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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><img src="../../images/icons/totb_final.jpg" width="193" height="241" align="left"><loonystart>Vol. 
                2, Issue 11<br>
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                <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="3">Thinking 

                  Outside the Box:</font></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="6"> 
                  Reviewing the Reviewers</font></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">by 
                  <a href="mailto:psteed@idsoftware.com">Paul Steed</a></font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="../../images/letters_new/g.jpg" width="25" height="39" align="left">reetings. 
                I bet you&#146;re hitting that refresh key right now because there&#146;s 
                no way this edition of Thinking Outside The Box is a new one. 
                Well for that I have to apologize. You see the absence of updates 
                had been mainly to do with the fact I&#146;ve been pretty busy 
                working on <b>Quake III Arena</b>. Now that it&#146;s been wrapped 
                up I&#146;m on to our next project. For me it&#146;s pretty light 
                work so I&#146;m freed up to start doing regular TOTB columns 
                again. Thus workload is one reason I haven&#146;t updated. The 
                other is just plain disgust.</font></p>
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                    <p align="center"> <i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#000253"><ignoreme>Steed. 
                      The man, the myth, the photoshop filter. (60k)</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yep. I 
                said disgust. I&#146;ve been at id now for almost three and a 
                half years. During that time I&#146;ve ridden the roller coaster 
                as I&#146;ve been acclimated to this phenomena called the Internet 
                and virtual community of the <b>Quake</b>-related fan base. At 
                first I dove into the fray like I always do with a smile, a roar, 
                pecs flexed arms stretched wide as I flung myself into battle. 
                I hacked and slashed my way through the dreaded <a href="../../1.1/totb" target="_self">.Plan 
                Wars</a>, bludgeoned my way past the Crackwhore Skirmish and survived 
                the wrath of the rabid horde of Angry Mongol Mod Makers. But alas 
                my extroverted, straightforward, confrontational attitude proved 
                too much for the mainly conservative leadership on the net and 
                my voice at id was squelched. No more Plans for You, Keyser Soze!</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not a 
                problem. Enter loonygames. Let&#146;s do some thinking outside 
                the box for awhile shall we? Editorials and tutorials seemed to 
                work better for those panty-bunchers and people seemed to breath 
                easier knowing that Steed was on a leash (wait...has he cussed 
                yet?). Alas, work caught up with me and I had to suspend and eventually 
                stop updating TOTB. Silence allowed me to remain free of distractions. 
                Then I made the mistake of reading a few message boards. Uh...yeah. 
                We all know how I feel about that. Now I avoid the forums unless 
                I&#146;m led there by the nose to enlighten the unenlightened. 
                Fine, no problem. Disgust didn&#146;t form even then. I now realize 
                the people living on the message boards are simply harmless entertainers 
                who hopefully aren&#146;t reading up on how to make mail bombs 
                or hoarding weapons in their parent&#146;s basement.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nope. 
                Disgust settled in when I started reading reviews of <b>Q3A</b>. 
                Disgust settled in when in a thunderous smack in the face moment 
                of revelation I realized just how spoiled certain people have 
                become in the community. Now don&#146;t even think I&#146;m going 
                to name names or name sites. It&#146;s not that I don&#146;t have 
                the testicular fortitude, I just don&#146;t have the time to do 
                the research and mention everyone whose opinion I value less than 
                the telemarketer who called me this morning. Maybe one day I will 
                make that list and offend everyone equally. It&#146;s just not 
                worth it, though.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Suffice 
                to say I&#146;m happy so many people decided that another game 
                that came out the same time as <b>Q3A</b> kicked major boo-tay 
                in the gameplay department (read: Congratulations <b>UT</b>). 
                That game&#146;s unsurprising popularity isn&#146;t what filled 
                me with revulsion. It&#146;s the point that I realized NO ONE 
                could be pleased. NO ONE. Think about it. I used to make art with 
                DPaint on a 386.25 and watched the transition from games being 
                on eight floppy disks go to one CD. Those were the days that some 
                people predicted we&#146;d not get past 55 MHz for at least another 
                year...a 486.55 that is. Back then people were easy to please. 
                No hardware acceleration. Sprites were still representing people, 
                aircraft and starcraft. Now today there exists a huge range of 
                sophistication from hardware to software preferences and opinions. 
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