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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tharivious" data-source="post: 3656089" data-attributes="member: 28105">I think Kal is dead on here.  Your point is self-contradicting.Just in case you missed it, in a post that was there before you added that sentence:He would know better than anyone where the current description came from.  He put it there.I'm not quite sure how something identical can be better than itself.That aside, point by point dissection of the issues you've raised:As Gabe said in his second post:Dance floor location is addressed.  Light show is addressed.  Stage is addressed should it be needed.  Decoration is addressed in the form of the terrariums.  Bar location is addressed.  Intentionally vague music is addressed as the intent is to not alienate visitors by subculture, and the fact that it's a nightclub, so the music being on goes without need of mention.  Lack of multiple-level dance floors is addressed, as the upper part of the building is occupied by something else.Aside from the fact that, as far as I remember from when I was actively contributing to the setting design of TMP in its preopening days, mutants and aliens were still considered very much tabloid rumour rather than hard fact... it's really just stating the obvious in a different way than the one we have now, and the current version is less specific by intent.Mocking what exists now is not a valid argument for change.This has also been addressed by Gabe.  S.A.M. (remember, Semi Automated Machine) was designed to be able to handle the bartending needs when live staffers weren't on shift.  S.A.M. can handle it, because that's what it was built to do.  If you don't want a preshaken martini from the machine, improv it as a wrapped set of vials coming out along with a mixer, and do it yourself.  If someone else wants it the other way around, that's fine too.And as has been said by Gabe, it's left vague on purpose.And then you run into issues of characters flipping through news stories that haven't been cleared with Brigid, which leads to entirely new issues.  I don't know about you, but the bars that I go to don't generally give the patrons access to the controls of the screens, and preset video graphics tend to be too genre specific for a night club intentionally left generic to avoid needing eight different clubs for the various possible visitors.And why is this part of an argument to change the room's description, when it implies that a small subgroup of visitors are ignoring the obvious?It's not a matter of anyone not caring (and that particular phrasing was a bit uncalled for, in my opinion, if what you say were the case, ISRP wouldn't be here for you to be making such claims), it's a matter of the point of the setting being lost on you.And on an entirely different note:If my memory serves me right, TMP was either 25 or 30 years in the future.  2032 would be the earliest, 2037 would be the latest.  Been a while though, since I haven't been in the room since running the Cage opening night. <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" /></blockquote>

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