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Message no. 1
From: "Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject: Re: OT: Babylon 5 news/SR TV
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 14:44:22 -0400
Tinner crankily wrote:
>>Thought I'd do a service to the list by dropping some news.
>
>How is this a service?
>I know a few members of Gridsec are B5 fans, but please, I for one am sick
>of this clutter.
>I don't watch B5, and have no desire to.

*cough* Um, compared to the massive amounts of traffic recently, I
don't think that half a dozen B5-related posts are going to mean the
end of ShadowRN

>I'm sure there are B5 mialing lists out there, if not, go to
>http://www.coollist.com and start one.
>That way you can keep this OT crap off ShadowRN, OK?

Wrong side of the bed, Tinner?

Dragging this on-topic:
What kind of trid shows are popular in SR? The Odd Coven is the only
one I can really recall (apart from Combat Biking, Urban Brawl and
Desert Wars, but those are really sports).

How would the existence of magic and the matrix affect sci fi, for
instance? Some things (like Power Rangers) are just so far off the
scale of reasonableness that they'd still be around; techno-thrillers
wouldn't change much; mysteries are pretty universal. Space travel
has new dangers for mages - I'd guess a fair amount of speculation
in the area of "is their life in the universe", "is their magic on
other planets". I could see shows about AIs "escaping" the matrix,
probably not too much about dragons (who'd want to get something
wrong and be personally corrected? :-)...

James Ojaste
Message no. 2
From: Geoff Skellams <geoff.skellams@*********.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: OT: Babylon 5 news/SR TV
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 11:08:01 +1000
On Shadowrun Discussion, Ojaste,James [NCR][SMTP:James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA]
wrote:
> What kind of trid shows are popular in SR? The Odd Coven is the only
> one I can really recall (apart from Combat Biking, Urban Brawl and
> Desert Wars, but those are really sports).
>
There is a mention of a Trid show called "Cyberpirates of the
Carribean", in surprisingly enough, "Cyberpirates".

cheers
Geoff

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Message no. 3
From: Wyrmy The powerful <elfman@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: OT: Babylon 5 news/SR TV
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 20:23:03 -0500
<Snip stuff>
<snip geoffs stuff>
> > Desert Wars, but those are really sports).
I thought Desert wars was a corporate war fought in a desert.Can someone
enlighten me about that show?
(also; I have my old sig back)
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Come In!
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Message no. 4
From: Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: OT: Babylon 5 news/SR TV
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 00:25:05 EDT
In a message dated 5/2/98 8:18:45 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
elfman@*****.NET writes:

> > > Desert Wars, but those are really sports).
> I thought Desert wars was a corporate war fought in a desert.Can someone
> enlighten me about that show?
> (also; I have my old sig back)
>
Desert wars are a kind of "Military Staging Show" IMO. Corporations and
Governments get to field test all their toys in given areas of the world.
They normally would use "non-lethal" action options, and points are tallied by
massive systems (FDDM and IVIS and BTAC would help here I'm sure). There are
stories I've read in some of the books (most of the older sourcebooks mainly)
where Desert Wars groups sometimes get a bit carried away and do something
"not quite by the book"...

And then the word "War" takes over from there :)

-K
Message no. 5
From: Jerry Hill <agh60070@*******.CC.UCF.EDU>
Subject: Re: OT: Babylon 5 news/SR TV
Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 01:05:29 -0400
> What kind of trid shows are popular in SR? The Odd Coven is the only
> one I can really recall (apart from Combat Biking, Urban Brawl and
> Desert Wars, but those are really sports).


Well, there's always Neil the Orc Barbarian, popular star of simsense and
BTL. I know I saw a listing of shows or perhaps channels in a cyberpunk
universe someplace... either Shadowbeat or the CP2020 Media sourcebook....
if anyone has the book and has any clue what I'm talking about, maybe they
could drudge those things up.. I no longer own copies of either book.

Any chance someone's interested enough in the topic to write an article for
TSS? I'd like to read one, but I don't have time to write one at the
moment...


Jerry Hill
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'Rome wasn't built in a day
but it didn't take long to go up in flames'
- Electric Hellfire Club
Message no. 6
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: OT: Babylon 5 news/SR TV
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 23:31:16 -0600
At 01:05 03/05/98 -0400, you wrote:

>Well, there's always Neil the Orc Barbarian, popular star of simsense and
>BTL. I know I saw a listing of shows or perhaps channels in a cyberpunk
>universe someplace... either Shadowbeat or the CP2020 Media sourcebook....
>if anyone has the book and has any clue what I'm talking about, maybe they
>could drudge those things up.. I no longer own copies of either book.

I know for sure there's a TV guide in Shadowbeat. Not sure about the
CP2020 Media sourcebook, since I've never seen it..

>Any chance someone's interested enough in the topic to write an article for
>TSS? I'd like to read one, but I don't have time to write one at the
>moment...

At one time I had written up something like this myself, but it fell into
the "Horribly corny" pile, and I'm not even sure if I still have the file
anymore. It was a simsense company profile with an interview, chip
descriptions, etc. I might have it lying around still, but it's not near
publishable..

-Adam
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Message no. 7
From: "Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject: Re: OT: Babylon 5 news/SR TV
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 00:04:31 -0300
Ereskanti escreveu:
>
>
> >
> Desert wars are a kind of "Military Staging Show" IMO. Corporations and
> Governments get to field test all their toys in given areas of the world.
> They normally would use "non-lethal" action options, and points are tallied
by
> massive systems (FDDM and IVIS and BTAC would help here I'm sure). There are
> stories I've read in some of the books (most of the older sourcebooks mainly)
> where Desert Wars groups sometimes get a bit carried away and do something
> "not quite by the book"...
>

It's in the Corp Shadowfiles: It was originally a battle 2 megacorps
were going to wage to settle a matter, and they decided to broadcast it.
The thing made a huge success, and now all the Big 8 do it, in the Saara
desert, North Africa (hence the name). It's almost like a sport, with
non-lethal, semi-lethal and the ocasional real battle. Non-lethal is
only
for ratings, the others are for settling disagreements withouth an
all-out
war and for field-testing, besides being broadcasted too.

Ubiratan

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