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                      <p><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="2">The 
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                        Issue 2.4</font></i></font></b><br>
                      
                      <div align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-1">Comments 
                        by Stephanie &quot;<a href="mailto:bobbi@loonygames.com">Bobbi</a>&quot; 

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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
                      2, Issue 4 <br>
                      December 3, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <h5 align="right">&nbsp;</h5><loonystart>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>It&#146;s 
                those rabid Sega-haters again!</b></font></p>
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> 
                      Keith &quot;Draft&quot; Cyphers</font><b><br>
                      </b><font face="Arial"><b>Subject:</b> PS2 Games all Suck???!!! 
                      </font></p>
                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">???!!! 
                      </font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      What? Are you absolutely insane? Look, you may not like 
                      Tekken much, but the other 99.9 percent of the universe 
                      views it as the single greatest 3D fighter ever created 
                      (all around, it's probably SFA 3.) So, even though you may 
                      not consider TTT a killer app, most do, and I guarantee 
                      it will sell a hell of a lot of Playstation 2's come launch 
                      day.</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Your Good Friend, 
                      </font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Keith &quot;Draft&quot; 
                      Cyphers</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">BTW- I'm not 
                      some crazy anti-Sega person either. I plan on buying a DC 
                      as soon as finances aren't so tight. It's just, well, damn, 
                      have you seen the pictures of TTT? Have you played it in 
                      the arcades? It's bliss I tell you, pure 3D bliss.</font></p>
                    <p></p>
                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I didn&#146;t 
                      know there were crazy anti-Sega people. I mean...its SEGA. 
                      Land of Sonic. Speaking of, not being a fighting game kinda 
                      girl, pickings on the Dreamcast have been awful slim so 
                      far. </font></i></p>
                    <p></p>
                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And I only 
                      have one word to say about the Playstation 2. </font></i></p>
                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Abe.</font></i></p>
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              <p align="left"><b><i><font face="Arial">Rad's Turn!</font></i></b></p>
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial"> <b>Subject:</b> See, now 
                      that's just asking for it. </font></p>
                    <p align="left"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sweet 
                      merciful christ. I sincerely hope that Sen. Lieberman and 
                      his merry band don't catch wind of this one. </font></p>
                    <p></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Consider that 
                      the entire gaming press is arguing that it's a parent's 
                      responsibility to restrict their kids' access to violent 
                      material, as opposed to governments banning &quot;violent&quot; 
                      media outright. It's a good argument, and it's the one I 
                      agree with. But now you get this guy bragging (in one of 
                      the most widely read online gaming magazines, no less) about 
                      how he has his 3-year-old son playing Quake II. Doesn't 
                      this completely undermine the gaming industry's position? 
                      </font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">3 years old? 
                      Hell, developmental psychologists are still divided on whether 
                      kids should be watching TV at that age. But teaching them 
                      to play PC games designed for people aged 18 and up? Radpipe's 
                      just asking for it. </font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Grey</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>I don't advocate 
                      a blanket restriction on games with violent material. I 
                      do think parents need to watch their kids closely to see 
                      how they react to them, and how they behave after having 
                      played them. Show me a homicidal kid who blames computer 
                      games for who he is, and I'll show you a kid who had problems 
                      long before he started playing the games. But I guess it's 
                      far easier to use blanket restrictions. But whatever the 
                      case, ignorant parents just don't care. Their kids will 
                      play whatever they feel like. </i></font></p>
                    <p></p>
                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah I've 
                      thought a lot about this issue, but I didn't want to get 
                      into it in my column. I just wanted to talk about the joys 
                      of playing with your kids, and this &quot;next generation 
                      gamer&quot; thingy.</font></i></p>
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                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And, for the 
                      record, my Zachary is a loving, caring, little boy. He has 
                      no trouble at all separating the gaming world from his own 
                      :)</font></i></p>
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                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Take care</font></i></p>
                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">--Rad</font></i></p>
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              <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><i>- 
                Stephanie &quot;Bobbi&quot; Bergman needs to come up with better 
                taglines.</i></font></p>
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