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Message no. 1
From: Mike Nelson <kuthuga@***.NET>
Subject: TopCat love him with money or he'll hate you with hammers
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:03:05 -0500
I have never seen one person take up so much space on a list before.
For that I have to give both TopCat, the list demagauge, and Bob, my
friend, a hearty applause. However, while watching this jihad carry
out has been interesting it has also gone farther and farther off
topic. This fact seems to bother some of the bandwith impaired so
allow me to offer a solution. I play in TC's Shadowrun, (pause while
everyone gasps that I survived), and have a nigh messianic insight
into people's souls :). So from now on when you want to know if TC's
Shadowrun is like a siberian gulag all you have to do is email me and
I will give you the straight dope.


Now to answer some of the more common questions I have heard;

1) Is TC a facist?

a: Not as much as you might think. While he is fond of the pulpit he
can usually be swayed by a reasoned arguement.

2) Is TC a huge Powergamer?

a: TC much like myself is a recovering powergamer. His condition like
mine stemmed from a case of good resource mangement skills and waaaay
too much free time.


and finally

3) Is TC the antichrist come to rage war on Brits and Liberal types?

a: Yes, but buy him a drink and he softens up.


Mike Nelson (your source for TopCat info)
mike@***.net
Message no. 2
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: TopCat love him with money or he'll hate you with hammers
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 00:03:52 +0100
In message <9707182203.AA12902@****.bcl.net>, Mike Nelson
<kuthuga@***.NET> writes
>
>3) Is TC the antichrist come to rage war on Brits and Liberal types?
>
>a: Yes, but buy him a drink and he softens up.

Buy a bigot a drink, and you've got a drunken bigot. Not wise.

Bob has his opinions, to which he is welcome, and which are often
sensible and well-presented. His problem is an apparently-hardwired
inability to comprehend a fundamental truth; that "different opinion" !=
"totally wrong". Add to that his preference for personal attack over
rational debate, and I can't see alcohol as offering any room for
improvement whatsoever.

Take his enthusiastic assertion, based on experience, that "most of the
military is unprofessional". I've got six years' experience to the
contrary concerning the British Army, and nine years of making toys for
the RAF and RN, that tells me this is incorrect - at least as far as HM
Forces are concerned. I've also got experience of training with the US
military that confirms Bob's opinions _of them_.

But there are other armed forces than the US military, strange though
this often seems to our colonial cousins.

There are more ways to play than the TopCat campaign: and what grates is
the constant assumption that he - and only he - knows the One True Way.


If he genuinely lightens up after a few drinks then I'm buying: but
somehow I doubt it.

--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk

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