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<p>&nbsp;</p>Vol. 
                2, Issue 2<br>
                November 15, 1999<br>
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                <b><i>From 

                  the Mouth of Madness:</i></b></p>
                <b><i> 
                  Print Me!</i></b></p>
                by 
                  Jason &quot;loonyboi&quot; 
                  Bergman</p>
              
              

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               Welcome 
                back! We survived our relaunch, which I suppose is a good thing. 
                I had my doubts there. Those of you who attended the IRC launch 
                party, I'm sure can understand why I say that.</p>
              We've 
                got some exciting stuff this week for you: first and foremost 
                is the long-awaited relaunch of Birth of a Gamer, with our new 
                columnist Heather Haselkorn. Not only is she a gaming novice, 
                she's a die-hard Mac user (don't worry, she'll have access to 
                PCs to try out non-Mac games). Birth of a Gamer was one of our 
                most controversial columns last year (and on this site, that's 
                a major accomplishment) so be sure to check it out in its new 
                incarnation when it runs tomorrow.</p>
              Also premiering 
                this week is Pocket Full o' Love, a spin-off column from our Put 
                a Little Love in Your Pocket cover story. The story, which 
                chronicled the wild and wacky world of handheld gaming, proved 
                so popular (not to mention fun for me to research and write) that 
                we've instituted a bi-weekly handheld gaming column. Because of 
                the relative simplicity of most handheld games, the column will 
                look at several games per issue. It'll be a load of fun, so be 
                sure to check it out.</p>
              If that's 
                not enough new stuff for you, we're also kicking off our new online 
                competitive gaming column, Game, Set, Match. Written by Stephanie 
                &quot;Bobbi&quot; Bergman, my fabulous sister, this will look 
                at the emerging world of gaming leagues. Look for it in even numbered 
                issues starting this Wednesday.</p>
              In other 
                loony news, in case you haven't noticed yet, there's a little 
                icon in the upper right hand corner that wasn't there last week. 
                That's our new &quot;Print Me!&quot; icon. Click that, and you'll 
                be whisked off to a special, no-graphics version of the article, 
                which is ideal for printing. This has been one of our most requested 
                features since last year, and I'm very pleased to be able to offer 
                it now. The cool thing about the script, is that it'll take the 
                whole article, no matter how many pages it is, and create a printable 
                version of it. This is all thanks to Richard &quot;Bagpuss&quot; 
                Smith, the evil genius behind Webdog, 
                and our resident code monkey.</p>
              Regarding 
                the new design, we got a lot of great feedback, with a lot of 
                positive comments. The only real negative comment we received 
                was about our decision to use non-underlined links (or actually, 
                hovering instead of regular underlines). For those of you who 
                aren't into this (truth be told, I really dig it) go into your 
                browser's preferences and disable Cascading Style Sheets support. 
                It's easily done in Netscape, and I know it's possible in Internet 
                Explorer, but I'm not entirely sure how (there's too many damn 
                options in that preferences screen). </p>
              Of course, 
                I should probably point out that the redesign was not exactly 
                made for Netscape. Obviously I'm not asking people to switch browsers 
                - the site works just fine in Netscape, but it doesn't look the 
                way it was designed to look. If you want the full effect, switch 
                to Internet Explorer or Opera. Now, before you think that I've 
                flipped, and the site has all kinds of ActiveX and Java, sit back 
                down. We make extensive use of tables, and Netscape has never 
                handled them quite right. The end result, is that you won't see 
                the top and bottom tables the way they were intended to in Netscape. 
                It's no crisis, and hopefully they'll fix the problem (finally) 
                with Netscape 5 when it's released.</p>
              Anyway, 
                by the time this goes live, the Quake III: Arena demo should be 
                out&#133;so no doubt you're off playing the heck out of it. So 
                I won't keep you (or myself) any longer&#133;enjoy this week's 
                edition of loonygames, and next week I'll be back with my Playstation 
                2 'rant.</p>
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              <i>- 
                Jason &quot;loonyboi&quot; Bergman is the editor in chief here 
                at loonygames.<br><p>&nbsp;</p> 
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Print CGI is 
  &copy; 2000 <a href="http://www.square8.com">Square Eight</a>. Used with permission. 
  Article is &copy; 2000 its original author. All other content is &copy; 2000 
  loonyboi productions. Unauthorized reproduction is prohibited. You got that??</font></i></p>
 