From:	Da Twink Daddy datwinkdaddy@*********.com
Subject:	the value of education
Date:	Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:31:14 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: MC23 <mc23@**********.com>

> Go ahead and dismiss CAS why don't you. Yet again proving the
> northern bias.

Damn Yanks. *Raises southern born and raised hand*

> By the 2060 in the Shadowrun timeline there would be far
> more subtle differences then there are now. Being the child of a
Southern
> father and a Northern mother I pick up on these things a lot.

There would be subtle ones, but also quite drastic ones. I don't think
teh south would revert to a pre-civil war type era, but we would have
a much different society than 'the north.'

> I also notice that a lot of non-southern Shadowrun players
treat the
> CAS in an off hand manner (it's just a stray element of the UCAS to
most
> of them). I don't see the same attitude in the southern players
though
> (damn happy to be in the CAS). Actually I didn't even care for the
South
> as much as I do now and my interest began with the mention of CAS in
> Shadowrun. And those same indifferent responses that I've seen in
places
> like this list just ups my fervor more.

Well, I'm from the south... actually the furthest north I've _ever_
been in West Virginia, but I tend to belittle the CAS as well. Though
I'm not such an adventurous GM, I tend to have my runs set in Seattle
or the surrounding Indian nation and don't stray to much from that.
There's gonna be plenty of jobs in Seattle, no need to increase your
bottom line by paying for someone's transportation to somewhere else
[directly or indirectly.] If the players got _good_ to where they were
known to be _the ones to call_ then, they might get some out of town
jobs, but I'm never hand a group stay together long enough to do that.

> And tying it back to the subject at hand, this also shows the
> knowledge a lot of Americans have of their own country.

You mean, very little?

> -MC23, who believes tea should be iced, sweetened, and have a dash
of
> lemon-

Da Twink Daddy -- Who doesn't drink tea and gets funny looks for it.
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