From:	Marc Renouf renouf@********.com
Subject:	Decker Mage was Re: A Van...
Date:	Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:58:35 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 31 May 2000, Alfredo B Alves wrote:

> Otaku. By the book, unless they have headware memory, they can't download
> data. What a load of crap ...

And where else, pray tell, would they put it? They don't have a
deck, so other than headware memory, where are they going to store
multiple megapulses of raw data?
Personally, I feel that if you're going to play an Otaku (which I
don't allow in my game because I think both the concept and the related
rules suck ass), you probably shouldn't even be worried about storage.
Otaku don't strike me as folks who are all that big into data theft and
delivery. So long as they *know* what the data pertains to, they're
happy. I don't need to store an entire MS Word document to have read it
and be familiar with its contents. Why worry about storage in the first
place. Otaku of all people should know that information is transitory,
and that being "in the know" is far more valuable and less bothersome than
being "in possession" of raw data.

Just my $0.02

Marc