Good points, I'd also add in/Snow Crash/ by Neil Stephenson,/Virtual Light/ and/Idoru/ by Gibson (I haven't finished/All Tomorrow's Parties/ yet). In fact, I can't remember if VL or Idoru had it, but there's a swiss-made anti-STD Nanotech mentioned. Also on YET another Gibson note, you forgot/Mona Lisa Overdrive/, it really ties the Neuromancer trilogy together. To be perfectly honest though, I don't have/Snow Crash/ on me (NEVER lend books that have anything resembling a sex scene in them to my friends...ever...), and it may have been published AFTER Shadowrun's rules. Still though,/Snow Crash/ actually seems more like Shadowrun than some of the official fiction for it...::sigh:: The only really decent books in the entire set are/Dead Air/ and/TechnoBabble/
I think its great that we're getting an open source side of the origins, instead of the dam-ned Pirates of Silicon Valley, Conglomerrates (sp?) rule view. Though Tux COULD whip the BSD Devil. -Absy
Ok this is annoying me a lot. Look at all this anti-Katz hyper. Ok, ok, you may not want to hear it, but has it occurred to you the amount of teenagers who read slashdot? The ones who actually took REAL FEELING away from the emails...I take that back, the ones who WROTE the emails about their experiances. Maybe you people never went through this sort of hell, or maybe you feel you went through it and so everyone else should too, I don't know and plainly, I don't care. I truely thought I was alone in what happened to me. I knew kids everywhere got made fun of or beat up, but had no idea it happened to them as it happened to me. As a culture we pride ourselves in our individuality (the oxymoron from hell there), but it does help to see that we AREN'T alone (another one!). I cried in the second to last chapter of _Geeks_ because I was like "Oh my Gods, this is me". Kids can connect to this because its happening to us right now, and though you may not wish to read it (which is your right), I'm sure I speak for at least a majority of us when I ask you to at least see that some people may take heart in this, and calling it "Crapmouth" isn't doing any for the self esteem of those this has helped. It makes us feel "immature" or whatever for it since some adult is bashing it.
This game seems really awesome, I can say from experiance Star Wars RPG may not be the most in depth, but they are really fun. People don't base their lives around Star Wars RPGs like they do AD&D (not that thats really bad...). But aside from all that, didn't anyone else notice Sony's President is named Lisa Simpson? -Absy
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Good points, I'd also add in /Snow Crash/ by Neil Stephenson, /Virtual Light/ and /Idoru/ by Gibson (I haven't finished /All Tomorrow's Parties/ yet). In fact, I can't remember if VL or Idoru had it, but there's a swiss-made anti-STD Nanotech mentioned. Also on YET another Gibson note, you forgot /Mona Lisa Overdrive/, it really ties the Neuromancer trilogy together. To be perfectly honest though, I don't have /Snow Crash/ on me (NEVER lend books that have anything resembling a sex scene in them to my friends...ever...), and it may have been published AFTER Shadowrun's rules. Still though, /Snow Crash/ actually seems more like Shadowrun than some of the official fiction for it...::sigh:: The only really decent books in the entire set are /Dead Air/ and /TechnoBabble/
I think its great that we're getting an open source side of the origins, instead of the dam-ned Pirates of Silicon Valley, Conglomerrates (sp?) rule view. Though Tux COULD whip the BSD Devil. -Absy
Ok this is annoying me a lot. Look at all this anti-Katz hyper. Ok, ok, you may not want to hear it, but has it occurred to you the amount of teenagers who read slashdot? The ones who actually took REAL FEELING away from the emails...I take that back, the ones who WROTE the emails about their experiances. Maybe you people never went through this sort of hell, or maybe you feel you went through it and so everyone else should too, I don't know and plainly, I don't care. I truely thought I was alone in what happened to me. I knew kids everywhere got made fun of or beat up, but had no idea it happened to them as it happened to me. As a culture we pride ourselves in our individuality (the oxymoron from hell there), but it does help to see that we AREN'T alone (another one!). I cried in the second to last chapter of _Geeks_ because I was like "Oh my Gods, this is me". Kids can connect to this because its happening to us right now, and though you may not wish to read it (which is your right), I'm sure I speak for at least a majority of us when I ask you to at least see that some people may take heart in this, and calling it "Crapmouth" isn't doing any for the self esteem of those this has helped. It makes us feel "immature" or whatever for it since some adult is bashing it.
This game seems really awesome, I can say from experiance Star Wars RPG may not be the most in depth, but they are really fun. People don't base their lives around Star Wars RPGs like they do AD&D (not that thats really bad...). But aside from all that, didn't anyone else notice Sony's President is named Lisa Simpson? -Absy