Dog Soldier

I think a section for AI creations would be pretty cool.

A drone/robot section might be good as well,  I recall a while back reading an interview with William Gibson where he said the real cyborgs are the drone/remote operators with the Mars lander crews being top of the list

Maybe something about body mods though I will say that isn't going in a direction that I find particularly interesting

There could be a section for PED and human performance enhancements as well.  

Just throwing out things off the top of my head

Dystopia isn't nearly as cool looking as I thought it would be so it's not even got that going for it

The worst thing about those zombies is that it's the result of a fungus and if they survive till the spores can fruit their heads explode and can infect anyone within 10 meters depending on the wind

Actually 2020 is a dystopia,  just not the one we were expecting

Check out The Social Dilemma ,  for all the fear of AGI the algorithms of social media are as big a threat as anything we've imagined.  And we have imagined a lot 

Very interesting

On 09/09/2020 at 01:51, Strawberry-Cream said:

You're just here hoping we act as your world-spanning spy network in case your lawn mower shows up somewhere around the globe! 

damn,  you're on to me 

I love Bill Burr,  great clip

Good to see you again 'murph

Well I'm back checking here regularly again so I guess the future may be bleak

SC the clan is doing great,  I have grandchildren now and they call me 'pops',  as do my daughter,  son-in-law and their entire circle of friends.  It's great to have you back around!

Strawberry-Cream,  that's the best thing that I've read in quite some time!  I look forward to any future rants you might feel obliged to share (as I continue the search for that lawn mower)

I still haven't found that lawn mower

Looks like Nomad is not an option IRL 2020

As an aside the major thing the Russians seem to be contributing to the world in this era are deza and nagaika 

As a female friend of mine just told me,  "2020 came in hard with no foreplay and no lube""

I'd say #1 is the best solution. There'd be no rush in moving it I think

I read the publishers description but it did not prepare me for this book. For the first time in years I stayed up past midnight reading, went to bed, couldn't sleep so I started reading again

Sakura is a vocaloid, the most advanced in history and she is the Metal Queen being an android (gynoid?) who plays all genre of metal music.

The back story is that there is an international treaty ban on all research into advanced military AI....this is cyberpunk so you should be able to see where this is going....

Anyway, Sakura can and does totally control the entire venue wherever she plays and can not only create animated graphics on the fly but and rewrite code while she's doing it. And that barely scratches the surface of what she's capable of.

Within the first few pages you meet her evil older sister, Kunoichi, who has attempted to override her core programming during a live concert. Sakura not only fights for control but more than salvages the concert and boost her sales internationally.

There's major fire power, gun fights, assassinations and hacking along with genuinely evil corporations and even more evil CEO's

Just read it, and listen to the recommended music tracks while you do!

Sakura: Intellectual Property

Time to tune up my system, maybe get a new video card

That's an excellent test for the Wardrobe & Style skill. It's something that is not considered as often as it should be even out in the real world.

You may want to consider a test for accessibility as well. Some carry methods are great for concealment but terrible for access while others are only good for access in certain physical positions. Examples would be ankle holster is extremely accessible while seated, driving, etc. or if groundfighting (better than JuJitsu) while appendix carry is very concealable and accessible while standing but almost impossible when seated and frequently painful as well

Well the partial knee replacement is all done now, Recovering at an amazing rate and feeling good.

We are all becoming cyborgs

I recall reading something about artificial limbs and of course things like pacemakers being hacked through their bluetooth connections

She knows that there's not enough salvageable now to make it worthwhile

In about a month I'll be having a partial knee replacement by MAKO-plasty which involves a robot burrowing in and doing the work.

My daughter told me I should get a big chromed knee with servomotors.

I raised her right!

Oooh, oooh, how about this?

 

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/12/14/ric...s-gun-violence/

 

CP2020 Chicago, streets patrolled by trigger happy, untrained and very scared Third World Peacekeepers, white UN marked armored vehicles idling on the sidewalks, remote controlled machine gun turrets spastically twitching from random passerby to next potential target. Groups of 16 year old Ugandan conscripts wearing tattered surplus uniforms two sizes too large hassling Christmas shoppers, confiscating food items and anything they think might be tobacco from fashionably dressed urbanites. The cold Lake Michigan wind whipping through the busy streets, the red and blue strobes a constant backdrop to the distant staccato gunfire, recently burned out buildings smoking in the frigid winter air.

If you add the fact that Chicago is the northern terminus for the Nuevo Laredo drug pipeline out of Mexico and the cartels would be very interested in offering O Plata O Plomo to the broke peacekeepers and possibly opening up more markets it could be very interesting.