbag a go.

PIXEL DUST

Why People who Say Games Used to be Better Need Hypnotherapy

Thurs, 19 Apr 2007
by: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it | vaguely related link: Memory and Reality | thanks: Cracked rosy glasses

Memory cheats and lies, and we slip it a fiver to do it. Can anyone really back up the claim that games used to be better?Sure, you can have a dog of a year, but do people really think that, universally, game developers actually get more stupid? Have we all missed the lead pipes in our empire?

I refute said claims and have an entire entertainment system to help me do it.

VISUALLY COMMA Live Long and Prosper Wed, 18 April 2007 by: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it \| vaguely related link: Some kind of irony \| thanks: "Draw One" mode Let's see if we can give this new comments system a workout as I invite you all to incriminate yourselves as a bunch of dirty cheaters. Yeah, that sounds like fun.
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VISUALLY COMMA

Living in Shoebox in Middle o' Road

Tue, 17 April 2007
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You think it sucks that the C&C3 demo was bigger than a gigabyte and you had to wait four hours for it to download on your crappy broadband connection? Spare a thought for my freshman days. Spare a thought for shareware Quake.

STATE OF THE UNION

I Told You So...

Mon, 16 April 2007
by: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it | vaguely related link: He told you so too. | thanks: The weekend's AFL matches for putting me at the top of the local pub tipping comp.

While I have no official statistics to back the following statement the analytics department of my mind recently filed a report to my frontal lobe suggesting that 98.5% of the time it is a very satisfying feeling being right when someone acts against your best advice. I did have some difficulty believing that there was a 1.5% chance of that situation not being satisfying but I looked at it as nothing more than a statistical aberration, an error margin or some other funky sounding statistics word that I don't really know the meaning of. Anyway, the other day I found myself in such a situation where being right was no fun and it all relates to my recent foray into the land of Vista.