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Has anyone here read "The Road"?

I read The Road and in a word I found it relentless. It was one of the few books I've ever read where there simply was no "down-time".

Clutch

Good God what a cluster-fuck! When every eye is on everything they do they fuck the dog like this. Nobody is going to win in this mess. The fan-base of both lines is going to come out fractured and full of hate. No matter which way it goes. Fuck, it wouldn't surprise me if someone died before this i...

I would say that the number of people with an interest in BT is less than 10% of the number of customers around in 2001.

If that's the case then the property has reached its lowest-low and is unsustainable.

So, we're pretty much out of things to talk about.

Clutch

Oh, and by the way. I feel that the Jihad is fine and cool and fits the universe. I do however, hate the "Dark Age" concept. So don't think there isn't common ground, there is. Having your own personal opinion of the storyline is fine. What must be understood, to comprehend the greater pr...

Ninyu Kerai One of the coolest BattleTech characters ever. The mere complexity of the friendship between Theodore and Ninyu could have recieved a lot more attention imho. Saying that giant fleets of warships materializing out of nowhere makes perfect sense does not really make me trust your opinion...

Heavy gear is faster and includes plenty of cool stuff. Heavy Gear sucks all of the seeds out of ten foot cucumber. DP9 has always had "'Mech Envy". They'd have to stand on a chair to kiss BattleTech's ass. Seems like Clutch isn't as well read in BattleTech lore as he claims to be, if he ...

is still out of context of the previously established gameworld and is poor writing. It's neither. It's actually pretty elegant. It also fits the established gameworld way more perfectly than you'll ever know. And just to let you know, I'm not being a "Nah-Nah-na-na-na I know and you don't&quo...

I can tell you that the Word of Blake Jihad was absolutely planned at FASA. I can tell you that most of what you call Deus ex Machina was carefully planned and is being carefully executed. It only looks like Deus ex Machina because you don't know everything yet. I need to be more clear. I'm not say...

So when Randall Bills says that the plan for some Battletch event or another goes back to the nineties, that's the kind of statement that just isn't right even if it's true. Because during the entire period leading up to the actual dropping of the Word of Blake, there were a dozen or more proposals...

I thought I would jump in on the speculation about Battletech and what changes would be needed to the game to make it attractive to more players. Just to give a forewarning, I stopped really following the franchise in 2004, and played my last pickup game around 2007, so I haven't played all of the ...

I wonder if over-complicated rules is an symptome of non-english RPG's or of European RPG's? Or is it just "Das Schwarze Auge" (The Dark Eye). Overcomplication is a hallmark of first wave reactions to Dungeons & Dragons. The first thing people do when the concept of role playing is in...

While I agree with Frank that, as BattleTech is now, it doesn't encourage the purchase of new materials by old players, chucking the old play mechanic would likely alienate a lot of older players completely, too. To be honest, I don't really know what a good solution would be. To keep the "Cla...

THREAD DRIFT!!!

I find it amusing that the trolls continue to attack the messenger, not the message. Frank's made a fairly solid case here about anything being good for IMR as being bad for the future of it's games... and the trolls are all like "nuuu, you can't say that kinda thing evar!!!!!!111" Care t...

I'm curious about Czech gamers, if you've ever met any. Are they a similar archetype to the cheetos and mountain dew loving nerds of the west or are they something else? From what I've observed, gaming and it's fans are a bit different in Europe. Frank can speak to this from more personal experienc...

This means that people insisting that IMR will get its shit together or casting doubt upon the evidence that IMR is folding are actually hurting those games. Well, I guess they can take the Frank out of America, but they can't take the America out of Frank. "We have to destroy the village in o...

There are lines? Really? In this Forum there are lines? I will stop saying it, out of respect for a fellow Pink Floyd fan, and because you "kindly" asked me to. Not because there are lines when you want there to be, but no limits when it suits you. We now take you back to regularly schedul...

Kaelik wrote:That is super fucking Epic Man in Black.

Shine on you crazy diamonds!

Clutch

Well, I think we're making progress here. Not much, but some. We've arrived at a conclusion that being declared not guilty in a court of law clears you of a crime yet can't make you innocent. Earthly or otherwise. Now. What about an indictment? Much lower burden of proof. (Preponderance of the evid...

At the present I'm reading "Retribution" by Max Hastings. It's about the Pacific Campaign against Japan in 1944-1945. Here's an excerpt that takes place on Iwo Jima: It was six weeks before American troops addressed themselves systematically to clearing the caves in which such survivors as...

I think it's pretty cool.

I wonder how many other instances of gaming penetrating the Iron Curtain there were.

From a Gaming History angle it's fascinating.

Clutch

No offense, but fuck you're stupid dude. That's not the way the justice system works at all. Ever notice that if you're acquitted they say you're "not guilty" but not that you're "innocent"? That's because you may have committed the crime, but the prosecution can't meet the burd...

No offense, but fuck you're stupid dude. That's not the way the justice system works at all. Ever notice that if you're acquitted they say you're "not guilty" but not that you're "innocent"? That's because you may have committed the crime, but the prosecution can't meet the burd...

If you kill a bum in the street and everybody finds out about it to the point where there are people that you barely know who live in the Czech Republic howling for your prosecution and you don't get prosecuted.....then there's probably a reason why. Tony Blair in the UK knowingly lied to Parliamen...

Well then, Let us agree to disagree. A guy is sitting on his couch and hears a knock on the door. He goes to his door and there is this little snail sitting on his porch. He picks the snail up and throws it as far as he can. Three years later, same guy, same couch. He hears a knock on his door. He g...