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i have written your first discussion - that there's nothing to discuss! B

Homepage updated, so there is stuff to discuss now, B. -- Nickj 19:19, 7 February 2006 (PST)

Thanks

Thanks Nick for re-awakening my enthusiasm for skiing again -great commentary made it real! Cheers, janine kirkwood

Hi Janine, Glad that you enjoyed the skiing write-up, and I'm sure if you go to Japan that you'll love it. -- All the best, Nickj 10:21, 20 July 2006 (EST)

Your TA:Spring Review!!!

You claim to call it a review, but I think the more accurate word would be "Critique"

You did not actually discuss any of the depth and complexity of the tactics and strategy involved in the game. You did not discuss how enjoyable (Or not!) the experience can be. You did not outline at all what a multiplayer game of spring is actually like to play. All you did was state some facts concerning the engine and its capabilities, a few positive aspects of the game's design, and then you went on to criticize its many faults.

Thus you cannot truly call your writeup a "Review" as you failed to accurately depict the TA:Spring experience textually, and you failed to state what is truly good about the gameplay... Though you had no problem pointing out its many issues. If I were not already an experienced veteran of Spring then I would come away from reading your review of Spring thinking that it is a buggy mess and I would not bother playing it.

The fact is, I am an experienced Spring player and while it has its problems, the truly immense fun factor inherent in this game far far outweighs the problems which plague it... problems that can easily be overcome with a bit of time and practice. Your review does not seem to reflect this at all.

If you're going to point out exactly what problems exist in a game in a verbose and detailed manner, and counterweight that assessment with the vague and unspecified assurance that "It's fun," what do you feel readers are more likely to think?

This is not intended to be a flame, or to be insulting. Do not take offense. This is a critique of your review.

If you did not feel you knew enough about the game to comment on any of its other merits then perhaps you should have played it longer and gotten to know it a tad bit better. As it is you devoted far too much of your "Review" to pinpointing the game's issues and far too little of it to vaguely mention some of the game's strong points. This gives readers a highly jilted idea of what playing Spring is really like.

-aequabilitas

JAMWiki

Thanks a ton for all of the bug reports on JAMWiki. I've got about half of them fixed now and will get to the others either later tonight or tomorrow. I've add your Fuzz Tester to the JAMWiki Roadmap as something that I very much want to start using before too long. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help out the Mediawiki project, as you guys have provided a great platform for me to model JAMWiki after, and I'm getting pretty excited about the future possibilities. -- Wrh2 15:57, 4 August 2006 (EST)