Your post, sir, is beyond belief.
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GSL Update 12/18/08
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Your post, sir, is beyond belief.
Thanks for the update Scott. To anyone that complains about WotC's decision to shut down, when the city is pretty much shut down, I agree with an earlier poster's opinion.....
Scott, good luck getting it all done. We're all looking forward to some good 3PP that WotC just isn't going to do....
Scott, good luck getting it all done. We're all looking forward to some good 3PP that WotC just isn't going to do....
Mark
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Scott_Rouse
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Canucks are a tough lot (for a bunch of socialists
). I have family in Calgary so I am familiar with the country there. I snowboarded once in Lake Louise in -45c, that will make your face fall off.Calgary is pretty flat and has more snow plows than women. Seattle and the surrounding area is really hilly and there are about as many snow plows as there are winning sports teams. The main roads see the love from Mr. Plow and the rest of the side streets get ignored.
I have lived in WA all my life, I have never owned a set of snow chains and have never really needed them. Driving on snow is not an issue if you do it correctly. I live on a plateau that can only be accessed by a few mile long hills of 16 to 20% grade (going from sea level to about 750ft above SL). The issue is not me or my driving skills but all the other people who get so gripped by the weather that the end up abandoning their cars on the side of the road. Today is a snow day, so I am going duck hunting. Stay warm
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El Mahdi
Muad'Dib of the Anauroch
Different areas are definitely affected by snow differently. I imagine that the Seattle area, being one that has normally high humidity, probably has a very heavy snow when it does snow - that's the wet heavy stuff, not that dry, blow around, just dust the ground stuff. It also definitely depends on how many snowplows they have (which is mostly determined by annual snowfall). When I lived in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a foot of snow in a day would slow everything down but not necessarily shut everything down. But then again, there are almost as many plows up there as there are deer (which is to say, probably more than there are people). I looked it up, Seattle averages about 30 to 50 inches a year; Marquette, Michigan averages about 250 inches a year. That makes a big difference. However, we did have two feet in two hours once, and yeah, even in the UP, that shut us down. (We still had snowbanks left in July that year.
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Have a Happy Holiday, Scott. Thanks for the updates, and enjoy your time off.
(I'll be enjoying my snowfree Christmas, it's 77°F and sunny here in Palm Beach.
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). I looked it up, Seattle averages about 30 to 50 inches a year; Marquette, Michigan averages about 250 inches a year. That makes a big difference. However, we did have two feet in two hours once, and yeah, even in the UP, that shut us down. (We still had snowbanks left in July that year.)Have a Happy Holiday, Scott. Thanks for the updates, and enjoy your time off.
(I'll be enjoying my snowfree Christmas, it's 77°F and sunny here in Palm Beach.)
kenmarable
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One word about Seattle and snow - hills.
Having visited that area and heard from others who live there, they may be fine with cold weather, but that area is seriously not flat, which makes any snow pretty insane to deal with. Here in Michigan we had some handy glaciers scrape everything flat for us (and like others have said, we have the infrastructure to handle massive plowing), so if we get a foot of snow, it's no big deal. But in Seattle, they may or may not have decent infrastructure for plowing, but those hills make any snow terrible. If you start sliding it's not a matter of trying to straighten out before you hit a snow bank, it's holding on for dear life as you start sliding backwards into everyone behind you!
So, yeah, stay safe out there, WotC, Paizo, Green Ronin, and all other Seattle area folk!
As a freelancer and publisher wannabe, I will chime in and say that a "yes" to all of those (especially any indication that each year's core trio of books will be added) would probably convert me accepting the GSL. Which would of course generate a handful of sales and DDI subscriptions for you as I convince my group to start some 4e in addition to our 3.5 game.
I'm definitely a small fish in the RPG industry, and I'm not sure how many others are out there like me, but if the GSL is improved enough, I will support 4e both as a publisher and as a customer. Until then, it hasn't interested my circle of gamers enough to play and me enough to write for it, so 3.5/Pathfinder is currently the best option for us. (No dig against you or 4e supporters - just saying that an improved GSL is in fact a tipping point for at least me and consequently my group since they of course bend to my will. No idea if we represent a noticeable number of potential customers or not, however.)
Ktulu
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Its not like Seattleites are unfamiliar with snow (While snow in Las Vegas I can see causing problems). There are freaking mountains in the back yard where people can go sking. Seattleites know what snow is. Silly Seattleites.
My sister lives in Kirkland (suburb of seattle) while I'm on the east side of the mountains. I can attest that the weather there rarely sees snow, so they only have a specific number of snow plows/ice trucks. And, because they use the little bumpy road markers (rather than painted lines due to excessive rain), it causes even more grief.
My brother-in-law, who's normally a great driver, slid off the road yesterday (no damage, no harm) and was severely shaken. My sister didn't even leave her home. When we were there at Thanksgiving, the weather was a cool 59* with some light rain. I've attached a picture of what she saw outside her balcony, yesterday.
Scott_Rouse
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Not to turn this into a threadjack about weather, topography, and driving.
Typical Seattle area hill:
With a downtown view up on of it's many hilly streets
catsclaw227
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Just think, Scott...
With your day off, you can browse the interweb and read all the threads where people analyze every syllable of every word in each WOTC book or online article. And then tell you what they think with their amp turned up to 11.
Good times.... good times......
Happy Holidays! And keep up the good charity work. Very nice.
With your day off, you can browse the interweb and read all the threads where people analyze every syllable of every word in each WOTC book or online article. And then tell you what they think with their amp turned up to 11.
Good times.... good times......
Happy Holidays! And keep up the good charity work. Very nice.
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