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Thomas Kewell
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Take That DA!!

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Hah!, just when you thought I was dead I slap you with nine uploads!! That'll teac you to e-mail me!!
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Still Here

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Just thought i would update my journal as proof that i still use my account.

I finally sat down with a screw driver and dismantelled the PC I used to have when I was in college!  If any of you people that read this need some slightly outdated parts (or if you want to join with me and create some sort of 2001 era Frankencomputer out of bits and bobs to sell on eBay) just leave me a comment here and we'll talk!

Anyway for all of you who made it home already well done.  I'll try to shoot some videos of the degree show and megaupload them, so you can all enjoy the experience.  Have fun.

Byenarie
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Anticipation...

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Very Tragic events today.  Aside from losing the cricket match against South Africa, it was shocking to read about the recent massacre on students of Virginia Tech college.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news…
Appart from it being entirely shocking that such a crime can be commited with no apparent motive I can't help but feel a certain amount of aprehention and wait with an Ironic grimmace to see which is the first of the crusaders to claim that the killer, Cho Seung Hui, may have at one point played a grand theft auto game, and has at one point in his life consumed a drug of some description.  In fact i wouldn't be surprised if Cho Seung Hui was given his gun for free with his copy of San Andreas.
Anyway, i am containing my rant for now in case I am pleasantly surprised and the finger of blame is not shown to the video games industry some time very soon.

See you soon Team,
Might even try to draw something for you.

Tom
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Moral Combat

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Oh good God not again!

Spencer Haplins trailer for his new documentary on the effects of violence in video games looks to be a fully one sided video game bashing romp.  Featuring all your favourite anti video game celebrities.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIu3JM…

Although the contents of the trailer alarms me with its sheer single mindedness, the truly abhorrent thing is what some of these game bashers are saying and how it echoes through history.

Almost as chilling as when the american forces headed for Iraq threatened to "Win the hearts and minds of the people", echoing back to the humanitarian nightmare that was the viet nahm war, is Lieberman's quote: "If you don't self-regulate, we'll regulate for you" on censorship of content within videogames.

I will admit to being part of the zombie like demographic of people who play (and even enjoy) violent video games.  However, my parents had always been very clear to me while raising me that hurting people and killing people was thoroughly wrong.  I have never felt the desire to harm another human being and (apart from being a clumsy bastard) I never have.  I enjoy shooting and fighting games (and other violent genres) for the competition and sport of playing against friends in what can be considered the ultimate contest of life and death, without the horrible consequence of actually harming a person.

Another spurious claim is that the terrorists of september 11th used a flight simulator to learn to pilot the planes they used to commit their atrocities.  I'm not saying they didn't use a flight simulator, but they certainly trained using some of the many planes that the taliban own.  Aside from that flight simulators have also been used by pilots and trainee pilots in order to learn to fly without risking lives.  I would also bet that many a disaster has been averted due to a pilot having already been through the simulated experience and having learned the correct procedures to correct the problem.

So Right ho Senator Lieberman and senator Haplins,  see you at hegel platz.  You bring your stooges Jack Thompson and the angry stupid parent society, and i'll bring all my violent games and will live it up Nazi style!  I'll bring all my books that have violent conduct too...  oh and newspapers contain violence, we had better take the Koreans lead on this and censor the news too.

anyway happy new year everyone. See you on the 8th
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