Are you kidding me with the new Star Trek email?


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What is with the guy writing the new Star Trek email? Caught up with new movie ads? Really? Come-on...

Most of the emails that come my way from you are... well, fantasy. This sci-fi thing gives me the jitters...

Huh?

Aluvial

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy

I also can't stand it when someone tries to sell a fantasy product by quoting a line from popular culture. Especially when that line comes from something that's equally geeky (if not more so) than D&D. For shame, Paizo. How dare you!

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Also, it's not a "guy" writing the email, but Lisa, the company's CEO. And there've been plenty of Star Wars themed blog posts, or Cthulhu Tech, or Traveler, or even d20 Future. Paizo sells more than just fantasy products and understands that sometimes their products are thematically tied to other genres or pop culture references. Not really worth making a fuss over, is it?

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I like that kind of thing, personally--it appeals to my geeky nature.

Besides, I think more of us are cross-genre types anyway.

Liberty's Edge

Hey speak for yourself...There are no pictures of me in a dress...(at least none that I haven't managed to burn!) (I hope...)

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Brutesquad07 wrote:

Hey speak for yourself...There are no pictures of me in a dress...(at least none that I haven't managed to burn!) (I hope...)

T.M.I. ... way too TMI.

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Lord Fyre wrote:
Brutesquad07 wrote:

Hey speak for yourself...There are no pictures of me in a dress...(at least none that I haven't managed to burn!) (I hope...)

T.M.I. ... way too TMI.

::giggle:: You have no idea ... this is the GM with the Cleric of Calistria with the "missing" butt-plate on his armor :) With gamers like that ... (8-O

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yoda8myhead wrote:
I also can't stand it when someone tries to sell a fantasy product by quoting a line from popular culture.

Says the man who turned the Whills Jedi Master into a cannibal.

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I read you spoiler, I'm teasing.

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Gamer Girrl wrote:


::giggle:: You have no idea ... this is the GM with the Cleric of Calistria with the "missing" b!*#-plate on his armor :) With gamers like that ... (8-O

Sounds like yet another infamous "armor malfunction" incident.

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Oh no. He did it intentionally...Now he has sole possesion of the rear of the party...Who would walk behind a Hairy man far to in touch with a goddess of lust and has altered his grieves in such a way! Thank the gods there is only one of him!

Liberty's Edge

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber
Brutesquad07 wrote:
7Now he has sole possesion of the rear of the party...

Something about this conversation...

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Brutesquad07 wrote:
Oh no. He did it intentionally...Now he has sole possesion of the rear of the party...Who would walk behind a Hairy man far to in touch with a goddess of lust and has altered his grieves in such a way! Thank the gods there is only one of him!

You're missing my joke. I was making reference to Janet Jackson's supposed "wardrobe malfunction" at the halftime show of the Super Bowl a few years ago.

And yeah, that "rear of the party" reference was just unfortunate. :)

Beware the codpiece of disaster!

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Fiendish Dire Weasel wrote:


You're missing my joke. I was making reference to Janet Jackson's supposed "wardrobe malfunction" at the halftime show of the Super Bowl a few years ago.

And yeah, that "rear of the party" reference was just unfortunate. :)

Beware the codpiece of disaster!

Yea...Malfunction...right. Just like a certain Calistrian Cleric I know...


Sean Riley wrote:

What is with the guy writing the new Star Trek email? Caught up with new movie ads? Really? Come-on...

Most of the emails that come my way from you are... well, fantasy. This sci-fi thing gives me the jitters...

I'm actually not certain if you're serious or not, but I think one extra reason for the sci-fi tie-in was the title of Pathfinder #22 - The End of Eternity.

That's actually the title of one of Isaac Asimov's earliest science fiction novels (1955). I'm not aware of a direct connection to Trek from that (no episodes titled that), but I've been happily pleased every time I've seen the title due to this.

Google reports that there is a good chance of a movie version of it coming out in the next couple years (2012 perhaps).

Paizo Employee CEO

I figured it was pretty obvious why I used the Star Trek title when I wrote this in the blog:

"With the new Star Trek film just around the corner, I couldn't help but ruminate when I was looking through Pathfinder Adventure Path #22: "The End of Eternity". The Enterprise's manifesto was to explore strange, new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before. Sounds like a gaming group group to me!"

When I write these blogs, my thought process can take me toward music I am listening to, TV shows I recently watched, and favorite movies. I had actually started the blog with the title Toto, it looks like we aren't in Katapesh any more!" but then I started writing the blog and the Star Trek connection hit me. So Vic changed the title. Perhaps I should have gone with the Wizard of Oz slant.

-Lisa


Pay no attention to the CEO behind the curtain.


People complain about some odd things.

My theory: the longer people go without new cool pictures posted in the blog, the crazier they get and more liable to complain in outlandish ways.

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Just kidding! I'm patient!

Sovereign Court

Either title works for me, I'm not sure why there was an overreaction to the Star Trek version.


Callous Jack wrote:
Either title works for me, I'm not sure why there was an overreaction to the Star Trek version.

Because the Internet is a place to overreact to anything!

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WelbyBumpus wrote:
Callous Jack wrote:
Either title works for me, I'm not sure why there was an overreaction to the Star Trek version.
Because the Internet is a place to overreact to anything!

I'm shocked by your malicious slander of the internet!

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Lisa Stevens wrote:

I figured it was pretty obvious why I used the Star Trek title when I wrote this in the blog:

"With the new Star Trek film just around the corner, I couldn't help but ruminate when I was looking through Pathfinder Adventure Path #22: "The End of Eternity". The Enterprise's manifesto was to explore strange, new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before. Sounds like a gaming group group to me!"

When I write these blogs, my thought process can take me toward music I am listening to, TV shows I recently watched, and favorite movies. I had actually started the blog with the title Toto, it looks like we aren't in Katapesh any more!" but then I started writing the blog and the Star Trek connection hit me. So Vic changed the title. Perhaps I should have gone with the Wizard of Oz slant.

-Lisa

Living in Kansas I humbly ask you not to. Want to do a smallville quote go for it. Toto has been planted under a bird bath!

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Brutesquad07 wrote:
Oh no. He did it intentionally...Now he has sole possesion of the rear of the party...Who would walk behind a Hairy man far to in touch with a goddess of lust and has altered his grieves in such a way! Thank the gods there is only one of him!

Does that count as protection from Backstab?

OMG, T.M.I.!

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