Comments on: Was the term “GEV” just a mistake? https://www.isegoria.net/2019/02/was-the-term-gev-just-a-mistake/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2019/02/was-the-term-gev-just-a-mistake/comment-page-1/#comment-2747600 Kirk Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:49:18 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44579#comment-2747600 Terminology mis-match, all the way around. The guys who were talking about this stuff picked it all up from popular media, where they used to term the principles that hovercraft work off of as being “ground-effect cushions”, or some such bullshit. Steve Jackson was not an aerodynamics major, and that’s why he picked that stuff up from popular media. I can remember hearing and reading about “ground effect cushion” stuff in the magazines and newspapers of the time, talking about things that clearly did not use “ground effect”. High school teacher of mine was a private pilot, former Air Force veteran, and he went into detail about why the media was wrong about that terminology–Bit of a rant, really.

You see this all the time in firearms, and elsewhere in science fiction–Cool concept, wrong descriptions of how it all works.

That said, OGRE was a fun little game. I remember playing it in high school, but it was not easy finding other geeky bastards who were into that stuff. Third Reich? Squad Leader? No problem; sci-fi stuff? Problem.

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