In my native country of Australia, someone would probably say 'Fer Christsake Jon, give it a rest!'
I read your life compared to Shadowrun.. I didn't agree with it.... but I read it and waded through the text to find your point..
And now, Mage... another RPG.. ok Jon, enough is enough.. Is this the followup to Geeks? To show us all the RPG's the you just 'discovered'?
Please for the love of god just write one huge article and be done with it!!
I couldn't bear to hear 'Real World compared to TOON by Steve Jackson'
or
'Government Conspiracy vs. Grand Plan of Yog Shoggoth... beware the in the white house great Cthulhu lies dreaming'
My point? Ok.. I work in the media myself, and this is what we call 'Hack'.
I can sort of relate to what's being said here. I've been watching life slowly get closer to fiction for the past 20 years. But 'Shadowrun'?.. please.. If we *really* need to go with a RPG game reference to keep it hip with the 'geek' crowd, why not something that doesn't include elves and magic (and don't even get me started on Vampires). Why not Cyberpunk 2020?.. Or even better, why not go with a literary reference.. remember thats another thing us 'geeks' are notorious for. Any of Gibson or Sterlings work (which for the record I don't really like) would have been equally appropriate, why not go for Anthony Burgess' A ClockWork Orange? In short, nice idea.. but very poor implimentation.. Your trying to force a square peg into a round hole.... (my 2c worth)
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In my native country of Australia, someone would probably say 'Fer Christsake Jon, give it a rest!' I read your life compared to Shadowrun.. I didn't agree with it.... but I read it and waded through the text to find your point.. And now, Mage... another RPG.. ok Jon, enough is enough.. Is this the followup to Geeks? To show us all the RPG's the you just 'discovered'? Please for the love of god just write one huge article and be done with it!! I couldn't bear to hear 'Real World compared to TOON by Steve Jackson' or 'Government Conspiracy vs. Grand Plan of Yog Shoggoth... beware the in the white house great Cthulhu lies dreaming' My point? Ok.. I work in the media myself, and this is what we call 'Hack'.
I can sort of relate to what's being said here. I've been watching life slowly get closer to fiction for the past 20 years. But 'Shadowrun'?.. please.. If we *really* need to go with a RPG game reference to keep it hip with the 'geek' crowd, why not something that doesn't include elves and magic (and don't even get me started on Vampires). Why not Cyberpunk 2020?.. Or even better, why not go with a literary reference.. remember thats another thing us 'geeks' are notorious for. Any of Gibson or Sterlings work (which for the record I don't really like) would have been equally appropriate, why not go for Anthony Burgess' A ClockWork Orange? In short, nice idea.. but very poor implimentation.. Your trying to force a square peg into a round hole.... (my 2c worth)