 Seattle's 2070 elections, Who's going to win? |
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 Sep 12 2006, 06:17 PM
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Shooting Target  Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992  |
NOTE: This is not an official survey or whatever. It's just me and my curiosity. :P
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Sep 12 2006, 06:27 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Banned Posts: 3,732 Joined: 1-September 05 From: Prague, Czech Republic Member No.: 7,665 |
After election polls show a potential lead by the SIP, polls close early due to terroristy threats. Military units close down voting booths to combat the bomb threat, and the Republican candidate wins by a narrow margin.
-Frank |
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Sep 12 2006, 07:20 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
Anyone care to explain their vote?
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Sep 12 2006, 07:36 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Does it matter? The election is a joke.
But I imagine the technomancer will win because it's a good tie-in for Emergence and because anywhere else she would deserve to die or lose in a humiliating blow-out because the people she's relying on to vote for her either wouldn't, or would get drowned out in the mass of people voting for a more legitimate candidate like Brackhaven. Either way, this is just one more example of why I think politics in SR is anything but intelligent and well-written. |
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Sep 12 2006, 07:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 393 Joined: 20-June 06 Member No.: 8,754 |
Whoever is the best at bribing
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Sep 12 2006, 07:50 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: 9-December 03 From: Greenville, SC Member No.: 5,889 |
I hear Strouthers has a Master Shedim working on her campaign staff...
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Sep 12 2006, 08:07 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
His staff.
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Sep 12 2006, 08:17 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: 9-December 03 From: Greenville, SC Member No.: 5,889 |
Right you are, SL James. His staff. I misread the candidate's name as Julia, instead of Julius.
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Sep 12 2006, 08:20 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,241 Joined: 10-August 02 Member No.: 3,083 |
I think Seattle Independence would be interesting, and that's certainly the candidate I'd prefer. But Brackhaven is a racist, and a Republican, and clearly the more "villainous" of the three candidates, so I think it's fair to say he's going to win.
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Sep 12 2006, 08:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 28-July 05 Member No.: 7,526 |
Brackhaven. Why settle for the lesser of two evils?
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Sep 12 2006, 08:32 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,748 Joined: 5-July 02 Member No.: 2,935 |
I'd tend to agree, except politics in real life is anything but intelligent and well-written either. :P |
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Sep 12 2006, 08:40 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
The coverage of politics is generally pretty much crap. However, politics is not a field for the stupid.
That said, I'd be shocked if actual politicians were involved anywhere in this thing. Parties usually only submit novices for high political office when they are expected to lose, and in a city-state like Seattle there would be no shortage of people who earned their way in the parties, and in the public eye. |
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Sep 12 2006, 09:22 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
You know, it's also a good setup for Emergence if she has a blow-out loss... going down in flames as it comes out that she might be a technomancer a few days before the election. |
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Sep 12 2006, 09:29 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Good start.
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Sep 12 2006, 09:42 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 27-February 06 Member No.: 8,316 |
I voted for the incumbent because Brackhaven is a racist and therefore a loser asswipe who should be ejected into outerspace (he's probably a sexist, homophobic, antilabour, tree killing, toxic totem worshipper too.)
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Sep 12 2006, 09:44 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
You make that sound like a bad thing.
damn trees... thinking they're better than us. |
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Sep 12 2006, 09:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 27-February 06 Member No.: 8,316 |
yeah and they "produce more pollution than cars." (RWR)
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Sep 12 2006, 10:47 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 834 Joined: 30-June 03 Member No.: 4,832 |
I voted for Dunklzahn! (Post-Humously)
Which book is this election set up in? |
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Sep 12 2006, 11:23 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
Runner Havens. |
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Sep 12 2006, 11:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 834 Joined: 30-June 03 Member No.: 4,832 |
Thanks JonkWK, I haven't gotten to read through that one yet.
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Sep 13 2006, 12:13 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
WHAT!? *cracks whip* :D |
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Sep 13 2006, 04:22 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 27-February 06 From: Lost in Time Member No.: 8,312 |
My answer my be boring and may not agree later with books...
But I say let the PCs actions effect the outcome of the race. I'm not saying that the people the PCs back should win, but I feel that a game where the PCs back one of the "runners" could be a fun game. Thanks for the idea... |
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Sep 13 2006, 05:04 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 7,089 Joined: 4-October 05 Member No.: 7,813 |
yeah, the main problem there is "not agreeable with later books".
assuming the SOP is followed, every year IRL is gonna be equal to one year advanced in game time... |
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Sep 13 2006, 05:48 AM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
Brackhaven, Brackhaven, gooooooooooo, Brackhaven!
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Sep 13 2006, 06:31 AM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
One of the more disappointing things about the whole thing was that when I was writing up some information about ... stuff ... the Technocratic Party effectively imploded in 2068 after Colloton's win, proving that its role as the third-party was not going to survive its own dismal history, the fact that the UCAS government is optimal for only two major parties, and that the two political parties which have been fighting each other since Lincoln was first elected finally got sick of their shit and took them out to the woodshed.
Instead it was the Archconservatives, which is fucking boring, and the Republican Party is tearing itself apart rather than using its newfound influx of former Technocrats to dominate American politics for the next generation. And on top of that, we get a man who has been painted as teh devul for the last decade IRL as their gubernatorial candidate. It's so clever that Republican is an evil wingnut that it makes me want to bash my nutsack with a hammer. |
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