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06-03-2011, 10:11 AM | #1 |
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Interview with Dr Kromm about GURPS
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06-03-2011, 11:26 AM | #2 |
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Re: Interview with Dr Kromm about GURPS
Yay! A Steve Jackson Games employee shows up on a podcast! Seriously, though, I listen to a lot of RPG podcasts, and I get frustrated with the lack of GURPS presence on them. (Some are outright derogatory toward GURPS.)
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06-03-2011, 11:32 AM | #3 |
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Re: Interview with Dr Kromm about GURPS
So, what's on the podcast? Anything interesting?
(I absolutely refuse to listen to podcasts. I like my news in easy-to-read format, not random-people-talking format, and I don't understand why anyone would prefer a podcast to a transcript) |
06-03-2011, 11:39 AM | #4 |
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Re: Interview with Dr Kromm about GURPS
It's something to listen to while doing chores, driving, or other mindless work.
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06-03-2011, 11:46 AM | #5 |
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Re: Interview with Dr Kromm about GURPS
Yeah, but what if I'm sitting at a computer and just want to get a highlight of what's going on? It's impossible to scan through an audio file, you can't search through it, and you can't find out if there's anything in it you'd find interesting in just a few seconds. If podcasts came with transcripts I'd be fine with them, but without them they're just useless for me.
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06-03-2011, 12:18 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Interview with Dr Kromm about GURPS
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I will note, that some of the podcasts actually chapter their 'casts, so you CAN find a section you wanted to listen too, but that depends on the podcaster. Gorkamorka, thanks for posting this, I'll check it out, sounds interesting. |
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06-05-2011, 11:11 AM | #7 | |
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Re: Interview with Dr Kromm about GURPS
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Things like visual impairment and dyslexia can further complicate things by making reading text extremely challenging or outright impossible. Text-to-speech software is ... functional... which can give people in this third "I don't have a choice" category access to electronic text, but is way worse to listen to than even someone bouncing back for laryngitis over a highly-compressed VoiP protocol. :) I'm a text-oriented learner, and gamers who hang around on forum boards tend to be heavily weighted towards this learning style - but I have a sneaking suspicion that in the greater population we're a minority, and will be until we get around to rewiring peoples brains. It's not related to literacy levels at all - it has to do with specific aptitudes, and is why kids are put in classrooms with lectures, instead of just handed worksheets and handouts every class.
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06-05-2011, 11:19 AM | #8 | |
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06-05-2011, 11:39 AM | #9 | |
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I'm learning disabled and work in the accessibility industry for the visually impaired, so I'm unusually conscious of the subject. I hope you don't mind me info-dumping like that.
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06-06-2011, 02:30 AM | #10 |
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Re: Interview with Dr Kromm about GURPS
Kromm talks a bit about nice curves and nice tails.
Maybe I should have payed more attention, but that thing I heard. ----- Other interesting things. He talk a bit about disadvantages and how it work, how it could be different. Also a good bit about the GM's role in GURPS. Last edited by Maz; 06-06-2011 at 02:52 AM. |
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