BMK                                                            BMK

The Bitmap Kid Presents
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                    T H O U G H T  F O R  T H E  ( B I ) M O N T H
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           "Oh no!" I hear you cry "Not, not..." You're right! Not
           Thora Hird! Me, BMK, instead! "EVEN WORSE!!" Yep, a
           weird page this (well, I think it is). "Aren't all your
           pages weird, BMK?" In what sense, dear reader? "In the
           sense that all the pages you write are weird, or
           rubbish."  Errrrm. Probably. Anyway, each issue I'll
           rant and rave about som'ink, this month, the computer
           emotions. "Ay?"


Computers have amazing, strange effects on people. It's true, no,
I'm not talking about shouting at your kids to get off of Zool for
one-hundredth time. No, I'm talking about computers (and
consoles) completely changing the personality of their users.

How many arcade games players, do you think, have been on the
highest level they have ever got to, when, when, in walks some
complete BUFFOON and distracts you saying something like "The
Berlin wall's coming down!!!!" WHAAAAAAAAAAT??????????? DO YOU
THINK THINK THE WORLD-CHANGING EVENT OF THE YEAR COMPARES WITH ME
GETTING TO LEVEL 2 (in my case!) OF LEMMINGS 2 (or whatever)??
Okay, so Lemmings 2 wasn't even out when 'the wall' came down, but
it demonstrates one of the ways computers can affect people.

Another way to demonstrate this strange science is to put a
Super-NES into a room of young, top (male) executives. Leave the
room for a few minutes and return, you'll find that they'll be on
the floor cross-legged with their tongues waggling in all
directions. Quite true that.  But they're not the only effects
these 'demons' can cause.

Take the ST vs Amiga thing. I must admit (thanks, to some extent,
to me) that most of my friends are very happy to accept the
computers for what they are, practically evenly matched computers.
However, 'outsiders' of the computer world would be ASTONISHED at
some of the heated arguments that go on about the subject.

Personally, to me, they're all massively all short-sighted. I
mean, if one computer didn't have the other, that computer
wouldn't be much good at all!  There would be no reason (apart
from making more money) for the company to advance their hardware
with technology. There would be no real standards for the speed or
basic requirements for the machines. So I see that both of these
computers NEED each other.

Although I'm a Falcon supporter, I'm also a A1200 supporter,
because if there was only the Falcon around, there would be no
fight, and companies need fight to, yep, keep the standards up,
keep 'em on their toes, stop 'em from .....

So there are just some of the emotions that your innocent PC/ ST/
Falcon/ Amiga/ SNES/ Megadrive .... can induce.  Anyway, think
about that next time you shout "GET OUUUUUUUUTT!!"

BMK                                                            BMK

@~My comment on one bit of that - when I've been engrossed in the
@~computer, I have, so I'm told, held quite complicated
@~conversations (which made sense) with Alan, of which I've later
@~had absolutely no recollection. It's amazing what you can do on
@~'automatic pilot'! ... Sue