From: | Mongoose <evamarie@**********.NET> |
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Subject: | Dekers talkin trash and "ruining lives" |
Date: | Wed, 19 Aug 1998 14:05:38 -0700 |
>> importantly, his personal and financial life, and his reputation?
>> NEVER piss off a decker... Any other "archetype" can kill you... A
Decker
>> will make you miserable for the rest of your life...
Not to be a jerk to those who play deckers, but I'm SO sick of hearing
this hoary cliche- every freaking dweeb or wanna be d00d (and not all Decker
players fall in these categories) who plays a Decker talks this trash. My
response; "OOOH, I'm shaking in my non existent SIN- no, not a bad credit
rating, anything but that!".
Sure, they can make your bureaucratic and official life hell, and post
your face all over the place and trash your rep. How many deckers are doing
that, and who the fuck is gonna listen to all those whiney bit-heads? They
make themselves look bad.
Anybody with some good connections can place a few phonecalls, drop a few
photo's, and spread the word about a runner almost as well, and with a higher
probability of somebody giving a rats ass. Thats partly the benefit of being
an elite (insert runner type here)- unless you're so feeble, you never got any
contacts or etiquette skill (and then you ain't elite). What, the decker
wrecked your phone, and you can't get another? And you call yourself a
runner?
Any old putz can turn snitch or stab you in the back socially or
financially. Of course, if a friend of yours gets ratted out or otherwise
screwed from the inside corner, see how many teams will work with you, even if
its not your fault... I've noticed that REAL hackers who play deckers seem to
know this, and the one thing they WON'T boast about being able to do is ruin
some other runners life.
Corps have deckers. Those deckers get pissed at runners- its their job.
If deckers were anti-runner "magic bullets", the corps would own the runners.
They don't, therefore a shdowrunner's life is not ruined by having a decker
mad at him.
Mongoose