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Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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yay first post! i dink..

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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How old do you have to be to work here? *eyes are set ablaze with resolve*

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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Ditto^^
^_^ hehe

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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does anyone here have a real job? i kid. how does one get this gig anyway?

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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Nobody can down a triple cheeseburger like Vlad.
Nobody.

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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Wow, I feel old. Most of you have "Formitive games" that I was playing in university...I would have picked Bomb Jack, Pacman, FF1, and the list goes on... :P

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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You guys rule! Holla back when ya need more MANpower (get it, MAN power? Haha... ha).

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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I'm so surprised at the number of Mac users there are on Joystiq's staff. I thought I was all alone.

Do you guys play games on the mac? The only games I play are Civ 3 and SimCity 2000.

I'm gonna get an iBook soon so maybe I can play SimCity 4 and Civ 4. :D

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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Macs for teh win, just don't try to play WoW on a mac mini like I did.... *shudder*

You guys aren't looking for more staff are you? :) Seems you've got an overabundance of Y chromosomes, for a start :)

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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Grand Tourismo? Yey! I'm not the only one who can't spell Gran Turismo (had to search ze google to get it right).

Continue the good job!

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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Very cool. Thanks for letting us get to know you a little better.

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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"You guys aren't looking for more staff are you? :) Seems you've got an overabundance of Y chromosomes, for a start :)"

Y'know, Jez, I guess you've got a point there about our gender imbalance. I don't imagine it was intentional by any means, but I suppose that's just how the blogging candidates panned out.

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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Joystiq is a daily stop since I first surfed over here. I come for the content and quality. Fantastic stuff! Keep it up.

Slightly off topic, I am really looking forward to Joystiq reviews. I was delighted to
read that you are giving yourselves some flexibility in format and content.

I am pasting another example of what I consider to be a 10/10 review
(the review itself being perfect - not the game it reviews).

From 26 October 2005 Penny Arcade (I would link it but the link would be
obsolete in a day):

"Having bested Shadow of the Colossus at the culmination of a three a.m.
ultrasession, I'm confident that I know what there is to know about the title.
Let me tell you that by the end, I was only beating that game because it was the
closest I could come to physically beating the team that developed it. I was
manhandling them by proxy. This isn't to say that I did not experience several
profound moments while playing through it. The epic scale of some encounters is
moving on a primal level. The understated story, "told" largely through
inference, was not trite, irrelevant, or insulting! This is exceedingly rare.
What I am saying, however, is that those sublime moments are largely transient.
I am not of the opinion that their technology is up to the task they have set
before it. I respect that creating a platform game with arbitrary, often organic
surfaces - hairy mounds, spinal ridges, etcetera - represents completely
original technical challenges. However, I do not grant that because they have
attempted something difficult they're entitled to oral sex from me or any other
person for manifesting some portion of their vision.
The idea is potent. Whenever their maddening technology doesn't obscure it, the
power of that idea will seize the machinery of your conscious mind."

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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3Suns, I read that rant by Tycho after writing up my Shadow of the Colossus impressions post, and I have to agree on many parts, though I have yet to go through the entire game myself.

PA rant URL (the dates suffixes should work for current posts, too):
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php?date=2005-10-26

60 minutes with a Shadow of the Colossus demo:
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000010063933/

We'll go for more structured reviews than what Tycho had to offer, but we hope you still like them (or at least extract some use from 'em)!

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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Wow, seems like at least some of the gang is from PA. Sweet. I live just outside Philadelphia.

Posted: Dec 18th 2005 9:07PM (Unverified) said

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First off, Alan Rose, Bentley is for wussies. Wharton is for those competent and smart enough to get in. I understand your jealousy though. btw, Huck Farvard.

Jez, I thought it was all about equality. Sex, race, orientation, nationality, disability are supposed to be irrelevant. Or is that only if you have don't something to gain? PMS are such hypocrites, the idea of an exclusively female clan that goes around complaining about how men are "trying to keep you down" smacks of immaturity, arrogance, and hypocrisy. I'm all for equality, but its a two way street. Complaining about the sexualisation of females in games, then having the picture you have at the top of your website says more than I ever could.

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