| From: | Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU> |
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| Subject: | Re: NAGTW Iceland part |
| Date: | Thu, 7 Nov 1996 08:12:08 +1000 |
> called "campanilism" in italian, or Thinking That Your Country IS
> Better Than (almost) All Others... In other words, olafur has given
> us a MIGHTILY optimistic view of iceland in the 2050es. Now, yes, it
> is all very detalied and realistic, but will everyone do the same or
> will someone have the bravery to describe a real cyberpunk environment
> instead of this sort of wishy-washy sort-of-cyberpunk (mixed with a
> little Star Wars and a hint that HE himself would like to be a
> shaman) stuff?
True enough, but if you get someone who isn't from the country in
question to write the material, you're almost guaranteed to piss
*everyone* off.
As far as it goes, I'm trying to put some realism (or whatever you call
it) in the Australian info I'm writing.... I'll admit that it's not easy,
though.
BTW as a side note, does Iceland really have *that* much chance of
producing energy themselves?? If they buy their energy from GB, just
think how guilty they are of contributing to the multitude of nuclear
metldowns that occured in England.
> I mean, if you had come from Great Britain, would you have written
> the England Sourcebook??? I takes guts to detail your own country's
> future as a wasted, polluted, infested, violent, poor, underground
> rainy a**hole in the universe, especially when other people describe
> theirs as shiny, magical, rightly rebellious fishing and clean-energy
> producing havens (who had the strength to rise up after a big
> disaster, to top it all).
> But isn't pessimism what cyberpunk is all about?
>
Ah, but if you've read anything else written by Carl Sargeant and Marc
Gascoigne (sp?) you'll realise that they have a severe munchkin elf
fetish.... That attitude and the resulting social situation in
England (ie pro-elf bias) pissed me off more than the rest of the sourcebook
combined.
Just my 2 nuyen worth.
Bleach
