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        <p align="right"><font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
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        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8"><b>10/30 
          - Airport Bar - 10:45 Central </b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So far as I can tell, i'm 
          sitting in the "Airport Bar", since the place has no name that I can 
          find anywhere (and of course, it's a carbon-copy of the same place you'll 
          find is just about every single other airport in the country). I'm just 
          sitting here, nursing a Sam Adams (it's no Guiness, but hey...i'm in 
          freaking St. Louis) and waiting for my Jumbo Frank to arrive. There's 
          a rather attractive blond girl sitting a few tables down with her boyfriend. 
          She (and he) looks especially healthy...you have to wonder what's wrong 
          with people who look like that...there's always something wrong with 
          people who look that healthy, and it's usually a horrible story.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oooh...lookit that...she 
          just pulled out a bag of candy and offered it to the guy in the table 
          next to her. How cute. She's definitely not from New York.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Turns out he's from Australia, 
          "like Arnold". I missed where she's from, but she's a student on vacation, 

          and on her way to Phoenix. I keep wondering if I should joing the conversation. 
          Turns out the aussie's on his way to Dallas...cool. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This is all kind of fun, 
          in that voyeuristic way. I haven't had an excuse to just sit and watch 
          people for a long time. You can learn a lot by doing it...and hey...it's 
          an excuse to get material. :)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ugh. Why in God's name did 
          I order a Hot Dog, anyway? This is nasty. I wonder if it's kosher. Oh 
          well...at least i've got some patato chips with this. I could definitely 
          go for a steak about now. Mmm...steak.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think when I post this 
          (<i>if</i> I post this...we'll see what happens when I actually <i>get</i> 
          to Texas) I'll preface this with a disclaimer that much of it was written 
          under severe sleep deprivation. Maybe that will keep people from thinking 
          that i'm <i>totally</i> nuts. Which maybe decieving them, but hey...there's 
          nothing wrong with sanity...it's just not for me, is all. :)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Woop...10 minutes to boarding...gotta 
          get some smokes in before takeoff...</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8"><b>10/30 
          - On the Plane - 11:30 Central.</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, that was a fun little 
          experience. :)</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So, I went off to the smoker's 
          lounge to chain smoke a few before my next near-death experience...and 
          ended up having a conversation with a couple of guys about the segregation 
          of smokers.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Best line? "For a second 
          there, I thought Howard Stern sat down next to me."</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I get that from time-to-time. 
          It always tells me something about a person by who they say I look like, 
          Howard Stern, or John Lennon. These days I find myself getting compared 
          to Howard Stern more often...perhaps that's a disturbing sociological 
          trend or something. </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Time to panic...only a few 
          minutes left 'till takeoff. At least I've got an exit seat again...</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0022A8"><b>10/30 
          - High on Bawls - 4:30 Central</b></font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">So dig it. I show up, check 
          in, and walk downstairs...smack dab into some guys from Ritual. And 
          hey! They went gold. Big ol' congrats to the team at Ritual for that 
          one.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I played a bit of Starsiege: 
          Tribes, which the kids from Dynamix are showing off here. IT's a pretty 
          cool game...definitely <i>big</i> levels, and lots of great stuff for 
          teamplay fans.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Of course, as a die-hard 
          one-on-one player, I was a bit let down by the fact that they won't 
          be having anything that caters to other weirdos like myself...it's a 
          tradeoff you have to make when designing a multiplayer only game though, 
          I suppose.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm now nursing a bottle 
          of Bawls (I can feel my heart attack coming already...this stuff has 
          <i>way</i> too much caffeine in it) and watching the panel discussion 
          on Sin by some Ritual kids (Tom "Paradox" Mustaine, Don "onethumb" MacAskill, 
          and Levelord). The thing was <i>supposed</i> to be just Paradox, but 
          hey...these guys are hams...let 'em live it up.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Interesting comments from 
          them...they're saying that the demos were rushed...and that the game 
          is actually much better. Considering that I <i>loved</i> the demo (played 
          through it about six times in singleplayer mode, and played lots of 
          DM) this bodes well for the final product.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One nice thing about the 
          game that they're talking about, is the number of secrets.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tom: "there's a strategy 
          guide guy who's probably hating our guts about now."</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Don: "you'll probably have 
          to go through the entire game at least four times to catch everything."</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">They're saying a bit about 
          the scripting system...Tom has said that in his spare time he's planning 
          on doing an Operation: Bayshield for Sin, so look for that soon (and 
          be sure to fwap him a few times if he attempts to back out). The scripting 
          system definitely seems to be flexible...they've said things like Ms. 
          Pac Man would be possible to do if anyone wanted. The in-game consoles 
          are modified through an HTML style language that should make mod authors 
          really take advantage of that.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Regarding net traffic: Don 
          is saying that the net traffic is actually lower than Quake's even with 
          the same number of people...and that they <i>did</i> modify the network 
          codebase.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Minimum system requirements: 
          they tested extensively on a p150, but the official specs are for a 
          p166. It was tested on a p133 as well (I played the demo on a p133 and 
          it ran just fine, for the record).</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The AI in the game seems 
          to be something to get psyched about that they haven't hyped at all. 
          The game's "training arena" has bots that you can fight...they sidestep, 
          blitz attack, hunt you down, etc. Sounds like good stuff.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The game has gone into manufacturing 
          and should be in stores Real Soon Now. Woo! They mentioned the possibility 
          of a Sin (full) deathmatch here tomorrow...have to look for that.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh, and regarding deathmatch...there's 
          14 DM specific levels (hey Monolith! You hear that? This is what Shogo 
          should have had).</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hang on...i'm being asked 
          to write something down (yeesh...this is what I get for sitting in the 
          front row): </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Rub a dub dub"<br>
          - Levelord, in one of his ramblings on Elexis.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Anyway, regarding the press, 
          they've decided to keep the press low on Fakk 2 for a while. They think 
          they got the hype ball rolling a bit early with Sin. Expect little news 
          for a while on this (and no, no word on the engine it'll be using yet...I 
          asked). </font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Patch: the patch <i>may</i> 
          include CTF and some other DM variants...no word on exactly what.</font></p>
        <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh, and for $2,200 Don "onethumb" 
          MacAskill will make you a copy of Sin on 600 floppies. If someone doesn't 
          take him up on this, it will be a real shame. Hey, that sounds like 
          a great contest prize for loonygames...hm...something to think about 
          (hey, The Frag 2 is giving away Carmack's piston!).</font></p>
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