Re: My Final post on the PBM Report

From: Carol Mulholland <Flagship@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Oooh, Bill Bowersox, so you're making a late bid in the Galactic
Prisoners Maddest-Conspiracy-Theory competition.

But I think that the true paranoid works by misinterpreting real
evidence, not fabricating it. So I reckon you'll have to try a bit
harder to win.

>> A bad Rumour was written

The player said in #33 that GP 'seems to be terribly simplistic so far
(the GM is great, though!)'. Unflattering, but not malicious.

>> A response was written by Grandel inc., disputing the rumour.
Flagship mis-represtened that letter, that's when the lawyer was
involved.

Well, there's no letter from Grandel Inc to Flagship printed in #33 or
#34. In #35 comes the letter from the lawyer. This does not mention a
mis-printed Grandel Inc letter. It demands an apology for the Rumours
comment, 'in an effort to resolve this matter without resorting to
costly litigation'. The other text from Grandel Inc is part of a letter
written by Ed Grandel not to Flagship but to the player, Kevin Elliott.

To win your Conspiracy-Theory game, Bill, I think that you need to get
your starting facts right first.

There weren't any "flagship lies"; copies 33, 35 and 36 show this
clearly.

Personally, I was tickled to spot the current Grandel Inc ad in Paper
Mayhem #89. (Charges are $24 for 6 issues in the USA, by the way; if
the mag is so good then do support it.) The ad says "At first glance,
Galactic Prisoners appears to be an uncomplicated game". Well, I'm not
going to suggest that Grandel Inc sues itself for libel, tee hee, but I
will suggest that maybe they eventually learnt something useful from
Kevin Elliott's comment...

Carol

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