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DIGITISER2000 FRIDAY LETTERS PAGE

18/11/2016

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I'm sorry to announce that today's Friday Letters Page is terrible, and scarcely worth the 30 seconds it'll take you to read. This is what thou hath wrought by not writing in. Well, apart from the four who did kindly take the time. 

Alright, y'know... so Digi has been a bit dour this week, with very few stupid lists or whimsical articles. But, y'know... cheer up. I'm merely trying to take stock before the end of the world. Sorry you find my life so boring.

​While I have you... don't forget it isn't too late to grab some exclusive Digitiser merchandise for Christmas. We've sold out of 2017 calendars, however, so if you'd still like one - please drop us a line, as we need to know whether it's worth us ordering more. However! Lots of lovely Tea Prancer mugs, stickers, and t-shirts left.

If you would like to appear on next week's page, or you've something you'd like me to give some attention to in our occasional Plug Zone - please send your emails for next week to this place here: digitiser2000@gmail.com
BELTS
Prompted by the Pant-Oh screenshot earlier this week, is there any significance to characters called Belt? David appearing in that and Graham in Biffovision.
Glyn Heaviside
Alas, no. We just thought it was a funny surname. Or did until I realised it was an actual surname. It does, of course, originate from people whose profession was beltmaker, and originated in Essex.

​A quick Google reveals that the earliest known record of someone with the name Belt was one Arnold Belt, listed in the tax rolls - known as the Feet Of Fines - for the county of Essex in the year 1203. There was also a Benedict le Beleter in Friary Rolls of Yorkshire in 1295.

There are at least five Graham Belts on Linkedin, and one David Belt on Wikipedia. He's an American real estate mogul. Press reveal to see a sweet gallery of Graham Belts.
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BRACES
It would appear that my recent run of chronic heartburn has attracted the attention of some medics with a revolutionary new treatment.
Paul Dunning
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I don't know what to say to this.
ELASTICATED WAIST
I was very pleasantly surprised with Titanfall 2's campaign and am loving the multiplayer. However, Infinite Warfare is more like Infinite Bore-fare. It's very pretty but oh so very dull.

Is it just me, or is Call of Duty getting amazingly, incredibly stale? Are my glory days behind me, left in the mists of the past along with Quake, Unreal, Doom and other legends? Am I old and clapped out? Advice most welcome!
Matt N
It doesn't help that they put out a new CoD every single year, which - despite superficial differences - all sort of feel the same. Infinite Warfare IS dull though, isn't it? Like, objectively and profoundly so. The sales disparity between Infinite Warfare and Titanfall 2 makes me sick to my stomach. STOP BUYING THE WRONG ONE, IDIOTS!!!
ANTI-GRAVITY
What is your opinion of current children's games that are popular? Could someone, like you perhaps, who has experience in writing for children's TV, add something to computer games for children - or are they too different media?

I thought that The Last of Us was one of the best games ever made, but I never really liked the ending that much.

​I think it would have worked better if Joel had 'allowed' the operation, which did work (at least partially) in producing a cure, but that Joel killed himself over Ellie's death - not cheerful I admit, but I think it would have made for a better ending, and would have fit the themes of the story more than what they went with.
John Whyte
What are you talking about, Brown? You start talking of children's games - what children's games?! - and then veer off into spoiling the ending of The Last of Us for everyone. This is a terrible way to end the worst Digitiser2000 Friday Letters Page ever. Press reveal, for the love of God.
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19 Comments
Gaming Mill link
18/11/2016 08:37:06 am

Sorry I didn't write in this week and now I feel guilty. Guilty and dirty. I was planning on doing so tonight because I sincerely thought today was Thursday when I woke up in someone's hedge this morning. I was freezing cold.

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RED HOT
18/11/2016 09:38:13 am

Worry not, Freezing Cold, I woke up this morning chained to someone's radiator. I was Red Hot.

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Glans Mahoney
18/11/2016 01:27:42 pm

Did you have to tell him this publicly? I think it would have been more appropriate to do it in privet.

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Bruce Flagpole
18/11/2016 09:32:02 am

I told my bro to buy me the calendar for chrimbo, but i don't know if he did, and i don't want to ask as it would spoil the surprise, so i don't know if i can say that there may or may not be another potential order in the offing, and apologies for the lack of full stops but I committed early to doing this in one sentence and I'm not about to back out now - at least until I'm done anyway.

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John Veness
18/11/2016 10:03:35 am

I know you put a request out for letters each week on Twitter, but not everyone uses that. Maybe a reminder during the week on the site itself, e.g. at the bottom of each article, might help. I know there's a "Contact Us" thing on the right-hand column, but something more explicit like "Please send letters to be published each Friday to ...", and as I say, in the main body rather than (or in addition to) in the right-hand column.

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Ian
18/11/2016 02:50:31 pm

Biffo asks on FB most of the time too.
Me, I didn't write a letter as I'd nothing interesting to say. (ever)

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Kara Van Park
18/11/2016 11:17:13 am

Sorry Sir, that Dog ate my letter.

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Wicked Eric
18/11/2016 03:18:16 pm

I contemplated writing to tell you I played Everybody's Gone To The Rapture on PS+ and that your revised opinion on it was a big bag of wrong.

But then it turned out I couldn't be arsed.

Be careful what you wish for is the moral of this story.

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Mr Biffo
18/11/2016 03:44:38 pm

HUSS. I love people telling me I'm wrong. So that I can tell them they're wrong.

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John
21/11/2016 01:51:26 pm

Is that wrong?

Spiney O'Sullivan
18/11/2016 05:48:28 pm

Matt N, if you're tired of the current run of oh-so-serious military shooters, get Doom 2016 (if you haven't already). I don't really buy a lot of FPSes (the last one I really enjoyed was the excellent Bulletstorm), but it is amazing. Fast, fun, absolutely brutal (they're demons, it's okay!) and with pleasingly explorable levels filled with secrets and no having a quick breather to heal. It's a really fitting sequel to the original.

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Spiney O'Sullivan
18/11/2016 05:51:36 pm

Also on Titanfall's sales, this is really a massive failure on EA's part. Releasing it at the same time as Battlefield 1 and failing to really publicise it in a way that makes it look anything as special as the way Biffo described it is a tragic waste.

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Martin McCurdie
20/11/2016 07:36:59 pm

Titanfall 2 is going for £24.99 in HMV this Friday.

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Martin McCurdie's Best Friend
21/11/2016 10:23:47 am

As in, this Friday coming up? Because if so I'm getting it

Andrew Buchan
18/11/2016 08:12:05 pm

Expect another letter about McCoy's bum flavour crisps next week.

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MrPSB
19/11/2016 08:57:46 pm

Cheese and bumion

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Minglefingler
18/11/2016 08:17:38 pm

Hmm, wouldn't have minded a spoiler warning for that letter on The Last of Us, being solely a pc gamer for the last few years means I never got a chance to play it until Sony recently gave pc owners access to PS Now. Trying it on there gave me enough of a taste of the game to know that I wanted to buy the remaster on the PS4 that I got a few weeks ago. Being that it's strongly focused on narrative means there's not much point now I suppose.

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Hamptonoid
18/11/2016 08:46:57 pm

I finished it on Wednesday, spoiler warning would have been good but don't let that put you off...amazing game as well as an amazing story.

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Treacle Truffle
18/11/2016 08:21:02 pm

I was going to write but my beard is speckled with what looks like a particularly feisty bread mould.

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