[1] Pointed Accounts of People You Know was recorded in May 1983 at Samurai Sound Lab in Davis, California, a studio co-owned by Dave Gill, the band's new drummer, who replaced Michael Irwin.

[1][7] Earlier the same week, on November 24, Omnivore reissued the French compilation Dead Center as an omnibus release on CD, encompassing material from both EPs and additional tracks.

"[11] In a 1994 interview, Scott Miller similarly described the early Game Theory EPs as "spotty in quality," and identified "Metal and Glass Exact" as one of the few songs he considered good, "sort of mid-tempo Elvis Costello.

"Selfish Again" makes for a catchy little rocker, slowly growing in steady intensity and adding a little bit of glazed VU/psych drone in the background...[10]In the 2002 book All Music Guide to Rock: The Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul, reviewer Stewart Mason cited the "winsome" song "Penny, Things Won't," and the "sneering rocker" "Metal and Glass Exact," naming them as examples of "stellar material" that appeared on the Pointed Accounts EP.

Either the haunting "37th Day" or the bitter "I Wanna Get Hit by A Car" (which was actually one of Game Theory's most popular early songs on college radio) would have better commemorated Juhos' tenure in the band.

"[11] Twenty years later, Vinyl Exam wrote that the Juhos contribution "I Wanna Get Hit By a Car" was a "New Wave novelty song" that grew on the reviewer, blending The B-52's and Oingo Boingo influences.

"[14] Mike Appelstein, in the 2005 book Lost in the Grooves, summed up his view of Game Theory's first three releases with a comparison drawn from the two sides of Pointed Accounts: "Scott Miller had already proven himself capable of brilliant tunesmithing on the level of "Metal and Glass Exact" ...