Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

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I suppose that since the tweet is 12 years old now, it should probably be updated to 70.

I'm over 60. I was promised both. And jet packs. And space colonies. And a Moon that was madly careening about the galaxy.

 

[payn]

I'm over 60. I was promised both. And jet packs. And space colonies. And a Moon that was madly careening about the galaxy.

I'll settle for just a house without mortgage and ability to retire.

 

[dragoner]

We had the mirrorshades world it was good, I remember my gf in LA borrowed my truck and found some mirrored aviators in the glove box that I had bought at 7-11 one morning. She rolled back up from the store, you out there breaking every guys heart, I said. Old chevy, mirrored shades, t-shirt and jeans, college kids. Thirty-five years ago, pre-riots, city was different, I think everywhere, people don't trust, or have faith in each other anymore. That is really what has happened. Technology is no good, no, but that promise always was a lie. There were other mitigating factors.

 

[Autumnal]

I'm over 60. I was promised both. And jet packs. And space colonies. And a Moon that was madly careening about the galaxy.

As the band Daniel Amos put it in 1982:

 

[Scribe]

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In a bit of a mini crunch. OT every day since my PC issues were fixed, including the long weekend.

Not feeling it right now thats for sure.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I suspect there are a whole slew of people who bash games without having tried them, and I bet that goes back to the early days of the hobby.

I mean... I didn't have to try FATAL to trash it on forums. And, while I feel I'm pretty thick-skinned, I hesitate to subject myself to that material -- like, you test cars to see what they can stand up to, but you don't put them at Ground Zero of a nuke as one of the tests...

 

[RealAlHazred]

A possible twist is "Pendragon"-style rolls (I've also seen them called Blackjack rolls) where you want to roll below your skill, but otherwise as high as possible.

I used to organize for conventions, so I've had many conversations with gamers. One of the safe subjects (usually) is dice. I once had a guy talk at me for an hour about how he "trains" his dice. He hated Pendragon because it was neither "roll as low as possible" nor "roll as high as possible," and therefore made it impossible to "train" dice for it.

It was a far more excruciating dice conversation than that time I made the mistake of asking Colonel Zocchi about dice at GenCon and lost two hours of time...

 

[TiQuinn]

I mean... I didn't have to try FATAL to trash it on forums. And, while I feel I'm pretty thick-skinned, I hesitate to subject myself to that material -- like, you test cars to see what they can stand up to, but you don't put them at Ground Zero of a nuke as one of the tests...

Do you find yourself doing that for every game you haven’t tried, or was FATAL the exception?

 

[Gradine]

I mean... I didn't have to try FATAL to trash it on forums. And, while I feel I'm pretty thick-skinned, I hesitate to subject myself to that material -- like, you test cars to see what they can stand up to, but you don't put them at Ground Zero of a nuke as one of the tests...

The amount of content to experience outstrips our time on this Earth by a factor so high I don't want to contemplate it, and in spite of lost media being a thing that number is only going to keep going up. A huge part of the human experience is making judgments about what to spend that extremely limited time on, which is often done through second-hand information. It's never going to be as good as first-hand experience, naturally, but it's not nothing and definitely cannot be dismissed out of hand.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Do you find yourself doing that for every game you haven’t tried, or was FATAL the exception?

I mean, granted, FATAL was the only one I've basically trashed without playing. Maybe I should expand my horizons.