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On the Higher Functions of the Wiimote
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Jakub: Wee Man is a short, angry, funny guy who gets hurt a lot in Jackass. Wii Man should be the title of your article – it’s short, angry, funny. Unfortunately, it’d be random enough in a blog or message board. It has no place as a feature on FiringSquad. Kudos on the humor though.

JCal: Way too short and, well, it didn't make any sense. This one is perhaps the oddest article yet to be entered in this competition. Pass.



The Law of Proportional Decline in Game Complexity
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Jakub: I’ll grant you that Lyle was out of line for scoring you a 1 for the typo in the subject, but this is the dryest article I’ve ever had the mispleasure of reading. Not to mention just plain wrong. The American education system makes this Canadian cry. A “law” is something that’s true in all cases, something that can be proved through logic as always true. Consequently, to agree with you, you’d have to demonstrate the superiority of Pong over Wing Commander, and Wing Commander (God bless that game) over Half-Life 2. Even if we don’t take “law” literally, I’d have to believe that Mario 64 is somehow more complex than the latest Zelda. Oh, and never number paragraphs. This isn’t the Treaty of Versailles.



Bigfoot Killer NIC review
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Jakub: OMG! Charts! Brandon’s gonna love you already. Question is, where did they come from? Did you make them yourself? Your tone is a bit casual, especially for a hardware review. Is (bleh, that just disgusts me so much. The things I do for you guys...) really necessary? You also make a factual error about CPU vs GPU limitations. The fact is that most users choose whether their systems are GPU or CPU limited by choosing what resolution and with what graphics options they play with. I’d like to see more work from you, just try to have a professional tone and explain where your benchmarks came from. If you made them yourself, provide a clear, point by point description of your system. This article, however, wouldn’t pass.

JCal: I would have liked to have seen a longer review but overall the author goes over the pros and cons of the Killer NIC card well. It's really hard to evaluate a product like this accurately but he manages to do so with a minimal of over-the-head technical jargon.



Make me a gamer again!
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Jakub: Interesting choice, editing your previous entry. I love the effort you went to in collecting the media, especially the ColecoVision commercial. You present a good point and are generally clear with it. Your casual tone makes sense given the context of the entire article. If I could recommend three things however:

It’s “Xbox”, not “X-Box”.

Try italics rather than CAPITAL letters. Every now and then isn’t bad, but you overuse it.

For the love of God, lose the parentheses.

For next round, try to tackle something of substance. You’ve proven you can do editorials, try to show you can do a review as well.

JCal: This article is a reworking of a previous entry but it has enough new items in it to make it an all new feature. I liked the author's way of presenting his arguments of the need to bring in more people to games and his use of illustrations was well handled.