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              <p align="left"><b><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sometimes 
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject: 
                      </b>Your back</font></p>
                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thank 
                      God........your back, Wish I could take that long of a vacation! 
                      But you've earned it. When the hell is Stead, god of low 
                      ploy modeling, coming back with some new rants and tutorials? 
                      I know He is busy with Q3 but come on...give me something 
                      new! Excellent job Loony boys, no more vaca's alright!<br>
                      <br>
                      Sincerely, StinkyGreedBud</font></p>
                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Paul 
                      Steed and his column will return as soon as <b>Quake III: 
                      Arena</b> ships. Hopefully that will be sooner, rather than 
                      later. And hey..we&#146;re not all loony BOY&#146;s, ya 
                      know. </i></font></p>
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                    <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial">From:</font></b><font face="Arial"> 
                      MKulikov<br>
                      <b>Subject:</b> deerhunter2 </font></p>
                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Read 
                      your comments on deerhunter. I would agree with your comment 
                      on how the game tends to run slowly on even the biggest 
                      P.C. out there. The trick to the game is that you really 
                      have to think like a deer hunter. For the first few days, 
                      I too seemed to wonder about for hours without seeing anything.Then 
                      you start learning the &quot;accessories&quot; (tools of 
                      the hunt) and start baggin the bucks. I do have a question 
                      for you. We are searching for a game that is somewhat of 
                      a kickoff of the deerhunter. In this game, the deer shoot 
                      back. Have you heard of this game and it's title. If so, 
                      please drop me a quick line. Thanks.</font></p>
                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>I 
                      think the game you&#146;re talking about is called &#147;Natural 
                      Fawn Killers&#148; and the demo came out a couple of months 
                      ago. All joking aside, it actually is kind of fun, if you&#146;re 
                      not easily offended and you like tasteless humor. In this, 
                      you play the deer, and shoot the hunters. Check it out at 
                      <a href="http://www.fiendishgames.com/new/nfk_home.htm">http://www.fiendishgames.com/new/nfk_home.htm</a> 
                      . <b>Deer Hunter</b> itself is rather boring. At least this 
                      one has a fun twist to it.</i></font></p>
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              <p align="left"><b><i><font face="Arial">Online gaming (two letters 
                from the same guy!)</font></i></b></p>
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                    <p align="left"><b><font face="Arial">From:</font></b><font face="Arial"> 
                      Red Barchetta<br>
                      </font><b><font face="Arial">Subject: </font></b><font face="Arial">About 
                      your pro gaming article </font></p>
                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dear 
                      Bobbi, </font></font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One big thing 
                      I noticed you might not be aware of is The CLQ, (Champions 
                      League for Quake).</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.theclq.com">http://www.theclq.com</a></font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">No more logging 
                      into a server and not worrying about being ranked. If the 
                      server you're playing on is sending a heartbeat, then chances 
                      are you are being logged, recorded, and sent to CLQ HQ to 
                      be added their simply gigantic database. Just take a look 
                      around and you will see how the days of anon gaming are 
                      over 8( Here are some links to your records. Remember these 
                      are for anyone using the same name you might use so the 
                      records might be flawed.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bobbi <br>
                      </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.theclq.com/asp/find.asp?pid=137707">http://www.theclq.com/asp/find.asp?pid=137707</a></font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">PMS-Bobbi<br>
                      <a href="http://www.theclq.com/asp/find.asp?name=PMS-Bobbi">http://www.theclq.com/asp/find.asp?name=PMS-Bobbi</a></font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Clan PMS team 
                      stats<br>
                      <a href="http://www.theclq.com/asp/clan.asp?id=1625">http://www.theclq.com/asp/clan.asp?id=1625</a></font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Enjoy! 8)<br>
                      </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Red 
                      Barchetta </font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">a.k.a. Redd B.{C-M}</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>I know the 
                      CLQ well, and left it out of the article for a pretty good 
                      reason...I believe using the CLQ as an accurate depiction 
                      of ranking players is a huge mistake. Just take my record 
                      as an example (which you so kindly provided links for). 
                      Now, as &#147;Bobbi&#148; it lists me playing TFC and <b>Quake 
                      III</b>, which I do, but also Lithium, Jailbreak, and Action 
                      <b>Quake II</b>, which I have never played. So there&#146;s 
                      another Bobbi out there, so that&#146;s not accurate. Then 
                      look at PMS-Bobbi. According to that, the last time I played<b> 
                      Quake III</b> was in July. I play <b>Quake III</b>, if not 
                      nightly, then pretty damn near it. The reason I&#146;m not 
                      showing up on the CLQ&#146;s rankings is because I probably 
                      don&#146;t play on servers they track. </i></font></p>
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                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In other words...the 
                      only people with really good rankings in the CLQ are those 
                      who make sure they always play on CLQ servers. While the 
                      CLQ is a great idea, in practice, it just doesn&#146;t work, 
                      there are just too many servers out there for it to track 
                      them all.</font></i></p>
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