From:	Kjell Sawyer <sawyer@***.NO>
Subject:	Re: Time/Date Stamps
Date:	Thu, 16 Mar 1995 18:26:24 +0100

> > doesn't mean he has to flaunt it. Has anyone ever noticed Fastjack
> > screwing with his time/date stamp?
>
> Yes. Once. He messed with some others' TD's at the time, too.

Fair enough, I stand corrected :)

> My thought on the matter: it should be possibly for most deckers to
> do it. Once. Just remember that every time you do it you're making a VERY
> conscious effort to do so, and that most of the time it's more trouble than
> it's worth.

Yeah, well, actually *doing* it isn't what ticks me off. I figure any
decker worth his electrons *can* do if they, as you say, make a conscious
effort to do so. However, then they're pulling the stunt off to enhance a
joke or in some other way make a special point. In such a situation I
agree it can be cool.

> I still remember an incident a while back where somebody (no names)
> said that their char had written a T/D changer when they were 12; I was having
> my char, at the time, fill her entire deck with it, AND make a conscious effort
> and do a lot of work to change it anyway. Not something to be done lightly.
> It was almost laughable how this person then went on about just having a
> 5MP program do it for him all the time... <grin>

A friend of mine has played the same character for about 4-5 years (a
decker), and he has a deck built from scratch to a MPCP rating of 16, and
his Computer, Computer B/R and Computer Theory skills are 14, 12 and 10
respectivly (modified my a SPU: Math [4] ). He refused to screw around
with his time/date stamp because he considers his own character NOT GOOD
ENOUGH to do such a thing.

Funny how different people conceive things so differently :)

Sawyer/Genocide