Alternate Starport Codes Jeff Zeitlin (22 Aug 2020 18:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Thomas RUX (22 Aug 2020 23:52 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Jeff Zeitlin (23 Aug 2020 22:24 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes kaladorn@xxxxxx (23 Aug 2020 04:04 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Jeff Zeitlin (23 Aug 2020 23:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes kaladorn@xxxxxx (25 Aug 2020 00:17 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Phil Pugliese (25 Aug 2020 03:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes kaladorn@xxxxxx (25 Aug 2020 05:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Jeff Zeitlin (25 Aug 2020 11:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Thomas Jones-Low (25 Aug 2020 04:16 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Rupert Boleyn (25 Aug 2020 04:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes kaladorn@xxxxxx (25 Aug 2020 05:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Kelly St. Clair (25 Aug 2020 07:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Timothy Collinson (25 Aug 2020 09:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Alex Goodwin (25 Aug 2020 15:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Timothy Collinson (25 Aug 2020 15:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Alex Goodwin (25 Aug 2020 15:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Timothy Collinson (25 Aug 2020 15:59 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Postmark (25 Aug 2020 19:25 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Jeff Zeitlin (25 Aug 2020 15:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Timothy Collinson (25 Aug 2020 16:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Alex Goodwin (25 Aug 2020 16:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes Jeff Zeitlin (25 Aug 2020 17:06 UTC)
Re: [TML] Alternate Starport Codes kaladorn@xxxxxx (25 Aug 2020 18:39 UTC)
[TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) Kelly St. Clair (26 Aug 2020 05:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs Kelly St. Clair (26 Aug 2020 05:28 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs Kelly St. Clair (26 Aug 2020 05:36 UTC)
Last Century Game (was: UWPs) David Johnson (27 Aug 2020 00:40 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game (was: UWPs) kaladorn@xxxxxx (27 Aug 2020 02:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game (was: UWPs) David Johnson (28 Aug 2020 03:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game (was: UWPs) kaladorn@xxxxxx (28 Aug 2020 04:19 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Last Century Game (was: UWPs) kaladorn@xxxxxx (29 Aug 2020 05:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game (was: UWPs) David Johnson (29 Aug 2020 18:17 UTC)
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Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Kelly St. Clair (30 Aug 2020 20:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts kaladorn@xxxxxx (30 Aug 2020 20:44 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Jeff Zeitlin (30 Aug 2020 21:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Phil Pugliese (30 Aug 2020 21:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts David Johnson (30 Aug 2020 22:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Rupert Boleyn (31 Aug 2020 00:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Thomas Jones-Low (30 Aug 2020 20:33 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Jeff Zeitlin (30 Aug 2020 21:12 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts David Johnson (30 Aug 2020 23:07 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Phil Pugliese (30 Aug 2020 23:55 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Rupert Boleyn (31 Aug 2020 00:51 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Rupert Boleyn (06 Sep 2020 02:45 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Kenneth Barns (06 Sep 2020 11:05 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Timothy Collinson (06 Sep 2020 11:40 UTC)
Re: [TML] Balkanization and other Book 3 Gov'ts Jim Catchpole (06 Sep 2020 12:15 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game (was: UWPs) David Johnson (01 Sep 2020 01:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game (was: UWPs) Thomas RUX (28 Aug 2020 13:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game (was: UWPs) David Johnson (29 Aug 2020 03:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game Hubert Figuiere (28 Aug 2020 15:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game Phil Pugliese (28 Aug 2020 16:11 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game Timothy Collinson (28 Aug 2020 16:39 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game Jeff Zeitlin (28 Aug 2020 16:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Last Century Game kaladorn@xxxxxx (28 Aug 2020 17:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs kaladorn@xxxxxx (26 Aug 2020 06:20 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs Phil Pugliese (26 Aug 2020 17:21 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs kaladorn@xxxxxx (27 Aug 2020 02:45 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) kaladorn@xxxxxx (26 Aug 2020 06:14 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) Christopher Sean Hilton (27 Aug 2020 16:26 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) Christopher Sean Hilton (27 Aug 2020 16:37 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) kaladorn@xxxxxx (27 Aug 2020 17:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) David Johnson (28 Aug 2020 03:10 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) Timothy Collinson (28 Aug 2020 10:30 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs Thomas Jones-Low (28 Aug 2020 12:18 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs Christopher Sean Hilton (28 Aug 2020 15:46 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs kaladorn@xxxxxx (28 Aug 2020 16:19 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs Timothy Collinson (28 Aug 2020 16:50 UTC)
When RPG's become CRPG's... Phil Pugliese (28 Aug 2020 22:05 UTC)
Re: [TML] When RPG's become CRPG's... Thomas RUX (29 Aug 2020 23:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] When RPG's become CRPG's... Thomas RUX (29 Aug 2020 23:08 UTC)
Re: [TML] When RPG's become CRPG's... Phil Pugliese (30 Aug 2020 00:01 UTC)
Re: [TML] When RPG's become CRPG's... Thomas RUX (30 Aug 2020 02:53 UTC)
Re: [TML] When RPG's become CRPG's... Phil Pugliese (29 Aug 2020 23:09 UTC)
Re: [TML] When RPG's become CRPG's... Hubert Figuiere (30 Aug 2020 00:31 UTC)
Re: [TML] When RPG's become CRPG's... Thomas RUX (30 Aug 2020 02:56 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) David Johnson (29 Aug 2020 03:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) kaladorn@xxxxxx (29 Aug 2020 05:08 UTC)
Sig file (was: UWPs) David Johnson (30 Aug 2020 03:00 UTC)
Re: [TML] Sig file (was: UWPs) kaladorn@xxxxxx (30 Aug 2020 04:04 UTC)
Re: [TML] UWPs (was: Alternate Starport Codes) Timothy Collinson (31 Aug 2020 10:13 UTC)

Last Century Game (was: UWPs) David Johnson 27 Aug 2020 00:40 UTC

Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

>>> tl;dr: we are no longer bound by paper and dice
>>
>> nor by rules or tables that a human can read, or equations that a human can solve by hand*.  We can now turn many or all of those tasks over to computers, and I submit that we should.
>> * or simple tools like a pencil or even a calculator.
>
> We will not, of course, because this remains fundamentally a game about the /last/ century, not this one or the next, let alone the 57th.

I think this is keenly observed, but wouldn't we be playing something entirely different, some immersive MMORPG or something?

The point is, if we're playing Traveller, we're sort of like old model train hobbyists--like Joe Fugate became--or something.

Works for me. ;)

Cheers,

David
--
"Everything is post these days, as if we're all just a footnote to something earlier that was real enough to have a name of its own." - Margaret Atwood, ~Cat's Eye~