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              <p align="left"><b><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pretty 
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject: 
                      </b>Heathers Myth 2 blasphemy </font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>&quot; I kind 
                      of wish I could have just left him there and gone on, but 
                      alas, you just can't do that. The map is pretty and there 
                      are plenty of falling leaves and butterflies and stuff, 
                      so I can't complain too much&quot; </i></font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Pretty? Falling 
                      leaves? BUTTERFLIES?! Myth2 is about evil undead armies, 
                      savage butchering demons, exploding bodies, flying limbs, 
                      grisly war and overwhelming odds. </font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Butterflies. 
                      Thats just greeeeaaaaaat. How am I ever going to play one 
                      of my favorite games again? Its been ruined. Ruined I say! 
                      </font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Keep her away 
                      from Quake 3 please. </font></p>
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>All 
                      of which, need I point out, she mentions, at some point 
                      or another, in her column. </i></font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Ok..and allow 
                      me to ruin Quake 3 for you. Well, first off, Skippy Quake 
                      is just too cute for words. And then Quake 3 guy, he&#146;s 
                      just so tough looking...a girl could swoon. Now, the sounds 
                      are just so sweet, like you don&#146;t really want to kill 
                      each other, you just want to be friends, but there are these 
                      funny little guns in your hands, so you dance around killing 
                      each other instead! It&#146;s so poetic, really...</i></font></p>
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial"> </font><b><font face="Arial">Subject:<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
                      </font></font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">recent 
                      sound article </font></p>
                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I 
                      noticed something while reading the most recent 3D sound 
                      article: </font></font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&lt;<a href="../feat/index.html">http://www.loonygames.com/content/2.4/feat/</a>&gt;</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The author made 
                      this comment: &quot;(EAX stands for Environmental Audio. 
                      What the </font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">X is for is anyone's 
                      guess. Probably means the same as the GTX letters you get 
                      on cars).&quot; I had an SBLive once, and I remember just 
                      from reading documentation and stuff that EAX is Environmental 
                      Audio Extensions, and EAX and &quot;Environmental Audio&quot; 
                      are not the same thing.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm sure that 
                      was really helpful, now go yell at that guy or something. 
                      =]</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-=/ DinK </font></p>
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                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmmm. I tried 
                      to find my SB Live documentation, but it&#146;s probably 
                      in the same place as my gun set user manual I desperately 
                      need. I always thought EAX stood for Environmental Audio, 
                      but what do I know. :)</font></i></p>
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