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4 messages from 4 participants · 13 May 1995 – 22 May 1995
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Zortek

After wasting sufficient time muddling through the pontifications of "the janitor" and the many well founded replies...I feel that it is my moral obligation to tell whizs of the coast to "piss off." I don't have the history with MTG or any card game other than Jyhad. I was a member of the "new market" and Jyhad got my attention and my money. My modest $600 investment in cards purchased at full retail is of no apparent concern to the newly self-styled "mature company that is sensitive to the political, religious, gender, and ethnic issues that are facing society today." To hell with the political correctness involved with the semantics of the word "Jyhad." The game contains... mythical settings, mythical themes, mythical characters, mythical plots, etc. The frivilous nature of this argument is so base as to drive me from the market. I do not desire to be a piper to be followed and encourage no one to follow...Each must do what is personally correct. If you are so damn politically correct, consider the eyes of... ...the women, who are portrayed as monsterous and powerful or subservient to male dominated influences. ...the gay family member, to whom you are perpetuating the western cultures anti-gay tones. ...the Christians, to whom the concept of undeath to be immoral, evil, and contemptuous. ...the Celts, whos gothic designs surround the Jyhad cardbacks. ...the children of the future, whose trees you are slaughtering to produce your cards. Come on, obviously a socially/morally conscious company such as yours is taking all these into consideration...Plastic cards, genderless, sexless, religionless, cultureless, and a game available to the general masses on a sliding scale to account for the poverty level and monetary exchange rates. I have learned a lesson from the wotc snafu, and I will now return my attention and money to RPG's and archive these cards for my grandchildren. #ifdef SIG #include <witty_sig.h> #endif /* Guess not...there is no wit in my tone */ Richard A. Wermske zor...@neosoft.com

Shane Travis

Zortek (zor...@neosoft.com) wrote: : ...the gay family member, to whom you are perpetuating the western cultures : anti-gay tones. Not to sound clueless here, but what anti-gay messages are there portrayed in the cards? : Come on, obviously a socially/morally conscious company such as yours is : taking all these into consideration...Plastic cards, genderless, sexless, ^^^^^^^ Sorry - afraid this won't cut it either. Plastic uses up non-renewable resources (petroleum products) whereas at least WotC could start (in theory) a massive tree-planting campaign to replenish all the trees they have used up in creating their stock. :-) Wouldn't _that_ be a powerful statement.... Shane H.W. Travis | Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for tra...@duke.usask.ca | thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | -- Hebrews 13:2

Louis Doench

Shane Travis (tra...@duke.usask.ca) wrote: : Zortek (zor...@neosoft.com) wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] Why is it that so many people in the Internet feel compelled to respond venomously to a little SARCASM? -- ****"I'll stop talking about Kennedy when you stop talking about Jesus."**** **** the late, great Bill Hicks."Goat Boy is here to please you!"*********** **** from Lou Doench, comedian and village idiot. wee...@iglou.com**********

L. Scott Johnson

wee...@iglou.iglou.com (Louis Doench) writes: >Shane Travis (tra...@duke.usask.ca) wrote: >: Zortek (zor...@neosoft.com) wrote: >: : Come on, obviously a socially/morally conscious company such as yours is >: : taking all these into consideration...Plastic cards, genderless, sexless, >: ^^^^^^^ >: Sorry - afraid this won't cut it either. Plastic uses up non-renewable >: resources (petroleum products) whereas at least WotC could start (in >: theory) a massive tree-planting campaign to replenish all the trees they >: have used up in creating their stock. :-) Wouldn't _that_ be a powerful >: statement.... ^ | smiley -----------------------------------+ > Why is it that so many people in the Internet feel compelled to >respond venomously to a little SARCASM? Why is it so many people *on* the internet feel compelled to ignore smilies (e.g., ':-)' ) when they want to see venom in a sacarstic reply to a sacastic post? Just because the sarcasm reflects higher machinations than Beavis and Butt-head could muster, doesn't make it any less sarcastic. (no offense, Beavis :-). -- L. Scott Johnson (sjoh...@math.scarolina.edu) | These opinions are mine and Graphics Specialist and Jyhad Rulemonger. | are subject to card text.