| From: | ragtag@****.caltech.edu (Robert A. Granat) |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: the stranger will be missed |
| Date: | Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:25:08 -0800 (PST) |
> The list is going to SH!t, cuz everyone either doesn't know
> to use the rulez as a guide
Are you complaining here that people are violating the standard rules
or that people aren't being liberal enough with them?
> or is just afraid to use their imaginations and
> push the boundaries that have bought us to this lull of moonth long
> plots and sensless plots.
What exactly do you mean by "push the boundaries?" What sort of plots
would you like to see happening? If you have firm ideas for good
plots, why not just introduce them yourself?
> Some of the things that have become habit, T/D stamp switches,
> actively accepted munchikinism, BLANTANT Corporate Backing of
> characters, no matter how you try to explain it away later, is just
> unacceptable ( I think Evan, "GK" mainly meant this, but pointed towards
> you cuz, you're doing it) the T/D STamp switches, that doesn't bother
> me, what bothers me is non-decker types, or Brand spankin new deckers,
> still dry behind the ears, changing their T/ds, or some of you folks
> saying "well my character doesn't know how, so neither does everyone
> else" think about that statement... then this bullsh!t "well only
> posers would do it" or "really good deckers don't have to do it cuz
> their so good" BullSH!t!!! restricting the imagination.
There's a fine line to walk between restricting the imagination and
destroying the suspension of disbelief. For me, at least, a profusion
of time/date stamp alterations strains the suspension of disbelief.
> I have a question for all of you that put this as an reason to
> restrict the use of changed T/D stamps, When you go to the
> store, and you buy a cleaning product or new technology(pc's,cd-player,
> anything) do you buy the stuff that's in a plain white rapper (if you
> can help it) or do you buy the stuff in the colorful, eye-catching
> packaging? If I'm a fixer/johnson and put a post lookin' for talent
> and some guy named "Bumble-wax <23:45/3.23.56>" and some dude
> "MAXTOR <DON:T HIRE BUMBLE WAX HE SUCKS LOOK HE CANT EVEN CHANGE HIS
> T/D STAMP> answers, just who do you thing is getting the job?
With all due respect, when I go out and buy a product, I do so on the
basis of quality and price, not on the basis of packaging. One might
think that fixers and Johnsons may be tempted to do the same. The
question, then, is whether time/date stamp alteration is an indication
of quality.
> You know BUZZ (sorry I forgot who runs him)handler ragged on me cuz I
> said once that you should be able to perform the double somersault,
> and still blast at the four orks standing in the cardinals with the
> assault cannon, and land on your feet. but that was an exageration on
> terms. I never said you would hit anything.
All I can say here is that if someone were to have their character do
this, it would basically destroy my suspension of disbelief. In "real
life" firefights don't go down like that. Call it restriction of
imagination if you like, but I think that the Shadowrun universe
should be able to reflect reality in the majority of its particulars.
--RG
