Removed that link. That was just disgusting, don't post stuff like that again.

Bull

How was that link even remotely disgusting. Are you in china where they have horrible restrictions on the interwebs and have missed out on all the goodness of shock sites? Have you never seen Tom Green? Do you not watch movies?

I seriously never understood why images like that would gross people out.

Boy, that's twice this week I made the Fisty of Doom cry...

I know, I know. I'd go hang my head in shame, but that would just perpetuate the cycle. Sometimes I feel like I'm just not as "Doomy" as I used to be.

I don't think a dwarf would fit in my cat.

Just so we're clear, the one unfamiliar with the terms was me. The cow was gross, but shocked wasn't the word I would have used for myself.

What I expressed to Frank was mostly along the lines of consideration to others. I had an almost unfortuante incident a year or so ago, when I opened a link someone else had posted. When opened with one browser, it was the link he intended. But the pic on the site had been hacked ,so that when it opened with another browser, it showed a very close up shot of the unshaved female groin. Now, I was opening this pic at work, and if anyone had seen it, I'd have been fired.

Many people here view DS at work, and they'd likely have similar (although hopefully not too similar questions) asked of them had they opened Frank's pic at work and been seen at it.

For those interested . here's the Guidelines:
-No pornographic, sexually offensive, sexually explicit, or objectifying material. We'd like for our readers to be able to read the forums at work and share with friends without fear of retribution.

Second relevant Guideline :
-Failure to comply with these guidelines may result in the modification or deletion of your post(s) and/or thread(s) by an Administrator and/or Moderator.

So that's why Bull edited it.

We now return you to your normally scheduled complaining about cover art. Thank you, come again.
Hopefully no one considers taht sexual, but the second part is the key here.

Shouldn't people be working at work and not hacking the interwebs? ;p

It's like the BBB all over again! Why!?! WHYYYYYyyyyyyyy....

The lady in the cover really does look like something you could see in a computer game. Otherwise I think it's pretty neat, not so dark as SR-book covers usually are. Generally I think that the 4th ed covers are somewhat better than with previous editions. Especially 3rd ed. rulebooks had pretty silly pictures.

I liked year of the Comet. And of course, Shadows of Europe.

Could be worse, you could have been Rick Rolled.

-Frank

First off, tongue in cheek and being silly,

Dumpshockers complaining about an upcoming product! Shock!


Secondly, I hack teh interwebs and work at work and I appreciate the thought. I also refrain from clicking links at work - and I appreciate the thought behind the rules for links.

Silly comments on silly looking covers is fine by me. It's not like the cover is completely unsalvageable. You just need to get rid of the goofy looking chick with the goofy 'ware that's smack dab in the middle of the picture.

Well, there's still hope for the internal cover.

You all missed the point. It looks CG-ish so that the players of that video game that strangely choosed to be named Shadowrun will believe it's an add-on or a strategy guide for their video game.

"Hey look here: it's an augmentation to the game, it features a new human female, a cybergunarm and a brand new race!"

...

I'd vote for an add on. Strategy guides for FPS games often turn out to be a lot like listening to a John Madden play by play. Of course, some people could stand to learn a lot from such chestnuts as "When shooting a guy in the face, it helps an awful lot not to miss."

To throw my 2Â¥ in on the cover... it looks PS'd. I've seen CGI images on one of the online galleries, CGTalk maybe?, that match the body. It looks like someone changed the head and arms.

On top of that the background looks like more of a mish-mash of other art as well...

I didn't realize it was a meme. I was just blinking in shock after seeing that horrible ass music video.

Yup. Makes me wonder if all my fond memories of the 80's are pure fabrication.

Not if your memories involved the cartoons. Voltron, Thundercats, and Transformers. And dare I say ... the snorks.

Most fond memories of 80's cartoons are fabrications, too. I tried watching GI Joe again. It... hurt.

Had the same painful experience with Thundercats a few years ago. Now I prefer to just remember them fondly. Illusions and ignorance can be so nice some times.

I remember the first time I watched one of my TMNT cartoon tapes from when I was a kid...I couldn't even make it past the opening theme song.

Ulysses 31, still good even twenty years on.


Sorry had to be smug...

I can only think of one or two cartoons that I would be willing to watch now, starting with the old Batman Animated Series; that was damn good in both story and execution.

The New Adventures of Mightymouse holds up quite well. When you go back and look at it with adult eyes it's even more disturbed than it seemed as a child.

But yeah, the Batman Animated Series was incredibly awesome. At this point I prefer their continuity to that of the comics they are derived from. So seemingly do the comic authors, as Harley and Renee Montoya have been back formed in as comic characters.

-Frank

Gargoyles wasn't that disappointing, either - in fact, it was the closest thing to SR.

Then again, aren't most of these things you now mentioned more likely from the 90es?

Was't gargoyles into the 90's.

Smurfs was always good for a laugh. Story's good, it's that old animation that sorta sucks.

True, Batman and Gargoyles were 90s.

Of course, Saber Rider was a true 80s... completly lost in translation.

Yeah, Gargoyles and Batman were good, but post-80's. TMNT and Thundercats are definitely...different than I remembered.
I don't dare watch the old He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (the one that's older than TMNT & Thundercats, not the relatively recent remake). I was pretty young at the time, but I distinctly remember that being the greatest television show ever created, and I don't want to ruin that by seeing it again.