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[A. J. Raffles]

Tom Henrik, on Jun 26 2006, 01:33 PM, said:

Personally I think that the game idea he was proposing was even worse than what he objected to

I think he just tried to be too clever and it backfired. 'A Modest Proposal' is the title of one of the most famous pieces of Augustan satire: the one by Swift, in which he suggests eating babies as a way of getting rid of poverty - and it's one of the riskier types of satire, because its tone is dead serious; with that sort of satire, if your reader for some reason doesn't get your point and say "why, this is absurd - he must mean the opposite of what he says" but "hey, great idea!", you're in trouble. Perhaps that's what happened to this Thompson person as well. Perhaps he tried to be extra clever by identifying his text as satire only through its title.

[Tom Henrik]

What's wrong with eating babies? I eat Baby Dragons all the time in ADOM.  

[DeathDude]

Indeed think this is one of the cases when you say something and probably weren't expecting the backlash with a developer out there to actually go through and do the idea, which he probably didn't expect or did who knows...

[Juni Ori]

Combining two latest posts/posters, all I can say is:

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Two minutes to midnight, to kill the unborn in the woods

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Bring your daughter, bring your daughter, to the slaughter

[DeathDude]

Ah yes good ol Iron Maiden, always right for any situation.

[Doubler]

I think this request has pretty much been handled, and I'm closing this thread.

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