{"id":605,"date":"2010-03-17T22:49:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2010-03-17T22:49:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:49:37","slug":"humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2010\/03\/17\/humour\/","title":{"rendered":"Humour?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had no power for a while today (electrician doing much needed work on the 18th century museum we call a fuse box). As a result, I ended up trying to work with just a laptop on batteries and no web access. That meant time spent coming up with damage descriptions for modules as part of the campaign game.<\/p>\n

I have decided to try and make them slightly silly sounding, a bit like the module descriptions or comms chatter. I have words that amuse me, by making me think of the Star Destroyers from Star Wars, but designed by wallace from Wallace and gromit. It’s not a huge leap. I can imagine wallace asking chewie to hand him the ‘hydrospanners’.<\/p>\n

So the damage descriptions often mention the ‘primary flux sprockets’ or the ‘fusion inhibitor flaps’, and other things that blend trek-like technobabble with wallace and gromit style silly-tech.<\/p>\n

I am aware that a lot of reviews quite like what I guess must be my sense of humour. I am not sure what the majority of actual gamers think. I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of GSB players are 14-18 year old boys who love space battles, and thats awesome, I was that boy. I have a cupboard full of action figures to prove it. I took star wars pretty seriously. It was totally the most awesome film ever and ewoks were not teddy bears and leias hair was just FINE and not at all silly.<\/p>\n

To my mind, the best example OF ALL TIME of perfection in the balancing act of being funny to 30+ adults and cool and exciting to under 16 kids was the original Batman TV series. Watch it as an adult and its a hilarious parody of how kids view crime fighting. Watch it as a kid and Batman ROCKS and is AWESOME.<\/p>\n

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Holy Scriptwriting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had no power for a while today (electrician doing much needed work on the 18th century museum we call a fuse box). As a result, I ended up trying to work with just a laptop on batteries and no web access. That meant time spent coming up with damage descriptions for modules as part<\/p>\n

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