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Silly alphabetical survey ( click if you're bored enough )

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Oh, and if you're waiting to hear what I have to say about the whole "open source boobs" nonsense... ( Read more... )

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The GURPS thing is interesting. It led to a discovery of certain difficulties in human simulation. It's all well and good to blithely make up a scale and tweak the mechanics to make play balanced, but a balanced game can make for a bad simulation.
People are uneven and eccentric... not cleanly distributed into bell curves. (for instance, evolution itself balances things so there is a top-weighting... fall too far below average and you can't reproduce, but people can go way the hell above average)( Read more... )