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Berlin, Germany
July 24th, 2008
Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.
I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city. The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father – my grandfather – was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.
At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning – his dream – required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West. And so he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America until somebody, somewhere answered his prayer for a better life.
That is why I'm here. And you are here because you too know that yearning. This city, of all cities, knows the dream of freedom. And you know that the only reason we stand here tonight is because men and women from both of our nations came together to work, and struggle, and sacrifice for that better life.
Ours is a partnership that truly began sixty years ago this summer, on the day when the first American plane touched down at Templehof.
On that day, much of this continent still lay in ruin. The rubble of this city had yet to be built into a wall. The Soviet shadow had swept across Eastern Europe, while in the West, America, Britain, and France took stock of their losses, and pondered how the world might be remade.
This is where the two sides met. And on the twenty-fourth of June, 1948, the Communists chose to blockade the western part of the city. They cut off food and supplies to more than two million Germans in an effort to extinguish the last flame of freedom in Berlin.
The size of our forces was no match for the much larger Soviet Army. And yet retreat would have allowed Communism to march across Europe. Where the last war had ended, another World War could have easily begun. All that stood in the way was Berlin.
And that's when the airlift began – when the largest and most unlikely rescue in history brought food and hope to the people of this city.
The odds were stacked against success. In the winter, a heavy fog filled the sky above, and many planes were forced to turn back without dropping off the needed supplies. The streets where we stand were filled with hungry families who had no comfort from the cold.
But in the darkest hours, the people of Berlin kept the flame of hope burning. The people of Berlin refused to give up. And on one fall day, hundreds of thousands of Berliners came here, to the Tiergarten, and heard the city's mayor implore the world not to give up on freedom. "There is only one possibility," he said. "For us to stand together united until this battle is won…The people of Berlin have spoken. We have done our duty, and we will keep on doing our duty. People of the world: now do your duty…People of the world, look at Berlin!"
People of the world – look at Berlin!
Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.
Look at Berlin, where the determination of a people met the generosity of the Marshall Plan and created a German miracle; where a victory over tyranny gave rise to NATO, the greatest alliance ever formed to defend our common security.
Look at Berlin, where the bullet holes in the buildings and the somber stones and pillars near the Brandenburg Gate insist that we never forget our common humanity.
People of the world – look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.
Sixty years after the airlift, we are called upon again. History has led us to a new crossroad, with new promise and new peril. When you, the German people, tore down that wall – a wall that divided East and West; freedom and tyranny; fear and hope – walls came tumbling down around the world. From Kiev to Cape Town, prison camps were closed, and the doors of democracy were opened. Markets opened too, and the spread of information and technology reduced barriers to opportunity and prosperity. While the 20th century taught us that we share a common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at any time in human history.
The fall of the Berlin Wall brought new hope. But that very closeness has given rise to new dangers – dangers that cannot be contained within the borders of a country or by the distance of an ocean.
The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in Kandahar and Karachi before killing thousands from all over the globe on American soil.
As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Arctic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.
Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow. The genocide in Darfur shames the conscience of us all.
In this new world, such dangerous currents have swept along faster than our efforts to contain them. That is why we cannot afford to be divided. No one nation, no matter how large or powerful, can defeat such challenges alone. None of us can deny these threats, or escape responsibility in meeting them. Yet, in the absence of Soviet tanks and a terrible wall, it has become easy to forget this truth. And if we're honest with each other, we know that sometimes, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have drifted apart, and forgotten our shared destiny.
In Europe, the view that America is part of what has gone wrong in our world, rather than a force to help make it right, has become all too common. In America, there are voices that deride and deny the importance of Europe's role in our security and our future. Both views miss the truth – that Europeans today are bearing new burdens and taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world; and that just as American bases built in the last century still help to defend the security of this continent, so does our country still sacrifice greatly for freedom around the globe.
Yes, there have been differences between America and Europe. No doubt, there will be differences in the future. But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together. A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden. In this new century, Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more – not less. Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way, to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.
That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another. The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.
We know they have fallen before. After centuries of strife, the people of Europe have formed a Union of promise and prosperity. Here, at the base of a column built to mark victory in war, we meet in the center of a Europe at peace. Not only have walls come down in Berlin, but they have come down in Belfast, where Protestant and Catholic found a way to live together; in the Balkans, where our Atlantic alliance ended wars and brought savage war criminals to justice; and in South Africa, where the struggle of a courageous people defeated apartheid.
So history reminds us that walls can be torn down. But the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy; of progress and peace. They require allies who will listen to each other, learn from each other and, most of all, trust each other.
That is why America cannot turn inward. That is why Europe cannot turn inward. America has no better partner than Europe. Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that bound us across the Atlantic. Now is the time to join together, through constant cooperation, strong institutions, shared sacrifice, and a global commitment to progress, to meet the challenges of the 21st century. It was this spirit that led airlift planes to appear in the sky above our heads, and people to assemble where we stand today. And this is the moment when our nations – and all nations – must summon that spirit anew.
This is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it. This threat is real and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to combat it. If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman; in London and Bali; in Washington and New York. If we could win a battle of ideas against the communists, we can stand with the vast majority of Muslims who reject the extremism that leads to hate instead of hope.
This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan, and the traffickers who sell drugs on your streets. No one welcomes war. I recognize the enormous difficulties in Afghanistan. But my country and yours have a stake in seeing that NATO's first mission beyond Europe's borders is a success. For the people of Afghanistan, and for our shared security, the work must be done. America cannot do this alone. The Afghan people need our troops and your troops; our support and your support to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda, to develop their economy, and to help them rebuild their nation. We have too much at stake to turn back now.
This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. The two superpowers that faced each other across the wall of this city came too close too often to destroying all we have built and all that we love. With that wall gone, we need not stand idly by and watch the further spread of the deadly atom. It is time to secure all loose nuclear materials; to stop the spread of nuclear weapons; and to reduce the arsenals from another era. This is the moment to begin the work of seeking the peace of a world without nuclear weapons.
This is the moment when every nation in Europe must have the chance to choose its own tomorrow free from the shadows of yesterday. In this century, we need a strong European Union that deepens the security and prosperity of this continent, while extending a hand abroad. In this century – in this city of all cities – we must reject the Cold War mind-set of the past, and resolve to work with Russia when we can, to stand up for our values when we must, and to seek a partnership that extends across this entire continent.
This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. Together, we must forge trade that truly rewards the work that creates wealth, with meaningful protections for our people and our planet. This is the moment for trade that is free and fair for all.
This is the moment we must help answer the call for a new dawn in the Middle East. My country must stand with yours and with Europe in sending a direct message to Iran that it must abandon its nuclear ambitions. We must support the Lebanese who have marched and bled for democracy, and the Israelis and Palestinians who seek a secure and lasting peace. And despite past differences, this is the moment when the world should support the millions of Iraqis who seek to rebuild their lives, even as we pass responsibility to the Iraqi government and finally bring this war to a close.
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. Let us resolve that all nations – including my own – will act with the same seriousness of purpose as has your nation, and reduce the carbon we send into our atmosphere. This is the moment to give our children back their future. This is the moment to stand as one.
And this is the moment when we must give hope to those left behind in a globalized world. We must remember that the Cold War born in this city was not a battle for land or treasure. Sixty years ago, the planes that flew over Berlin did not drop bombs; instead they delivered food, and coal, and candy to grateful children. And in that show of solidarity, those pilots won more than a military victory. They won hearts and minds; love and loyalty and trust – not just from the people in this city, but from all those who heard the story of what they did here.
Now the world will watch and remember what we do here – what we do with this moment. Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time?
Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe? Will we give meaning to the words "never again" in Darfur?
Will we acknowledge that there is no more powerful example than the one each of our nations projects to the world? Will we reject torture and stand for the rule of law? Will we welcome immigrants from different lands, and shun discrimination against those who don't look like us or worship like we do, and keep the promise of equality and opportunity for all of our people?
People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
But I also know how much I love America. I know that for more than two centuries, we have strived – at great cost and great sacrifice – to form a more perfect union; to seek, with other nations, a more hopeful world. Our allegiance has never been to any particular tribe or kingdom – indeed, every language is spoken in our country; every culture has left its imprint on ours; every point of view is expressed in our public squares. What has always united us – what has always driven our people; what drew my father to America's shores – is a set of ideals that speak to aspirations shared by all people: that we can live free from fear and free from want; that we can speak our minds and assemble with whomever we choose and worship as we please.
These are the aspirations that joined the fates of all nations in this city. These aspirations are bigger than anything that drives us apart. It is because of these aspirations that the airlift began. It is because of these aspirations that all free people – everywhere – became citizens of Berlin. It is in pursuit of these aspirations that a new generation – our generation – must make our mark on the world.
People of Berlin – and people of the world – the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope. With an eye toward the future, with resolve in our hearts, let us remember this history, and answer our destiny, and remake the world once again.


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Wearing Contacts When Swimming Is Risky
Some people swim while wearing contact lenses, risking serious damage to their vision.
Eye Irritation Isn't Just Caused By Chlorine
While many of us associate swimming pools with the smell with chlorine, the real culprits are chemicals that form when chlorine mixes with sweat, dirt, and urine. This concoction–known as chloramine–is the real cause for eye irritation, and puts our eyes at risk for irritation and serious infection.
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Jill Stein and her running mate, Cheri Honkala, showed up holding an American flag at Hofstra University on Long Island. For more than 15 minutes, they tussled with police officers and a university representative.
"We are here to stand up for the millions of American people who have been left out of the system," Stein is seen saying on a video posted by the Green Party.
Stein asked the university official why the Commission on Presidential Debates had refused to let them participate in the debate. She pointed out that both of them were on enough ballots across the country that they could theoretically win enough electoral college votes to win the presidency.
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EVERYONE WHO'S BEEN TO THE DENTIST is familiar with X-rays. You put on the lead apron, you're given a rectangular contraption and told "put this between your teeth and bite down," and then you hear that tinny beep. Have you ever wondered what the different types of dental X-rays are and what they're for? Let's take a closer look at three of the most common ones.
The Big Picture: Panoramic X-Rays
Has an X-ray technician ever had you stand on a circular platform and stand still for several seconds while the machine spun around your head? Then you've had a panoramic X-ray, which is the most common type of extraoral dental X-ray.
With these, we can see your entire mouth in one image, because the camera travels all the way around your head while taking the picture. These X-rays show incoming adult teeth and wisdom teeth, including any that are impacted, which is how we determine if there's enough room for these teeth to come in and if they'll come in on their own. Panoramic X-rays also make it much easier to detect things like tumors, cysts, and abscesses.
Glamor Shots: Bitewing X-Rays
As you might have guessed from the name, bitewing X-rays are the ones where the patient has to bite down on a piece of dental film before the image is taken. Because the dental film is inside your mouth, bitewing X-rays are a type of intraoral X-ray. Usually, there will be one X-ray taken for each of the four quadrants of your mouth.
Bitewing X-rays are taken to give us a clear view of the crevices between your teeth, which are difficult to see with the naked eye. With these images, we can easily check for tooth decay and cavities in those areas.
It's Time For Your Close-Up: Periapical X-Rays
This intraoral X-ray is the close-up of the dental world. If a specific tooth or area in your mouth is bothering you, we'll probably take a periapical X-ray to get a clear idea of what's going on there, but they can also be taken alongside bitewing X-rays even if you aren't aware of an obvious tooth problem.
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After Tooth Extraction
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Retrospective: Paranoia
Consequently, the missions on which the characters are sent by The Computer are often absurd, based on false premises and riddled with untruths, half-truths, and outright falsehoods, because the society of Alpha Complex largely functions by lies agreed upon. Thus, characters, as well as NPCs, must continue to say and do the "right" things, even when they know that those things are mistaken or incorrect, because, to do otherwise runs the risk of one's being denounced as a traitor and executed. And while Paranoia provides each character with six clones, thereby making it easy, both rules-wise and in the game's setting, to replace a dead character, self-preservation is nevertheless a prime motivation for many, if not most, characters, especially if it can be achieved at the expense of another character's own quest for the same.
It's here, I think, where a large fault line in Paranoia lies. Paranoia is an unambiguously "confrontational" game. Or perhaps it might be better better to call it "competitive." Regardless of the term used, the GM most definitely is out to get the player characters and player characters can advance by backstabbing their fellows. Now, those of who enjoyed Paranoia recognized this dynamic as all part of the fun and, given that Greg Costikyan was one the game's designers (along with Dan Gelber, Ken Rolston, and Eric Goldberg), I think it's safe to bet that this dynamic was intended, at least in part, as a commentary on the way many roleplayers enjoyed their hobby. However, not all gamers, then or now, find Paranoia's explicit encouragement of slapstick-riddled betrayal to be enjoyable. Indeed, I've known several roleplayers who considered Paranoia to represent everything they hate about the hobby and their fellow gamers.
Now, I've always had a soft spot for Paranoia, in part because it plays to my strengths as a referee. I'm good at creating quirky, possibly insane NPCs and portraying them in an amusing, if slightly sinister, fashion. Likewise, I have little difficulty switching between Three Stooges-esque hijinks and black humor, both of which are, in my opinion, essential to a good Paranoia game. Note that I didn't say "campaign." While there are rules in the game for improving one's character over many adventures, I can't recall ever using them. Likewise, though I've played the game many times over the last 25 years, I've never run anything more elaborate than extended one-shots with it. I'm not sure that Paranoia could be played over the course of many adventures, except in very special circumstances. Instead, like many humorous RPGs, I enjoy it most as a change of pace, a "palette cleanser" to be played between longer campaigns of a more "serious" sort.
Which reminds me: a note on "seriousness" seems in order here. Paranoia is a humorous game. On the face of it, you're not supposed to take any of it seriously and I think that attempts to play the game straight bleed some of the joy out of the game. At the same time, I don't think there's any question that, like all satires, its designers meant for its critiques and commentary to elicit thought and examination about the real world. The jokes here aren't all just pratfalls and Warner Brothers-style lunacy; they're intended to serve a purpose.
In my opinion, it's here, rather than in all the player vs. player and players vs. GM silliness, that Paranoia's biggest fault line lies. Many gamers -- and rightfully so -- don't want a RPG to be used a platform for political discussion (or diatribes), however thoughtful or amusingly presented. In the hands of an unskilled referee or one with a transparent agenda, I suspect Paranoia could prove a very unenjoyable experience for many players and that's the game's real Achilles heel. However, to eliminate the political/social satire would similarly drain away the much of the zany genius that makes the game so appealing to those of us who love it. It's a fine line, one that many referees simply cannot discern, making a good Paranoia adventure difficult to pull off. But in the hands of the right referee, it can be a thing of beauty.
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I've had fun with Paranoia, but you're right. It's more a one shot type game then a campaign game.
It can be said that it's one of those games that's more fun to read the rulebook than it is to play.
Mongoose Game's Mandatory Bonus Fun! actually captures the feel of playing Paranoia without investing too deeply in an RPG.
Finally, I find it interesting that you cover Paranoia the day after DEVO releases their first new album in 20 years.
We must repeat...At every convention I have ever gone to, the people in the room that were obviously having the most fun (evidenced by the frequent bouts of hysterical laughter) were almost always playing Paranoia. I've owned the first edition of the game since roughly 2000 (picked it up secondhand for cheap), but I have never actually played it, unfortunately, so I can't really speak to how it plays.
ReplyDeleteOh, wow, Paranoia. I haven't thought about this in years.
I like the CoC comparison Walker makes. For me, it's because of the high mortality rate. With both Paranoia and CoC, you already know your character will die (or go mad), if you are really playing to the true spirit of the game. This makes the goal of staying alive, which is primary in most games, subjugated a bit. I think it encourages players to actually do what the character would do, instead of what they know is best for the character. In the long run, that's so counter to our nature that it's only fun in small doses.Some of the most fun I've ever had GM'ing were with Paranoia. Most of the modules held up well as straight reads too, which is good, as my players rarely went where the plot was taking them.
I actually play tested an early Paronoia module at the old West End Games offices in Manahttan in 1985 or 86. Wish I could remember who ran the play test. Fun times.I loved Paranoia. Of course, at the time, I didn't get the political satire; I was a junior in high school and more interested in women. We played it only twice, but I recall madcap fun. During a mission, we turned up a Blue Security Card, which we weren't cleared to have. But it opened up all kinds of doors and terminals, so we held on to it. The guy who had it stupidly showed it to some guards in an attempt to bluff his way out of a situation. He was executed (but it was mad fun watching him try to talk his way out of it), and the card was conveniently dropped on the ground. For the rest of the night, all the players tried to find ways to plant the card on other players and get them executed in a sick game of hot potato. I love this game.
Recently, I've been musing over buying the latest edition, just for nostalgia.The best game of Paranoia I played in required a competition to determine who would get the various team slots. The competition was a game of Twister that we actually played. Do you know how hard it is to play Twister when 3/4ths of the playing field is above your security level? But the Computer is ordering you to touch it?
Fun times
The writing is part of it. The way the text casually mentions commies and mutants in a matter-of-fact way, explains what happens to these people, then basically accuses you of being a commie mutant traitor if you don't get on board with the game.
As James says, the central premise is that the computer is completely insane. It has garbled most of its programming, sort of like how HAL 9000 decides that it's a good idea to kill off Dave and Frank. It's been told that commies are the enemy, so it keeps on the lookout for commies. Rational decision. However, it defines what a commie is. And it's pretty much in charge of your life support since you're in an underground complex. Oh, and there are other humans who believe everything the computer tells them. So if computer says you're a commie mutant traitor, there are plenty of humans who are willing to execute you.
Yes, the game could be quite grim if played straight. But I don't see how that could be done, because the premise is so ridiculous. Try to imagine HAL 9000, the computer from Logan's Run, and the computer from I, Robot all getting together. That's who you're working for. It will send you out on a mission beyond the dome to retrieve the Mona Lisa, then when you come back it will accuse you of being mutated and carrying contraband. Of course, you know this will happen, and so take steps to protect yourself. This generally takes the form of blaming someone else in the group.
It's all madcap fun, once you get into the vibe. And since you are not cleared for this information, kindly report to a suicide booth for your immediate termination. Thank you for your cooperation, commie mutant bastard.I fundamentally like Paranoia; I think it's well-done. One of the more heavily played non-TSR games for me.
My main critiques are:
(1) By the combat tables, shooting a fellow player with a laser is not nearly as lethal as the backstory makes it sound. In fact, it's pretty darned hard to damage an agent of the same level.
(2) The enormous credibility gulf of "You're executed for being a mutant Greenpeace agent", and then your clone shows up (same in every way including this one), why isn't he executed for the same reason? Honestly never quite got that to work in play.
(3) The adventure "Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues" (esp. first chapter) is one of most raw railroad adventures ever written (literally control of PCs taken away from players during game). Actually one of the most sour gaming experiences I ever GM'd.> Many gamers -- and rightfully so -- don't want a RPG to be used a platform for political discussion (or diatribes), however thoughtful or amusingly presented. In the hands of an unskilled referee or one with a transparent agenda, I suspect Paranoia could prove a very unenjoyable experience for many players and that's the game's real Achilles heel.
Pretty much any RPG can be used as a platform for sociopolitical viewpoint pushing by the GM. This should actually be /less/ of an issue with Paranoia owing to the not atypical 600% TPK rate vs. the idea of "buying into" a longer-term campaign where it's a lot more difficult to back out should there be such "issues".
If the GM irks you in Paranoia, just up the ante and have fun...I remember talking about it all the time with my players back in the day, but it I never had any real desire to run it. Even my Cthulhu campaigns were long-running (I don't think about "end game" in anything I run - I'm in for the long haul), so anything with a one-shot formula doesn't appeal to me. I can see it being fun for conventions, but I don't go to conventions so there ya go.
ReplyDelete> The premise sounds like it could be used for a very 'grim', serious game. Why is it comical? Is it just the writing?
"The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Weighted Companion Cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that the Weighted Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice."
Oops, sorry, wrong game (...just about ;)
Grim and comical can work well together, even if that's more typically better for shorter periods, and kinda glad the current generation of (computer) gamers haven't yet been lulled into some totally fluffy My Little Pony wish-fulfillment MMORPG without having to suffer - and even enjoy - knockbacks along the way. :)
If you wish to try to "convert" a die-hard computer gamer to tabletop RPG gaming as well, Paranoia's a pretty good first port o' call, IMO.I like the game for the very same reasons James doesn't: the PVP & player vs. GM attitude. Plus with a huge dose of black comedy, you have Paranoia.
I think it's one of those games where you aren't expected to take it seriously, and to a larger degree the RPG scene should be like that too.
Just this past week I got into a HUGE debate with someone about how detect evil/good works at another forum. IT got to the point where he was quoting page and paragraph out of the DMG to me...because I wasn't doing it "Right".
Eventually I had to say that this discussion is pointless because we're arguing over a rule in a game about dragons and fairies. Lighten up people!
Eventually we got over the whole thing with no hard feelings.
And that's what Paranoia is: a way to "lighten up" and not to take RPGs too seriously.I love the feel of the original Paranoia. It's a great game to run, because at heart, the objective of the game is for the players to amuse the gamemaster (and be amused in turn). It's not a game that should be run seriously, but like all good comedy it should be played straight. You're not out to hose the players, but are there to let the players hose themselves.
It's also a great game to run semi-freeform. A good paranoia game will be immersive. Even with a tabletop play, get your players to act appropriately. Encourage them to ham it up. If you ever get to the end of an "adventure" then you are probably doing it wrong. That's because the players themselves will take it off the rails and do your work for you.
Although one common elementary mistake is players shooting each other for treason. This is fine. The traitor is dead (he must have been a traitor because The Computer's loyal troubleshooters killed him, qed). Then execute the character for wasting The Computers valuable resources (to whit, the "treasonous" troubleshooter). Curbs that behaviour right off.
One of my favourite games had 3 different Troubleshooter teams receive the same Mission Alert, and then receive only enough equipment for one team. (Yes that is 18 players; Paranoia becomes easier the more people you have playing). There were even survivors (and by that I mean a player who made it through on their first clone [by not drawing attention to himself by either being in the forefront or clinging to the background; he even got an award for the multicorder record of the game he made), so I promoted him to Mission Leader for the next one. <grin>
My favourite secret for running the game is that the game works very well if The Computer (yourself) really is Your Friend. Works even better if it the Friend of the last person who speaks to it. [If they want combot support, give it to them. This...
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[I'm sorry, but Pa-V-ANE-3 is no longer available to talk to you at the moment. While you exit through the Alpha Complex Gift Store, may I suggest picking up some excellent Paranoia fiction, such as Stormshooters and Troubleknights, Extreme Paranoia: Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Shot, Title Deleted For Security Reasons, and the comic.]@Ross: I found the latest version to be rather disappointing compared to the original game. It's very different.
Part of this is the different style of writing, which is much dryer and more rulesy,* but the other thing is the rules are a lot looser.
A good part of the fun in the old game was having the Players book explain a highly intricate and detailed simulation system which the gamemaster subsequently totally ignored.
And the new gamemaster screen is no longer guaranteed to blind people who look at it. =8(
But at least it's not as bad as the infamous 5th edition (although it does want to head that way).
[*In addition to having a tendency to parody itself, which is never a good idea.]Sometimes I think that this is the best RPG yet made. It's been years since I've played, so the nostalgia factor may weigh in here, but I don't think I've ever run any other game and had such a good time and felt pretty confident that the players had too (those that could get into the absurd spirit of the thing)
ReplyDeleteSome of James's analysis is invalidated by the current (Mongoose Publishing) edition of PARANOIA, which Gareth Hanrahan wrote based closely on my 2004 edition. The 2004+ rules encourage the GM to adopt an attitude of Skinnerian conditioning of players, dancing them like puppets and turning them against one another for entertainment value. This contrasts with the original PARANOIA's encouragment of an openly malevolent GM.
Those who repeat the conventional wisdom that PARANOIA isn't suitable for campaigns should look at the 2006 mission collection "WMD." The lead mission there, Dan Curtis Johnson's "Hunger," brilliantly brings the PCs from lowly RED Clearance all the way up to BLUE, and along the way shows how an RPG scenario can be effective satire without hitting players (as opposed to Troubleshooters) over the head.Played it once. I killed off all the characters in the first encounter, well... those that didn't kill each other. One of the players actually had his character stand up and announce during the firefight that he was a communist, at which point everyone on the battlefield shot him.
Of course, what do you do for an encore after that?
I found rules to actually be worthwhile just by themselves and adapted them into a fun Robotech: Invid Invasion campaign.- AnonymousJune 16, 2010 at 5:28 PM
Oh, we had soooo much fun with this one back when it came out. My brother was already known for his wacky sense of humor, and so we naturally elected him referee.
He turned his science-fair display board, made from pegboard, into a white (of course) Screen of Fear and Ignorance, from which we couldn't see him most of the time.
The only game in which I've ever laughed so hard at facing a giant rubber chicken. - AnonymousJune 16, 2010 at 5:48 PM
paranoia is responsible for some of my fondest rpg-memories. monty python meets 1984... simply awesome.
loving paranoia is mandatory, citizen! - AnonymousJune 16, 2010 at 5:51 PM
To be honest, I had more fun reading [i]Paranoia[/i] than playing it. It never quite worked for me, as a game. Not sure why.
ReplyDelete Paranoia was one of the most-anticipated events, when it came to play-testing (and, apparently, playing) at SIMCON, the years it was run (which was multiple).
But the most amusing - and fun - was the LARP that was run in the late-teens/early 20s of SIMCON. Including the famous Hidden Elevator of Meliora Hall, with a sign loudly proclaiming its entry status as INFRARED on the outside...
...wait for it...
...and another sign proclaiming it's exit status as INDIGO on the inside of the elevator.
The referees took an informal count. At one point, there was apparently half a dozen people in that elevator, as the jerks inside would cheerfully not tell people entering what the trick was...."In the hands of the right referee, it can be a thing of beauty."
This is true of many games, but PARANOIA very much so -- to make it work right, the players AND the referee need to have the right mindset, the right attitude, and balance neatly between "cooperative play" and "kill everyone else at the table."
Weirdly enough, PARANOIA is the only game I can think of that I've played consistently over the years where an argument NEVER erupted at the table. EVER! Blow a PC's head off without warning or save? Your buddy stab you in the back and toss you off a cliff? No one griped, ever. You simply activated your next clone and plotted your revenge...My group loved this game. We weren't quite as malevolent as some posters are describing, but we really hammed it up and went for the cheap jokes constantly. We wouldn't play it all the time, but we played often enough, and everyone had a blast. Would love to play again, but that group has long since disbanded. Maybe for a reunion...
ReplyDeleteI think it's a mistake to consider it a "GM vs. player" game. In Paranoia it's the GM's job to portray a malevolent universe, but he's not doing it to "beat" the players. The ultimate goal is still to entertain (and be entertained).
Because of GMs thinking "no more Mr. Nice Guy" meant "you're in it to win it", the essential element of Paranoia was lost: In other words, the paranoia. It's a fine line between a well-tuned Tomb of Horrors and "Rocks Fall, You All Die", but it's an important one.
Of course, it's not just GMs: I've seen plenty of players ruin the game, too. Comedy is hard. Comedy gaming is harder.
But very rewarding when it can be pulled off successfully.Oh -- Back circa 1988 I had a Paranoia game where every piece equipment was given as a physical prop (toys guns, towel cores for laser barrels, etc.) I can remember how aghast the one guy put in charge of equipment looked at receiving this big box (lose or break anything, treason, of course) -- then appointed an assistant equipment guy and highjinks ensued as they tried to entrap each other.
Also, the party videocam was an actually camcorder, so I got the whole thing on tape by the player assigned to recording duty.- AnonymousJune 17, 2010 at 2:04 AM
You said that many people see Paranoia as everything they hate about games and gamers. Those are people who don't understand satire. In addition to satirizing cold war paranoia, it also satirizes gaming. The guy who invents reasons to shoot PCs in the back? The guy who dies in a stupid way then creates a "new" character who is exactly the same? The GM who creates an underground dungeon that's just an excuse to throw inescapable traps at the party? That is all a part of the Paranoia world. It's a satire of old school dungeon crawling.
People who hate Paranoia for that reason don't realize that Paranoia is mocking the things they hate. I dearly love this game, but definitely recall a tinge of melancholy. In particular, as GM I recall the players being assigned to disable a robot. The secret is that the robot is harmless. The halls and rooms the characters traverse are filled with destruction, injured people, radiation alarms, etc. They finally reach the room with the robot. The robot begins to roll towards the players harmlessly enough, but the players immediately cower in the opposite corner trying to find ways of defending themselves.
My thought at the time was that the situation was hilarious, but it was a pity that I as the GM was the only one in on the joke.When the first MMORPGs started revealing their weaknesses as sandboxes for actual role-playing -- idiots running around being absurd and griefing each other, no consequences for dying, pointless fetch-quests handed out by the designers and their soulless quest-dispenser NPCs -- my first thought was that the only RPG that would work as designed in this environment was Paranoia. I still think the idea has a lot of potential. In fact, my sense is that playing World of Warcraft is actually closer to the experience of playing Paranoia than anything else.
ReplyDeleteParanoia is a great campaign game! Our DM started by having a massively deadly briefing (everybody ended up dead but me), sent us out on a mission with me as party leader (I got killed pretty quickly), and then we started the campaign. Not really as much secret society and backstabbing action as there could have been, but the DM was keeping us busy doing various troubleshooting missions. The campaign ended with a huge struggle between us and some Vultures, with us armed with a whole Vulture van full of weapons, which would have been great except that our team leader tacnuked everyone. The DM put him through a horrifying debrief, complete with real darkened room and spotlight on his face, but his Fast Talk triumphed and he was promoted. Awesome.


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نام | آئرہ |
انگریزی نام | Aira |
معنی | قابل عزت،قابل احترام، محترم،ذی عزت |
جنس | لڑکی |
مذہب | مسلم |
لکی نمبر | 7 |
موافق دن | جمعرات, جمعہ |
موافق رنگ | نارنجی, ہلکا سبز |
موافق پتھر | موتی |
موافق دھاتیں | کانسی, چاندی |
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Aira don't judge people by their looks. Aira is a spiritual personality and believe what the people really are. Aira has some rules to stay with some people. Aira used to understand people but she doesn't take interest in making fun of their emotions and feelings. Aira used to stay along and want to spend most of time with her/his family and reading books.
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Before Port City Brewing, Alexandria was home to several breweries, including Shuter's Hill Brewery established in the mid-19th century in what was then known as the West End.
In 1858, Alexander Strausz and John Klein leased a building, obscured by trees in this Civil War-era image, on the south side of Duke Street and built their lager beer brewery there. By year's end, they advertised that their product was "fully equal to that made in Philadelphia" and they were "prepared to furnish in kegs or barrels that popular and wholesome beverage in such quantities as may be desired."
In 1860 Strausz sold his interest in the business to Klein who continued operate the Shuter's Hill Brewery during the Civil War. Near the end of the war, Klein advertised that he had "by considerable expense enlarged his old establishment," but he died in the summer of 1865.
Francis Denmead acquired the property and employed Henry Englehardt as brewmaster. In 1868, Englehardt operated a biergarten on King Street at the foot of Shuter's Hill which did not last, and by 1870, Engelhardt had opened a saloon on Duke Street, likely in or near the brewery building.
In 1872 Denmead conveyed the brewery to Engelhardt, who experienced financial difficulties and failed to pay Denmead, but continued operating his saloon and brewery for many years.
In 1893, a year after the business was sold, a fire destroyed the brewery. Its exact location remained unknown until a shaft to the cellar was discovered in 1979 during a construction project. Archaeologists excavated the site and recovered thousands of artifacts before the vault under the southwest corner of Duke and Dulany streets was filled and covered.
To learn more about historic brewing and beer, visit www.AlexandriaArchaeology.org or attend the Historic Beer Dinner at Gadsby's Tavern Museum on Friday, January 20.
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