| From: | Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Random Replies . . . |
| Date: | Mon, 7 Mar 1994 01:57:28 -0600 |
>Okay, sorry for babbling... My question is WHAT REALLY IS A SIN. Is it a
>world wide ID number in a sense that all nations use the same thing and
>share the number counting. If so who keeps track. I persoanlly feel that
My perception of the ubiquitous System Identification Number (although I
freely admit that this is opinion, in the absence of corroborating or opposing
evidence in any of the texts) was that it was national device, and hence it
would be a tool of the various governments in ShadowRun, similar to the
potential uses of the Social Security number by the United States government.
Given the increase in technology depicted for the next three score years, it is
quite plausible that each government shall develop its own system for
identification of citizenry. Not all systems shall be the same, naturally, but
it is likely that most countries will have some analogue to the CAS/UCAS SIN.
True, it could merely be a corporate device, and the privileges accrued
peculiar to employees of these industrial hydras, but that is not the
perception I form from the books.
2. Von Matt:
> 3) Prayer? Nope. A fast getaway will do me fine. FASA hasn't made rules
>for divine intervention yet... :)
Indeed. That is within the Game Master's purview.
3. Von Nightfox:
>Well I for one disagree with my good friend Brian's view on adding Biotech to
>people at birth. Magic is not a gene, it is an unspecified geometric pattern
>in the DNA. ANY change in the pattern will lesson this. I hold (as it was put
Although I would be inclined to agree with my esteemed colleague, the Senator
from Atlantis, on his conclusions . . . his reasoning I would question.
As I recall, ShadowTech places the link between Magic and genetics as a rather
large question mark. It mentions the as yet unsuccessful attempts to isolate a
magus gene. The closest the commentary is that conventional speculation
among researchers is that magic activity may only be enabled due to various,
otherwise unrelated mental characteristics and traits; although to infer this
is some sort of geometric pattern I would consider "reaching" a bit. It is,
of course, possible that Herr Waisley is making use of materials of which I am
either unaware or simply not remembering correctly. Would the Senator from
Atlantis care to elaborate?
*Sarcasm v 5.0 running*
4. Von Herrn Stefan Hahn:
>The advantages to having a C^2 deck are, basically:
>1. It's a bit faster.
Not quite. The benefit of an extra die in the case of full cybernetic command
is an option available to all cyberdecks; the only difference being that C^2
decks may not operate by any other fashion--no keyboard.
5. Von Herrn Kevin Roberts:
>I want to know how you would get a black ice program on your deck that
>you can use. Also what are the costs for the levels of a main frame
>like the cost for a red 2 node or a greed 2 node.
Black IC would be decidedly difficult to execute, even for practical reasons
such as space.
If we were to proceed from the assumption that Load Rating indicates a similar
memory requirement, then a Rating 6 Black IC program would require
approximately 900 Mps of memory. Although I would consider such an issue moot
in that it is my opinion that cyberdecks are not a platform from which IC
programs may be launched.
6. Von A'Deus:
> BTW, is it just me or did this whole Harding-Kerigan (sp?) incident seem to
>be media driven.
Certainly, although that is the case of most "news" stories in today's
media-saturated culture. If they state a particular party is guilty, they are
guilty. If they return and state they are innocent, no one cares.
More and more coverage of so-called "news" appears to be driven moreso by the
interest and goals of the media than of the viewing public.
The metaphor: Instead of imitating life, art is imitating art. Media coverage
in contemporary culture seems to have taken on a self-sustaining quality where
it is presently driven more to serve its own ends than the public's, the group
for which it is ostensibly providing its service.
7. Von Loki:
>Doom WOULD like character background. We got him to do background for his
>decker-god, and now he'd play him if he were 90 with a karma pool of 400+.
>He won't leave him alone!!1 In another context, this could be really bad. . .
>:)
Hardly. I believe, mein Freund, that particular statement was applied to
another of our associates. Although I believe my chaotic colleague's glib
criticism is motivated by my rather . . . uh, EXTENSIVE . . . profile on a
few of my characters. My own defense? I derive considerable pleasure from
writing!
8. Von dem Fearless Leader:
>Actually, I have a calendar of Boris
>Valleio's works hanging on my wall, right next to a map of the internet,
>right above 3' x 2' picture of the Enterprise, next to a picture of the
>sevel challenger astronauts, next to a post of a wizard in his workshop,
>above my desk.
Hhhhhmmmmmmmmmm . . .
And mine with the flags of Imperial Russia, Texas A&M, and Imperial Germany,
under which is a framed image of Count Strahd von Zarovich.
9. Von Herrn Kendall:
>I liked the Fox Shaman. It fits the game nicely, too. But what
>does Rasfoylip mean?
Dankeshoen. I felt its formulation timely, considering that within the
German sourcebook contains a section which specifically refers to a Fox
totem; although, it provides no statistics.
The term rasfoylip developed from a extended conversation I had with The
Reverend, whilst he was located in El Paso. The Reverend prides himself
in his attunation to the rather nebulous concept of "Net etiquette" and
hence was employing the services of the plethora of Net abbreviations in
our correspondence. In an attempt to indicate the excessive utilization
of said abbreviations, I started to fashion my own, rasfoylip being only
one such example.
It stand for RAndomly Selected FOr Your LIstening Pleasure.
Colonel Count von Hohenzollern und von Doom, DMSc, DSc, PhD.
Doom Technologies & Weapon Systems -- Dark Thought Publications
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.
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