12-02-2010, 05:55 PM | #41 |
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Re: Call for Playtesters: GURPS Social Engineering
I am late, and must ask:
is there, even in theory, a position still open? Or is it too close to launch for that? Thanks. |
12-02-2010, 06:22 PM | #42 | |
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Re: Call for Playtesters: GURPS Social Engineering
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12-02-2010, 06:25 PM | #43 |
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Re: Call for Playtesters: GURPS Social Engineering
Well, my best wishes to those involved! :P
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12-02-2010, 06:28 PM | #44 |
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Re: Call for Playtesters: GURPS Social Engineering
Now to try not to neurotically obsess about why I didn't get picked. Was it something I said? Is it my hair? Do I look fat to you? :)
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12-02-2010, 06:29 PM | #45 | |
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If we're talking about people who prefer hard copy to pdfs . . . a category that includes me! . . . the simple fact that a large fraction of GURPS material is released first, or only, on pdf pretty much ensures that most of them will have enough e23 credit. And, in fact, when I look at the list of playtesters, I see a fair number of have been active since the days when everything was hard copy, and not a few who have actually written hard copy books. So I don't think the sample is particularly unrepresentative. If we're talking about people who never buy anything in pdf, simply because they find the format intolerable . . . well, they're not the target market for this book, or for most SJ Games books; I'm pretty sure they're a small population in any case, so excluding them wouldn't be expected to cause a lot of error. I'll note that one of the regular techniques of statisticians is to trim off the outliers, and people who won't buy pdfs are outliers in today's market. Not having them doesn't make the sampling unrepresentative. Bill Stoddard |
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12-02-2010, 09:49 PM | #46 | |
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And I'm not going to discuss with anyone the reasons that I didn't pick them in particular. On one hand it invites obsessing; on the other, I don't want to suggest that I'm prepared to debate my choices. Think of me as an inscrutable divinely inspired oracle. But don't worry about it. There'll be another playtest soon enough. Bill Stoddard |
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12-02-2010, 11:58 PM | #47 |
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Re: Call for Playtesters: GURPS Social Engineering
The answer is very simple. If they'd picked you, they wouldn't have had room for me.
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12-03-2010, 12:16 AM | #48 |
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Breeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! :) (extend short e sound not long ee, that is).
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12-03-2010, 01:08 AM | #49 |
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But Bill, that implies that usually we don't think of you as an inscrutable divinely inspired oracle.
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