- Dave
Your answer is rooted in psychology and demographics. Its been my personal
experience is that gamers (in general) have two fundamental qualities,
cynicism and passion. The former come from the emotional disappointment due
to the latter.
We become emotionally attached to the things we love/passionate about. With
emotional attachment becomes the tendency to want the optimal or best
outcomes relating to the object of attachment.
We may even get the satisfaction we want for a time but with success builds
towards an even more lofty fall of expectations.
This is really just a wordy way of saying we get disappointed a lot and
deal with it by giving disappointing products pet names that become
in-jokes eventually.
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:55 AM, <> wrote:
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> Eamon--
>
> I don't mean this as a swipe against you, but you raise an issue I've
> wondered about:
>
> > I think Rats & Cats...
>
> I often wonder from whence comes the hobby's habit to give derogatory
> names to the game products out there. It was certainly prevalent in
> Traveller, but I know it was there in D&D. "Gods, Demigods, and Heroes"
> became, "Clods, Demi-clods, and Zeroes," etc.
>
> I know I would use "Shattered Ships of the Fighting Imperium," but only
> after having had to unsuccessfully respond to so many errata e-mails about
> all of the, well, shattered ships in it.
>
> It's hard not to wonder if it's an incipient self-loathing in the gamer
> psyche, having to put down everything they love and collect and feel
> compelled to spend money on. "I hate myself for my addiction."
>
> Was it more or less prevalent in some segments (e.g., RPGs vs. historical
> war games), or manufacturers (e.g., GDW vs. TSR, etc.)?
>
> Dave
>
>
> > I think Rats & Cats gives the Iouo as overdue for return from the next
> > spiral arm. Could be a nice thing to drop into the mix in Banners, or
> > perhaps some state in the area decides to send out ships to try and find
> > the vessel.�
>
> >
> > Of course, if the ship gets hit by a hobbyist virus, perhaps it goes on
> an
> > 'ongoing mission of exploration'.
> >
> >
> > Eamon
> >
> >
> >>From: Antony Farrell <>
> >
> >
> >>Another thought occurred to me. When were the Solomani Rimward
> >> exploration vessels supposed to return? I picture
> >
> >>them arriving years after the virus devastation. These ships would have
> >> been loaded with the then state of the art
> >
> >>Solomani technology but still vulnerable to infection. The ship or ships
> >> become infected but the Sols are able to fight it off
> >
> >>– they were also huge research vessels with again much redundancy and
>
> >> possibly some alien tech which helps fend off
> >
> >>the virus. (Did they run into something similar in the far reaches,
> >> Cylons;))�
> >
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