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              <p align="left"><b><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Some 
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject: 
                      </b>UT Action Game of the Year.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now I'm even 
                      more disappointed with your Looneytunegames site. I have 
                      never really liked it. Sorry.</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As far as UT 
                      as Action Game of the Year, there is just so many bad things 
                      I want to critizice about your site, that I'll just let 
                      you figure out what I am thinking about it.</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I don't know 
                      how people like Paul Steed even dares to have a column in 
                      your site.</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Mortus</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, I'm a stupid 
                      diehard Quaker, the kind of people that has made your host, 
                      Blue's News, what it is today.</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Marcus Yamashita</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i> I&#146;m 
                      a diehard Quaker too, but I can understand why certain people 
                      here chose UT over Q3. Everyone has their own opinions, 
                      our awards are ours. We just tell you what we&#146;re thinking 
                      instead of making you figure it out. </i></font></p>
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject:</b> 
                      Game of the Year Awards...</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Greetings loony 
                      gamers,</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">How does Final 
                      Fantasy 8 win 'console game of the year', when it was a 
                      PlayStation game? Clearly you felt Silent Hill was the better 
                      Playstation game, as evidenced by your 'Playstation game 
                      of the year' award. Does this make sense?</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Over at www.Gamespot.com, 
                      they gave Everquest 'game of the year' but Planescape: Torment 
                      was judged a superior RPG, taking home 'RPG of the year'. 
                      Everquest was a nominee for this award. Something funny 
                      is going on here.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'm sure countless 
                      other publications have made similar conflicting judgements. 
                      In future perhaps it would make more sense to make the 'best 
                      of &lt;genre&gt;' winners the nominees list for 'game of 
                      the year'.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Or am I just 
                      nuts? :)<br>
                      -KF-</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>You're right, 
                      actually, it's something I think nearly every publication 
                      does. Games that don't get 'game of the year' win the best 
                      in their category, instead of one game sweeping the list. 
                      I guess it makes for more awards to give away, but it is 
                      kinda strange, huh.</i></font></p>
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