Sweet Azure Skies wrote:The Candy Of Bottles wrote:No input on the rest of the names, but there's no way Adam Fierce is random. Clearly a play on Adam Savage, of Mythbusters fame.
Elmo Thudd's name and description sounds like that of cartoon character Elmer Fudd, hunter and nemesis of the wascally wabbit Bugs Bunny.
The researcher Reynard Moulder alludes to The X-Files' Fox Mulder ("renard" is French for "fox") who was also known for "wanting to believe".
The New Age mystic leader Jefferson Aeroglider is likely meant to suggest psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane/Starship.
Oh yeah, thinking back, Fudd did come to mind briefly. Also:
1,433: Green Thumbs Sore
The Issue
Sensing a lucrative business opportunity, several major corporations attempted to capitalize on the nation’s eco-friendly attitude by marketing every single one of their products with dubious claims such as “environmentally safe,” “divinely blessed by Mother Nature herself,” and everything in between. With scores of activists grumbling about the “greenwashing,” the burden falls on you to broker a green peace.
The Debate
0.) “I don’t see the problem here,” says United Information Technology CEO Bob Bourdain, teasing you with some 100% recyclable organic Urists. “It’s not as though we’re lying to people: all of our product packaging contains so many pro-environment exhortations that people reading the labels basically have no choice but to embrace the green craze! If that’s not ‘all profits go towards supporting the environment,’ I don’t know what is!”
Accept
1.) “Not as though you’re lying?” shrieks random activist Gretel Harel, smacking what she assures you is not a 100% recyclable organic petition down on your desk. “This is making a mockery out of all our efforts! ‘Green this, green that’ - it has to end! If a company wants to put environmental claims in their advertising, they need to back them up with scientific facts.”
Accept
2.) “Allow me to, ahem... advertise a solution,” cackles East Lebatuckese diplomat Louis O'Bannon, spreading some ‘Splendor in Socialism’ propaganda brochures on your desk. “As long as you have greedy profit-oriented capitalists, this hoodwinking is bound to happen. If you just brought all manufacturing and merchandising under state control like we do, all comrades - I mean consumers - could make well-informed decisions about what to buy.”
Accept
Dismiss This Issue
Issue by The Apparently a Vice Delegate of Cretox State
Edited by Frieden-und Freudenland
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