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What is this for? Who is the audience? I'm not really sure how we are to critique it. It's missing a lot, obviously - but that may not matter depending on what your objectives are and why....
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dsheinem wrote:What is this for? Who is the audience? I'm not really sure how we are to critique it. It's missing a lot, obviously - but that may not matter depending on what your objectives are and why....
2000 characters. It was for a newsletter that is made by some of the students I teach and I was asked to write it for. I just wanted to share it here after I was finished. Thought I did pretty well and was feeling proud.
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BurningDoom wrote:
dsheinem wrote:What is this for? Who is the audience? I'm not really sure how we are to critique it. It's missing a lot, obviously - but that may not matter depending on what your objectives are and why....
2000 characters. It was for a newsletter that is made by some of the students I teach and I was asked to write it for. I just wanted to share it here after I was finished. Thought I did pretty well and was feeling proud.
You have about 16K characters. Do you mean 2000 words? You have about 3000.
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alienjesus wrote:
Zeitgeist wrote:
Niode wrote: SNK released a system called the Neo Geo. It was a 24 bit console not 16 bit.
Neo Geo was 16 bit. It was just marketing to add the 8 bits of the co-processor (Z80) to the 16 bit (Motorola 68000) of the main processor.
Isn't this exactly what the Turbografx did to get the 16 number? I'm not sure theres a set definition on what constitutes the amount of bits.
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dsheinem wrote:
BurningDoom wrote:
dsheinem wrote:What is this for? Who is the audience? I'm not really sure how we are to critique it. It's missing a lot, obviously - but that may not matter depending on what your objectives are and why....
2000 characters. It was for a newsletter that is made by some of the students I teach and I was asked to write it for. I just wanted to share it here after I was finished. Thought I did pretty well and was feeling proud.
You have about 16K characters. Do you mean 2000 words? You have about 3000.
Yeah, words. I added the pictures here for embellishment. In the article there's gonna be only one. The quick lists of "important games" at the end of some the sections I kind of added in the post, too.
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BurningDoom wrote:
dsheinem wrote: You have about 16K characters. Do you mean 2000 words? You have about 3000.
Yeah, words. I added the pictures here for embellishment. In the article there's gonna be only one. The quick lists of "important games" at the end of some the sections I kind of added in the post, too.
You'll still probably be a little over 2K...but I am sure you'll figure where to make cuts. What do you teach?
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dsheinem wrote:
BurningDoom wrote:
dsheinem wrote: You have about 16K characters. Do you mean 2000 words? You have about 3000.
Yeah, words. I added the pictures here for embellishment. In the article there's gonna be only one. The quick lists of "important games" at the end of some the sections I kind of added in the post, too.
You'll still probably be a little over 2K...but I am sure you'll figure where to make cuts. What do you teach?
Job coach. Stuff like how to do an interview, how to properly fill-out an application and resume, grooming, how to be professional, etc.
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Re: My Article: A Short History of Gaming

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I like that you got all the basis covered
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