My adviser looked over my last work, proving his assumption about our model was wrong, and conceded I'm indeed right. Even called in one of his post-docs to look over it. It's too early to say anything, but it might be a better thing to research than my original assignment. Could be a juicy (for a niche definition of juicy) paper, could be a thesis topic if it can be generalised more. Either way, I'm stoked. Had a great Delta Green session last weekend. It's a spin-off of Call of Cthulhu books, and IMO a vast improvement over everything from character motivation to mechanics. Plus, what other game allows you to investigate Mythos during the Vietnam War?
Glad to hear that the situation with your adviser resolved itself neatly! I have to admit, I've been lurking in those discussions to pick up advice on how to politely disagree with a superior when you know you're right. It's been an interesting conversation to spectate, and you deserve every ounce of enthusiasm you're feeling. Can't wait to see what you do with the model from here :) Sidenote, our conversation about DG the other day has stoked the fire of a sci-fi setting I've been wanting to flesh out for awhile. Figured out how I wanted to present the background information to my players the other day, and I've written a simple console app that they can run to have a 'conversation' with a protocol AI welcoming them to [Generic Megacity #1] . Have the structure fleshed out, and I'm hoping to add more dialogue to it over the next few days. The current 'win condition' of the intro is tripping enough flags in the dialogue path to make the AI glitch out and dump the chat logs of [Generic Resistance Group #1] to the directory they ran the app from. A bit cliche? Maybe, as far as sci-fi writing goes. But fuck it, it's more effort than most! Hoping they'll have as much fun reading/playing as I've been having writing.
You might like to give Shadowrun's Renraku Arcology - Shutdown book a look for this kind of presentation. It's peppered with IRC logs containing a running commentary from hackers investigating it from the outside (or inside?), and it's a good sourcebook/adventure on its own anyway.