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One of our better Olympic medallist swimmers could do 1500m in just under 15 minutes - which is about as fast as I walk and I'm not a slow walker.   The shorter events are more sprint-styled things, and speeds are a little different for that stuff.  

Fins/flippers will increase that speed.  Like webhands/feet.   Yeah,  the Sub-attica book covered stuff like that, if not "Stormfront" (corp war 4 part 1) book should, since there's a fair bit of underwater stuff in that.

 

and then covid 19 said "You know what?  Fuck your 2020 delivery schedules for everything."

I'll probably get a copy. Haven't bought anything in dead tree in 20 years (for this game).

Got all the electronic copies of the catalog I didn't have when DTRPG had a sale (and scanned what I already had, then comp died and OS update killed scanner on new one).

They're also going to reprint Night City sourcebook (but it will still have North Oak and Westbrook maps swapped - the CINC-NorPac fleetbase is still INLAND on the map with no direct water access).

Red will be post 203x but pre 2077 (but they may do a 2077 book to coincide or AFTER 2077 gets released).

I won't be at Gencon - wrong country to start with, and if DHS are reading my social media posts, then I probably wouldn't be welcomed in anyway.

I'd be interested in pics or commentary on the direction of what R.Tal is doing these days, though.

Yeah, the Ianus stuff has some alternate takes on CP while still being licensed CP products.

Some of the guys behind those books are still around in gaming circles, too.

I'm in Newcastle, playing infinity to get my post-humanism buzz and waiting for Altered carbon to hit screens. I've played that for about 10 years now, gave up the 40kays almost 5 years ago now.

Haven't played an rpg in a few years now. Tried Eclipse Phase with some friends but they went over to some D&D tripe and went dungeon munchkining and didn't come back.

Might get back in with the new infinity rpg (Modiphius) because the locals who went big into that KS have NEVER played a en and paper rpg before. Not even elder scrolls (which may as well be d&d since it uses the entire player character gen system anyway). I figure they'll need the help.

I just haven't roleplayed in a few years now.

Moved away from my old group (they became a 2 1/2-3 hour one way trip away).

Local group doesn't rpg unless it involves swords and kobolds and shit. This may change when the Infinity rpg by modiphius hits the streets. A few local players of the miniatures game went in big for that Kickstarter, but they have zero rpg experience, let alone GM experience. I've got a feeling eyes might point my way.

Infinity skirmish gaming has been my fill for "cyber/transhuman" gaming for the last few years.

I've been watching it since late 2015 when I first heard about it.

Also devoured the books after the first few episodes (when I found out the series was based on some books). I'm on Babylon's ashes atm. There's a couple of episodes to go and things are shaping up.

It's got some cool ideas, and it's about time some decent sci-fi was back on Syfy.

Earth is an overpopulated shithole (30 billion as of book 1 - this changes during book 5).

More of a near orbit +, than cp, but the first episode DID mention prosthetics or vat grown replacements.

The time period would also make it more "transhuman" than cp, but most of the cp stuff became "transhumanism" or got absorbed, whatever.

I was watching Dark Matter and Killjoys while it was off - they aren't the same, but the three shows scratch different itches for me.

I like Miller, the cop. With his stupid hat.

Series got cancelled after 1 season.

It was enjoyable enough but getting cancelled that early on doesn't help.

SyFy:Imagine your show cancelled ...

The Cthulhu crossover was done with another fanzine, "The unspeakable oath" and has the modern day precursor material that begets the cp version.

I have all 6 of them (plus a stack of the TUO issues, too).

The first issue was written before 2020 came about, and is for cp2013 (hence the conversions to 2020).

Basic history is that a few of the playtesters (Chris Hockabout and co) spoke to the folks at RTG and asked if they could do it. Add their own material, etc. Expand on stuff (since there was nowhere near as much for 2013 as there was for 2020).

They used to play in the back room of their local games shop in Alameda (Tita's house of games) - so they were "locals" to RTG.

I even got a shoutout in the 5th issue.

They had an update a day or so ago - but it was more a reminder that they are still around.

I think they're stuck ironing out wrinklies in the Witcher 3 property.

I'm not expecting 2077 much before 2020 myself.

The same to you guys. I spent most of the last week in a wifi-cell and internet free zone (camping with brothers-in-law).

Remind me not to do that again. I quite like modern conveniences like running water, light when I want it, and flushing toilets.

Belated holiday wishes to you lot - and best wishes for the coming year.

Going for a Titanium/Kevlar knee rebuild in a few years. I've had the ligaments reconstructed and that is still fine, it's just the bones and joint itself that's stuffed.

No cataracts as yet (and vision stable) but glands in eyelids don't work and I keep abrading my cornea (left).

Nothing else, AFAIK.

Our "federal" police had a good example of media spin.

They "printed" a gun (using the lowest spec printer and cheapest materials) and it really was no surprise to anyone who knew ANYTHING about firearms that the single .38 round they loaded into it WAS GOING TO DESTROY the gun - as well as eject a slug fairly deep into a ballistics gel body.

"As you can see, such things will be shoddy, and dangerous for the users" blah, blah - and the inevitable "they will be able to smuggle it through metal detectors" hyperbole (not unless the ammo is some magical non-bullet-like bullet things. The ammo would set off all of them. You could get a gun through, sure. The ammo is a different issue and a gun without ammo is a stick.)

Happy belated birthday.

We busy dealing with family ca-ca (both my side and the out-laws) and the fallout from the 'big C', otherwise I would have got here sooner.

(One is terminal (and <12 months), the other has a more favourable prognosis).

And for a closer look :

 

http://www.itsbetterupthere.com/site/

 

 

 

A Russian DNI on a Kawasaki frame so he can haul Polonium powered exo-portable railguns...on a space station that looks overtly like a Syd Mead design...

 

...this is gonna melt my brain...finally...someone is doing it RIGHT.

It SHOULD look like a Syd Mead design. It is one. He did work on it, after all.

I'm not going to get around to seeing it on the big screen with what's happening in my life atm - so I'll just have to get it on disc and watch it on our 42".

What damage can it do?

Can't kill a genre that is already dead.

It's moved on, been assimilated into the posthuman, uploaded to the choir-invisible.

In the beginning of the 2013 years, when Rockerboy hadn't come out yet and Solo of Fortune was it for CP apart from the box - and Shadowrun already had several books of pre-plotted adventures, I *modified* a couple of them for CP use.

First up was DNA/DOA which admittedly was a pretty basic dungeon (sewer) crawl with genetically modified critters. NPCs got CP proflies, critters got cp profiles. I had transgenic predatory animals, a bit of an eco message and "exotics" only they were transgenic, not biomods.

I still have that book with the mods (all typed up on paper - this was before I had a computer. I wrote my first cp2020 convention module on an electric typewriter).

Start by stripping out magic (unless your world has it).

Then go with the "that feels about right" method for converting and wing it.

Its major deviation is that it has absolutely no trace of PKD mindfuckery in it at all.

At least the arnie movie had that left in it (and the Arnie movie was cheesy as all get-out).

There's meant to be a doubt whether or not Quaid/Hauser's memories are real, and whether or not everything he has also experienced along the way is real.

In the Arnie movie, the Rekall fantasy he chose was "blue sky on Mars". The resolution of this arc, is naturally, the terraforming of Mars, and the "blue skies.". The movie ends with the instant terraforming of Mars and the blue-skying of it. Is it real or is this part of his implanted memories? That kind of thing.

It's not about heroes and villains. It's not about redemption. It's about the mutability of perception of identity. Something PKD probably shared after his copious mind-altering-substance use during those "counter-culture" years.

It's a pretty movie. It has action, great visuals of a dystopian future landscape, Kate Beckinsdale's arse, and Bill Nighy. Its story sucks balls, though. The science of the fall is hokey, and it lacks any trace of the idea that birthed the last movie with this name.

One of my wife's (female) co-workers is Israeli.

ALL of the women in her department had to attend several "self-defence" classes/seminars.

She (co-worker) declined, stating that she thought the class would be a waste of her time - but this was over-ruled by her department head so she went along.

She thoroughly dismantled the instructor and seminar was over 10 minutes into the class.

She gave them a demonstration of krav maga and an illustration why you never try to "attack" someone of her age (late 20s) if they say they are Israeli. They don't "play-fight" in the IDF. She forgot to dial down her reactions (she's only been here about a year).

When the wife told me, I just laughed. I used to game with a guy who was ex-IDF (Golani Ranger).

Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) Cyberspace was pretty cool.

Complex as hell in parts, with awesome critical tables. Later time period (2090) and it did have a wealth of material available (published).

Percentile based system.

One of the many sources I cribbed stuff from in the early days.

Woot! 'Nother Aussie on the boards.

Slowly but surely, by hook or cyberclaw, we'll take over the world, one website at a time.

Welcome to the new members, Logan9 and Jack Swift.

Wisdom's a nice enough guy, and our chief anarchivist.

Anything he said about me is a lie, unless it was nice, then it's probably also a lie. I am NOT easily distr...

Ooh, shiny things! Catch you later.

Well, I read it years ago, and just got around to picking up the 'newer' print of it. I haven't read it yet, and no longer own the original prints that I had back then.

John Shirley was one of the bright lights of CP back then (and a helluva good screen writer, too). I'll see if I can notice any major changes/discrepancies (I can remember chunks of the original, but not all of it).

To all of the noobs, welcome. I hope your stay will be a fruitful and profitable one.

Please take note of the exits - they are now locked, and of no help whatsoever. Scream all you like, the room is soundproof - oh, and airtight, too. Pay no mind to that hissing sound.

Some of you say you feel old - don't worry. There's some of us who're older - and others older still.

But, that is not dead, which can eternal lurk lie after all.