Canada portrayed negatively in games?

[MulhorandSage]

Forgive the resurrecting of a relatively old thread, but a new edition of Champions of the North has been released for Champions/Hero System. Hope those interested find it a decent treatment.

 

[jaerdaph]

I know someone who went to Massachusetts so he could marry his first cousin because it was illegal here in Oklahoma.

 

[Roudi]

In regards to this thread being moved to Off-Topic...

What, it took four fricken months to decide that this didn't belong in the original section?

1) It's a discussion of Canada in RPGs. Therefore, it's a gaming topic.

2) It's a discussion of a modern nation in modern and futuristic settings. Therefore, it was posted in the section where such games are discussed.

You sure this is where this thread belongs?

 

[Tonguez]

In regards to this thread being moved to Off-Topic...

You sure this is where this thread belongs?

This thread has been so incredibly funny eh

and now Canada doesn't even get enough respect to be a legitimate Gaming subject:

Wow, just, Wow

 

[Arnwyn]

This thread was a blast to read. Hellhound's first couple of posts were great to read, and Raptor's note about the B5 RPG was a hoot.

But yeah - it looks like no more negative stereotypes than anywhere else.

and now Canada doesn't even get enough respect to be a legitimate Gaming subject:

Wow, just, Wow

Indeed. A healthy dose of irony, there.

 

[PoppaGunch]

I can sympathize with the Canadians. I used to live in New Mexico, the US State. I don't know if they still do, but New Mexico Monthly used to have a section, every month, called "Once of our Fifty is Missing," describing such things as people thinking you need a passport to visit New Mexico, that you need to take a boat, that you need to know Spanish, etc. My favorite was the US Army surveyors map that somehow managed to omit New Mexico, distorting the map and passing out slivers of land here and there to make it work.

I was born in Arkansas. I'm pretty tired of marrying your cousins jokes. That is actually, and always has been, untrue of Arkansas. If you want to marry your cousin, you must cross the border, to Texas.

I was born and raised in New Mexico and saw this a lot when I left for the Navy. When I got to boot in Orlando, I was actually asked twice for my green card, and once I was detained to make sure I was a citizen of the U.S.

It was amusing at first, but it got old really quick.


As for the origional topic, I have nothing but the utmost respect for the U.S.'s hat!

 

[frankthedm]

Its actually illegal in Arkansas anyway (by Arkansas Code Ann. 9-11-106: Incestuous marriages), but not in California, Massachusetts, New York, and Canada, all paragons for what passes for civilization in this hemisphere. I know someone who went to Massachusetts so he could marry his first cousin because it was illegal here in Oklahoma.

Illegal, yes, but part of the reasons those jokes proliferate is that, to a northerner who watches to many horror movies, like myself, it sounds quite possible for a family living deep enough in the woods of the US east and southeast will more or less be forgotten about, allowing for all sorts of unpleasantness that will go unnoticed by the world at large.

 

[Shortman McLeod]

I grew up in northern Maine along the Candian border - the Texan isn't that far off.

As for the earlier Steriotype about Canada just being Mooses and Mounties, I've seen far more moose here in New Hampshire than I ever saw in Canada. And while I've seen lots of Canada law enforcement officials none were every wearing a Dudly Doright outfit.

Oh, come on. Next you're going to tell us that men in Scotland don't walk around in kilts!

 

[Shortman McLeod]

Illegal, yes, but part of the reasons those jokes proliferate is that, to a northerner who watches to many horror movies, like myself, it sounds quite possible for a family living deep enough in the woods of the US east and southeast will more or less be forgotten about, allowing for all sorts of unpleasantness that will go unnoticed by the world at large.

Absolutely. Lovecraft wrote at least half of his stories from this premise.

 

[Shortman McLeod]

Its actually illegal in Arkansas anyway (by Arkansas Code Ann. 9-11-106: Incestuous marriages), but not in California, Massachusetts, New York, and Canada, all paragons for what passes for civilization in this hemisphere. I know someone who went to Massachusetts so he could marry his first cousin because it was illegal here in Oklahoma.

I'll forgive that if his cousin is incredibly hot.




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