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  1. Ryujin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    So do are personal injury attorneys actual arsonists then?
  2. Ryujin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I was one of three proofers on a book. Every one of us found something that someone else missed but the only errors that got through were ones that we flagged, but didn't get changed before going to print.
  3. Ryujin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    If you were actually watching the show, you would know that's a duck.
  4. Ryujin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I would also be willing to wager that there's more than a little self-proofing, given margins. Playtesting likely involves the authors' leading the group, as well, which means their interpretations don't get challenged.
  5. Ryujin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    A little from Column A, a little from Column B..
  6. Ryujin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I'm rather surprised that more ambiguous wording isn't caught in either proofing or play testing, but there's so much of it that does make it through.
  7. Ryujin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    It was already bad enough that search engines based new results on past requests, meaning looking for new information frequently gives you opinions that already align with what you know. Now it's tailored even further to the point of potentially giving you 'hallucinated' results, that are based...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” ― James...
  9. Ryujin

    What constitutes a "hit" in your mind?

    As far as I'm concerned, critical consensus means nothing if a thing doesn't draw an audience, for purposes of whether it's a "hit." Also, being a "hit" doesn't imply that something is actually good. Pablum for the Public sells.
  10. Ryujin

    Genre Discussion: Cyberpunk

    I can tell you, from experience, that playing a Fixer doesn't land as well as it should in a campaign where you're working for corps. Our Retired Cop character's player didn't understand that a plasterboard wall doesn't stop a shotgun blast nearly as well as a reinforced door. He also was 100%...
  11. Ryujin

    Genre Discussion: Cyberpunk

    "Sakuku." I'm admittedly biased, though, as I know the author and like his style.
  12. Ryujin

    Genre Discussion: Cyberpunk

    But you can get the shoot-em-ups, cyberware, and leveling-up along with the anti-corp stuff. It's just not as relatively trivial as a corp heavy hitter sort of thing.
  13. Ryujin

    Genre Discussion: Cyberpunk

    Valid? Sure, but the pre-gens I've seen all seem to fall on that side. Why not mix it up a little and look at the whole genre, in a role playing game? One of the better Cyberpunk novels that I've read involved protagonists who owned a dojo in a poor part of town, taught local kids self defence...
  14. Ryujin

    Spoilers Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

    Not so much when it comes to earlier Star Trek and mechanical replacements, though Picard flipped that script. The TOS episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" had Roger Korby replace his body with a synthetic and Kirk did his patented computer Jiu Jitsu on him.
  15. Ryujin

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Actor Robert Redford has died at the age of 89. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/robert-redford-magnetic-hollywood-icon-sundance-founder-dies-89-rcna42442
  16. Ryujin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    We had Google set up drives that were owned by departments, rather than users, for the sharing of files. Of course that doesn't stop people from screwing up and sharing from their own accounts, but it does minimize it.
  17. Ryujin

    Genre Discussion: Cyberpunk

    Oh, it's definitely a prewritten adventures thing. If you end up stealing stuff from a corp then it's pretty much because another corp hired you to do it.
  18. Ryujin

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    It's not necessarily about resolving the issues. It's more about recognizing and analyzing them. You don't have to fix them in order to shine a light on them.
  19. Ryujin

    Genre Discussion: Cyberpunk

    That's kind of the problem, where games like Shadowrun and Cyberpunk are involved. Far too often you are working for the corps, instead of the 'punk' aspect of taking down the establishment. I can't remember a single campaign of either in which we were trying to break and rebuild The System...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    SciFi has a history of amplifying a single societal issue, in order to examine it.
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