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[quote name="Fussbett"]<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,66846,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3" target="wired">http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,66846,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3</a> A crowd, and later Wired magazine, stroke off three gaming luminaries who rose to the challenge of designing fake games around the premise of Emily Dickinson's poetry at this year's GDC. Seeing these imaginations at work must have been truly breathtaking. [quote]As an example, he showed the crowd a potential text message from Dickinson: "1t is b3tt3r t0 B th3 h4mm3r th4n th3 4nv1L" (geek writing for "it is better to be the hammer than the anvil"). With lines like that, Wright won the challenge, hands down. [/quote] Lines like that. Lines like that, written by Emily Dickinson and translated into leetspeak by Wright in an example of a 10-year-old internet joke, won the challenge hands down. <font color="0">I wonder what Monty Cantsin would've done?</font>[/quote]