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The Man Behind the Royal 'We' Says 'So Long'

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knockknock.biz luggage tags. Photo courtesy of justinph . I guess it's finally time for me to level up. It was the summer of '99 when I convinced my then editor to send me on a tour of the U.S. videogame industry. When I finally returned three weeks later,...

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Posted Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:05 AM

Level Up's Top Four Gaming Tidbits for December 4th, 2008

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  1. EGO...trip: Covered Massive's upfronts via Twitter, rewarded with good mentions
  2. BOO...Nintendo caught Animal Crossing the line with slur in save files sent to media
  3. GOO...d idea: a design-oriented video tour of the WiiWare/PC game World of Goo
  4. RND...The film critic is dead--or is she? Roger Ebert and Bill Wyman weigh in
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Posted By: Evilbaby (December 4, 2008 at 11:17 AM)

How potent is it that the movie critic's are lamenting the loss of intelligent discourse, and the VG criticts are divided on whether intelligent discourse is even a desirable thing to have.  Seems like symptoms of the same condition.

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Posted By: ColbyCheese (December 4, 2008 at 10:01 AM)

RE #2

It's funny, because if you look at the screenshot, the "naughty word" is spelled, not with an "N", but with, to quote Wikipedia, "an N with a diacritical tilde", or an "eñe" (en-yay). That actually would give it sort of a "Friday" era Chris Tucker type of pronunciation. Too funny!

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Posted By: ColbyCheese (December 4, 2008 at 9:53 AM)

"It is not about the disappearance of film critics. We are the canaries. It is about the death of an intelligent and curious, readershi-"

Shhhhhhhhh! I'm trying to watch "Who Really Needs Their Dignity Anyway!?". They're about to start the "Public Humiliation" segment. That's my favorite part...

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