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[Jonny Nexus]

Hi all,

Firstly, I'm currently on the lookout for mentions of Game Night (either good quotes, or reviews), either to put on my Reviews & Quotes page, or just plain damn because I like reading them. So if you find any mentions, can you let me know (either by commenting here, or sending an email to gamenight@jonnynexus.com).

Secondly, if you ever want to post a URL to the main Game Night page, could you use:

http://www.jonnynexus.com/gamenight/

and not:

http://www.jonnynexus.com/gamenight

The reason for the slash being currently required is that due to some weird server glitch that my hosting people are trying to track down, the latter URL (without the slash) bounces the user to a different port, which means that anyone behind a firewall can't see it. It's a bit annoying, and will hopefully soon be sorted.

Thirdly, if you're on my mailing list and wondering why I haven't yet sent out an email about Game Night, the reason is the above, plus a different issue that's currently affecting the mail server. I figure there's no point sending the mail out if half the people won't get it, and half of the people who do get it might then find themselves unable to view the site. (I can put the workaround URL in, but if they type it in and leave off the slash, they could get stuck).

Fourthly, and lastly, I will at some point be doing a banner ad to advertise Game Night, and asking people if perhaps they can repost it on their blogs and things, just as I did before Issue 10 of Critical Miss. However, I'm holding fire on that for the moment for two main reasons:

a) to give people a chance to read it - I'm not sure I can expect them to pimp what they haven't read; and

b) to get some good quotes from reviews that I can put on the banner ad.

That's about it...
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Simon Collins, ENWorld Staff Reviewer, reviewing my Slayers Guide to Games Masters

[SIN]

I am not a happy customer!

I've been waiting over a week for my order from Amazon!

Half of it turned up - a fucking DVD I bought for someone as a present - BUT NO FRIGGIN' GAME NIGHT!

I don't know how many more times I can re-read chapter 1.....

(I think I've read it 4, maybe 5 times now.....)
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[SIN]

It has arrived!

At last!!

Meh!
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"I hope I die like my grandmother did, peacefully & painlessly in her sleep.................. Not screaming like everyone else who was in the car"

Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia et Cerebellum-
When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow

DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK

[Spatula]

Does this mean the forums are SIN-free for the rest of the week? Quick, break out the booze and dancing girls!
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[SIN]

[Herald]

I finished last night on the plane home.

Nighttime airplane trips must be like purgatory -- you spend two hours of your life waiting to be somewhere, trapped in a featureless cabin with nothing but blackness out of the window. The other passengers mill around listlessly, looking bleak and depressed. Babies cry in the background, while the person behind you incessantly bumps your seat in his quest to either annoy you or put his tray table down. Flight attendants offer you alcohol and snacks, and then remind you of the price. You've finished your book, and know that if you pull out any kind of electronic device, it'll only be minutes before they tell you you have to put it away. Then you realize that you really need to use the bathroom -- and just as you get there and begin to do your business, they turn on the fasten seatbelts sign and start their descent, making it very difficult to complete the job if standing. Finally, you manage, and return to your seat. And once landed, they make you sit for twenty minutes on the tarmac, within sight of your destination.

In any case, I loved the book. As usual, your sense of humor was spot on. The waiting lobby scenes amused me especially, as did the door scene.

Your book is officially better than getting HIV.

One of five dentists agree that reading your book is better than brushing your teeth.

One of five doctors suggest that your book could cure erectile dysfunction better than viagra or cialis.

If you ask a book worm, your book is made of delicious yum.
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The guard stares at you and swears. The guard says, "I do not see why you even bother living."

[SIN]

I too have just finished, literally five minutes ago.

I must say I'm damn impressed! I issued more laughs from reading Game Night than I do from an average Pratchett novel - to the extent that the people who I work with, along with dozens of commuters on the 207, E8, 237 & 235 bus routes now believe me to be mad, deranged, or high on drugs... (the latter being the only one with a ring of truth in it!)

The characters were fantastic!

I agree with H, the 'waiting room' was a stroke of genius!

That along with a hundred other things crammed within - I personally liked the 'Mr Six-Days' references.

I must also agree with that guy on your blog - there is SOOO much in GN that I can relate to with regards of RPing - especially the, "Fine, fine!.... You've got your crossbow!"

Draag was the most humorous (The monkey. The Bridge. The Field. The Excrement. The Wesh. The Fruit. The Ring... Oh, the ring... The list continues..) in my humble opinion, followed closely by Hill and Stone. Hills' Pixie incident in particular, and Stones' "I'll follow him"...

To be quite honest, if anyone criticises any aspect of you book you are well within your rights to tell them to fuck off! To roleplay dysfunctionally is one thing, to write a highly entertaining book about it is an entirely different game, excuse the pun.

My only criticism is the number of typos, which I'm sure you'll take with a pinch of salt JN, as I will if you choose to enfore your right to tell me to fuck off! Anyway, I'm sure that's the proof readers fault, not the author.

Truely, there are far too many aspects of your book worthy of mention and I don't want to spoil it for anyone unfortunate enough not to have a copy of Game Night.

Seriously, if you don't have it or ofr some reason you can't afford it, sell one of your children, or failing that, a kidney - Trust me, you will not be disappointed!

To sum it as fewer words as possible: Clash of The Titans meets Discworld, neatly blended with a little Red Dwarfism. A wierd and wonderful, if not confused setting, with a weird, wonderful and certainly confused cast!

If James Wallace is the Prophet, you are at the very least a Saint!

Thankyou, Mr Nexus. If I get nothing for Christmas, I'll know exactly what I'll read to cheer me up!

Thankyou.

P.S. When can we expect something.... Cyberpunky?.....
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"I hope I die like my grandmother did, peacefully & painlessly in her sleep.................. Not screaming like everyone else who was in the car"

Cuius Testiculos Habes, Habeas Cardia et Cerebellum-
When you have their full attention in your grip, their hearts and minds will follow

DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK

[SIN]

[Jonny Nexus]