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QUOTE (Companero @ Oct 30 2004, 12:42 PM) For the most part people do things differently, some use randomised dice tables, some don't use dice...virtually none of the gms here will give much stick to munchkins, altough creativly designed sociopaths might get a chance... Whereas metagaming on the other hand, frequently gets a blind eye turned on it.
Thanks to that whole farce there are three people you'd have to pay me to game with ever again.
That does rather put a big obsticle in the way of joining any future games here, so Harry's Independance Island will probably be my last on these here boards.
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"I bleedin well 'ope not." Coughs Eric in response to Fawcetts question, taking the cigarette from his lips. "We'd 'ave to fight our way up five floors, collectin' as we go, fight our way back down again, then pile into a truck and drive past all the local plod on our way out.
We'll need an AV or a helo to pluck us off the roof. Preferably two so we got backup."
"An' the other 'fing's gonna be the rest of the clients. If we put a stray bullet through some suit gettin 'is jollies, we could be inviting all sorts of corporate revenge. Risky, very risky."
He pauses to take a long drag on his cigarette.
"Now a lungfull a' tear gas on the other 'and, never 'urt nobody permanent. That's the way I'd do it. Gas the buggers. Ain't likely to be many of 'em carryin masks so all we gotta worry about are the blokes wiv cybernoses."
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Oh dear, my sig image was a mahoosive 150 pixels over the maximum width limit, and was no doubt causing severe problems to people running 320x240 screens in 16 colours.
Worry not, it has now been forshortened and is 50 pixels under.
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Sigourney as Molly, not so sure myself. Sure, Ellen Ripley from Aliens is one tough woman in a tight corner, but she doesnt look mean and menacing. Besides, Ms Weaver is getting on in years now and I'm not sure she'd cut it as a young cyberb!tch. The woman who played Vasquez is too short or she'd be good.
Although I'm a Jeri Ryan fan, I honestly reckon she'd do a good job as Molly. Physically she fits with my vision of Molly, tall, slim with a slightly angular face - more edges than curves. She also carried off the emotionally retarded Seven of Nine fairly well, so I reckon Cyberpunk would be easy.
Agree with Rutger Hauer for Armitage
.Case? Someone a bit tough but not overshadowing Molly. Nicholas Cage, or possibly Tim Roth or Robert Carlyle.
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"host lookup failed" is a DNS lookup problem. However if you arent connecting in the first place then you wont have a DNS server to lookup.
Try again, and get up a command prompt. (run CMD)
Type "Ping 66.218.71.198" (this is Yahoo.com)
if this works, you have a connection to the internet. If it doesnt, you probably arent actually connected.
Then try "Ping www.yahoo.com" and if this doesnt work, then you have a DNS lookup issue.
Do Ipconfig and check you have a DNS server listed. If you havent do "Ipconfig /release" and "Ipconfig /renew" and if you still dont have one, best contact AOL tech support and tell them about it
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Quote (wilphe @ Jan. 23 2004,08:05) Bah!
http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htmGot a bigger version of that near me, same format just the central roundabout is about 150 feet across and theres a couple of slip roads so you can bypass it completely.
Mini-roundabouts are the worst. When four of you arrive and the same time and you know you give way to people already on the roundabout, but its so small that the first person on it sets the cycle. So you sit there in a kind of automotive mexican standoff, fingers gripping the wheel hard, eyes darting left to right and foot twitching over the throttle. In the back of your mind Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach stand apart in the desert sun while a musical watch chimes slowly fade to a climax....
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CP TV programes? I'm not sure there are any.
The Sentinel had a certain CPish feel to it, the odd episode I've seen - I could imagine it run in a CP campaign quite easily.
Non-CP TV : Tour of Duty, Space Above and Beyond, The Simpsons, Blackadder, Red Dwarf.
CP Movie : IMHO, Blade is very CP in its style and attitude, so I'll pick that. Sneakers is CP without the cyber and firepower. The Usual Suspects would make a great transfer to CP. And Ronin of course.
Non CP : The Life of Brian, Gone in 60 seconds (both 1974 and 2000 versions), Lock Stock and 2 smoking barrels, Snatch, The Blues Brothers (original), Aliens.
Anime : Cowboy Bebop (subtitled not dubbed).
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Women drivers tend to be either very good, or abso-bleeding-lutely hopeless.
A woman driver will typically drive badly, cut you up or cause an accident because she isnt paying full attention to the road.
Men tend to pay more attention and thus develop better driving skills, but mitigate that by being more aggressive and confrontational. So if a male driver cuts you up its usually because hes a d!ckhead and thinks he's clever.
In several years and many thousands of miles of driving I've had countless male drivers flip me the bird or act aggressively. I've only ever had that from one woman driver (and the daft b!tsch was in the wrong too - if you want to go all the way around a roundabout in the outside lane you filter into the traffic and take your damn chances someone will let you.)
If a woman driver pays as much attention to driving as a man, they'll probably be the safer of the two.
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I've never honestly created a character to the detail level of knowing his mothers maiden name, bank account number or SIN number. I wouldnt even know where to start with SIN numbers.
For a game as deadly as cyberpunk I'm not going to bother - they're usually either dead or the adventure over before that sort of stuff is required.
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Quote (rockwolf66 @ Jan. 19 2004,16:54) well you have karate twice in the skills section but get to posting. D'Oh!
Errors in the cut'n'paste process, one of those Karate's should be Melee.
Fixed now.
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Quote (Joe Q. Public @ Jan. 16 2004,01:10) the most favorite to see do things in my opinion my Borgy and
Johnny Tyso, all chrome, all hormones, all the time
Boy I sure do miss him!I enjoyed playing Johnny a lot more than I thought I would when I dreamed him up.
If I hadnt scrimped on his background he might still be around
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I'm all for female aggression, as long as it involves bikinis and mudpits.
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This morning the big bird of inspiration finally crapped me out a character to match the stats and liefpath. Sort of.
Apologies if its a bit ragged, I don't have paper books to hand.
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Alex Richard Cooper (Arcy or Coops)
Age : 20
Height : 6'1"
Int 7
Ref 9
Tech 4
Cool 9
Attr 6
Luck 9
Emp 5
MA 5
Body 6
Skills :
Combat Sense 5
Aware 4
Handgun 8
Karate 4
Melee 3
Weapontech 3
Rifle 5
Athetics 2
SMG 2
Stealth 4
Driving 2
Intimidate 4
1st Aid 2
Swim 2
Wild Survive 2
Shadow 5
Hide 3
Streetwise 4
Cyber : (-14 Humanity) (lucky rolls then a 6 for the plugs)
Neural Processor
Sandevistan Speedware
Vehicle Link
Smartgun Link
Interface Plugs (wrists)
Chipware Socket (right ear)
Coops is pretty nonchalant about his cyber. The only thing that ever niggles is the plugs in his wrists reminding him of the silicon inside.
Guns :
Mustang Arms Mk2 Smartchipped. 11mm 3d6/12/3/VR/$850 +1WA
Militech Police shotgun, 12ga 4d6/8/2/ST/$300
100rnds 11mm ball split into 12 rounds short mag (gun), 4x20rnd standard clips (one on gun belt, two in greatcoat pockets, one in bag) and 8 rounds loose (pants pockets)
24rnds 12ga #00 (8 in greatcoat pockets, 8 in bag)
Shoulder sling (Shotgun)
Speedholster (pistol)
Armour :
Gibson kevlar T-Shirt SP10
Gibson armour jeans SP16
Soviet military greatcoat SP14
Gear :
Nylon Carrybag
Sleeping bag (in bag)
Sleep mat (in bag)
Canteen (greatcoat pocket)
Pocket flashlight (pants pocket)
Swiss army knife (pants pocket)
Cash : 18eb
History :
A child of the Night City combat zone, at sixteen he caught a lucky break and found work with Militech security. After nearly four years he'd worked his way up to a junior position when he caught the eye of the corps intel people, who sent him back into the zone as part of a covert ops team.
Whilst working with an all-girl boostergang (The Sisters of Steel) he struck up a romance with one of the gang lieutenants, Rachel (Raze).
This came to an abrupt end when his younger sister (Sara) started to hang around the fringes of the gang, and his efforts to keep his sibling out of trouble not only proved futile but ultimately compromised the operation. The boosters weren't happy at being played by a corp and neither was his sister.
Raze elected to remain with the Sisters in the combat zone to take the heat off Sara and his family, while Coops decided he needed some time away and absconded from Militech.
Luck smiled upon him a second time when he befriended a nomad scouting party, although he has yet to attain full 'family' status.
One of his goals in life is to move his family to a better place, anywhere out of the Zone would be a start. -
Check your keyboard - you might have a key stuck down thats causing weird stuff to happen like this.
Run a virus scan, especially if this only happens when youre online.
Check your mouse driver - uninstall and reinstall is a good bet.
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Late last year I was fiddling with a PbP homebrew Cyberpunk game that got shelved due to lack of players. One of the humourous colour peices I was going to use involved RIAA strike squads hitting people with illegal MP3s on their systems.
Then, before I can develop things further, Real Life does it first.
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Music Industry Puts Troops in the Streets
Quasi-legal squads raid street vendors
by Ben Sullivan
Though no guns were brandished, the bust from a distance looked like classic LAPD, DEA or FBI work, right down to the black "raid" vests the unit members wore. The fact that their yellow stenciled lettering read "RIAA" instead of something from an official law-enforcement agency was lost on 55-year-old parking-lot attendant Ceasar Borrayo.
The Recording Industry Association of America is taking it to the streets.
Even as it suffers setbacks in the courtroom, the RIAA has over the last 18 months built up a national staff of ex-cops to crack down on people making and selling illegal CDs in the hood.
The result has been a growing number of scenes like the one played out in Silver Lake just before Christmas, during an industry blitz to combat music piracy.
Borrayo attends to a parking lot next to the landmark El 7 Mares fish-taco stand on Sunset Boulevard. To supplement his buck-a-car income, he began, in 2003, selling records and videos from a makeshift stand in front of the lot.
In a good week, Borrayo said, he might unload five or 10 albums and a couple DVDs at $5 apiece. Paying a distributor about half that up-front, he thought he’d lucked into a nice side business.
The RIAA saw it differently. Figuring the discs were bootlegs, a four-man RIAA squad descended on his stand a few days before Christmas and persuaded the 4-foot-11 Borrayo to hand over voluntarily a total of 78 discs. It wasn’t a tough sell.
"They said they were police from the recording industry or something, and next time they’d take me away in handcuffs," he said through an interpreter. Borrayo says he has no way of knowing if the records, with titles like Como Te Extraño Vol. IV — Musica de los 70’s y 80’s, are illegal, but he thought better of arguing the point.
The RIAA acknowledges it all — except the notion that its staff presents itself as police. Yes, they may all be ex-P.D. Yes, they wear cop-style clothes and carry official-looking IDs. But if they leave people like Borrayo with the impression that they’re actual law enforcement, that’s a mistake.
"We want to be very clear who we are and what we’re doing," says John Langley, Western regional coordinator for the RIAA Anti-Piracy Unit. "First and foremost, we’re professionals."
Langley, based in Los Alamitos, California, oversees five staff investigators and around 20 contractors who sniff out bootleg discs west of the Rockies. The former Royal Canadian Mountie said his unit’s on-the-streets approach has been a big success, netting more than 100,000 pieces of unauthorized merchandise during the recent Christmas retail blitz.
With all the trappings of a police team, including pink incident reports that, among other things, record a vendor’s height, weight, hair and eye color, the RIAA squad can give those busted the distinct impression they’re tangling with minions of Johnny Law instead of David Geffen. And that raises some potential legal questions.
Contacted for this article, the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union said it needed more information on the practices to know if specific civil liberties were at risk.
But if an anti-piracy team crossed the line between looking like cops and implying or telling vendors that they are cops, the Los Angeles Police Department would take a pretty dim view, said LAPD spokesman Jason Lee.
"I will not say it’s okay to be [selling] illegal stuff," Lee said. "That’s a violation of penal codes.
"But it doesn’t really matter what your status is. If that person feels he was wrongly interrogated or under the false pretense that these people were cops, they should contact their local police station as a victim. We’ll sort it all out."
For its part, the RIAA maintains that the up-close-and-personal techniques are nothing new. RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy says its investigators do not represent themselves as police, and that the incident reports vendors are asked to sign, in which they agree to hand over their discs, explicitly state that the forfeiture is voluntary.
Lamy and the RIAA are unapologetic about taking the fight against music piracy to the streets. Though the association has suffered a few high-profile legal setbacks in recent months — most notably when a three-judge panel ruled that Internet service providers do not have to squeal on their file-swapping customers — community action is extremely effective.
Langley says the anti-piracy teams have about an 80 percent success rate in persuading vendors to hand over their merchandise voluntarily for destruction.
"We notify them that continued sale would be a violation of civil and criminal codes. If they’d like to voluntarily turn the product over to us, we’ll destroy it, and we agree we won’t sue," he explained.
The pink incident sheets and photos that Langley’s teams take of vendors are meant to establish a paper trail, particularly for repeat offenders.
"A large percentage [of the vendors] are of a Hispanic nature," Langley said. "Today he’s Jose Rodriguez, tomorrow he’s Raul something or other, and tomorrow after that he’s something else. These people change their identity all the time. A picture’s worth a thousand words."
Though Langley says he doesn’t know what tack his new boss will take, the recent hiring of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Bradley Buckles to head the anti-piracy unit has some RIAA watchers holding their breath.
On its face, the move looks like a shift toward even more in-your-face enforcement. But don’t expect all RIAA critics to rally to the side of Borrayo and other sellers.
"The process of confiscating bootleg CDs from street vendors is exactly what the RIAA should be doing," said Jason Schultz, a staff attorney for the San Francisco–based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
The EFF has frequently crossed swords with the record industry over its strategy of suing ISPs and individual listeners accused of downloading tunes from the Internet. A champion of copyright "fair use," the EFF says Buckles could bring a more balanced approach to the RIAA’s anti-piracy efforts. The more time the association spends rousting vendors, the thinking goes, the less it will spend subpoenaing KaZaa and BearShare aficionados.
Meanwhile, Borrayo will have to keep his eyes open for another source of income. Though he says he still sees nothing wrong with what he did, the guy who once supplied him records hasn’t been around in a couple months.
"They tried to scare me," Borrayo said. "They told me, ‘You’re a pirate!’ I said, ‘C’mon, guys, pirates are all at sea. I just work in a parking lot.’ " -
PbP = Play by Post, eg in the forums here.
PBeM = Play by EMail. I'm rather partial to PBeM for a few players. You get to give longer and more descriptive turns.
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Lose weight, get fit. (I seem to make this one every year).
Put in some serious spanner-time on the 'stang.
Redesign and redecorate my kitchen.
Redesign and redecorate my bathroom.
NOT buy any more computer parts except in the case of breakages.
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Um, actually Encanta a Technologist is someone who is skilled in the use technology, which is why Borg takes it as a compliment.
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Good one Archangel, although I think in the style of 'Punk it'd be Chromist rather than Ferroist. Chromophile and Chromophobe are begging to be used somewhere though
In the end, I settled for....
Quote "Borg, you're a, a," Raven searched for the technological equivalent of racist. "Technologist."
"Thanks."
"No, I mean you're a, damn, what's the word?"
"Xenophobe?" Maestra suggested between chews. "Technobigot?"
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Okay, I'm in
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I'm finishing off a skit I started months ago and I'm stuck for a word.
If a human discriminates against other humans because of their ethnic background is a racist, and a human who discrimiates against other sentient races is a speciesist, what would you call an android or artificial ingelligence who discriminated against androids or AIs less advanced than itself?
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When I'm not working or sleeping, currently I'm trudging my way through Morrowind, playing DoD or TFC online, reading, writing, watching DVDs or listening to music. I'd normally spend weekends working on the cars but its too damn cold for my liking to work outside.
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"To fly the Jolly Roger" - referring to the traditional pirate flag, meaning I used to use a lot of pirated software, taped music etc etc.
Actually I'm not a programmer - I'm a network systems analyst, sorry to give you the wrong impression.
My job is to design and maintain the Lans Mans and Wans in my company and to troubleshoot or analyse any performance or connection issues that may be related to the network.
I wouldnt know where to begin with assembly langauges. I covered a breif bit about 6502 and Z80 assembler as part of my electronics apprenticeship years ago but certainly not enough to start decompiling and reverse engineering stuff!
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Actually, they cut a couple of scenes from the Extended version of Two Towers compared to the cinematic release.
One I picked up straight away was when Gandalf returns and describes his battle with the Balrog. In the movie you see him fighting the Balrogs before cutting to Gandalf throwing the balrog off the mountain and going comatose himself (or possibly dying). In the Extended edition it cuts right to the mountain scene.
Second is I'm sure the scene when Faramir tells Frodo and Sam he knows of Boromirs death was different and longer in the cinematic version, but I'd have to borrow the stock DvD from someone to compare.
neuromancer
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr Steve Buscemi
Cheers
Malcolm
Good call, but I wouldnt say only.
Pete Postlethwaite has the face for it IMO.