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I have to admit, I always found Magician, and then the Empire Trilogy as the most interesting of the bunch... Although certain elements of the Serpentwar Saga are quite good. I still have to get around to the Demonwar and Chaoswar sagas though.

Dropped in the barbers this afternoon for that general clean up of hair before it gets too wild and eintsein-like. Been having a brief discussion with a friend in the US about Cadbury chocolate and explaining what a Cadbury Flake was. Heh, which meant when I was running around on groceries after the barber I saw a box and had to snag it since it's been awhile since I enjoyed some flakey smooth chocolate...

I like the game, it's enjoyable. I just wish it could deal with Shadowruns other then the "kill everybody on the run, it's a loud, crash, smoking obvious run". Half the fun of the pen and paper is the paranoia when you get hired, the recon on the target, the recon on the Johnson who hires you, trying to figure out who is going to get screwed by who, planning out the run and the contingencies.. The different types of run. Whether it's an extraction, an infiltration, a datasteal, a property theft, outright wetwork, a major smash and destroy, a character assassination series.. Policing your brass (or going caseless), not using lethal weapons unless that's part of the run (or it's all gone to hell), bypassing securitty in ways other then "blowing drek up", and making it out without it making the news (unless that's part fo the point of the run). I guess it'll be interesting to see if the editor actually lets people develop those other sorts of run beyond a story that dumps you in to pretty much kill everything and move through the maze.

Hey, don't blame us for your society. If we hadn't been so worried about the French more then you guys, you'd still have a good old constitutional monarchy and not have to worry about this annoying Republic/Democrat hack back and forth, and watch the Tea Party crazies go ultra-extremist...

Wouldn't this be a thing for the ICC to be looking at for them to be taken to trial rather then a human rights issue on whether it would be right to send them back to the country of origin?

The one thing that interests me is whether the filters will record information regardless of whether they're technically switched "on" or "off"...

I have to admit the Universal Brotherhood was kind of nice for the multiple ways you could achieve your ends. The bad bit was that if you crossed over elements of it, it didn't recognise it. So you could be in disguise, but they'd still ask you why you weren't in uniform even if you were, or talk to you about joining the Brotherhood..

Hm. I seem to bounce from extremes. I've had the gf who told me I was a cold-hearted sociopathic bastard, I've had various "you're charmingly quirky, or quirkily charming", I've got a couple of ex's that are still good friends, and I've run into one ex who is now married and actually told me she still thinks about me. Heh, and I've still got the emotional wounds from the Grand Ex, who was the love of my life. C'est la vie. C'est la amor. If it's not passionate, it aint love. If it aint love, it's not going to end up hurting. The question you have to always ask yourself, is whether the good times and the memories you might forge are going to be worth the hurt that could potentially follow.

For the random interest to this.. http://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/heres-how-to-avoid-the-incoming-cameron-porn-filters/

Hah. Not always true, but certainly the fierce ones only get fiercer. Heh, I used to know a girl at University who would totally vamp it up and act as the aggressive sex kitten type. She said it actually cut down on the guys that hit on her and worked as a defense. She always claimed that the average guy in a club or pub get intimidated by a girl like that, don't know how to handle it, and end up backing down and leaving them alone.

That doesn't surprise me, as they'll likely do that for the DLCs. Heh, you can also change the campaign itself to "import" as well as create a new character. So if you want to be truly silly, you can finish it, then re-use the character that finished it to start fresh from the beginning.

Also noting that you can set up adventures where you "import" a character from previous games rather then having to freshly create a new one.

For the monday start off..

Not directly on the box, and I know there's the sharp split of love/hate for this show on the forum, but since I found this the other day I thought I'd throw it up here for anyone who wants to spend an hour or so viewing. (note, the sound is a bit on the low side)

So far today I've been skimming through various Shadowrun 4th Edition books - Artifacts Unbound, Jet Set, The Clutch of Dragons, The Land of Promise...

What you've never realised is we are all the form of your own Purgatory....

Spent a chunk of the afternoon reading Shadowrun books. The rpg sourcebooks and suchlike, not the novels. I was given a bunch at christmas that I never really sat down to read because I haven't been in the right mood for cyberpunk since then. Since I've been dabbling at Shadowrun Returns the past couple of days, I thought I would... We actually had rain break last night which was great. Of course, we're still in the high 20's but the humidity has dropped some.

That's the trouble with an NPC like Harlequin. In-universe, the whole "immortal elves who happen to know magic beyond the average ken, and have got millenia of skills" make great plot background characters, or people moving pieces around. But they tend to be sucky for actually putting into statistics and having them rolling with (or against) the pc's. Which only comes out worse in crpg's.

I'm still kind of pondering on the whole "Chinese Company run by a former CPLA Officer" being behind the HomeSafe software... Like that's a great idea. Or a good inspiration.

Nonsense. It's a valid thread about the difference of perception in what is "attractive" in todays world and spread across different cultures and countries...

Heh. I actually got given a couple of cheesy soft-core porm mags for an Easter Present in replace of Easter Eggs one year as a joke by my mother when i was about hm, 13 or 14. Which itself was some oddball continuation of a joke from some months earlier from when we were cruising around the Med and we were leaving a Greek port to get back on board the ship. We had passed a news agents on the port that had stacks of greek playboys out, and I made some "hey, how about I get one of those as a souvenir of Greece" comment which got me a clip around the ear (in an amused manner) and a "maybe when you're older." Cut to that following Easter and a couple of Mayfair magazine with a yellow sticky note "Well, you're older now."

I also enjoyed DA 2, it was entertaining but not fantastic. And of course it had Isabela I enjoyed a lot of the ideas within DA2. The execution I tended to suffer through. I think it was a collection of the little things that just kept taking small slices of enjoyment from it. I loved the whole concept of this city, set over several years, seeing the consequences of your choices over that time. It just, didn't seem to actually be that worthwhile by the end of it. Especially with some of those story twists, turns and that inevitable fallout regardless of your choices.

Ah, but he's not running it on a "catch child offenders" he's pushing it on a "we can't trust parents to keep an eye on how their kids use the internet and we want to lock off access those unsupervised kids might have to porn". But they're blocking a whole heap more then just pornography. Also, the Tories did run with a whole heap of the "the Labour government has pushed the nanny state, we don't want to do that." This, seems a whole heap of "nanny state"...

Not sure if anyone here is really following it, but apparently we're about to get some lovely filters to our ISP's by reason of the government. Couple of stories on it that might entertain.. RT - Block and a hard place: UK’s online porn filter raises more issues than it solves Also, there's this one.. Wired - Cameron's Proposal Extends Beyond Porn