10-28-2011, 09:19 PM | #61 |
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A few days ago I was reading a travel book, Tim Moore's Continental Drifter. In a small town in the south of France, he notes:
In 1848, the huge bronze statue of Louis XIV on his horse that still stands outside the local McDonald's was saved from a threatening crowd only after someone persuaded them it would be an even more effective insult to replace the royal inscription with one in praise of the sculptor, a local boy. No one seems to know who brokered this unlikely feat of diplomacy -- only in France could a baying mob be prevailed upon to throw down their pitchforks in favour of irony. Today, Social Engineering arrives and hey presto, there it is -- the Irony technique on page 81. GURPS really can do anything. |
10-28-2011, 09:41 PM | #62 |
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10-28-2011, 10:03 PM | #63 | |
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And I don't know that lean methods are any less good in writing and publishing. Tax rule changes that make "leaning up" the only option to survive because they make the inherent cost of work that is done but not producing value (in the form of inventory) obviously are going to more painful in an industry where there are bigger economies of scale in production and comparatively low warehousing costs, such that keeping a fairly large inventory has a strong incentive (I get the impression that was historically the case in print publishing), but lean methods themselves don't seem to be a bad thing so much as one with limited applicability where there are strong incentives to keep inventory like that. SJG, with GURPS, seems to be putting out more and better content since they started focussing on smaller units of work with shorter turnaround time, which seems to be good for customers, presumably has improved their profitability compared to what it would be without the change given the same climate, and -- unless they've reduced their pay scale to writers -- would seem likely to be good for writers, too (both because of the increased volume of work available, and because the units of work are smaller which means writers, like SJG, are sitting on less of an inventory of work that has been done but isn't returning value to them.) Quote:
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10-29-2011, 10:24 AM | #66 |
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I'm almost done reading the book cover to cover, and I'm very impressed. This adds a lot of useful detail to a part of GURPS that was always a bit too vague for my tastes. Great work, guys!
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01-23-2014, 05:57 AM | #67 |
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OMG I'm only getting to read this now - shocked it's over 2 years - so many missed opportunities.
Great piece of work.
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