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On the Zpack thing, Remiel chose to review that WAD. He put his name down and said "I want to do it". He was not forced to do it. He presumably knew the size of the WAD and what would be involved in reviewing a WAD with that many maps in it - and that he might not like some, even all, of them. That's just tough shit for him. If he realised he wasn't up to the task, he should have passed it on to someone who was prepared to at least look at all the maps.
The point has been made that it is possible to tell a lot about a map by only playing the first half (even though I'd say that you really should see a map through to the bitter end if you are reviewing it). However, I'd say that it was a much less safe bet being able to tell how good 10 or more unseen maps by various authors were just because he'd played others, by other authors, in the pack. People spent time and effort on making those maps: more than Remiel did in writing his "review". The least he could have done was to idclev to each map and play them for a bit rather than make sweeping generalisations about what he supposes they might be like.
Like I said, he signed up for it. He chose to do it. However, he wasn't prepared to see the job through and, as a result, the map set didn't get a full review, mappers didn't get feedback, potential players got an incomplete message and someone else who might have been prepared to give it a full review for /newstuff didn't get the chance.
And I thought the epack fpack thing was a weak joke that didn't really make sense much sense other than to allow the reviewer to feel smug and use the 2pack line, which could have been done a lot better too.
Short version: if you sign up to do something, do it. If you can't do it, butt-out and give someone else a chance.
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07-17-08 00:47 
