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Wed 2004-05-12 12:44
Sillinesses

At the Calling last night, I found my eye drifting over the ‘X-Men versus Street Fighter’ beat-em-up arcade game standing unplayed in a corner of the Kambar. It's been there for months if not years, but it only just occurred to me yesterday to wonder if the choice of characters was done as a deliberate play on ‘X-Wing versus TIE Fighter’. And now I've thought of it, it suddenly seems horribly likely…

Meanwhile at work, yesterday our documentation team called me a SME. I had no idea Kryten had found work as a tech author.

(‘Subject Matter Expert’, I eventually found out from a glossary, so I suppose I am indeed a complete and total one.)

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[identity profile] razornet.livejournal.comWed 2004-05-12 04:58
X-Men versus Streetfighter was brought in late last year to replace a football game, which in turn was replaced by Metal Slug, which was played *alot*.

Um..
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[identity profile] deliberateblank.livejournal.comWed 2004-05-12 05:52
Not a Small-to-Medium sized Enterprise then?
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[identity profile] mobbsy.livejournal.comWed 2004-05-12 06:46
That was my first thought.
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[identity profile] mtbc100.livejournal.comWed 2004-05-12 08:06
Mmmm - ‘Subject Matter Expert’ is the usual Federal government term for a consultant on a commercial project IME, so we talk a lot of SMEs too.
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[identity profile] lzz.livejournal.comThu 2004-05-13 01:11
Hmm, I would have said that meant Small or Medium-sized Enterprise...
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