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I'm interested in joining an online game. I am a veteran of CP, been gming for about ten years (on and off), from 2013 -2020. I have a broadband connection, and a surplus of spare time - I refuse to join the evercrack/wow/CoH/V crowd. I usually play a fixer type, but a techie would also be cool to play.

I've never gamed online, but I have done pbm, so I assume it's similar, but somewhat (potentially) faster. If Someone want to send me the how/what/whens & I'd be happy to join in.

Hi MoRocca,

Like others, I have DLd a copy and barely skimmed it. I have to agree that it does seem to follow the STORMFRONT arc better [but what about chapter 3? There is no Chapter 3, we'll skip to chapter 7!!! attitude of v3) and more logically follow. I will give better feedback when I get a chance to read through it more thoroughly.

At the moment, it's promising, and all the better for it.

I think I have a copy of this anthology. It wasn't called 'Mirrorshades', was it? If it was, there's a short Gibson sprawl story in there as well.

But well done. More people should know about John Shirley's work. He even featured as a character in the cyberpunk/paranoia xover "Alice thru the mirrorshades"

My .sig comes from "Tripping the Rift" which is particularly bent sci-fi cg animated pisstake of every sci-fi cliche. It's from the episode "Aliens, guns and a monkey". I was tossing up between that and "pacifists are not wussies"

If you can find copies of his work, by all means, read them. I preferred them to most of Gibson's stuff. He was one of the better writers back in the 80's, before he became more famous for doing movie screenplays in Hollyweird. Can't blame him, really. Probably pays more.

He adapted the "graphic novel" (whussat? Some poncy term for 'comic book'?) of "The Crow" into the movie without humping it too badly in the process.

Dang! You beat me to it.

I have played in a Cyberspace game (ICE/rolemaster).

It was set in 2090 - which would seem to solve the 'future is already here' syndrome that afflicts some people.

It has more c-ware than CP (and you can even link systems together). The timeline is developed. There are orbitals and fully fledged solar colonies.

Ok, so the system is a little harder to run, but a good GM does his research and learns the rules first. The crit tables are a hoot.

The gulf between the haves and everyone else is wider, and your average PC can only dream of a life up-well.

I have a lot of the stuff produced for this game, and was thinking of going that route myself for the Cybervamp game I run, but CP won out because it was easier to do the conversions for.

Apologies for the thread necromancy, but I've only just seen this movie. It rocked. The gun-kata stuff was cool, and this is how the 'gun-fu' MA in CP would look (IMHO). I've got friends Qing up to borrow it off me ( they're way too cheap A$$ to use Blockbuster or even buy their own copy).

An old friend (and ex-player) of mine showed me his um... 'corrected'... copy of the AC. I remember him saying that a lot of it was just out & out wrong and if you didn't know your science stuff, it'd just maim you if you were lucky. I remember reading it and even with my meagre chem know-wots, I could tell something was not quite kosher about it.

But then, he was the guy the ARMY trained to blow sh!t up. Trained so well, he got to teach other people. Be all that you can be. All that stuff.

Last comment. Dude, let it go, as others have said before me, there're better sources out there, that are much safer (for you and your immediate neighbours) to study.

I think it may contain nudity of the female kind. In places. It's kinda hard to tell, as most anime doesn't tend to show pubic hair anyway. She could be wearing a very snug skinsuit. I'd have to watch it again to be sure. Good thing I have the disc.

If you haven't grokked it yet, I'm an aussie ( & damn proud of it. ) My campaign boasts an entire ONE (PC) character who is an aussie. There are also the Russian and English PCs. They play in Night City. I may get around to having them visit 'home' for a while, I may not. I use NC as the great cultural melting pot that LA was in Blade Runner.

For the record, yes I do have PacRim (know the writer of the section on australia, too. Some of the history for us is a little iffy, but he's from melbourne*, so we forgive him for it. Btw, the bit on language for us was prettybloodyclose to the mark. he he. Me, i live in wonderful Sydney. Big, smelly, choked with people.). The aussie character is from the Free (seceded from commonwealth) WestAus. Up in the North West. Broome. Little town. famous for pearls. Oil territory, too & that means Petrochem, Indonesian pirates (hell, we've got THEM now) & the rest of the country aggro at them as well. Character likes the USA. Loves NC. Considers the Combat Zone as close to home. Is legally able to own guns here. For my PC's, the USA is the Foreign country.

* Melbourne is the perfect CP city. Dark, & always raining. Oh, & the cops shoot FIRST, then maybe remember to ask the questions. Still, mob wars, gang rumbles with people getting their hands chopped off by other people with swords, Hey! I think sirRobin is onto something.

I came up as a Fixer also. Dunno why? Just coz i helped a couple of game stores here get CP stuff WITHOUT going thru the 'national' distributors. Amazing what a phone call to a friend of a friend can do.

well, I'm actually listening to Queensryche's 'LIVE EVOLUTION' at this point in time. The 'mindcrime suite. (I have the CD & the DVD, does this make me a fanboy?) We here in Oz didn't really get the "Livecrime" set (yeah, we got the video, but no CD), so it's the closest I'm gonna get to hearing them 'live'. I almost got to see them back during the 'building empires' tour, but had to leave Seattle abruptly two days before the gig. Hey, 'murph, what do you think of "screaming in digital' as the anthem of the AI revolt? But I digress. I also listen to Evanescence, a little KMFDM, Ministry, Fear Factory (are we detecting a pattern here?), Iron Maiden, The Cult, and the odd classical piece.