[UA] UA Junior.

[Nick Wedig]

>Oh, "that" dream.  You mean the one where your best friend tells you to
>kneel, places a gun to the back of your head, tells you that it'll be over
>soon, and then pulls the trigger--only it's not over.  Your skull hurts like
>someone hit it with a hammer, but a pleasant warmth is flowing out of your
>body in the region of the pain, and more than the warmth, the sense of _you_
>fades steadily, until it's all but gone, and you hear the voice of your high
>school crush say, "You moron...you missed his medulla oblongata!"  And then
>nothing.
>
>Oh, is that just me?  Sorry.  The worst part of the falling dream is,
>indeed, when you hit bottom, and the dream doesn't end.

Whenever I died in my dreams, there was no pain.  I just kind of lied down in the street and watched Abe Lincoln (who had just shot me... I think it comes from Sandman) run off.

>Beyond divorce, there's a thousand petty tyrannies we unwittingly inflict on
>kids in the interest of doing it "for the kids."  

There's a poem that begins "Your Mom and Dad, they fuck you up" which seem to more or less summarize how parents tend to fail at their job.  (I forget the poet, alas)

> The real question is, did you ever really figure out what why
>meant, or did you settle for a reasonable "because"?

I've never settled for "because" which would be why I'm a philosophy major and categorically unemployable.  It never answered any questions, but now I know more about the questions.

ObUAJr: Children tend to be even less skilled and in control of their environment than adults, so it fits in with the feel of UA having characters fail and not always be in control (which isn't to say the players aren't in control and get choices, just that the world doesn't always agree).  More helplessness checks, and lots of self checks once you reach high school age, I bet.  Children hould be less powerful, as opposed to other games I've seen that make child characters more powerful to make up for being children.

Mr. Teapot
can't remember exactly which games he refers to

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