[KarmaInferno]

Originally posted by Blade over on Dumpshock:

Mitsuhama Computer Technologies invades Real Life.

Apparently the author is a decorated officer in the Calgary police. Check out slides 22-23.




-k

[ssjevot]

Either he's a huge Shadowrun fan, or completely incompetent.

[SpiderWord]

I would say the 2nd

[FastJack]

Oh. Oh my. That's horrendous.

I'm talking about that slide show... No sense of layout or style. Just jumbled pictures and quotes. BLEARGH.

[Grendel]

Oh. Oh my. That's horrendous.

I'm talking about that slide show... No sense of layout or style. Just jumbled pictures and quotes. BLEARGH.

And those awful AWFUL colors!

[Acme]

Wow, that's gotta be an epic fail.  When he was doing his "research" (IE Googling the hell out of this) he must have stumbled into some of our pages...  At least he didn't mention the dragon funding them. *Snerk*

[FastJack]

I still can't get how he could have mistaken SR material for real stuff. I mean, even Wikipedia keeps them separate. He had to really dig to get that stuff, as much as I love the game, it's not THAT popular to pop up in Google/Wiki entries on yakuza/mafia searches.

[Acme]

The only thing I can figure is that perhaps there's a minor Yak outfit that actually has one of those names and when he searched for more information it spat out the SR info.

[FastJack]

Well, the Yamaguchi-gumi family is an actual Yakuza family, but you still have to really search for a MCT/Shadowrun reference in all of the Google results (I skimmed 10 pages of results and didn't see anything of SR).

[Acme]

The other possibility is someone fed him the info, maybe some intern that does play SR and he screwed up and passed over his notes that got mixed in with actual RICO reports.

It boggles the mind... And Scrabbles it too.  I wouldn't go so far as to way it UpWords the mind.

[Mystic]

Ok, as an actual law enforcement officer, I have seen a LOT worse in terms of presentation. But this thing is very confusing , poorly put togeather, and yeah, from what I have read so far, I do wonder where this guy got his information. When I have the time, and if I feel like scrambling my brains a bit more, I'll fine tooth comb it.

[Rascal]

I think I just laughed my ass off! That was f-ing hilarious!

OK, boys and girls, take this as an example of the importance of criticism of one´s sources...

On the same theme; about ten years ago the Swedish police force used to have some materials on role-players in their education, written by the two greatest anti-rpg:ists in the country. Obviously we were a serious threat to society, building armies and learning the dark arts and whatnot. Nowadays gaming is almost main-stream, and the national association for all kinds of gaming have been doing lots of good PR-work. We got quite fed up with the press trying to nail gamers for murder and such...

[raggedhalo]

It looks completely awful, and it references nuyen, which makes it even more of a definite Shadowrun reference.  Erk!

[Lansdren]

Id love to know if the guy put it in for laughs or just fucked up.

[Rascal]

This is the guy who wrote the miserable thing: http://www.asiacop.ca/
Him being part of the M.O.M. makes it even more hilarious!

Perhaps one should send him (or the ones paying him) a mail, asking about this little faux pas...