hermit wrote:
@LabRat: You wrote Brussels for Spy Games? Isn't it supposed to desecrate focus on London?
Last I was paying attention, the original concept "Cities of Intrigue" (like Runner Havens but with Denver and London as flagship cities) had been completely scrapped, and a couple of other intermediary concepts (like Cloak and Dagger) had been floated and also scrapped. Like how Warzones/Dogs of War/Cybermercenaries ended up being War!, all that spy shit ended up being Spy Games. And so it was supposed to be a continuation of Hardy's favorite format: which was to be basically a continuation of the War! storyline. But with the vast collection of essays about some place high in the mountains that they seem to think is in the fucking jungle being
Denver.
So the "Brussels" section is probably like unto the "Poland" section of War!. Only apparently written by Lars rather than David A. Hill, so I would expect it to be less brutally offensive than the segment in War!. Like, probably not offensive at all. But it's still going to be two pages tucked into a "random other shit" chapter, so don't hold your breath on it bringing any epiphanies.
Labrat wrote:I just thought you would because of your recent reviews.
For some time I have asked myself what exactly Shadowrun would have to do to make me stop reading books. I mean, there was no excuse for 6WA, right? It was woefully incomplete, the map didn't match the history or the text, the fiction was racist and insulting, and the fundamental demographic data that such a book is supposedly
for was simply missing. But that didn't stop me from reading and being disappointed.
And yet despite that, I kept reading. War! and Attitude were even worse, being even more useless and in their charming fashion even more insulting. So you'd think that I might have hit some sort of threshold of being appalled by which I would no longer consent to read their shit. But honestly, I don't think that was it. Reading CGL books is like watching a car crash, the travesty and jaw droppingly horrible prose and below bottom-basement production standards is something that is hard to look away from. The truth of the matter is that going to Africa is breaking my habit.
I'll have shit to do in Accra, and have no way to pick the book up in any case. And I just don't think that the lure of atrocity would be enough to get me to read such a book when it was no longer new. I haven't gone back and read War!, because it's shit and without that "new shit smell" it just doesn't hold my interest.
-Username17
