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Bureaucracy
I recently (as part of that damnable “growing up” routine) purchased a house in the ‘burbs and moved in. I keep receiving mail from a large insurance company for a previous tenant, for whom I have no forwarding address. When the first letter arrived, I simply wrote “No longer at this address” and stuffed it [...]
The President is Missing!
June 6th, 1996 – A daring military raid on a secret UN meeting in Liechtenstein results in the kidnapping of ten of the most influential world leaders. No group takes responsibility, but a list of impossible demands is anonymously delivered, along with taped statements from some of the captive heads of state. The political implications [...]
Deadline
I can hear some of you groaning right now. If you genuinely believe that games can become too dated to play, you’ll be rolling your eyes that I’m reviewing a text-only game that’s 25 years old. I have no defense against this, except to say that if you automatically discriminate certain games because they “look [...]