Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD

From: "Roy Pollard" <plod@ntlworld.com>

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 00:44:39 +0000

People in this ng seem to think that a little style equates to 'rubbish'.

If you're a REAL PBM player it seems you have to
1)Love crappy looking printouts, because not having crappy printouts will
indicate that the game is shallow.
2)Hate any kind of progress which might put more than two colours on a
page... cos that's just fluff that is. CREAK..GROAN
3)Quote boring acronyms such as ASCII instead of better phrases such as
'interesting' and 'easy on the eye' and 'attractive'
4)Beat their own buttocks with birch branches for even 'thinking' about
doing things differently.
5)Treat anyone who has an opinion other than 'whats wrong with a DMP
printout, if it were good enough fer me Grandad its good enough fer me' as
somehow subversive or irrelevant
6)Be the stereotypical person who thinks new methods of gaming are in some
way 'not true to the ideal'
7)Think that any PC is a potential GMing God/Machine and anyone standing
there and seeing its potential for actually being a nice tool to aid a
(gulp) Human GM is guilty of blasphemy.

Its like these people who drink only real ale and smoke pipes whilst
appreciating a bit of Last of the Summer Wine (an english-ism - if you're
American replace Last of the Summer Wine with any old pap that boring old
farts watch in the US when they can't find anything better to do with their
lives).

Gawd I can hear the rattling of walking sticks even now. How long before PBM
disappears up its own bum, with an asthmatic wheeze and a request for
someone to pass the inhaler?

Roy
DayOne
www.firstday.co.uk

"Rob Harper" <rob@stateofmindgames.co.uk> wrote in message
news:MC1Z5.4750$Vv1.102501@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
>
> John Morris wrote...
> > IMO, a well-designed game with a nasty ASCII printout is still better
than
> a
> > pretty but hollow game.
>
> It shouldn't be too difficult to change that nasty printout into a
> much nicer one though.
>
> Rob.
>
> --
> 1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a game and 4 for a toy.
>

References

Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
"Rob Harper" <rob@stateofmindgames.co.uk>
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:38:58 +0000
Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:13:10 +0000
Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (John Morris)
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 00:59:42 +0000

Referenced By

Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
"Rob Harper" <rob@stateofmindgames.co.uk>
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:38:58 +0000
Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:13:10 +0000
Re: FLAGSHIP #88 - AD
jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (John Morris)
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 00:59:42 +0000