| From: | Airwasp <Airwasp@***.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: I'm pissed now |
| Date: | Sat, 28 Mar 1998 09:28:49 EST |
<< >>>>It's NOT a program, and thus does not as per the standard rules
of SR
VR2,
>
>>>NOT PER SR VR2!!! How in the fuck can we (our PCS) possibly counteract
>>>that if we as players don't even know that something like that is
>>>possible!?
>
>>Again. I am deeply unhappy about this sort of thing. It doesn't exist
>>anywhere in SR canon, yet it's been introduced to ShadowTK as absolute
>>and irrevocable fact.
>
>To be fair, I think what he meant to say was, "It's NOT a program, and thus
>(as per the standard rules of SR VR2) does not [do wahtever]."
It produces >>result<< without those characters involved knowing about
it.
_THAT_ is what annoys me. If the characters involved agree, I don't
hugely care if TOSSIT goes to the Moon and brings back chunks of blue
cheese. That may be hard truth or it may be fallacy, like Lilith's war
against the Outer Gods or Quinn's jaunts in space,
Telling characters that their mail is being read, without their consent
and without any way for them to notice, is just rude.
>I haven't read VR2 in a long time, so I don't know if that's actually kosher
>or not, but it's the exact opposite of what Erik and Paul *thought* it
>meant, which was: "It's NOT a program, and thus doesn't follow the standard
>SR VR2 rules."
"Some weird Matrix routine lets an unconnected character read everything
your character posts to ShadowTK, and you have no way to detect or deal
with such interference".
That could really ruin most of _my_ current plots. Don't know about
anyone else.
But I'd like some advance warning of such world-shakers, not to be told
of them well after the fact.
>>
Did anyone forget to mention the forms that Otaku can make ?
IIRC, and do so, they do not take up memory space, only bandwidth, and hence
would not appear as something abnormal when performing a memory check.
Mike
