[UA] She just doesn't get it, does she?

[Daniel R. Lackey]

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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 12:23:15 +1000
> From: "Patrick O'Duffy" <redfern at thehub.com.au>
> Organization: Running Text
> To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
> Subject: Re: [UA] She just doesn't get it, does she?
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>
> I had to read a pile of Palladium stuff for a catalog writing job a few
months
> ago.  I literally found them unreadable; the layout, editing and writing
was so
> poor (in my opinion) that I simply couldn't read more than a paragraph or
two
> before giving up.  I can imagine ever running a game from those books.
>
> Having said that, I'll contradict myself by saying I'm kinda interested in
> NIGHTBANE.  It looks like an interesting setting, an interesting idea.
I'd just
> have to totally rewrite the game, redo all the themes and tones, and use a
> different system.

My thoughts exactly.  Also, I'd like a system where it doesn't take me two
friggin hours to bang out a character.  I take pride in being a half-hour
generator.

> > > It's very easy, once
> > > personally offended by something, to not be able to back down on your
> > opinion
> > > rationally.  That's life.
> >
> > I think that's the core of the problem here, as far as Jo is concerned.

Well.  That's obvious.  We're nothing but a bunch of rabid fanboy laddies.

Just kidding.

Everybody has their own biases and their own tastes and opinions... we're
all human and we're not much different from each other, in the long term.
It just happens that most of us don't agree with her (read: "She just
doesn't get it, does she?").

> Lent the book out on Wednesday, so I couldn't look up any NPCs.  Forgot
about
> Lili.  Although I don't think she qualifies as a 'mover and shaker'; she's
an
> independent operative, not heading up any sort of organization or cabal.

As Lili is the only agent of the House listed in the core book, I happen to
think she's rather important.  I'm rather miffed that she's not even
mentioned in _Statosphere_.

> Would you want to subscribe to a mailing list for a game you don't enjoy,
> populated with several people who are hostile towards you, for the sole
purpose
> of arguing that the game is flawed?  I certainly wouldn't.  I'd let them
argue
> in peace; visiting would only inflame tempers, as well as drawing anger
towards
> myself.

Hell, I find myself not particularly wanting to subscribe to mailing lists
for games I do enjoy, let alone ones I don't.

> > As it is here in America, although we don't call it by that name.  Two
> > words: Adam Corolla; two more: Jimmy Kimmel.
>
> Three words: who are they?

Australia, I tell ya, is looking better every day.  Does every radio station
over there play Korn?  If not, I think I'll be over on the next available
flight.

-- DRL

DRLackey at mindless.com -- http://home.earthlink.net/~jmdreyfuss/
The Finger Pointing Society: http://listen.to/finger-pointing-society/




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