Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Mad_Jack]

And that's indeed a real game? Unlike the apocryphal Kung-Fu CB Mamas on Wheels vs. the Aztec Motorcycle Wrestling Nuns?

Cool Story: The company that manufactured the miniatures for Macho Women with Guns* - a small outfit called Simtac - was fairly local to me and, through a friend, I once found myself at the house of the guy who ran the company, playing some WWII tank battle on a big table in his garage...


*And also the figures for the West End Games version of Star Wars, after Grenadier went down...

 

[Gradine]

I saw somewhere that it was in a major newspaper... does the Sun Times count as that in these later days?
(Always got the Trib when I was in that part of the country).

Please tell me that they do not regularly call it the Trib

 

[Deset Gled]

Please tell me that they do not regularly call it the Trib

They do.

 

[Gradine]

They do.

 

[Autumnal]

For the benefit of any passers-by unfamiliar with this hoary joke, Spawn of Fashan was famously (thanks to a review by Lawrence Schick in Dragon #60) unplayable, and immortalized in the TTRPGer classification quiz circa 1983.

I wasn’t familiar the last half-dozen groups here, and they killed me. I am dead. But I died happy. I think the 1920s one dealt the decisive blow.

Reviews for books that were never written would be easier...

[Jorge Luis Borges has entered the chat.]

Stanislaw Lem wrote a whole book of those, called A Perfect Vacuum! It's awesome! He followed it up with a book of introductions to nonexistent books, which i didn't like as much, Imaginary Magnitude.

I have been meaning to read these for decades. I gotta fix that pronto.

 

[overgeeked]

Fans of a system will say literally anything to justify liking that system.

Haters of a system will say literally anything to justify hating that system.

It's effectively impossible to tell the difference between honest criticism and someone "being a hater" when you love something.

Humans are tribal by nature.