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"Video game genres are segregated based primarily on their gameplay, which generally works well, but the poorly titled genre of role-playing games is where this completely breaks down. Now all genres do an adequate job of allowing the player to role-play as well as, if not better than, most RPGs."

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"The strangest thing about writing reviews and putting them where the anonymous public can supply its reactions is easily the confusion over how the overall scores work. I read RPGamer for years before I started working here and never found the scoring system confusing."

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"Particularly in the case of older games (a matter of great importance to me), finding them in a store is a crapshoot at best and impossible at worst. And yet... for mysterious reasons I cannot quite stop going into game stores altogether."

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"I say to you today, my friends, so even that we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow that I still have a dream. I have a dream that one day our people will rise up and truly say "no one system is innately better than the other." I have a dream that on forums across our illusory cyber world, Xbox loyalists and Playstation Lifers can discuss their choices without constant need to reference the supposed sexual preference of the other."

I love summer. Hot sun, cold drinks... graduating from university a month late thanks to a very special strike my university had back in the winter. Awesome times, right? Well, I suppose it is exciting. Maybe. Not really. I did get a nice graduation gift though – knitted slippers. While most people would be confused as to why this is a nice gift, it's mostly because I love knitted things. I have a Chain Chomp hat, a kitty hat and a Jayne hat (from Firefly) and they were all made just for me by special people. Knitted objects = made of win.

I have been enjoying my freedom from the shackles of university, though I've read so many books and my gaming backlog is shrinking quite nicely at the moment. Over the weekend I finally completed Suikoden Tierkreis and now you guys will never have to hear me gush about it ever again. I loved it, I think it's a fantastic story, and the main character, as odd as he sounded, really grew on me. I've also been playing Persona 4, Jeanne D'Arc and Rune Factory 2 on and off. Yes, I will finish Rune Factory 2. I recognize it has taken me way longer then it should have... but when you're not enjoying it and you have to review it... it's a painful process.

I have four editorials this week, two from the guy who refuses to quit because he adores me so much, Glenn Wilson! I also have a great piece about the “buying experience” from JuMeSyn, and a revision of Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech prepared by Robin Crew. I hope you guys enjoy these pieces. If you don't, you might make kittens cry... and no one likes to see a kitten cry.

And that's all from me this week. I suppose now I should go demand attention from my harem of males. Or I could just play more of this "special" RPG I have for my own amusement. See you all next week!

Editor@rpgamer.com