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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. 

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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"> 
                  3DS Tutorial #1: CyberGuy</font></i></font></b></p>
                <p align="right"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">by 
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                When I wrote <a href="../../2.11/totb/index.html">the last edition of 
                TOTB</a> about reviewing the reviewers I expected everyone to 
                either ask me to stop whining or simply ignore my rant as some 
                sort of chest-beating therapy.  Wow.  Shockingly I’ve received 
                about 200+ e-mails to date voicing their agreement with my assessment 
                that reviewers are somewhat spoiled/jaded/myopic/not-very-damn-objective.  
                Not surprisingly I did receive about a dozen mild to vehement 
                flames…10 of which were from reviewers themselves.  Also (not 
                surprisingly) most of these unhappy people missed the entire point 
                of the rant.  </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Before 
                you roll your eyes thinking I’m going to start into that dead…equine 
                again don’t worry - just wanted to say (sniff) thanks for the 
                support.  I did get some very well-thought, passionate and LONG 
                e-mails, though.  The nerve I struck still causes me to pause 
                and think on the whole Internet thing.  It especially gave me 
                insight to an observation I’ve had since Q2 that has always bothered 
                me.  </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I used 
                to complain to Blue pretty regularly (e-mail, phone, conventions, 
                etc) that he needed to take more of a stand on issues instead 
                of doing the fence-walking thing.  I felt he was too damn impartial 
                yet when <i>compelled</i> to be partial he veiled it in thinly 
                disguised sarcasm or off-hand comments.  “BE MORE OPEN!”  I decried 
                from my pulpit.  But since last week and after 3.5 years of exposure 
                to the ‘net I have finally come to the realization that people 
                like Blue came to long ago: YOU CAN’T HAVE AN OPINION.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">That’s 
                right.  These high-profile web pimps like Blue, Scary and Redwood 
                CAN’T have an opinion.  No one on the Internet in fact can have 
                an opinion.  How dare they?  If they even remotely say something 
                you don’t want to hear, hoooo-boy.  By God, YOU are going to let 
                them know about it!  Sure they can dick around and kid around 
                and jovially cater to you from time to time.  That’s okay…but 
                let’s face it.  Making a stand on an issue alienates them from 

                you.  I’m definitely not saying they don’t HAVE and opinion.  
                I happen to know they damn well do.  I’m just saying they can’t 
                let YOU know they have one.  They have to be this open-minded, 
                non-committal <i>entity</i> that referees public issues instead 
                of participating in them.  Otherwise you crucify them.  Yeah, 
                you.  That 1 or 2 percent that hates his/her life and derives 
                undiluted glee from pressing the buttons of someone/anyone to 
                watch them react and acknowledge your existence.  It puts a smile 
                on your face and warms your cold heart ever so slightly…ever so 
                briefly.</font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Taking 
                the referee analogy further…I’m the middle linebacker who occasionally 
                will take out a ref going after the guy with the ball.  Hell, 
                I’ll take out anyone in pursuit of the goal…camera man, side line 
                spectator, cheerleaders…doesn’t matter.  In fact it’s an accepted 
                part of the game.  Sometimes the ref will get even…sometimes not.  
                But I’m ON the field making the plays, taking the hits and digging 
                all the perks of playing ball.  Of course as much as I wish I 
                were I’m not indestructible.  Even though I wear the pads of ‘opinionated-artist-at-a-well-known-game-company’ 
                I’ll get banged up just like any other player.  But I can honestly 
                say all this experience and play time is great!  I feel it’s helped 
                me out of my introverted shell and the internet has honestly turned 
                me into a better person.  No one calls me ‘shy guy’ anymore.  
                And with the help of Charles Atlas no one kicks sand in my face, 
                either!  <i>You</i> have helped <i>me.  </i>So let me help you 
                by following the advice of one of your more demanding brethren: 
                </font></p>
              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“That 
                was nice…how about some helpful stuff now ya whiny bitch.”</font></p>
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