Agamemnon

I liked them, and that's not a faint praise given how turned off I am from other Finnish sf writers.

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Good interview. Fell from my chair when the phrase "new Chromebook" was uttered. Liked his assessment of the Cyberpunk V3 thing and why it didn't work for a lot of people (me included).

the link is dead. does anyone have a copy?

It's in the Datafortress 2020 Archive.... which is down right now... send me your e-mail though and I will get you a copy.

This is offtopic, but I'm looking for a copy of CheapFBC 2.8, and I think your archive is the only place I could find it

As an aside, it'd be great if this kind of things could be available as bittorrents

A rewrite is a huge unknown, and a huge possibility. The way I see it, if the book is at least good-looking and not incredibly stupid, I'll buy it :-)

As for cool contemporary phenomena that would make cool gaming material, I think Anonymous and Wikileaks are definitely interesting ones. A decentralized "organization" dedicated to a million different causes is a much more fitting embodiment of Chaos than a gang of killer clowns ever could be, for one thing.

Heh, indeed. It's from before my time, even.

And people wonder why it's a good idea to spell check, proofread and even edit before publishing on the Net. The corpse may die, baby, but the words live on forever and ever.

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Luckily, I've always been my erudite and likeable self.

whoah. It's like listening to the voice of a past ME.

More material never hurt anyone... I'm sure we'd all love to see what else you have in store.

I suppose it works for me too, but I can't define it so nebulously in the rulebook. In writing, it needs to be one or the other, because that's the rules and rules are supposed to be concrete.

Yeah, I suppose so. Results in a fuzzy line between Tech and Ref, but So's the line between Intelligence/Wisdom/Charisma, and it has survived for 30 years of D&D.

It'd benefit from a better name, it's too often misinterpreted as "Technical know-wots".

Then there's the old quibble about what really determine's one's skills with a firearm. Is it reaction speed or general physical aptitude? All in all, it's hard trying to quantify people into statistics.

Heh, fair enough.

Besides, my system ain't that horrible. Once upon a time, it had 12 stats. Nowadays, it has 6. Its biggest problem is that 95% skills are INT or REF based (TECH doesn't exist, because it was never clear what it actually was, or did).

Well, that and the combat mechanics being clunky. On the plus side, it uses a 3d6-based task resolution.

Right now I'm fixing my old model trains, rescued from half a decade of attic storage and currently residing on my desk. In other avenues, I'm writing a fanfic, hanging around in a WH40k IRC channel, playing DOD:S and plotting ... THE PROJECT.

THE PROJECT is my good old homebrew rules system, a modified 2020 with just a touch of sheer insanity and bogged down by hideous amounts of tables and eckcetera. I aim to be the second-words RPG writer in the world*.

*The worst is Byron Hall, architect of F.A.T.A.L.

Interesting ideas, all around. I might make some notes on the topic. Perhaps I could be persuaded to elaborated on the topics outlined herein.

The concept I had for the Black House is to use as little visual, obvious clues to the carnal, mind-shattering horror something like it would inflict upon a victim (the character in question, Anne, was fortunate enough to be bought out before... well, guess).

Instead, I focus on the little things. The smell of sweat in an unventilated, cramped room. The distinct sound made when you accidentally crush a loose tooth or a fingerbone underfoot. The pits, the oubliettes. The laughter. The hungry looks of the "consumers".

In the end, I reckon the only limit is how grossed-out you want your players to be. It is, above all, a game, an effigy of the real deal. I tend to merely hint at shades of black in my writing, mostly because I'm squeamish that way, and because there has been enough sick, perverted literature in this world without me adding to it.

That doesn't remove the fact that I dreamed up some very evil stuff, like the Black House of Istambul, a combined brothel and cannibal eatery.I just keep it away from the center stage, use it to explain why one of my characters has a mutilated face and why she goes into catatonic convulsions at the sight of someone eating meat.

The same chapter notes a police bust of 'week long orgy' in I think, Shanghai (or maybe another city), in which they arrested over 400 (!) Japanese business men in one raid...

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Remind me never to buy Sony ever again...

And wham! this thread is back again... Man, I wrote some odd commentary back in the day... Of course, I still do, from time to time.

I was under the impression that Israel caught a lot of the flack from the Mideast Meltdown and is a total rad-zone.

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Also, I agree that out of all the peoples and ethnic groups on the planet, the Israelis are the second most unlikely to perpetrate ethnic cleansing. (The most unlikely are the Amish, I really don't see that happening either) It is impossible, futhermore, to keep a mass sterilization like that a secret. I mean, how would they even do it, in practice?

Whoah, someone call the exorcist, thread necromancy in progress!!

It's a sick ol' world, and no mistake. On some days, I wish God would click Ctrl+z for Undo and start anew with algae.

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I dunno what to say. Malek, you make me speechless.

Allow me to quote some more Woody Allen. "Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right."

Oh, and my replies to the "who would you like to spend it with" are Natalie Portman and/or Keira Knightley

Ah, here we go again...

This thread does more comebacks than Prince. Hmm, I don't think I even ever answered to the original question boneshaker posted.

I think the possibility of AVs ever existing has been refuted in more than enough ways by now.

Judging from what I've seen of the Skycar, it is no more aerodynamic than most AV designs.I very much doubt it could do a controlled landing without engines. Also, I don't think they've ever even done a manned test of the skycar, which says something.

I agree on Every Rose Has Its Thorn, and Guns N Roses is something special for me as welll.