From: bjm10@cornell.edu (Bryan J. Maloney) Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc Subject: YKYAAG Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:53:57 -0400 Organization: Cornell University Lines: 10 Sender: verified_for_usenet@cornell.edu (bjm10 on potato.cit.cornell.edu) Message-ID: References: <8mag25$ogg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3988F03E.138483EA@mho.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: potato.cit.cornell.edu X-Trace: news01.cit.cornell.edu 965318037 27668 132.236.156.18 (3 Aug 2000 15:53:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news01.cit.cornell.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Aug 2000 15:53:57 GMT X-Newsreader: MT-NewsWatcher 2.4.4 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!bjm10 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.games.frp.misc:13971 In article <3988F03E.138483EA@mho.net>, Chris Simpson wrote: > You know that you are a gamer if you make a class for a game that is not > even out yet. You know that you are a gamer if you complain about mistakes in the errata for a game that is not yet published. -- For those in the know, potrzebie is truly necessary. ###### From: "Marc el Kato" Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc References: <8mag25$ogg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3988F03E.138483EA@mho.net> Subject: Re: YKYAAG Lines: 16 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 18:33:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.209.204.230 X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 965327627 216.209.204.230 (Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:33:47 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 14:33:47 EDT Organization: Sympatico Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!news3.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.games.frp.misc:13969 "Bryan J. Maloney" wrote in message news:bjm10-0308001253570001@potato.cit.cornell.edu... > You know that you are a gamer if you complain about mistakes in the errata > for a game that is not yet published. You know that you are a gamer if a year before the latest edition comes out you take a second mortgage on your home in order to pre-order the entire series of new books. -- Marc el Kato 5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. ###### From: kmeovoisne@aol.com (KMeOvOiSnE) Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc Subject: Re: YKYAAG Lines: 5 NNTP-Posting-Host: ladder06.news.aol.com X-Admin: news@aol.com Date: 03 Aug 2000 18:56:45 GMT References: Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <20000803145645.07153.00000580@ng-ce1.aol.com> Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!portc03.blue.aol.com!audrey05.news.aol.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.games.frp.misc:13926 You know you are a gamer if you ingore the MS degree you just got to work at a game company making miniatures in order to have an employee discount for the company's product and free admission to conventions. Kevin "MOOSE" Boerwinkle ###### From: "Bill Silvey" Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc Subject: Re: YKYAAG Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:38:31 -0400 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <8mag25$ogg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3988F03E.138483EA@mho.net> X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!sn-inject-01!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.games.frp.misc:13956 Marc el Kato wrote in message news:fWii5.122552$Gh.1448079@news20.bellglobal.com... : : "Bryan J. Maloney" wrote in message : news:bjm10-0308001253570001@potato.cit.cornell.edu... : > You know that you are a gamer if you complain about mistakes in the errata : > for a game that is not yet published. : : You know that you are a gamer if a year before the latest edition comes : out you take a second mortgage on your home in order to pre-order the entire : series of new books. : : -- : Marc el Kato : 5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly. YKYAAG when you have a few SWORD OF FASHAN character sheets handy... ...filled out! -- Bill Silvey, Oathmaster, Clan Wolverine - Fuck the IDSA "I post to see what kind of responses I will get. I don't know of every single facet of a subject I post on." - ATN082268's confession in posting <1998060405070500.BAA13596-rgm@ladder01.news.aol.com> that it does in fact post in rec.games.mecha only to troll. Y'wanna email me? Get the F outa my email address! ###### From: pmchuck@pbtcomm.net (Charles Capko) Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc Subject: Re: YKYAAG Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 03:22:06 GMT Organization: PBT ValueNet Lines: 16 Message-ID: <398a3695.1917602@nntp.pbtcomm.net> References: <8mag25$ogg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3988F03E.138483EA@mho.net> Reply-To: pmchuck@pbtcomm.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.74.62.187 X-Trace: news3.infoave.net 965359871 83416 206.74.62.187 (4 Aug 2000 03:31:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@infoave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 03:31:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!HSNX.atgi.net!news.infoave.net!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.games.frp.misc:13914 You know you are a gamer when you are still playing with the first issue of AD&D 1st Edition and have no intention of changing. :-P Later, Chuck (aka. 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Http:/www.geocities.com/wormspeaker/ _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- ###### Message-ID: <398A6085.5FAA9685@dowco.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 23:19:49 -0700 From: sbennie@dowco.com X-Sender: "" (Unverified) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en]C-gatewaynet (Win98; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc Subject: Re: YKYAAG References: <8mag25$ogg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3988F03E.138483EA@mho.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-134.tch1.abb.dowco.com X-Trace: 3 Aug 2000 23:22:00 -0700, dial-134.tch1.abb.dowco.com Lines: 9 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.bc.tac.net!binaries.vphos.net!dial-134.tch1.abb.dowco.com Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.games.frp.misc:13995 > > You know that you are a gamer if you make a class for a game that is not even out yet. > > You know that you are a gamer if you complain about mistakes in the errata for a game that is not yet published. You know that you're a gamer if you won't buy a new edition of a game because you know that, in five years time, another new edition will come out that will make the current release obselete. Scott Bennie ###### From: "Sir Bob" Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc References: <8mag25$ogg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3988F03E.138483EA@mho.net> <398A6085.5FAA9685@dowco.com> Subject: Re: YKYAAG Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 10:53:53 -0600 Lines: 22 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: news.newsdudes.com Message-ID: <398afb71_2@news.newsdudes.com> Organization: NewsDudes - http://www.newsdudes.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdudes.com X-Complaints-Info: When sending complaints, please make sure you include ALL headers of the offending message. Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!news.newsdudes.com Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.games.frp.misc:13916 So? It's the same situation with computers (even worse, in fact), but does that mean that "real gearheads" refuse to upgrade from a Commodore 64? By your logic... Sir Bob P.S. Nih! wrote in message news:398A6085.5FAA9685@dowco.com... > > > You know that you are a gamer if you make a class for a game that is not even out yet. > > > > You know that you are a gamer if you complain about mistakes in the errata for a game that is not yet published. > > You know that you're a gamer if you won't buy a new edition of a game > because you know that, in five years time, another new edition will come > out that will make the current release obselete. > > Scott Bennie ###### From: Stephenls Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc Subject: Re: YKYAAG Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 10:20:39 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Lines: 19 Message-ID: <398AFB67.E599B32D@dccnet.com> References: <8mag25$ogg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3988F03E.138483EA@mho.net> <398A6085.5FAA9685@dowco.com> Reply-To: stephenls@hotmail.cm X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.nextra.ch!news1.sunrise.ch!news.imp.ch!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!sn-inject-01!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.games.frp.misc:13867 sbennie@dowco.com wrote: > > > > You know that you are a gamer if you make a class for a game that is not even out yet. > > > > You know that you are a gamer if you complain about mistakes in the errata for a game that is not yet published. > > You know that you're a gamer if you won't buy a new edition of a game > because you know that, in five years time, another new edition will come > out that will make the current release obselete. > > Scott Bennie YKYAAG when you neglect to buy the newest edition of a game, because you own copies of the last 2 (or three, for some systems...) Yeah, that one wan't mine, but it seemed appropriate. -- Stephenls Geek ###### From: "Richard D. Bergstresser Jr." Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.dnd,rec.games.frp.misc Subject: Re: YKYAAG Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 00:13:18 -0400 Organization: Prometheus Corp. Lines: 9 Message-ID: <398B945E.48B4@erols.com> References: <8mag25$ogg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3988F03E.138483EA@mho.net> <398A6085.5FAA9685@dowco.com> <398AFB67.E599B32D@dccnet.com> Reply-To: richberg@erols.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: Plrt9ugN1DVa7U9Z6MWQ71M3JFzZLTD/qk1qaz/5iZU= X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Aug 2000 04:15:41 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C-DH397 (Win95; I) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeedZ.netscum.dQ!netscum.int!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.games.frp.misc:14025 Stephenls wrote: > > YKYAAG when you neglect to buy the newest edition of a game, because you > own copies of the last 2 (or three, for some systems...) You own two copies of each previous edition. At some point you decided to replace the worn dog-eared copy or bought an extra one so the player weren't always grabbing your main one while your trying to run...