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The song Fire of Unknown Origin has such an interesting history: a Patti Smith poem in honor of Jim Morrison, first performed in a music format with Lenny Kaye on guitar, demoed by BOC in a much different format for an earlier BOC album, and finally the version on the FOUO album.

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That image is cursed and now my jimmies are rustled. ಠ_ಠ

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Quoth the raven, "Word to thy mater!"

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Thanks so much, Christian!

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You, sir, are challenged to pistols at dawn for inflicting that Vanilla Price image upon us. I demand satisfaction for the great Vincent’s honor so impugned!

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At least I’m a third vote in pushing the magnificence of Roger Corman’s The Raven movie

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And you’ve now made me waste 30+ minutes on a Saturday morning reading your post & linked reviews and articles! Enjoyable but messing with my to-do list, man! Be more boring next time so I can get to work, huh? ;)

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"the writing within his review wasn’t given enough credit" - yep, this. Noe is Noe -- he has a certain built-in audience and ceiling. But I always felt I raised my game on this review, and yet it never seemed to move the needle on anything.

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Your work really showed on that review. I've read it a couple of times now.

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Thanks for the Skeleton Code Machine mention! I appreciate it!

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It's a regular read. So much great game design insight.

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