| From: | Nexx <nexx@********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Old Age Runners (Was: Re: Sex & the |
| Date: | Wed, 6 May 1998 21:29:04 -0500 |
> From: Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
> Ah, SR1 and autosuccesses and variable staging. Hey, I bet the kiddies
> haven't ever heard of 3L1 or 5D4 damage codes, eh? Now THAT complicated
> combat.
Or when physads were gods because they're powers were automatic
successes... dear gods, I loved those guys.
> You know what the sad thing is? There are plenty of people on this list
> who simply have no recollection of living like that, who only know about
> the Cold War from books and school. Some of us geezers actually grew up
> with the spectre of the Red Menance and Global Thermonuclear War.
Course, some of us young folks managed to remember things from times when
the threat of Global Thermonuclear War was something more than a plot on a
movie.
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better part of humor."
aka Ellegon, Working at making Cannon canon
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and good with ketchup."
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