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[Fuchs]

I didn't know exactly what that word means, so I looked it up (apparently slappywag means a penis, a jerk, or a stupid person). I am definitely insulted by your post. I was under the impression that personal attacks and insults were not allowed on Dumpshock. You'll note that I did not insult you (or in fact anyone) personally.

But, where's your sense of humor now? Were you bleeding? What's the fuss?

Or does that only apply to people who did not find the "joke" funny?

[Naysayer]

So you stop paying attention for a couple of days and what do you see? Those horrible horrible people at Catalyst Game Labs react to the righteous anger that has sweeped through the world wide web in reaction to their atrocious attempt to forever destroy MY GAME, MY BELOVED (and, I will add, in two states LEGALLY BETROTHED) Shadowrun and now pretend that it was just a joke?!
I AM FILLED WITH GENERIC RAGE!!!

This time, the party currently holding this our sacred interlectual property RANSOM have seriously crossed a line!

I reject the attempt by these... PEOPLE to do anything, to MY GAME or otherwise, that I do not personally appreciate 100%!

I hereby declare this month the official I SHOW MY DISDAIN TO CGL FOR NOT DOING EXACTLY WHAT I WANT INITIATIVE - month, or I.S.M.D.T.CGL.F.N.D.E.W.I.W.I.-month, for short!

I ask all you true Shadowrun fans to supprot this initiative by copying the official I.S.M.D.T.CGL.F.N.D.E.W.I.W.I. statement of disdain into their signature. Together, we will prevail!!!

[Larme]

I didn't know exactly what that word means, so I looked it up (apparently slappywag means a penis, a jerk, or a stupid person). I am definitely insulted by your post. I was under the impression that personal attacks and insults were not allowed on Dumpshock. You'll note that I did not insult you (or in fact anyone) personally.

I didn't know what it means either! But I can't figure out if you're being ironic, thus continuing the joke, or if you're just a big ol hypocrite (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Larme]

I ask all you true Shadowrun fans to supprot this initiative by copying the official I.S.M.D.T.CGL.F.N.D.E.W.I.W.I. statement of disdain into their signature. Together, we will prevail!!!

No! MMO culture be gone! The power of Dunky compels you!

[Prime Mover]

By the way my above post was an april fools joke..I know it sounded mad and disgusted and it was 2 weeks late...what can I say....I laughed all day about it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[swirler]

Try it some time, you slappywag!

someone was watching Family Guy reruns on CW

[Abschalten]

I ask all you true Shadowrun fans to supprot this initiative by copying the official I.S.M.D.T.CGL.F.N.D.E.W.I.W.I. statement of disdain into their signature. Together, we will prevail!!!

I'm with you, brother! Fuck CGL!

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Larme]

someone was watching Family Guy reruns on CW

Correct! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Eyeless Blond]

So you stop paying attention for a couple of days and what do you see? Those horrible horrible people at Catalyst Game Labs react to the righteous anger that has sweeped through the world wide web in reaction to their atrocious attempt to forever destroy MY GAME, MY BELOVED (and, I will add, in two states LEGALLY BETROTHED) Shadowrun and now pretend that it was just a joke?!
I AM FILLED WITH GENERIC RAGE!!!

This time, the party currently holding this our sacred interlectual property RANSOM have seriously crossed a line!

I reject the attempt by these... PEOPLE to do anything, to MY GAME or otherwise, that I do not personally appreciate 100%!

I hereby declare this month the official I SHOW MY DISDAIN TO CGL FOR NOT DOING EXACTLY WHAT I WANT INITIATIVE - month, or I.S.M.D.T.CGL.F.N.D.E.W.I.W.I.-month, for short!

I ask all you true Shadowrun fans to supprot this initiative by copying the official I.S.M.D.T.CGL.F.N.D.E.W.I.W.I. statement of disdain into their signature. Together, we will prevail!!!

Nay! Catalyst is the best thing to happen to Shadowrun since SURGE game me the ability to play real diamond-coated magical catgirls as stealthy, anonymous crimminal masterminds! I reject your reality ans substatute it for my own!

I declare a counter-protest! I call it the LEGION IN FAVOR OF CGL TO REMAIN IN CHARGE OF SHADOWRUN AND EXPAND TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD - or L.I.F.O.CGL.T.R.I.C.O.S.A.E.T.T.O.T.W.

Our longer acronym and more devoted fanbase will destroy you!

[Lyonheart]

I don't like that it was a joke. The designers basically said that the concept of them hypothetically optionally expanding the horizons of the game is a joke.

Silly overpowered new kind of Dragon, funny.
Character creation rules based off the Micro$oft game, funny.
Fake rules for PC/NPC use of something that's a long time part of the game, not funny.

PC rules for something/anything other then then variations on the basic five races.. Nope... That's a joke...

[swirler]

all these acronyms remind me of the Red Dwarf Polymorph episode

"Erm, I think we're losing sight of the real issue here, which is 'What are we gonna call ourselves?' Erm, and I think it comes down to a choice between 'The League Against Salivating Monsters' or my own personal preference, which is 'The Committee for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society'. Erm, one drawback with that - the abbreviation is 'CLITORIS'."

[Adam]

Hey folks,

I'd just like to say that we wanted to post the explanation sooner, but both Peter and I have had some major real-life stuff to deal with in the past couple weeks, and the delay got unacceptably long due to that. For that, I apologize.

[Abschalten]

Hey folks,

I'd just like to say that we wanted to post the explanation sooner, but both Peter and I have had some major real-life stuff to deal with in the past couple weeks, and the delay got unacceptably long due to that. For that, I apologize.

If you give me a free PDF copy of Unwired when it comes available, I'll forgive you! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Larme]

Hey folks,

I'd just like to say that we wanted to post the explanation sooner, but both Peter and I have had some major real-life stuff to deal with in the past couple weeks, and the delay got unacceptably long due to that. For that, I apologize.

I forgive you! As long as you weren't trying to troll us and make us feel stupid, then it's all good (IMG:style_emoticons/default/love.gif)

[Fortune]

But, where's your sense of humor now? Were you bleeding? What's the fuss?

Or does that only apply to people who did not find the "joke" funny?

So, let me get this straight. You are equating outright calling someone a penis with an attempt to give the community a little light-hearted and free entertainment? This goes a long way toward explaining your mindset. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)

[Larme]

So, let me get this straight. You are equating outright calling someone a penis with an attempt to give the community a little light-hearted and free entertainment? This goes a long way toward explaining your mindset. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)

Lawls. I thought you would understand it was a joke, given the fact that it was directly coupled with a suggestion that you try having a direct telephone line to the gawd of humor so you can know when things are supposed to be funny or not.

But to be clear, I don't think you're a penis, I'm quite confident you're a person. I really didn't intend to imply that I suspected you of being a penis, and I apologize if I gave you that impression. Next time I try to make a joke, I'll be sure to put a disclaimer on it to make sure people know I'm not trying to hurt their feelings, thereby ruining it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif)

[Cheops]

The WW april fool's joke...which actually came out before noon on april fool's (anything after the joke is on the pranker)...was IMMENSLY better than this. They did the exact same thing but they didn't make it such a close part of their game.

A sourcebook about Iceland.

Now that's style.

[Particle_Beam]

Lawls. I thought you would understand it was a joke, given the fact that it was directly coupled with a suggestion that you try having a direct telephone line to the gawd of humor so you can know when things are supposed to be funny or not.

But to be clear, I don't think you're a penis, I'm quite confident you're a person. I really didn't intend to imply that I suspected you of being a penis, and I apologize if I gave you that impression. Next time I try to make a joke, I'll be sure to put a disclaimer on it to make sure people know I'm not trying to hurt their feelings, thereby ruining it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif)

Take your time. Let's say, two weeks later, after you told the joke. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
And don't let real-life problems stop you, if you still have time to post on the interwebs. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Fortune]

Lawls. I thought you would understand it was a joke, given the fact that it was directly coupled with a suggestion that you try having a direct telephone line to the gawd of humor so you can know when things are supposed to be funny or not.

Horseshit! It was a direct insult. Don't try to weasel out of it now.

But to be clear, I don't think you're a penis, I'm quite confident you're a person. I really didn't intend to imply that I suspected you of being a penis, and I apologize if I gave you that impression.

So you weren't calling me a dick specifically, just a jerk and/or stupid then. I don't really see that as being much less insulting though.

[Larme]

I am really confused. Are you doing shtick? Because I'm laughing. If you're not trying to be funny by turning a harmless joke into a major issue, I don't know what else to tell you. Though if you're turning a harmless joke into a major issue to turn the mirror on me and show me how ridiculous it is to make a big deal out of a little joke, then point taken (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Edit: Just to be absolutely clear, I was only kidding when I was calling you a slappywag. You slappywag.*



*just kidding here, too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[kanislatrans]

who'da thunk a dragon could cause so much chaos? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

[Critias]

I am really confused. Are you doing shtick? Because I'm laughing. If you're not trying to be funny by turning a harmless joke into a major issue, I don't know what else to tell you. Though if you're turning a harmless joke into a major issue to turn the mirror on me and show me how ridiculous it is to make a big deal out of a little joke, then point taken (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Edit: Just to be absolutely clear, I was only kidding when I was calling you a slappywag. You slappywag.*



*just kidding here, too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

Calling someone a name, bluntly, is not a joke. It's not even a bad joke. It's just calling someone a name. There was no joke involved. There was "you slappywag." There's no joke there, no pun, no attempt at humor, no wry, subtle, wit. It was "you [are a] slappywag." Investigation on slappywag revealed what the word means, and it's a pretty obvious insult.

Catalyst Games did not post a preview that we all opened just to see, in fancy pdf form, "YOU CUNTS," did they? Here, I'll help: no, they didn't.

The fact you and Fuchs are trying to equate the two tells me you've got some pretty messed up ideas of what constitutes a "joke." The fact you're both trying to say that CGL's attempt at humor is somehow worse than simply calling someone a name tells me I was right several posts ago when I offered you a quarter to help you buy a sense of humor, because somewhere in your heads there is a broken meter.

Posting fake rules (while unabashedly poking fun at themselves for their lack of punctuality, issues with prices not matching up, occasional typos, etc) is nowhere near the same thing as just bluntly calling someone a name. You're all assuming it was some trolling and he's just sitting back and laughing at his customers -- that's your baggage, not Peter's. He posted a prank that was chock full of self deprecating humor and you guys are actling like he punched your mom in the tit or something (and then you're calling Fortune a stupid dick, and claiming it's the same sort of "joke").

[Kyoto Kid]

Dictionary.com to the rescue!!
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

or�di�nance [awr-dn-uhns]
noun
1. an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
2. a public injunction or regulation: a city ordinance against excessive horn blowing.
3. something believed to have been ordained, as by a deity or destiny.

ord�nance [awrd-nuhns]
noun
1. cannon or artillery.
2. military weapons with their equipment, ammunition, etc.
3. the branch of an army that procures, stores, and issues, weapons, munitions, and combat vehicles and maintains arsenals for their development and testing.

...OK, OK so, Firefox & Word don't have context & syntax checkers...or even Chinese checkers. (blast, can't even blame this one on my Queen's English either) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

Actually... an ordinance could be considered to have a proximity effect as many tend to be rather broad & general.

...rollerblades away really really fast

[Cthulhudreams]

Calling someone a name, bluntly, is not a joke. It's not even a bad joke. It's just calling someone a name. There was no joke involved. There was "you slappywag." There's no joke there, no pun, no attempt at humor, no wry, subtle, wit. It was "you [are a] slappywag." Investigation on slappywag revealed what the word means, and it's a pretty obvious insult

He said he didn't know what it meant when he posted and made an apology outlining that it was in jest. And in of itself slappywag is a rather hilarious word which I why I imagine he said it. I imagine that is also why it is on family guy. That is also probably why it is funny.

[Raven Bloodeyes]

An old, somewhat relevant link with the most pertinent quote below by someone rather enlightened in the ways of Shadowrun.....

http://www.rpg.net/oracle/essays/storytelling.html

Frankly, I think the idea of anyone claiming that their way of playing 'make believe' is better than someone else's is absurd. I also think it's destructive and has the potential to harm the roleplaying hobby.