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 Apr 1 2005, 10:23 PM
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The King In Yellow  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121  |
Well, I can second that. SoE was well received among gamers I know. It actually did most nations covered justice, at least as far as an exaggerated cyberpunk-fantasy RPG can. I din't like the idea of France run by nobles (if any nation in Europe should become communist, it would be France) initially, but when I read the book, it turned out surprisingly well thought out. Definitly beats Germany and that France book, and London too, though from all official and semiofficial European region books, that was the best, by far. 'The translation of SoE into German was quite bad, but you cannot blame the authors for that. For all I know, other than that, SoE was received well. I'm looking forward to the remaining SR3 releases. I am not quite sure about SR4, whether I will like what happens to my favourite character types (the 'techies'), but I'll see. At least, I'm not as, umm, disappointed as I was when I read the first releases. |
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Apr 1 2005, 10:43 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 226 Joined: 29-July 03 Member No.: 5,137 |
Vuron, out of curiosity where did you find those numbers? They sound about right, given the changes since I last heard the numbers (WW and SJ were about even then, but WW has continuously grown).
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Apr 1 2005, 10:54 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 468 Joined: 17-March 05 Member No.: 7,185 |
I got them from Ken Hite's State of the Industry 2004 column http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op...ticle&artid=133
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Apr 2 2005, 12:10 AM
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Too bad I said it first, and moreover, I said it before SR4 was announced (ask, well, you know who). |
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Apr 2 2005, 02:07 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
Eh, guess I'm in the minority then. I'm hoping for SK almost imploding. :) |
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Apr 2 2005, 07:42 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,314 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Lisbon, Cidade do Pecado Member No.: 185 |
Nah, you're just Brit and we know how contrary you are to all things European :P
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Apr 2 2005, 09:26 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 |
Note that I never said I stated it first. :P |
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Apr 4 2005, 10:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 4-August 02 Member No.: 3,064 |
Gee. What would that say about Australians? A modern culture that abruptly started less than 250 years ago (obviously Australia's history is much longer, but Aboriginal culture's influence on modern Australia is not particularly large compared to various European nations or even America). A nation so big that half of it threatened to secede unless the promised railway was built at the turn of last century... and where, in the case of my family, a visit to the grandparents involves travelling a similar distance as London to Istanbul... Heh. |
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Apr 9 2005, 09:40 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
Then you Ozzies are a bit like Americans that way. I live about 1200 miles from my grandparents (Detroit, Michigan area to the Tampa, Florida area.) My wife had a rommate in collage that was visiting from England for a semester. She was very dissapointed that it wasn't practical to go to Disney World (Florida) for a weakend trip. ;)
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Apr 9 2005, 10:13 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
To be fair, not all Europeans think 100 km are an insurmountable distance. I frequently visit my grandparents, who live straight across the country, as well as Paris (got access to an appartment in Montparnasse without paying for it, and that's too good to pass up), and others I know every second weekend make a trip to France for getting more wine (you cannot drink what counts as wine in Germany).
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Apr 11 2005, 09:54 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,086 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 364 |
Well, of course not. 100km is only 62.14 miles. The little nugget of folk wisdom in question is talking about 100 miles. :grinbig: |
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Apr 11 2005, 10:08 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
*sighs*
Okay, but even 200 km aren't a long distance. I mean, it's what, one and a half hour by car? At least if you have decent highways, that is. |
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Apr 11 2005, 10:22 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,012 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Um? I average 90 MPH (blatantly speeding) on highways on a trip that long, and because of the non-highway portions it still takes me about an hour and forty-five minutes.
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Apr 12 2005, 12:05 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 |
It's a generalization. The adage isn't meant to apply to every single person. There are, of course, people in the States that have never gone 100 miles from where they were born, just as there are people in Europe with absolutely no sense of history. But these are not generally considered the norm.
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