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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (TexasFriedCriminal)
Subject: WTF??????? (5 mile mail;)
Date: Sat Feb 3 12:20:01 2001
From: abortion_engine
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 5:49 PM

> > there was a certain sarcasm in there that I feel he understood,
> which you
> > obivously did not.
>
> Well, everyone knows sarcasm always goes directly over my head. I'm never
> sarcastic; I'm always open and very, very literal. And honest.

I guess you know know what I mean

> And, as a suggestion, people around here sometimes use [s]message[/s] or
> [sarc]message[/sarc] as a means of communicating sarcasm, since
> rolling your
> eyes or toning your voice to "droll" doesn't work so well online.
> Or you can
> just use an emoticon.

I thought that simply the extreme "outrage" of my posting would suffice ;)

> My lord! What a horrible thing to do! I can't believe anyone would use
> rhetoric just to...hey, why's everyone looking at me?

;)

> Okay, a little more seriously. I would recommend that rhetorical
> tricks that
> rely on insults, controversy, shock, or anything else of the sort be
> avoided, at least here. From extensive personal experience, I can tell you
> that these sorts of techniques go quite unappreciated here; it is much
> easier to have a /productive/ discussion with the persons on this list if
> such tricks are avoided. Besides, I don't like competition. :)

agreed, but
isn't competition always good for business?

> And, again seriously, it's not as if you've personally offended me.
> Personally, I think BroJ /is/ insane. But I myself was using a little
> rhetorical trick to make the discussion more about the issues - and in a
> nice, polite way - and less mean-spirited.
>
> I thought just your initial post was more confrontational than it
> needed to
> be.

acknowlegded

> > and the state is texas, not kentucky
>
> My apologies.
>
> > (p.s. I do take that seriously, and
> > find some vicious intention in you calling me KFC, considering my mail
> > concerning my nickname)
>
> ...which I either didn't read or forgot about. I assure you there was no
> viciousness intended; never ascribe to my viciousness what could be better
> explained by my incompetance.

;) ok, no bad feelings


> And I would agree with you. However, I think it's a flaw inherent in the
> genre, and less an SR-specific issue, or even an SR/D&D/WoD issue.

surely, these are just prominent examples, system is second to style of play
of course

> I would also like to note that, with one noteable exception, none of the
> published adventures involved saving the world. You'll note that the
> adventures' involvement with the uber-plot was always peripheral;
> this gives
> us some idea of FASA's intent regarding the sorts of things you should do
> with these plotlines. Their idea isn't that PCs will be directly involved
> with, for instance, Dunklezahn's death, but, using this example,
> the larger
> picture influences them in other ways; for example, through the
> jobs created
> by the will, through the political aftermath of having a new
> president, etc.
> I always thought FASA was pretty clear on that, and that pleased me; after
> all, that's the way the world works. A government shake-up in Korea means
> precisely nothing to me personally, but the price of RAM dropping
> to US$100
> for a 1 gig DIMM would, for instance. This is one of the ways in which I
> though SR nicely modeled real life.

two words, Harelequin's Back...

I don't know super tuesday though, and only read through Dunkelzahn's
Secrets once.

> > p.s. : since english is not my primary language I might not
> quite be able
> to
> > express exactly what I want to say, I do _not_ mind being told about any
> > blunders.
>
> No worry; English /is/ my primary language, and I'm /still/ not
> always able
> to express exactly what I want to say. In your case, if all else
> fails, just
> communicate in German; I may not speak it well, but I read it just fine.

gut das zu wissen ;)

-- ^/_Texas - Fried - Criminal_\^ --
* you want fries with that ? *
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To participate, therefore, in this
disembodied enactment of life's most
body-centered activity is to risk the
realization that when it comes to sex,
perhaps the body in question is not
the physical one at all, but its psychic
double, the bodylike self-representation
we carry around in our heads...
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