Cool. I've played Twilight 2000 - but don't remember much about it - been too long. Played Shadowrun, Star Wars, Star trek RPG, Robotech, AD&D, etc, ect... lol. Haven't played paper games in years; but, have spent a fair amount of time rolling dice and wandering around Gen Con in my time. lol.
Love games; but, sometimes it isn't so great to see real life mimic the game thesis from something like Shadowrun. I get the feeling every once in a while that Politics is nothing more than the art of distracting the nation so the Rich friends of the party in charge can exploit it for gain. There's an ongoing side show of the latest thing that is supposed to benefit society. And rather than benefitting it, we become enslaved to it. All the things which in the 50s and 60s they were saying would allow people to work shorter weeks and have more leisure time have contributed to making them rather have to work harder and now instead of one income, a household has to have two or three to support a family instead of the one that did it back then. And it's no secret why. When there is more than a 300 to 1 disparity between executive and average worker pay and it's evergrowing while the employee is being demanded to do more and more for a lesser share of the pie - it's easy to understand.
We've all but forgotten Enron, Global Crossing, Microsoft, etc. at this point while the corporate media keeps us full of how Geraldo Rivera looks being blown about in a storm after the bush Justice dept let MS off the hook.. shhhh.
Common sense is supposed to be buried and we're all supposed to just shut up and obey the master like good little sheep - not make waves... Geofrey Goins Don't seem so nuts nowdays.