I've never gone there really, but the other day my 16yo son said he wanted
to make a nation on the moon, start up a football league and invite teams
from earth to come and play ... hmmm
He also, w/o being told about it, figured out that electricity can be
generated by magnetic fields cutting across wires or vice versa ... was
rather disappointed when I told him that was the way we did it ...
Bright kid, who knows he might pull it off
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:44 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> wrote:
>
>
> Since you've played the "OT" card, let's try this. NCAA Tribalism is much
> closer to MT faction tribalism than any of us want to admit, and Traveller
> fans have been "going there" for 30 years now.
>
> Has anyone done much in their Traveller campaigns with sports? I tried two
> things:
>
> 1) There was a game called "Grav Ball" that came out in the '80s, maybe by
> FASA, kind of a cross between Ender's Game and Rollerball, and I bought it
> with the intent that it could be the "big professional sport IN SPACE,"
> that we could play as a game-within-a-game in my campaign. But nothing
> much ever came of it.
>
> 2) I did drop a few seeds in RSB about university rivalries in the Regency
> just for kicks, to give people a little bit of color to play with. That
> was probably inspired by some college experiences in the ACC with UVA
> fans, Clemson fans, etc., which were probably re-awakened in my mind by
> the 1991-92 Duke teams. When I was at Duke we stunk, and had no illusions
> of national championships, so local ACC rivalries loomed large (and
> really, conference rivalries are the only real rivalries; you can't have a
> "rivalry" with someone you play every 15 years by chance), UNC, UVA, etc.,
> and then all of a sudden in '92 by virtue of winning we got to be the
> people everyone hated. Go winners! Straight to hell!
>
>
> > I'd say go "Fighting Sioux" except 1) it's even more off topic, 2)
> > irrelevant, & 3) become so seriously politically incorrect
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Christopher Snyder
> > [Traveller_TNE] <
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Buckeye fans annoy everybody!
> >>
> >> *looks innocent*
> >>
> >> What?!?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 1:48 PM, "Harold Hale
> >> [Traveller_TNE]" <> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Heh...I have a wife who is a huge Michigan fan and grew up and now
> >> lives
> >> with me in Ohio. Not sure how that happens, but dealing with Buckeye
> >> fans
> >> can get annoying for her. As for me, as a "Route 23" kid, I grew up
> >> rooting for Ohio St. football and Kentucky basketball.
> >>
> >> It was entertaining 2012 talking to Buckeye basketball fans and
> >> consoling
> >> them on their pending loss to UK in the tournament. The looks I got
> >> said,
> >> "I thought you were one of us...". Not today. They were sorta sad....
> >>
> >> Wisconsin didn't shoot for crap in that Duke game. But some of the
> >> calls
> >> by the refs in favor of Duke down the stretch were cringe worthy. I'm
> >> thinking of donating my eye glasses to the NCAA refs organization in
> >> hopes
> >> that the blind guys calling the game will be able to clear their vision
> >> in
> >> the future. If I were a Badger fan, I'd be pissed. As a Duke fan
> >> though,
> >> you would be correct in saying, "yeah but it shouldn't have ever come
> >> down
> >> to a few bad calls and when you hit your shots, because then the calls
> >> don't matter."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
to make a nation on the moon, start up a football league and invite teams
from earth to come and play ... hmmm
He also, w/o being told about it, figured out that electricity can be
generated by magnetic fields cutting across wires or vice versa ... was
rather disappointed when I told him that was the way we did it ...
Bright kid, who knows he might pull it off
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:44 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> wrote:
>
>
> Since you've played the "OT" card, let's try this. NCAA Tribalism is much
> closer to MT faction tribalism than any of us want to admit, and Traveller
> fans have been "going there" for 30 years now.
>
> Has anyone done much in their Traveller campaigns with sports? I tried two
> things:
>
> 1) There was a game called "Grav Ball" that came out in the '80s, maybe by
> FASA, kind of a cross between Ender's Game and Rollerball, and I bought it
> with the intent that it could be the "big professional sport IN SPACE,"
> that we could play as a game-within-a-game in my campaign. But nothing
> much ever came of it.
>
> 2) I did drop a few seeds in RSB about university rivalries in the Regency
> just for kicks, to give people a little bit of color to play with. That
> was probably inspired by some college experiences in the ACC with UVA
> fans, Clemson fans, etc., which were probably re-awakened in my mind by
> the 1991-92 Duke teams. When I was at Duke we stunk, and had no illusions
> of national championships, so local ACC rivalries loomed large (and
> really, conference rivalries are the only real rivalries; you can't have a
> "rivalry" with someone you play every 15 years by chance), UNC, UVA, etc.,
> and then all of a sudden in '92 by virtue of winning we got to be the
> people everyone hated. Go winners! Straight to hell!
>
>
> > I'd say go "Fighting Sioux" except 1) it's even more off topic, 2)
> > irrelevant, & 3) become so seriously politically incorrect
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Christopher Snyder
> > [Traveller_TNE] <
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Buckeye fans annoy everybody!
> >>
> >> *looks innocent*
> >>
> >> What?!?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, April 7, 2015 1:48 PM, "Harold Hale
> >> [Traveller_TNE]" <> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Heh...I have a wife who is a huge Michigan fan and grew up and now
> >> lives
> >> with me in Ohio. Not sure how that happens, but dealing with Buckeye
> >> fans
> >> can get annoying for her. As for me, as a "Route 23" kid, I grew up
> >> rooting for Ohio St. football and Kentucky basketball.
> >>
> >> It was entertaining 2012 talking to Buckeye basketball fans and
> >> consoling
> >> them on their pending loss to UK in the tournament. The looks I got
> >> said,
> >> "I thought you were one of us...". Not today. They were sorta sad....
> >>
> >> Wisconsin didn't shoot for crap in that Duke game. But some of the
> >> calls
> >> by the refs in favor of Duke down the stretch were cringe worthy. I'm
> >> thinking of donating my eye glasses to the NCAA refs organization in
> >> hopes
> >> that the blind guys calling the game will be able to clear their vision
> >> in
> >> the future. If I were a Badger fan, I'd be pissed. As a Duke fan
> >> though,
> >> you would be correct in saying, "yeah but it shouldn't have ever come
> >> down
> >> to a few bad calls and when you hit your shots, because then the calls
> >> don't matter."
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>