malek77

When you build a 'Green car' that makes as much noise and is as user friendly as modern V8's, you'll have something.

Until then, the Green Car is going to be a yuppie toy or a responsible government initiative. Neither of which gets cheers or chicks.

Not that this is insurmountable - but there are a lot of PR issues still unresolved with these cars...

(then again, my ideal car is somewhere between a Hummer and a WWII Half Track, so I may be biased toward the 'noise' aspect )

Fun. Noisy. Not too much thought involved - if you're in the mood for mind candy, you'll love it.

And as it goes, its not bad mind candy - its like its got healthy fruit in it or something...

Remember the warpy special effects they used in the races last time (& how much everyone whinged about it)? They're gone now, the money spent on some awesome driver to driver camera flight.

Imagine a closeup on the lead driver as s/he pelts around a corner, then the camera pulls out and flies up to the driver in 2nd...Very Nice...

The cars look better this time around (so I think), and there is also a rather cool toy - a EMP harpoon.

It's this 3 pronged thing fired from troopers hanging out of police helicopters. It spikes into the car and is supposed to fry the electronics.

I have my doubts that its feasibility, but its an interesting idea at least. And it looks pretty. Lots of EMP sparklies.

And another thought. Cyberpunk is pretty much about high tech low lifes. As it happens, so is 2F2F...hmm...not really a Bladerunner, but hey! Who cares...

Sounds like a plot outline...

And why does it always have to be about getting colder? Couldn't we fix things so the weather got hotter?

http://www.caranddriver.com/article....id=4185

Try this link...I'm not sure yours is working, Freaky...

Hmmm...honestly, if I was trying to sell it, I'd do something about that nose...It looks like the back of a car, not the front!

It never ceases to amaze me how incogizant car designers are of what looks cool and how easy it would be to instantly raise the standard...just a little pointier...PLEASE...

http://www.lindows.com

It seems pretty good...anyone know any more about it?

Hee hee

What started as a topic about how boring life has turned into a copyright debate about MS...

Maybe that's why its boring...

Why does this worry you?

Do you just want to play with settings, or do you just want to be able to copy stuff?

I'm no fan of things like TCPA, but not for any good reason.

hehe - and I'll be there holding your feet...

But no Revolution?

I think something a bit revolution-ish is happening, but its not terribly new. I think we're in a class struggle - with the classes being defined as 1st, 2nd and 3rd world.

And currently, the 2nd and 3rd classes are copping a lot of flak from the 1st about environmental destruction, being unDemocratic, being unConsumerist and being perceived as having unusually violent cultures (ie: resulting in terrorism, drug lords and mafia).

I feel like the rich 1st is telling the poor and desperate how they should behave. And the flaw is that the 1st is deciding how the 2nd/3rd should behave based on what they expect of themselves(often producing contadictory advice).

Highly educated political debate amongst Uni students is great - until you really want to effect political change. Particularly in a place where food is more of an issue than political process. Idealised notions of discussion and negotiating a resolution never happen without a foundation of blood and violence.

Is Democracy the answer to all the worlds social ills?

I say no. The answer to the 2nd and 3rd world problems are found in the 2nd and 3rd world, not in the 1st's political ideals.

BLah.

I'm moving toward letting PC's spend it to overcome fumbles.

ie: a fumbled roll is no longer a fumble if they spend luck on it - one point just makes it a normal failure.

This luck issue is becoming an issue with my games - on one hand we have Miss 9's and 0's ALL the time, on the other we have someone who jams a perfectly good pistol 3 times in a row...

I'm thinking of letting them spend it on whatever they like whenever they like, it just runs flat for that game session.

Rolling for the luck stat has great comedy potential in non-life threatening circumstances - like how well they do in a bar or whether the shop has the sp:14 trenchcoat in optic pink today...

http://www.motortrend.com/feature....ex.html

This it?

Looks even cheesier than Nash Bridges.

I like it already!

BORING?

Man, the start of this century has been epically cool ...

DARPA is researching Powered Armour, Computer speed continues to accelerate, Corporate Mercenaries are running all over the world, mini-video cam mobile phones are available, America is going off its nut trying to sort out terrorism, Big Brotherish security concepts are going up (in response to public demand) everywhere, Monsanto is trying to take over the worlds grain production with its ingenious patenting of GM wheat (so they can claim copyright on any cross fertilised plants), the Human Genome project is over its first major hurdle, Russian mafia is trying to spoof Australian bank sites, neural switches are US$3000 a pop and the proles have no idea what's happening!

They have no clue!

Go read up on something called the Singularity...imagine how the pretty little plastic people would deal with that, if it gets as big as is possible?

And, having an inexact idea of what's coming - where do you want to position yourself? Me, I've gone for advertising and programming skills...I wonder what I'll be able to do with them...

It's the calm before the storm. Take advantage of the time.

Just as an alternative to 'warrior teams' of police (as much as I agree with the idea!!)

How about lightly armed, heavily armoured cops with LOTS of communication gear?

I tend to think in terms of plating my cops up to stop AR bullets, with camera/mike headsets so HQ can see all that's going on and call in Air-Mobile 'Heavy assets' to deal with anything big and nasty.

The beat cop himself is not expected to really do anything other than observe, report, or follow. He retreats if the situation becomes dangerous.

Of course - big handguns, shotguns or rifles in the boot and armoured car bodys are obvious choices for something like NC...

I can believe that a strong enough 'chain' of molecules could cut well, I just tend to think - what if you pulled either end?

That would mean all the force a human could exert being resisted by the atomic bonds between 2 molecules.

Oddly enough, I tend to think that would break easily...

As for mono edges - on diamonite type materials, yeah!

But you then have to have the rest of the blade to support that super sharp edge without shattering - and having to force the significantly thicker blade into the tiny cut the edge made would slow it down a bit...just like chopping the veggies for dinner...

Isn't that half the fun? Freaking people out with the crazy stuff you do and think about?

Honestly, 'Punk is a hella lot scarier than D&D.

It can sound real most of the time...

I have never heard a better description of a way to instantly gain the friendship of 90% of Cessnock's population...

ROFLMAO!!

We should get Hanns to try that out...

He hee...I like that.

Its a good point - I'd never noticed how much copying the media giants did from each other before...

...and more seriously than Napster ever did...

Perhaps you could see a 'reaction' to hyper-commodification of celebrity, consumers being deliberately exclusive, so long as their hearts and minds are captured by one strong figure.

Hmmm. Actually - this is probably happening now...

Well kiddies, this is what it looks like...

Its rather sharp looking, especially with those neo-80's angular air holes...

And it came from our perennial fave Guns.ru.

The 'lightweight' 5.56 ammo mentioned in the article is interesting enough in itself...

Any comments? A site with better stats on it?

+Distributes party favours+

Ah yes, the 4th of July.

What would have become of us if it weren't for Will Smith and his nerdy copilot...

Just a thought, while we're on the topic of celebrity...

Do you think there could be many or any long term big celeb's in a CP world, given the tech level?

Like - anything that makes a Celeb sell is something that a rival can analyse and repackage. There's even my pet idea of an AI system that can tailor create talented personalities for individual clients.

The All Singing All Dancing Blonde Girl clones that infest pop music now...just made faster, for smaller, more targetted audiences...

And in this morass of hundreds and thousands of equal (ly bad) CG'd stars - how could anyone stand out?

I feel the media icon singer/actor is on its way out...fast...

The website is cute, but it seems somewhat broken

I couldn't get to the movies.

That aside, the plot sounds awesome...I wonder what the grand conspiracy is...

Shall keep my eyes out for it.

Its gotta be all quality, Thumper, all quality...

My bet is on Dog Soldier.

+slaps down his 10 eb+

Perhaps it could be an interesting and cheap alternative to a Railgun?

Think of a bipod system with powerpack and wierd ETE bullets.

There's an interesting rant in SoF2 about how manpack railguns would upset the balance of tank VS infantry, but that tank hunting railguns were expensive.

Perhaps this could be a lower power version, that John Brown rifleman could use without tearing his arm off...in essence it becomes a rather chunky anti-material rifle.

ROFL!

Do please...

(you have no idea what you did for that guys faith, Hanns...)

Hee hee hee...

Setting up an ambush is a bonus to the aggressors concealment, and if the characters normal awareness check still beats the +5 bonus, the ambush is spotted...

So yes. I say it would.

http://www.powerlabs.org/emguns.htm

Look down near the bottom - it seems the nutcase* making the railguns is also playing with ETE atm!

*the term 'nutcase' here is used with the greatest respect, would that I could be like him...

Edgerunner.

Someone who runs along the 'edge' of things? Where its dangerous and they're likely to get killed?

I think he is.

Even if he is a Corp' sellout - he did the job himself.

*shrug*

But I really don't care. The 80's guitar rock image he is made of is too horrifying to contemplate allowing to infect my game universe...

Bond movies improved dramatically with Pierce Brosnan...I just cannot deal with the old ones.

I was traumatised by the sight of Sean Connery's hairy legs protruding from a pair of pink shorts so tight he was probably going to cut the circulation so necessary to his leg's verdant growth...

*eeeeeeeeewwwwwww*

Pierce looks the part, sounds the part and has much better fashion sense.

Bring back Farscape! And Space : Above and Beyond!