Verno wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 12:28:
The municipalities make the whole process even more annoying than the incumbent issues. Annoying and expensive permit issues, potential conflicts with local unions, hostile residents, etc. It's not uncommon to deal with bribery and corruption too. Getting fiber laid anywhere is a fucking nightmare, when I worked at UUNet we would basically spec out a project then multiply our final figure by three to account for municipality bullshit and other problems.

commonperson wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 15:36:

Cutter wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 10:13:
Well, basically all PnP was high-fantasy at the time - with a few exceptions - so Shadowrun really broke the mold by taking it into the near, dystopian future combining magic and tech. It was just a real breath of fresh air at the time for PnP games in an interesting setting.

Except for Cyberpunk 2020... or Paranoia... or TMNT... or Rifts... or Champions... or GURPS... or the Battletech RPG and so on. Not to be too much of a nitpicker but when Shadowrun came out there were tons of good PnP RPGs but Shadowrun really did bring a nice degree of polish.

Harlequin wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 11:50:

Cutter wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 10:04:
Anyway, even though I'm not happy with the stylized look of the mobs I'm hoping the rest of the gameplay makes up for it.

Could you clarify what you mean by this? You don't like the art direction/mood set by it?

Paranoid Jack wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 10:31:
Hey, some of us ultra-paranoid conspiracy kooks may take offense to that since even we aren't boycotting Steam for thier DRM.

Omni wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 13:26:
all aboard the failboat.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 08:56:
Minneapolis is supposed to get 6-9 inches of snow today/tonight....WTF!?

Overon wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 10:04:
So without me having to look stuff up what is the love people have for shadow run. Is it some nostalgia thing, what's so special about shadowrun?

Techie714 © wrote on Apr 10, 2013, 09:54:
I'm so done with people bitching about Steam, it's my opinion you're not even a serious gamer if you don't have Steam. Considering like 80-90% of all games released are on Steam. Steam has pretty much been the standard now for many years.

nin wrote on Apr 9, 2013, 22:00:
I've not been following this one at all, and I've not played their earlier games. But their original pitch video looks nice.

Cutter - you're a fan of this - sell me on it. Why is it awesome?

Thanks!

Mr. Tact wrote on Apr 9, 2013, 22:14:
So, it is an Orbital? Pretty cool.

PHJF wrote on Apr 9, 2013, 22:08:
Holy fuck was it hot outside today or what

jacobvandy wrote on Apr 9, 2013, 18:18:
Honestly, that's the kind of humor you can expect from Gaslamp year-round. Not at all surprised by Cutter's reaction, regardless...