At 07:07 AM 24/12/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Warning. This may get personal and weird. Don't say you were not
>warned.
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>This mailing list if for EPIC, you know, the GW game with 6 mm mini's.
>All three versions of it, (Space Marine, Epic Space Marine, Epic
>40,000). It's NOT about DirectX and the various version of 586 class
>chips. This kiss of death of a non computer war game is to start
>talking about a computer game, much less computer systems, OS, chips
>sets and other bits of cyber what-nots. I do that sort of thing for a
>living, so it's not a case of not being able to keep up (and BTW some
>of you need to check your facts before you run off at the keyboard, the
>error rate in the current "talk" on the FL thread about the various 586
>chips is pushing over 75%) There are dozen of mailing list and usenet
>'froups that support computer games. Can we PLEASE leave them there?
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>I subscribe to several other gaming mailing list, in all cases there is
>at least one computer game that "fits" the mailing list, in some cases
>quite accurately. In all cases the moderators of the mailing list have
>declared that talking about the computer version was NOT covered in the
>list charter (go ahead, bring up a SSI game on the "Forgotten Realms"
>mailing list. I dare you.... [wear flame proof undies if you do]).
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>Final Liberation may or may not be the coolest game ever written,
>however it is still a computer game. It's not a version of Epic. Hell,
>based on the information posted about it, it supports even less of the
>GW "Universe" than Epic 40K does. Given the ranting and raving that
>E40K got for daring to cut down on the number of say, Ork tank types and
>for not letting Chaos use all the imperial stuff (in addition to their
>own stuff) and for dropping 2 armies in toto, you would think that NO
>ONE on this list would even THINK of playing such a limited game as FL,
>as all it lets you do is Imperials and Orks.
Well as soon as I heard it was in E40K protocol, _I_ ignored it totally...
Agro
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>And yeah, I know many of you will not see this for a couple of days.
>I'll wait until 1998 with my flame proof jammies for your reply.
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>Reply via e-mail, not to the list, please.
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Received on Fri Dec 26 1997 - 02:34:21 UTC