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By Clive Thompson
From: Soren
Great story. I appreciate how much you dissect the methods of the game. I, too, enjoyed this game for many of the same reasons and I think it is very good for the readers to get some insight into why this game is nothing revolutionary but ever so enthralling. Keep up the good work, Clive. And I may see you on Xbox Live...
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By Clive Thompson
From: Biddle
I'm gonna have to agree with you that the public doesn't want another first-person shooter. Considering Gears of War actually uses a third-person view, I believe it confirms the need to move beyond a first-person format. So we don't need another FPShooter. We need more third-person games that allow the game makers to innovate the gameplay with additional views, etc.
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By Wired Test Lab
From: Hugo Fiennes
Just a correction to this one - I spotted this in the print issue of Test and was thoroughly indignant for the entire flight to China :)
Siren was not formed by ex-Rio engineers; it was formed by two ex-Rio marketing people. The many ex-Rio engineers – now spread across Apple, Sigmatel and Numark – wouldn't have let anything that unpolished out the door. Siren did lift the look and feel of the Rio Carbon UI pretty much wholesale, but that's where the similarity ends.
The only player on the market with true Rio roots is the Trekstor Vibez, which bears a startling operational resemblance to the Rio Karma because its Sigmatel-licensed code is derived from the Rio Karma codebase. It's got great stuff like true crossfading, gapless, parametric EQ, that the Karma first bought to the market back in 2003.
The Karma code originated in the empeg-car in 1998, the first in-car MP3 player, but that's another story.
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By Jason Silverman
From: Dana
I am sorry that you found Superman Returns so disappointing. I cannot fathom why, as it is a perfect homage to what Richard Donner brought us in the original Superman. Brandon Routh's performance echoes that of the late Christopher Reeve, and the never disappointing Kevin Spacey is a better Lex Luthor than Gene Hackman.
My only guess is that you don't believe in heroes, mythic or otherwise, and are jaded by it. When Superman tells Lois that he hears the world crying for a savior, he is telling a universal truth. Everyone wants a savior, a religious one, a real one, or even a mythical one in a blue-and-red suit. Everyone, it seems, except you. I pity you.
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Re: The Church of the Non-Believers
By Gary Wolf
From: Laura Gusdorf
I just wanted to say that my entire family loved your article "The New Atheism." It wasn't just the subject that drew our attention to your feature, it was the clearly superb writing. Our entire family will look forward to reading more of your articles.
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