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My First_Year Seminar is "Reading the New York Times" and as one of our assignments we were to send a letter to the editor of the times on an article in the paper. I sent mine on Wednesday, and It'll be published on Monday!!!
Look for it in the Letters to the Editor section on Monday the 22nd! It's on an article that was run about Video Game mods featuring September 11th. I'm so excited!!!
I had a letter to the editor in the Los Angeles Times this past December (it was in both the print and internet editions). It's a cool thing - they get lots of submissions (probably not as many as the NY Times, but still a lot). It isn't all that easy to have a letter accepted in either paper. I don't know about the print edition of the NY paper, but the L.A. paper only prints maybe ten or fifteen letters a day.
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Do I actually have to track down a copy of the Times in order to read it? Or can you just email it to me and I can take your word that it's in the paper?
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Abby. I doubt that there'll be more than one Abby writing on online game mods in the same edition of The Times. So if you want to know my last name, you'll have to get the paper. Posts: 4816 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Hehe. I was going to, but I'm not THAT desperate to know your last name! Just wanted to make sure I had the right person when I checked the paper!
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Hehehe. I doubt anyone will be able to spell/say it anyway. It's one o' them freakish Norwegian names.
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You can read the Letters to the Editor online, but you need to register. I'll post a link once it goes up..
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quote:Many of the creators of game mods (modifications) like at one about 9/11 do it merely for the recognition, not for any inherent art. The idea of tragedy-based games or mods being created when the pain is still fresh makes me wonder about the state of our union and the increasing lack of respect among my peers.
The best response to such audacity is to ignore it. When the creators of these mods say something like "it's just a game," one must wonder who's the player and who's being played.
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That's great! And having just read the article that you were responding to... I can't believe would even think that was a good idea/tasteful/appropriate/funny etc etc.
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^_^ Yeah, in the writing portion of the class. Unfortunately, one letter isn't enough to pull an A in the whole class... Not that I'm complaining!!
Edit: Also, even if I had added "too cool for words" I doubt they'd've published it.
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Great letter. I actually liked the line about players and being played. It's a good, catchy ending. And sometimes a clever exit is a good thing. It certainly was here.
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So wait -- you're opposed to mods based on current events? I would've expected the exact opposite opinion to come from an Internet forum. Naturally I prefer the interpretation that offensiveness is in the eye of the beholder, so if there's a problem it should be addressed there.
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I am. It's completely heartless to base a video game so completely on such a recent tragedy, to me. And rude. Don't forget rude. They just want publicity, and that's reprehensible to me. I even chafe at the idea of making a Vietnam sim game...
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