Raz's Reviews

Raz's reviews are thorough, and trustworthy, as... well... He's more real to me than a handle in a magazine. He's a handle on a forum that I've been a member of for a couple of years. Flawed logic, it is, but sometimes it is sufficient.

It's not really flawed. To most readers, a columnist in a magazine is a black box: Games go in, and reviews come out; however, an active user on a forum is a gray box: you've seen and provided inputs and seen the outputs, and have a general idea of the processes between them. To put it more simply, it's a matter of familiarity: Your interaction with the columnist is limited to one or two articles a month; your interaction with an active forum member, on the other hand, is quite extensive,

So you're telling me Raziel is a gray color box?

The best gray colored box there is!

Um, no, see there are "black box" systems, where you have no idea how a system turns the inputs into the outputs, "white box" systems, where you basicly have the schematics, and in between are "gray box" systems, where you have a general idea of the proccess that turns the inputs into the outputs, but you don't know all the specifics.

Oh, so Raziel is a whiteish black box.

Heh, thanks guys. Glad to hear you appreciate my reviews. I'll definitely keep them coming. It gives me something to do at 5am.

Thanks for the cookie, Bob!