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THE DIGITISER2000 FRIDAY LETTERS PAGE

3/2/2017

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Hello, boys and girls. So, another week over then. I've been hard at work on Mr Biffo's Found Footage, which is coming together nicely. Episode One is more or less finished, and I've got a decent stockpile of material to be spread across the remaining episodes. I do hope you like it.

Talking of Found Footage... I'll be premiering a compilation of clips from the series on March 4th at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. It'll be part of a geeky, retro comedy night - with contributions from YouTube star Ashens, and a peerless line-up of stand-up comedy talent. Apparently, I'm hosting the thing - which was as much a surprise to me as I'm sure it'll be to you. Tickets are only a tenner, proceeds go to charity, and you'll also have access to the museum. Please come along. 

​The weekend before, you can head down to the Centre for two days dedicated to all things teletext, with demonstrations from the likes of Dan Farrimond and Horsenbureger.

​More details on both events here.


But look: it is time for the letters. 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
RIM
I have been very underwhelmed by the Nintendo Switch so far. Can you remember a major console launch that was so low-profile? I cannot believe that people are pretending that Skyrim is a big deal.
John Whyte
Something which I have found a little curious about the Switch launch is that, objectively, there's no way of looking at it and not thinking the launch is underwhelming. I mean... is there? Really now? And yet... there are a lot of sites and people out there making excuses for both it and Nintendo, and screaming about Nintendo being in "rude" health, and all the naysayers should shut-up.

That's not meant as a criticism per se - they can do what they want - but the tone and tenor of the defence of Nintendo from some suggests there's something more going on under the surface there.

I mean, you used to see it back in the Sega vs Nintendo days - the sort of fingers-in-the-ears shouting down reality and selecting which facts to match their interpretation of it. I dunno. Is it a concrete belief in a worldview where Nintendo can't be anything other than top dog, and a need to cling to that?

​Anyway. Yeah... despite all that, I'm kind of looking forward to the Switch. I just wish there were going to be more games to play on it at launch, and I don't have an enormous amount faith in Nintendo to keep those games coming.


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CHEGWINNING
I once saw Keith Chegwin having an irate phone conversation in the middle of a busy London street. I didn't approach him as I felt it would antagonise him further. Thanks!
Adam Lloyd
Please keep these unexciting celeb-spots coming. Here are some more for you: I once saw Graham Norton walking down Oxford Street. He was talking to someone. Must've been about 10 - 15 years ago. Also, I sat near the pop singer Sonia in a pub once. Mid-90s. I think I was with Mr Hairs and Violet Berlin.

And me and my mate Jesse saw Bobbie Gillespie sat in the window of a Pret A Manger having a sandwich. That was only last year. Good times.

​More please.
BOWEN WILL IT END?
Dear Mr. Baffle, 1980s cartoon detective.

It's Saturday afternoon as I write this, because I thought I'd buck the trend this week and get my letter in early. Hopefully this meaningless gesture will earn me the Star Prize! Actually, why don't you have a Star Prize? If Jim Bowen was prepared to stump up for a speedboat every week, surely you could manage, I don't know, some crisps.


Anyway, I was curious to know if you had any favourite magazine/website letters pages during your own formative years, and if you think they influenced the way you do things now?

​Me, I was a devotee of T'zer and Matt Bielby on the Your Sinclair letters page (and to a slightly lesser extent Lloyd Mangram's antics in Crash). I may even have written in to Smash Hits once or twice, to express my alarm that the world had become dismal enough for piss-weak bands like Brother Beyond and Big Fun to achieve actual chart success.

​Thank God we don't have worries on that scale any more.
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Letters pages! Talk to us about letters pages on your letters page! Please and thank you.
Leigh L.
Well, we did have a Star Prize for a couple of weeks - as hand-crafted by Digi reader Bunty McSad-Pants - but I guess she gave up when none of the Star Prize winners gave us their address. Anyhow...

Your Sinclair is, I think I've said before, probably the biggest influence on me in terms of games mags. That was really the only one I could say I was a "fan" of. And, as it happens, Smash Hits was a big influence - just that general sense of flippancy and disrespect, and not really taking the subject seriously. I read Crash, and all the Emap mags. Though it's only the latter whose letters pages I really remember, mainly due to the regular correspondence slagging off Digitiser.

Get this for a happy ending though: I talk from time to time with former Mean Machines editor Steve Merrett - with whom Digi had something of a feud (albeit somewhat tongue-in-cheek on our part at least). He's a very nice and decent human being.

You see? Getting old isn't all bad. Press reveal to see what the fortune cookie has to say about ageing:
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200 NOT OUT
Hey! Bifster!

Just found the Digi200 site and feel all warm in my elastic comfy indoor trousers.

I used to read Digitiser on Teletext religiously back in the early 90s. So much so that I think it influenced my mad un-PC ramblings in the office to this day, but sadly no one gets the jokes and HR don’t see the funny side either.

Anyway, back in the day I wrote you a few letters, I can’t remember under what alias but I recall I spent a lot of time typing them on my dad's typewriter, maybe there were cut out pictures of penguins and things? And crappy late teenage attempts at being abstract and weird.

I remember a few of my letters being published on Digitiser and feeling a warm glow of satisfaction, but as no one I knew read it, I just hoped someone found it amusing. Thinking about it, was my alias Mr Giotre? Fuck knows, there’s been a lot of drugs and bottles of wine downed since those days.

But anyway, I loved Digitiser, really loved it. And there were days i just thought you were gonna get shut down for the total madness of it all but you never did. C4 hosted you and JAM, my two most favorite things of all time, but we'll never see the like of you again. Good times. Love you!
Martin Thake
Thanks, Martin. Did you also get our name wrong when you wrote to us in back in the 90s?
INGMAR BERKMANN
Dear Uncle B, have you ever worked with/spoken to/hid in the garden of Marcus Berkmann? He's a video game writer turned hilarious funny man. 

Biffo, Berkmann, Brooker. 

3 men.

3 funny men.
David Roebuck 
As far as I know, I haven't worked with or even heard of this so-called "Marcus Berkmann", but having just looked him up two things jumped out: he wrote for Your Sinclair... and he's 56 years old. I'm at an age, and working in such an ageist industry, that I feel a swell of optimism whenever I read about someone who's older than me and still working.

​You see? Getting old IS all bad. Let's see what the fortune cookies have to say about it.
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NOT MY TYPE
It's about time you upped your game! Digitiser has fallen behind the times and you aren't giving the kids what they want. What do they want, I hear you cry?

Why, type-in listings of course! I therefore submit this listing for any Amstrad CPC owners who read this here webpage:

10 MODE 1
20 INK 0,0: INK 1,26

30 PRINT "MR BIFFO IS ACE AND SKILLE"
40 GOTO 30

I demand a prize for being the type-in of the week. Thank you.
Chinnyhill10 
I feel so guilty about the fact that I've barely written about video games thus far this year that the first couple of sentences of your letter nearly gave me an anxiety attack. These nostalgia articles I've been doing are all well and good, but every time you read one please be aware that it has been written while I've been thinking "I suppose they want me to be doing more games stuff... or The Man's Daddy or something".

And don't even get started on the brown soup of emotional baggage which comes with writing those po-faced political articles I've been doing. I wonder if the fortune cookies have any advice about guilt...?
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HARDY SOULS
As previewed below last week's Letters page, I wish to write with regards to my delight at seeing letters within this month's Retrogamer magazine from both Stuart (N?) Hardy and D(es?) O'Connor. 

The warm nostalgia of seeing their names in such an appropriate journal is tempered only by the fear that given that you, Mr Biffo, have a regular column therein, Hardy in particular might be subtly stalking you having become less obvious in recent Digi.

Nothing spotted so far from Christian Ward, regular corresponder to one of your paper-based rivals (Something Power I think), whose name I recall them once cruelly anagramising to "Rancid Raw Shit".

I can't criticise. I got a letter printed in C&VG taking the piss out of "tipster" Ed Lomas' name once. Must've been a quiet letter week.

Have any other readers got any videogame magazine correspondence-based memories?
Starbuck
I reckon this: it's not the real Hardy. It can't be, after all this time. The guy is the Mark Hollis of video game magazine letters pages. Who's Mark Hollis? Look him up.

As far as I know, I never wrote to a games magazine. I probably would've done if there had been email back in the day, but my handwriting is sufficiently bad that to write an actual letter would've meant writing something that they never would've been able to read anyway, or spend half an hour on each word trying to make it legible. No thanks!

A few years back I did write an email to BBC Focus magazine to ask them how many worm skins you'd need to make a coat, and how many bees would it take to pull a sled. They never printed them. 
BLUE JAM
Your recent reference to the former Robinson's mascot got me thinking. When I was small, I remember being slightly apprehensive and intrigued by his appearance. Though this was at most a 1.5 on the Ronald McDonald Scale of Childhood Trauma.

Recently, I saw him again in a stream of old animated advertisements. Part of my cultural heritage, for better or worse, selling marmalade with a calm demeanour. A small part, paling in comparison to the disembodied head of Cab Calloway pushing potato snacks, but a part of it nonetheless.

I didn't see malice in a caricature that wasn't mocking behaviour. That came from the kind of people who would just as readily make your life hell for looking like the Milkybar Kid.

Though I'd rather that appearances didn't matter, some things are worth retiring to minimise upset. I'm more for the Spitting Image approach to equality, skewering everyone without fear or favour, but understand that rejecting caricature is another way to get there. Constructive conversation is more urgent than the preservation of quaint mascots, which we can all laugh about later.

If I were small again now, I would probably be learning that it was normal to mock someone for their skin hue, hair style, and manner of speech. None of which would affect me, unlike their actions.
David W
I recently read that the borough I live in is the most multicultural and diverse in London, so I accept that my take on issues regarding race and multiculturalism might be skewed. You know: as a result of living among people with different accents, skin tones, and beliefs, and realising that it's actually fine.

My kids - and now my step-daughters - went to schools with wide-ranging diversity, all had friends who were Muslim, or Hindu, and I honestly don't think they bat an eyelid when confronted with someone who's different racially or culturally. 

The Robinson's Jam feller wasn't - as you say - used with malice. It's just a result of a less informed era. We sort of can't help our prejudices - but we can try to understand that we're not born with them. One thing I learned when I did my stupid psychotherapy training is that fighting them doesn't overcome them, but acknowledging them does.

​Press reveal to see what the fortune cookie says about prejudice.
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OI, LA LA!
Genuinely from an old French school text book:
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This is Grandma. She is in the kitchen making dinner. What will she be having for dinner? Chicken? Potatoes? Why do you care? She's living in abject squalor, in a dingy flat struggling to make ends meet. Whatever she's eating will have come from the discounted produce shelves in Morrisons. And why is she living like this? Because instead of using her savings to provide her with a dignified life in her twilight years when you were given power of attorney, you squandered all her cash in a fast car, booze, drugs and prostitutes in Acton.

YOU ANIMAL.
Paul Dunning
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TOO MUCH?
In your esteemed comedic opinion, would adding a tube of Anusol to a shopping basket already containing a cucumber and KY Jelly make it more or less funny? I mean, what we’ve got here is a veteran or a forward thinker. It’s unlikely to be their first rodeo; they’re wholly committed and showing great resolve.

But is it just adding clutter? Too sophisticated?

How about: A cucumber, KY Jelly and a smaller cucumber?
Dean Boni
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True story: a guy in front of me in Morrisons once bought nothing but a bag of onions, some Vaseline, and a packet of condoms. Draw your own conclusions.
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GAMING MILL'S LETTER
I've recently moved house and I'm bored out of my mind in my new place - it's just too quiet. I miss arguing with my smack-head neighbour about his 72 hours of full-on jungle playing as loud as possible. I miss the sound of the traffic of my old place which was right on the pavement of a main road.

I miss the cold and dampness of the place. However, the one thing that I miss the most is the constant problem with ants, no matter what time of year it was. Oh, those were a good nine years.

Anyway, with this boredom in mind I decided to draw you picture on the back of an envelope; it's Mario throwing a Pot Noodle at a wardrobe. I'm sure that in someone's mind, somewhere, this is their ultimate fantasy.

I am fit and strong and that is all.
Gaming Mill
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We were wondering where you were last week, Gaming Mill, and had been worried that you'd had some sort of Frank Spencer-style moving house mishap, and fallen into a barrel of tar. Glad to hear you've moved to slightly more peaceful surroundings, though there's always the possibility that you imagined your smack-head neighbour and the ants.
BORN TO BE ILL
Biffles, in celebration of having a week off work, my body has decided to be ill. Not wanting to waste valuable gaming time, I still intend to spend as much of it as possible in front of a screen. Are there any games that you feel helped you while you were under the weather?

Bonus question: Have there been any games that impressed you with their portrayal of illness or physical impediment to the character you play, like that bit where you crawl around after being nuked in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare?

​Warning; the previous sentence contains spoilers.

Wrist Flapper
There aren't a great deal of games which feature characters who are poorly. Though plenty of games where the characters behaved as if they had some crippling condition. 
OLD BOILER
I'm very excited because I am getting a new boiler fitted. The old one kind of sucks because the hot water doesn't really work, it cuts out before I get more than a sink-full.  A working timer is nought but a distant memory.

Anyway. 

I just wanted you to know I think I've found my calling. I've been doing live streams where I drive trains on Train Simulator and swear a lot and last time I did one I had six people watching at the same time,  which must be some kind of record. Once I have a sustainable business model to monetise these idiots I'm quitting my well-paid job in IT for a large multinational.

Do you ever wonder if you'll find your niche? 

Love and hugs, 
MrPSB
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P. S. About the vegetables - I've been eating a lot more while recovering from my comedy illness but I'm finding myself being a bit constipated. What's that all about then? Cheerio!
Oh, PSB... you hilarious troll.  Please reveal your fortune.
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35 Comments
Sick Willy
3/2/2017 11:33:26 am

There's a game on Newgrounds in which you play either a poorly person or the reason for his illness, the jury's out. I can't remember what it's called...it might be 'Covetous' but I can't look at the page at work

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Ill Will
3/2/2017 11:48:20 am

I google-imaged it, it is that. I recommend it if you have a spare 5 minutes

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RichardM
3/2/2017 12:01:48 pm

Tarzan Goes Ape on the Spectrum is about a witch doctor turning Tarzan into an ape, which kind of counts as poorly? And wasn't Shadow of the Colossus about getting a box of Anadin from the shop in your dressing gown?

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Kara Van Park
3/2/2017 12:25:59 pm

Smackhead and the Ants - wasn't that a popular post-punk combo of the early Eighties?

If people could send in more illustrations of videogame characters projecting cartons of snacks that require the addition of hot water prior to consumption at pieces of furniture, be they bedroom, living room and to a lesser extent the cheaper plastic variety that are more commonly utilised in a domestic garden, I would be eternally* grateful.

*temporarily

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Biscuits the character
3/2/2017 12:26:42 pm

Hey, how about Torment for a game where you are poorly?

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DEAN
3/2/2017 12:50:34 pm

Thanks for that, Biffo.
I shall have a bloody good go:

Immediately I think the protagonist may be indulging a fetish - dacryphilia springs to mind.

But this only accounts for one basket item and I've taken it as a personal challenge to present a full picture.

Latex and petroleum jelly do not make for good bedfellows. But could that offer a clue?

Mr Morrison's coquette is a kooky lady.
It is in fact she who has the crying fetish and her, for arguments sake booty-calling sext message, left our resolute hero with a quandary.
Does she mean tears or tears? He was simply covering all bases.

Convoluted, sure. I think it was always going to be.

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Matt Lewis
3/2/2017 01:45:39 pm

I don't think the anusol really works. The KY Jelly eliminates it's need.

How about a pair of nylon stockings?

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Wrist Flapper
3/2/2017 02:24:38 pm

Leaving it for the viewer to think up an explaination could be far more effective. Thus, something innocuous such as a light bulb.
I was tempted to suggest cat food, but that may be seen as either deeply sad or deeply troubling.

Thanks for the suggestions BTW comments peeps.

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DEAN
3/2/2017 03:14:25 pm

Sure, Wrist Flapper, but it's the job of the writer to provide sufficient apparatus. I think a pure random object generator would play second fiddle to a well orchestrated composition.

But I'm willing to try!

Erm...

It's hard because my mind keeps trying to think up objects which play nicely..

Okay... emptying my mind as best I can now...

1 sec

'Flint refill.'

OMG, that's insane!

Point taken.

DEAN
3/2/2017 02:56:43 pm

Inspired deduction, Matt.

I think to really get to the bottom of this we need to consider that the KY rather than easing the passage is in fact a catalyst to any occurring fissures or in encouraging the onset of haemorrhoids by virtue of lulling the cucumberee into a false sense of safe hedonism.

Anusol is funny for a number of reasons:

In name - One might imagine it's in fact a tourist hot-spot, probably near the balearics (also funny). Possibly even a tour operator dedicated to patrons requiring only one holiday per year. For Annual Sun Holidays - Anusol.

In application - Anusol, for those unfamiliar, has a fairly extensive range of products. You have your creams, your gels and, most hilarious of all, you have your suppositories. Just the word 'suppository' has me giggling like an imbecile. Sean Lock described using them in a funny and insightful way. 'Your bum sort of grabs it and pulls it in. Like feeding an elephant a peanut.' Words to that effect.

But most of all perhaps, somebody with the gumption to stick a berry up their bottom and having the foresight to predict medical mishap malady misadventure... come on!

I like where you're heading with the tights but I think it may be too immediate and... I dunno.... I'm not getting the sense of a final act about it.

I heard about a rule of threes (Stewart Lee, most likely) whereby you make a list and obviously save the best until last.

Cucumber
Lube
Tights

Cucumber
Lube
Anusol

Now, before I give my comparison I want to be clear why I put the cuke and the lube in 1 and 2. The cuke is only a little bit funny on its own. Could just be your own filthy mind, though.

Lube? Now we're cooking!

But it's still pretty low level stuff, right? It needs the third element to wake it up and make it really zing.

Tights? Okay, so we can expect our man enjoys getting dressed-up all nice. It's good but it's well trodden ground.

Anusol? It has an element of surprise and the ensuing self-driven narrative makes it even funnier.

Would 'Preparation H' have been funnier?

I tell you what would have been funny in a really gross way...
A pack of 'Wet Ones'. Again, follow it through, why's he wiping it down and not just throwing it away in a shame driven moment of catharsis.

I could learn a lot from that.

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Matt
3/2/2017 06:38:34 pm

I would have assumed that the Wet Wipes were for cleaning himself up. Which would really just reinforce the existing joke, that being the interface of cucumber and bottom.

If you want to suggest that the cucumber is dual use, maybe a bottle of salad cream?

Alternatively, you could introduce an element associated with more pedestrian copulation, say a cd of Barry White's greatest hits, to create a juxtaposition of brutal salad love and tender ballad.

DEAN
3/2/2017 07:01:40 pm

And there's the rub - when you assume, eh!
Your comment did make me laugh, though :O)

Paddy Hill
3/2/2017 02:32:29 pm

"Biffles"?! *smirk* Word of the year - I feel a t shirt comin' on!

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Chris
3/2/2017 02:42:13 pm

That's not a letter opener. THIS is a letter opener.

Also, Dr Berkmann was partly responsible for slightly odd BBC3 animated show Monkey Dust. Maybe you could do something together for Found Footage? Mr B and Dr B, sounds like a good combination.

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Mr Biffo
3/2/2017 03:54:30 pm

But.. we do not know one another!

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Nick
3/2/2017 03:59:42 pm

Always with the problems, never the solutions. Think positively man.

Adam
3/2/2017 04:27:09 pm

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas Digitiser.

I did laugh at your almost-anxiety ridden response to Chinnyhill10's letter. I must admit that often of late, when confronted by another (admittedly funny and well-written) article about He-Man or whatever, I find myself thinking 'Is this what this site is now?'. But I then remind myself that it's not Digitiser, it's Digitiser2000, so it doesn't have to conform to what it once was. Times have changed, you've changed, we've changed. Nevertheless, although I hardly touch video games now i still like to read about them sometimes, and I very much do miss all the fabulous Digi characters you've created over the years. The 'new' stuff has as much right to be here as the old stuff, but I think a healthy mix of the two is maybe the way to go.

But what do I know?

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Spiney O'Sullivan
3/2/2017 05:54:06 pm

I do miss Chip Shop Guy...

To cheer us up, here's another few great Pac-Man jokes:

Q: Who is Pac-Man'a favourite actor?

A: Al Pac-ino! (Pacino)

Q: What is Pac-Man's favourite form of military, political and cultural hegemony?

A: The Pacs (Pax) Americana!

Q: What is Pac-Man's favourite sort of man?

A: Pac-Man! (Pac-Man)

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Mr Biffo
3/2/2017 05:59:30 pm

If you miss Chip Shop Guy... stay tuned for Found Footage.

Matt
3/2/2017 06:43:56 pm

Surely 'Gene PacMan' would be his favourite actor?

Mr Biffo
3/2/2017 05:58:40 pm

Hmm. It's tricky isn't it? Because... I guess... this site straddles a weird line between blog - which would be 100% what I wanted to write about - and actual website... which means that I sort of feel I owe people who back me on Patreon etc.

But... yeah... sometimes it's hard to have to come up with a games-related thing day after day. I'm a one-man show, and old Digi used to have news - which I see no point featuring on this site - and reviews... which, candidly, I simply don't have the time to offer every day, because of the time it takes to review stuff - and lovely as it is that people support me financially... it's not enough to live off, so I do have to have a proper, full-time job.

But... yes... I could look at doing more with the characters. Maybe. Though I've got to say that some I do love more than others, and the ones I love aren't necessarily the "fan-favourites"... And that doesn't necessarily help with the games coverage. Suggested solutions, please!

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Mr Biffo
3/2/2017 06:01:31 pm

Plus... I should say that if you look back over the last couple of years on here, I do tend to go through phases of doing similar sorts of articles. Recently, I've enjoyed writing about old toys, but it'll pass...

Spiney O'Sullivan
3/2/2017 06:01:36 pm

Have the characters narrate the listicles, or just give an introduction to them?

Mr Biffo
3/2/2017 06:02:55 pm

I've thought about the characters narrating the listicles... but that slightly takes away me being able to give my take on whatever the subject ist - which I enjoy doing.

But I'll have a think about it. See what I can do.

Spiney O'Sullivan
3/2/2017 06:20:22 pm

Don't feel pressured. If it's not actually what you want to write, it might end up forced.

Though if the mood does take you, bringing back the characters for letters page Reveal-Os might be an option too?

Zobbster
3/2/2017 06:26:28 pm

Snakes, Biffo! Fatty here's demanding The Snakes!!

DEAN
3/2/2017 06:39:07 pm

I'm generally very happy with things as they are.
I love your way with words and think you're an extremely talented and handsome young(ish) man.

That said.... politics. I understand that you want to voice your opinion on things that matter to you, part of me feels that there's a time and a place, indeed the internet is not short of political commentary but this is your site, and I understand that it's your prerogative to do with it as you see fit.

I love this place for the humour and couldn't care less what you're discussing so long as it's funny.

You said something recently that caused concern - you mentioned how in these crazy times you were struggling to dole out the funnies. "Not until we're on the other side of this." Well, I hope you find your funny bone again because these next 8 years (likely) will be even worse without you at your best.
I'd very much like you to continue being the crazy surreal lovable little fox that you are!

But please, don't take to writing the articles in character. Your written voice is the brightest star.

Nick
3/2/2017 07:40:24 pm

I agree with DEAN, I enjoy the writing and I'm not too fussed about the subject. Keep it funny (even when it's serious) and I'm a happy bunny.

You should review Yakuza O though.

Mr Biffo
3/2/2017 07:47:47 pm

Thanks, all. Especially Dean and Nick! Hah. Everything taken on board though.

As for Yakuza 0... I've started it. It's bonkers, but hasn't totally grabbed me... yet. I'll persevere.

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Paul
3/2/2017 08:15:25 pm

One of the demo games that I got with my PS3 “glowing wand”set up was Heavy Rain, and the protagonist got out of breath, and you had to make him use his asthma inhaler. I get enough of that in real life, so I gave up on that and moved on.

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MrPSB
3/2/2017 10:06:31 pm

If you're all jonesing for something game related, why not check out my list of the top 10 video game trains I wrote https://www.buzzfeed.com/markw80/these-video-game-trains-are-the-best-trains-but-i-i547?utm_term=.gnkrWkyBv#.bxqznQXZj

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eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! link
4/2/2017 03:39:43 am

Always loved the train on Final Fantasy 8. I wish real trains could look like that. Agree about the intercity 125 engine sound.

Btw your nearly dying article was a good read. Scary.

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Gaijintendo
4/2/2017 12:13:17 pm

I once saw Terry Nutkins in a lovely Worcestershire village. He was carrying a Styrofoam box. Presumably a sandwich and snakes inside!

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Carp
5/2/2017 09:02:43 pm

Mario has six fingers on each hand! Please to explain, Gaming Mill

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Hamptonoid
13/2/2017 01:24:06 pm

Ether one is about retrieving memories for someone with altzheimer's disease, I think. It's meant to be very good, but I don't think that I could handle the emotion of actually playing it.

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