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Old March 25th, 2006, 12:50 PM

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Yeah, that's exactly the point being made: LCD monitors are crappy. However, CRTs might incur a greater ecological cost for reasons listed above, so there could be a reason for using an inferior product over the better one. (Again, I'm not familiar with the production methods of either, I only know of power usage and recycling considerations.) Of course, Cherry's list was of things that have better alternatives for higher price, so maybe it's a poor example to use the one thing on the list that doesn't comform.

Well, upon reflection this is way OT, but I like tapwater so much that I couldn't not comment!

A paper manual is not a good solution in my opinion and I'm rather saddened to see it used as a reason to have high prices. Also, it's an ecological stress to print paper manuals: small one, I know, but for something that has no value even that is too much. You already need a computer to play the game, so not having the manual on the cd or on the net (a wiki is an awesome solution: minimal production costs!) is something of a missed opportunity, in my opinion. You can't do word-searches or hyper-linked indexes on paper so unless you have a preference to read from paper instead of glass an electric format is superior in every way. Of course, most do have such a preference, but I'd still like to see an alternative offered for those not so inclined. Like selling the manual separately instead of being forced to buy one when you buy the game. There's nothing stopping one from printing a document if it's useful either, so all parties could be satisfied without a paper manual, too.
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