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Sunday, September 14, 2008

"Pa RPG"? 

[UPDATE September 17: Amazon has fixed the grotesque error described in this post. All is well. Commendations to all loyal citizens who wrote to Amazon to correct their egregious error.]

Thanks to Paul Baldowski at Omega Complex for spotting the latest insult to PARANOIA by the feckless lamers at Amazon: Apparently someone went to the trouble of changing the rulebook entry's existing correct title to the mystifying "Pa RPG."

This kind of fiasco happens all the time in The Computer's Central Processing Unit, although in CPU they can revise the historical record and disappear anyone who complains. Fortunately, Amazon doesn't yet have that authority, so if you have an Amazon account, please scroll down to the "Product Details" section and click the "update product info" link at the bottom of that section. Then please politely ask Amazon to buy a family-size clue. [UPDATE: Stop writing about that page, it's been fixed.]

If you feel industrious, there's much more to correct. Nearly every PARANOIA-related entry on Amazon is similarly rife with inexplicable bonehead nuttery. Go, and spread knowledge!

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Posted by: Allen Varney / 2:16 PM

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I have posted the odd correction here and there, including a request to update Pa RPG. It does rather beggar belief why this got approved. Automatically, one would presume... -- PaulB
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : September 15, 2008 1:59 AM
 
They obviously have it confused with Pa: The RPG, in which you all play members of a kindly but poor family in a southerly small town, dominated by seemingly-pleasant old family patriarchs who conspire in the shadows to hide the small town's terrible secret...

Actually that sounds kinda cool. I'll need to write Pa: The RPG now.
# posted by Blogger A Terrible Idea : September 15, 2008 4:15 PM
 
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