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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 1288838" data-attributes="member: 4139">Ovewrwhelming love of Carlsberg and Bacon obviously...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Rant follows.....Though on a more serious note I gotta say this topic has amazed me.. I read the book in question and playtested it and I'm a worldy guy, been from one corner of the globe to the other and I never felt slurred by the contents, nor did it ever occur to me that any would see the contents as a slur... why you ask?  simply put because I knew none was intended, real or imagined.It is soooo easy to look at something concentrate on the negative (or your own individual interpretation of what is the negative) and blow it all out of proportion in your mind into something it ins't.In this instance Mongoose and the author were surprised as hell I think that anyone would see it as a means to demean or insult anyone... I mean its a GAME for a start, so what is said between the pages of a book on a make believe Sci Fi universe anyway as a stimulus for a few outraged citizens of the REAL earth is kinda crazy..and funny...and sad all at once.  Sad that people are so happy to need to complain about something thatwas for the mosy part a very well written, and put together book that lends greatly to the setting it is part of.It equally amuses me that this tendency to "Need" to complain about the smallest thing "Real" or "imagined" constitue a great many threads on a great many boards, and quite often outwieghs the much rarer "praise" related threads regarding products.  Human nature I guess..a need to see the nagative instead of the positive, perhaps iots just the way we are wired, who knows.Anyway i've seen this subject trolled across the Mongoose boards to a largely un-Argument supporting audience, and it was apologised for by Mongoose (though why they have to defend themselves for something in a  make believe book for a make believe universe that has no bearing or real life or real points of view Ill never know), it was apologised for by the author... and the topic died a death... yet here it is again, being trolled anew here on the ENboards... <shakes head> I guess some folks just arent content to let a subject lie and must continually thrash at it like a dog with a towsing toy...Anyway this whole subject just amuses, shocks and appals me for different reasons and without wanting to spark this nonsense to continued life.. ill end my little rant with a little advice, which had already been suggested by another in an earlier post.We are all caretakers of our own sensibilities and if this book or any of its content offends, upsets or saddens anyone, then I suggest they make use of thier fundamental right to choose, and choose not to expose themself to further upset and close the book..and move on... put a nail in this topics coffin, lay it to rest, say a final prayer, wish it a fond farewell or pat it on the bakc and wish it well...but dear god let this be an end to this subject once and for all.</blockquote>

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