 Game Police, Is this their headquarters? |
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 Feb 14 2005, 08:45 PM
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Great Dragon  Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957  |
If off topic threads are frowned upon, why are you helping to keep this one alive? ;) |
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Feb 14 2005, 08:58 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
I didn't start it, nor does it need my assistance to stay alive, as judged by the amount of posts prior to mine. :P
My contribution was to inform you (and others) that the Admins do not really like off-topic threads, as well as to point out the appropriate procedure should you (or anyone else) truly take offence to any specific post or poster. |
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Feb 14 2005, 09:00 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
Please. There's been enough stupid prickwaving in this thread as it is. |
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Feb 14 2005, 09:07 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
Prickwaving? I can assure you that my genitals were completely inside my clothes at the time I posted that. And given his response I assume Fortune took it as it was intended.
Perhaps you just have an overactive imagination and/or a penchant for waving pricks? :D |
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Feb 14 2005, 09:29 PM
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Traumatizing players since 1992 Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,282 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 220 |
Prickwaving...
<Woosh><Woosh><Woosh> er... nevermind ;) |
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Feb 14 2005, 09:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 292 Joined: 24-September 04 Member No.: 6,701 |
If you look at the length and breath of my responses (ie, click search posts for my username), you'll find that I rarely get nasty with public posts. My deep personal hot-button though (calloused from years of shoddy Real-Life sessions) is GMs who arbitrarily make ridiculously unfair rulings for the sole purpose of getting glee watching their players suffer.
Thank you. My thoughts exactly and probably more tactfully put than I would have. |
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Feb 15 2005, 09:39 AM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,948 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
Realistically, this may be the home of the game police.
I recall some long debates about rules over the last few years, and also some house rules about excluding certain equipment. Somehow, perhaps purely coincidently ;), the game rules got changed in line with the house rules or the conclusion of the debate. The rules received an erratta. Things like the Chipjack Expert Driver, the mnemonic enhancer, called shots, and invisibility. Since it may appear that this board has some influence, there are people who don't want their precious character or tactics to become obsolete or less than legal because it takes advantage of a rule quirk or some piece of equipment that bestows advantages beyond its cost. Even if you think there is no way this forum influences the game rules, there are groups that play by the concensus reached on this forum. So this forum influences games on the net and around the world. It depends on what you see as the function of police. To kick in your door and punish evil doers or a group that seeks to maintain a tidy environment and kick the drek out of any idea that clutters it. |
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Feb 15 2005, 11:24 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
"I Am The Law!"
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Feb 15 2005, 03:19 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,007 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
To some degree the board automatically has influence, in that some of the people who will determine the rules read it. As a result, the ideas discussed here are likely already in their minds when it comes time to work out the next variation on them. They may not be chosen, but just being already on the list is a big advantage.
The same is true, incidentally, of any other source read by the arbiter of something. ~J |
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Feb 15 2005, 03:26 PM
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Old Man Jones Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,415 Joined: 26-February 02 From: New York Member No.: 1,699 |
Should be "Uh Ahm da LUH!" :D -karma |
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