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	If you want a job doing properly, you've got to do it yourself.
	In my opinion, One Man's Rubbish is pretty good as far as it goes,
but no more. It's got much better since the subzines started, but there's
still far too much Mark Stretch in it. A few pages from me each issue may
help to redress the balance a little.
	For instance, I don't regard OMR as having a good letter column.
It's frustrating when you write Stretchy a 2-or-3 page letter, and he cuts
it all out, except printing a half dozen lines, and then taking the mick.
Particularly as 90% of what he prints is to do with hobby games - who's
a god at which game, who can't play what to save their life, who stuffed
who and so on. I don't know if this is usual for a subzine, having only
been in the hobby (and on the fringes of it, at that) for a year, but I'm
going to offer to do a letter column. Hobby people are inherently
interesting and capable of entertaining discussion - let's see if we can
try and reflect that fact. Here's a topic for discussion: how come adult
magazines can feature naked 16-year-olds without being banned as "child
pornography" when you're still a child until you're 18?
	Also, I love games. I want G.I.T. (to be intermittently referred
to as GIT) to reflect that fact. Part of the motivation for this is that
I enjoy designing and altering games, and this will provide me with a
forum to test some of them out in a PBM format. They won't all be great
games, and they won't all be ideal PBM games, but I enjoy reasoned
discussion at least as much as actual gameplay. OMR 13 was rather a false
start for me, being rather rushed together just before leaving on holiday.
In case you didn't see it, it featured full rules to "King of the Hill",
a four-player closed-ended fairly-diplomatic fairly-serious postal game
best described as an interesting version of two games of Stratego going
on at once on the same board. This issue features examples and illustrations
of the rules, but the full rules were in OMR 13. Also this issue are rules
to 2 or 3 all-reader games; if you think they'll be fun (as that's all
they're designed for!) give them a go. I love other forms of game as well
as hobby postal, and over the issues, I'll tell you more about them.
Hopefully, you might find them interesting.
	The sort of games I like to play are not the same as the ones I
like to design. I don't do Dip, for example. I have nothing like the ruthless
killer instinct to plan and pull off a stab. Also there's the fact that
it's all so well-documented and highly codified; people have fairly set
expectations as to what's going to happen, there are standard openings
and the like, and it's altogether very scary for the newcomer. A bit like
chess. So I could spend the time to learn Dip, but I'd rather be doing this.
I suspect I might be a little better at it, too.
	By the way, I'm a mathematics student who needs to improve rather
a lot, so don't expect G.I.T. in March, April, May or June. I might still
do them then, but no promises. As I write, I'm still not sure where I'll be
studying next year. I'm more likely to try and see out my Mathematics degree
at Oxford for one year than change. A little more about me: 20-year-old male
teetotal non-smoking straight-intentioned virgin. I don't have a system for
doing flash DTP, so expect mediocre-looking pages for the next few years.
Even then, I don't have a natural eye for page design. You'll see. Career
ambitions: nominally an actuary, but practically, god knows. I would prefer
to work in television, but would prefer still to spend time laying about
just playing games. Normal member of the hobby? Heh heh heh.