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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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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
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                      December 24, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Subject: 
                      1999 Awards (comment)</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I liked the way 
                      your &quot;Top 1999 loonygames Awards&quot; dogged the bullet 
                      of which FPS is the best (Q3 or URT). Both games kick ass, 
                      so why bring either down.</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dana Frost</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">P.S. Pun not 
                      intended or avoided...</font></p>
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                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Everyone has 
                      a favorite, as in all things. We all voted here, so what 
                      you&#146;re seeing is the majority favorite at loonygames, 
                      nothing more, nothing less.</font></i></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject:</b> 
                      gk3</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Gabriel Knight 
                      3 is the best adventuregame of 1999</font></p>
                    <p></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">um. Ok...</font></p>
                    <p align="left">&nbsp;</p>
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              <h4 align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Some 
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Day 
                      and night I am plagued by a calamity of unfathomable proportions 
                      at </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">loonygames. 
                      It isn't a lack of article quality (I should hope not, I 
                      love this stuff). It isn't the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">fact 
                      that User Friendly never seems to get updated properly. 
                      It's something far, far worse.</font></p>
                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&quot;Villain&quot; 
                      is misspelled.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It's not so much 
                      that, as the fact that the typo has managed to seemingly 
                      go unnoticed </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">since 
                      loonygames volume 2 first came around. Maybe it's that it's 
                      teeny print, and so isn't </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">very 
                      important; but every time I'm at the bottom of a page with 
                      the &quot;you cartoonish villian,</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> 
                      you&quot; line, I cringe.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You don't HAVE 
                      to fix it, of course. But you could always nominate me for 
                      the </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Most 
                      Spelling-Obsessed Reader Award.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jonathan</font></p>
                    <p></p>
                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jonathan, 
                      if seeing a mispelled word really hurts you so terribly...please...get 
                      out more.</font></i></p>
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              <h4 align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A letter 
                from Brazil.</font></h4>
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                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject:</b> 
                      Help!<br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">hi 
                      there, how are you doing? sory to bother but i think in 
                      this case we really need your help...our governament is 
                      getting crazy, a new revelation we were able to find in 
                      the procedure of the 6 banned games from last week...last 
                      20th the follow was on a major pc news website here in brazil...(i´ll 
                      translate, so plz be patience with my english;)<br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Even 
                      with the possibility of creating an age tag/limit for violent 
                      games the objective of the Procuradoria da República (our 
                      governamet) is to keep the banishment (prohibited) of all 
                      excessive violent games and to includ new titles as the 
                      technical analises can be done. the first of the list is 
                      QUAKE.<br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"the 
                      process of avaliation of a game is a complicated task. it 
                      requires the contact with numerous professionals in the 
                      areas of psicology, medicine and education. We can´t do 
                      other analises imidiately, but do so is part of our plans. 
                      A lot of pepople mentioned the lack of Quake on the last 
                      week banishment. As for now its the only game title we coagitated 
                      a research to get it prohibited", says Fernando de Almeida, 
                      procurador da República em Belo Horizonte (one of the mans 
                      behind all this). The process of investigation of the games 
                      started at 17th of last september when (i think its like 
                      an america congressman) vereador of PSB of Belo Horizonte 
                      Betinho Duarte end the deputada federal Maria Elvira get 
                      in an 130 violent games. As the list was too large, 6 of 
                      them were elected for an technical study (Doom, Postal, 
                      Mortal Kombat, Requiem, Blood e Duke Nukem). the choice 
                      was made based on an story of a magazine (non games magazine) 
                      that compared the level of violence of several games"<br>

                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After 
                      a complete study made by a team of medics, shrinks and pedagogs 
                      (damn my english sux, sory guys) the six games were pointed 
                      as being very violents e forwarded fot the Justice Departament, 
                      that assigned the document and oficializing the prohibition 
                      of those games in Brazil. "The prohibition will never have 
                      total effectiveness, since those games can be downloaded 
                      from the internet, but have a high political value in the 
                      way to alert parents about the bad influence for the kids 
                      education that these games make."<br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">well...we 
                      are very worried here, what we thought was just some guy 
                      wanting votes now became a fuckin nightmare, if this goes 
                      on and at least one game falls on the future prohibition, 
                      after that they will have precedents to do whatever they 
                      like about witch games or not will be allowed here...i just 
                      talked with the major games distributer here in Brazil and 
                      he says they cant do it, he already mobilized his lawyers 
                      to bring on the studies the were made on the carmaggedon 
                      game some years ago...that proved that games wont educated 
                      killers (the main issue of justice departament is that they 
                      still blame that theater assassination due to Duke nukem3D). 
                      i mada an agreement with the president of that games distributor...i´ll 
                      do a petition letting all gamers write down what they think 
                      about it and telling their experiences with violent games, 
                      so when he will deliver the carmageddon files, i´ll deliver 
                      the mails as well. i setted up an account on my site and 
                      asked to all brazillian gamers to join us and write even 
                      to be a simple e-mail telling whatever (just asked to be 
                      polite, not to get us misunderstooded again by some pricks). 
                      Since all your sites (sending this to some of you guys) 
                      have a (veeeery) bigger range of getting gamers to help 
                      (and i think that if here it´ll go forward others countrys 

                      govs will follow), i ask kindly and desperate for help if 
                      u can stick this link to our petition...we arent getting 
                      enough mails to impress them :((( we just want once and 
                      for all that they take us for normal people.<br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font color="blue" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u>protesto@hardinfo.com.br</u></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">thnks 
                      a lot, we hope you can always count on us as we count on 
                      you...gamer is a gamer whether in mars or jupiter.<br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This 
                      is with the knowledge of 3 of our main gamming sites here, 
                      if u gonna cote, plz do to all or never mind<br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">migNAz 
                      from <font color=blue><u>hardINFO</u></font><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">ZER.Ø 
                      Crash from <font 
color=blue><u>KingMob</u></font><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FooFighter 
                      from <font 
color=blue><u>Slipgate</u></font><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
                      </font></div>
                    <div align=left><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">anyway, 
                      i´ll keep u posted on news regarding this matter...and keep 
                      up, your sites are our favorites, excelent job :)))<br>
                      </font></div>
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