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The
"What'd You Say About My Mother??" Dept.:
MailBag for Issue #2
Comments by Stephanie "Bobbi" Bergman
Every week our associate editor takes on the big ol' pile of mail for your reading enjoyment...got something to say? Send it in. You just might win a swanky loonygames t-shirt. Letters are presented exactly as they are recieved.
They like us! They really really like us!
Dear Loonyboi,
I give up...call me loonyboi #2. :(
You ever have one of those mornings where you wake up, get ready for the day, and realize you might as well go back to bed because nothing seems interesting enough to actually stay up for? Lately the internet has taken this dull, drab feel to it and I've found myself just wishing I hadn't even opened my web browser in the first place. Sure there's always new news and reviews, but after awhile it just all seems to blend in together as one dyslexic blur.
Know the feeling well.
Then I read on Blue's about your page, and thought, "a no-news game page with columns written by people I've either met and enjoyed talking with, or other(s) whom I didn't agree with but respected their opinions." So I clicked the link and so far have enjoyed just about everything my eyes have come across. My only complaint Loony is WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU DO THIS SOONER?!? The net needs a breath of fresh air, and you have (no pun intended) blown the compitition away. Congrats!!!
Sincerely,
Chris King
a.k.a. Red Barchetta
Why thank you! This idea has been floating around loony's head for a while, but of course, a few too many beers and the loon's head turns into goop. So, it took a while for him to get it together. No, seriously, there was a lot involved in creating a site with everything he wanted on it (read last week's Mouth of Madness for the whole gory details), so it took a bit, but...we're here.
On gunshots to the head and Romero...er...Jeff??
Oooooh, my panties are in such a knot about that article on simulation sickness that I can't find the necessary words to express myself. While reading it, I found so many things to complain about to my co-workers that I am simply boggled at the idea of trying to find a starting place. I would appreciate it if you simply took the author out and shot him in the back of the head and then posted a picture so that I will be able to calm down.
Otherwise, your 'zine is pretty good.
Ty!
What part of "please use some reason when you have something to complain about" didn't you understand?? Why don't you tell us exactly what about the article got your panties in a snit instead of asking us to SHOOT Jeff. Because, well, NO! I have known Jeff (ready, I'm gonna make him turn bright red) since he was a cutie little boy, (not that he's not a cutie anymore, but he's hardly a little boy) and there's something quite fun about seeing someone grow up. And I fully intend to keep watching and embarassing the hell out of him. After all, that's what big sisters are for...embarassing not only the little brother, but the little brother's friends. :)
Guns belong in the games, not in our hands.
Just what is this "Quake Community" anyway?
Subject: Community
I've been an avid reader of Blue's News since way back when it was Blue's Quake Rag (I can almost remember the original URL, too). I've been a fan of id FPSs since Wolfenstein. I've been reading id .plan files off and on since long before QTEST. I remember the origins of clans, long before id tried to take control of the list (I remember the original dozen). I remember the old Stomped graphics.
And yet I don't feel like a member of any "community." There was a time, when Quake was fresh, that I felt marginally part of something greater. A time when I could recognize one handle across several servers, and know that it was the same person; friend or foe. There was a time when I read the various fan sites to see what was new, and got excited about it.
But thos