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clash_bowley
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The role of arts is propaganda. Letting your citizens see the joy of surrender to the greater good behind strong, capable leadership!
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:o That... that makes sense!
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(Quote) Word!
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(Quote) Agreed 100%! Nailed it, Dr Mitch!
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I agree that game humor depends on the characters being serious about their situation. Very much!
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(Quote) I thought the setting time was particularly perniciously nebulous. Some time in the seventies to a reto-future 90s to 2021 to maybe 2030s. I hate when that is left so floaty!
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(Quote) Same here! Didn't care for the universe as a whole, but some parts were very cool!
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This is the biggest problem of the book. The author thinking 'If I imitate The Hitchiker's Guide, and turn it up to 11, it will be even funnier!' is a big problem. Trying harder does not make you funnier.
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(Quote) The Battle of the Bands is not a core mechanic. The only time I ever used it was playtesting it. Generally speaking, the other bands are your friends while your own band mates are trying to suck up all the Hope, so the competition is from ba…
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I figured the 'musical performance as a way to measure the worth of a species' was what you had to accept to read the book, like 'The Force is a pervasive energy in all living things', not something I actually was expected to believe.
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You can pack a lot of elves in a mini-van! Elves play soccer/football, right? Dwarves play rugby?
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Everyone is different, and nothing, no one solution, works for everyone. Let everyone find what works for them and let it be.
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I can answer that, as the author of a non-violent music RPG. I wrote it as a black comedy game, and have always run it as such, but there is nothing mandating comedy, as I believe there is nothing more guaranteed to ruin comedy than mandating it. *…
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Well, I certainly understood it. A 'good response'? It just lays it out. It nicely does not comment on it, leaving the actions to comment upon themselves. Well handled I think. Is theatre the opposite of fascism? Good god, no! Hitler used theatre, a…
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I really liked her imaginative conceptions of aliens. They were brilliant, really! She stretched the envelope all over the place! Now would people like to roleplay them? Not at all. Most people find it difficult to play anything but humans-with-funn…
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I found the excuse for a plot adequate unto the task. I found the exposition chapters interesting and pertinent to the main plot. No problems there.
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I am a musician. I found the book to be not funny - I never laughed once, and I am not sure I even smiled - but interesting in spite of that. Mostly I think due to authorial voice, but that's a different subject. The musical references were boring a…
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I'm ready too!
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(Quote) There is no chance in this universe that there is anything in common besides base language. :D
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Reading Space Opera. I also boughtened Jack Vance's Space Opera which I intend to read afterward.
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Hahahaha! :D
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I thought the LeGuin interval would be the minimum allowed time between LeGuin book discussions... I mean we seem to have a lot of 'em... :D
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That sounds about right, @RichardAbbott!
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Languages-Pao-Jack-Vance/dp/0583123074 shows a paperback at £9.65 Maybe a different edition?
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(Quote) Evidently not enough. Wild Card opted in, after all. :D
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I might have brought up Languages of Pao in the Babel-17 discussions...
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You can't say I didn't warn you!
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Welcome to all our new members! Be ready to do some reading! :D
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Do you have my StarCluster - In The Beginning? There's some stuff about Titan there. I'll send it to you if you don't. In any case aerogel insulating material in suits is what allows living there. You don't need a pressure suit, just insulation from…
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(Quote) Oh, D'UH! I wasn't thinking of the slow reads! I'm naught but a ninnyhammer!