The AMIGA POWER List Of Death

AP did not impose much upon its writers. If you wanted to write a review in anagrams or something, that was fine.

But there were certain words and phrases the use of which invited kickings-off of faces. Lazy phrases that displayed a lack of interest and thought. Grotesque words that betrayed a spectacular missing of the point.

Younger readers who were unmoved by Scotland Yard's Black Museum may nonetheless wish to have an adult present before examining AP's List Of Death. If you've actually used anything on the list, you've made a complete bish of life and will have to become an enigmatic minister as penitence.*

Product

If you use this and are not speaking about multiplication, you ought to be punched. If you use this and are speaking about games, you ought to be crippled with hammers and entombed alive. You cannot even use it ironically. The simplest way to trap a member of AP into a scandal of violence is to go up to them and say this word once in a non-mathematical context.

Very and Nice

Their greyness allows them to be glimpsed indirectly in a reflecting-glass by the public in the lexicon under the obvious entry and the other one of (them). Do not take this as an endorsement of the occasional usage.

If you liked X, you'll love this

"I have reviewed this game in under two hours. Please blow up my house."

If this is the sort of thing you like, you'll like this

"I have reviewed this game from the description on the box. Please kill me with pliers."

On the other hand

So we'll just ignore everything you've said up to now then, eh?

A 100

"100" means "one hundred." "I see 100 ships" means "I see one hundred ships." "I see a 100 ships" means nothing. At all.

Check it out

If you are not talking about a library book, hang your head in shame. It will then snap back more satisfyingly as our collective uppercut connects with the underside of your chin.

Gameplay

"I cannot be troubled to specify why I like this game. Please throw me to lions."

Get a life

"Take my life, more like."

Don't get me wrong

"I am about to contradict everything I have said so far because I am desperate to be loved, also to appear American."

Passionate

"I am bankrupt of vigour and application to such an extent that I must emphasise a preening earnestness in what I am doing despite the obvious implication that I'm uncomprehendingly saying I'd normally do it with slack-lidded banality." (Exemption awarded in soppy context.)

Imperil yourself by ignoring us.