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[Will]

Philippe <phfenot at hotmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> lol ! It's funny. But i'm not the first french suscriber
> here, I think ? In fact, Will gave me the ML's url.

Actually I thought Greg and John would be happy to see there's some
momentum here too.

About the now classical question "how did you discover the game?", I'd like
to point out there was a very very very good review of UA in the most
important french magazine, Casus Belli. Greg and John also have a good
reputation here, especially because of Delta Green and L5R. The game is not
mainstream, which usually appeal to european players. And, finally, the
game is good - word of mouth works pretty well here.

> - postmodernism is a movement much more vivid in america
> than europa, where modernism has roots back to Renaissance.

Clearly. We are slowly but firmly switching to a more "look forward"
stance. But there's still a long way ahead.

> Nephilim is a good exemple. [of "classicism"]

The french version, at least. The US one has been edited considerably.
On the other hand we have the original In Nomine Satanis, which is much more
Tarantino-esque than the US version.

> - elements of game are americans, too : sects, furious
> action, guns, occult underground, big cities, fill the
> atmosphere, and transposing these elements stricto sensu in
> France wouldn't make much sense.

I got sects (or at least religious subgroups, since we are unfortunately quite
strong on not-directly-religiously-inclined sects), guns and big cities. I'm
not so sure about the furious action part, but at least in Germany life is
very very slow. Finally, I don't really understand what you mean by "fill
the atmosphere".

> Godammit ? By Jove ? Dr Livingstone I presume ? Elementary
> my dear Watson ? :-)

Maybe a little too much Blake and Mortimer? :)
I guess most US catchphrases I use come from South Park (even if I never
watched an episode), like "it sucks", "it rocks" and "it kicks ass".

The only sentence I can remember that sounds cool is "Everybody be cool, this
is a robbery". But it's not exactly a catchphrase (or is it?)

I guess we'd have to ask people who don't speak english... and I was surprised
that "voulez-vous coucher avec moi ?" didn't appear, I thought it was the #1
catchphrase. Maybe a problem of context :)

Will

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