[UA] Re: Pants Meme

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Frank Lohmann <flohmann at geomar.de> wrote:
> Royal Minister of Stuff <yokeltania at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I like the idea of one continuous history which
> keeps
> > popping its collective past into new shapes.  I
> would
> 
> Oh, please - do play Feng Shui... 8)
> 
> > go so far as to say that the Godhead reincarnates
> a
> > lot more often than people would suspect.  It
> isn't a
> > thousand-year cycle, it's much shorter.  Maybe
> once a
> > century or even more frequently.  That way you
> could
> > have remnants of the great Steampunk empire
> showing up
> > along with crashed 50s martians and space nazi
> > aerojags.  It would be kind of like a nice or
> > pre-meditated version of Realiy Quakes.
> 
> I don't think this suits the themes and moods of
> Unknown Armies too well. I'd 
> rather keep Steampunk sillyness with Falkenstein,
> space nazis with the Floating 
> Vagabond, and my UA game gritty and scary. In my
> head, crashed 50s martians 
> resemble the aliens from Gary Larson's cartoon too
> much to be *any* kind of 
> scary... 8)

People in the 50s thought they were scary.

Incidentally, I don't think of steampunk as silly, but
it probably is.  Actually, I don't have a problem with
silly being in the midst of something scary.  I'd say
both Dead Alive and Evil Dead do a great job of being
both silly and scary.  

Is it just me or are gamers absolutely terrified of
being silly lately?  Why is that, I wonder?

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
The Electronic Nation of Yokeltania:
http://www.geocities.com/yokeltania/

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