On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Joe Crazyperson <joe.crazyperson@... ... And in so doing, you effectively destroy all that makes you human and fullfil...
... I've wondered about that 'happy ending' before. Does Carter get stripped of his humanity in Through the Gates... because that is the way of Yog Sothoth, or...
... We don't deserve to survive anyway IMO. Your inserting (haha) some sort of morality into something relentless, pointless and cruel. Life on earth is the...
"Appealing to patriotism and the survival instinct to 'rage against the dying of the light' must surely be part of A-Cell's methodology ? " A-Cell doesn't...
... can ... and ... upbeat ... that ... Ok - assume an agent eventually achieves this 'insight'. The questions are: a) what are they thinking before they get...
... This is as unique as the individual Agent. Were they approached as if DG was secret and on the up-and-up? Do they even KNOW the words Delta Green? For...
... Because doing nothing makes for a really boring role playing game? A. Scott Glancy, President TCCorp, dba Pagan Publishing ************** Looking for...
It's also an individual human life projected onto humanity as a whole. We're born, we live, we die. You could argue why do anything, and the answer is that...
... This is a good point Simon. Reminds me of a quote from Dawkins' the "God Delusion". Paraphrasing: "You might think it's awful not believing there's a point...
The WW2 analogy fits. Look at the British intelligence service deception controllers (see Bodyguard Of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown and A Man Called Intrepid in...
That sounds a lot like Radiation sickness. Almost to the T, not saying it couldn't be chemical or otherwise, just fishy. ... [Non-text portions of this message...
... Several options come to mind. Some just don't accept the pointlessness. Look at cultists: quite a few try to cease being human in order to save themselves...
... I really like this train of thought, arguably its what many people do anyway, they choose Greed and self-serving actions at the cost of the rest of society...
I thought I might toss in my two pence. What if the agents don't see the whole picture? They have some vauge sense of the futility of humanity but don't...
That's a good point. The nihilist view point we talk about probably only truly kicks in when you've raked up more than a few cthulhu mythos skill points. ... ...
... That's why it's HORROR and not an espionage RP. Gore is just that. Shock is just that. But horror and terror start with the subversion of PERSONAL...
Insightful and informative blog entry, Dennis. :) When I ran DG, I tended towards your model, with some inspiration from MiB and the list concerning ANDREA....
On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:23:28 +0200, Matt Cowger <mattcowger2323@...> wrote: [...] ... Frankly, I don't see pointlessness and ultimate doom as something...
... To continue bubble-pricking - it's worth remembering that the meta-game rationale for Delta Green isn't to let you roleplay saving the world, it's to give...
... us that ... our ... without ... Sothoth will ... stripped of his humanity in Through the Gates... because that is the way of Yog Sothoth, or simply because...
Because of the nomadic nature of the people I hang out with (expat English teachers of various kinds), when I get a gaming group together, they tend to be a...
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:40 AM, James Haughton ... Buddhism is, to me, a very interesting flip side to the whole "horror of knowing the Truth" thing. The way...
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:40 PM, James Haughton ... Not in my Dreamlands... unrelenting magical warfare tends to be hard on the Sanity Points. The Man in Black...
... game ... The meta-game reason (or one of them) for the creation of DG was - as you say - to provide a believable reason for characters to investigate the...
... If the cultists were rich enough why not buy an apartment complex and simply move everyone in? They all have normal jobs and everyday lives yet it gives...
Even worse, make them slumlords that own a whole section of city they're renting out while letting fall apart...They have their poor and ignored citizens to...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fossetts-wrecked-plane-found-in-mountain-area-948968.html It took dedicated searchers over a year to find it -...
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