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[Philippe]

> > 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.

And my players want to join this ML, now. If every member of
the french ML is a suscriber of the US ML, perhaps the ML I
created yesterday is useless... :-)

> 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.

And good reviews in 2d+3 (a web tv emission on RPG), and
good reviews in Backstab (another french RPG magazine), and
now good reviews of customers with roliste.com !

> > - 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.

Speaking of movies, Fight Club, Tarantino, David Lynch, are
the movies my players think about when playing UA. Not "Au
revoir les enfants", by Louis Malle, which is not
surprising, indeed...

> > - 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".

These are components of the game setting, stereotypes I use
to create a climax.

> > Godammit ? By Jove ? Dr Livingstone I presume ?
Elementary
> > my dear Watson ? :-)
>
> Maybe a little too much Blake and Mortimer? :)

Ah ! You got me ! I learnt to read with Blake and
Mortimer... :-)
It wasn't serious, that was just the first sentences in
english i learnt ! yes, 'Whazzup' should have been listed.
'Gotcha', 'Go ahead, punk ! Make my day' sound more
american, doesn't it ? :-)


> 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 use it every time I go to the supermarket...

Philippe

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