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Posted by: Demerzel Aug 7 2007, 09:42 PM
I was looking at the Jackpoint login page (p.4 Augmentation). It shows current timestamp as August 20, 2070 0704. So 7:04 in the morning, and last connection severed 13 hours 13 minutes and 18 seconds prior. So logged off at 5:50 PM the night before. What does this guy punch a time clock or something? Off at 6pm and in the next morning at 7am… Either that’s one sad shadowrunner trying to keep business hours, or FastJack is letting in the corpers. Or maybe that's just Adam trying to get sympathy for his 11 hours a day schedule?
Posted by: Spike Aug 7 2007, 09:46 PM
Could be zulu time, which means very very little about his actual hours unless he's British or something.
Very common in computer terms to use a single time stamp rather than worry about time zones, ya?
Posted by: Demerzel Aug 7 2007, 09:54 PM
Not really, any good forum such as this one will adjust the time to user's local time. I imagine Jackpoint is at least as sophisticated as DSF? 
Posted by: FrankTrollman Aug 7 2007, 09:56 PM
Only if they actually report a location. Which for an illegal discussion forum about Shadowrunning, I would be surprised. I'm sure at least half the people on the forum are masking their time zone.
-Frank
Posted by: Spike Aug 7 2007, 10:00 PM
Ah, but you see, the timestamp DSF shows for me is 1:54, while my actual time, and computer time are 1454. Now, assuming that DSF's 1:54 is PM, that means that it still has very little to do with what time zone I actually post from.
As a presumably 'illegal' site, populated by notionally paranoid runners, would anyone actually be so foolish as to make sure their time stamp was accurate to their local time? Nothing like 'narrowing the feild' if someone is hunting for ya.
'This guy here seems to know an awful lot about our superdooper secret squirrel project, what do we know about him?'
'Well, he's a shadowrunner, and his time stamp, coupled with his posting history, suggests he is from Seattle. That narrows the feild to about a dozen people'
'Great, mobilize our Delta Zombie team to the Seattle sprawl, ready to move as soon as we narrow the prospective candidates. See if we can set this fool up."
Terrible example, I know, just terrible. 
Posted by: Demerzel Aug 7 2007, 10:06 PM
Consider if Jackpoint sends a standard time, I wouldn't put it past 63 years in the future technology is capable of manipulating the time locally without broadcasting it...
Posted by: Demerzel Aug 7 2007, 10:39 PM
Heh, also noticed the sidebar starting on page 6 says, "According to our sources, these 10 corps (in no particular order) are the ones to watch next year."
Then proceeds to list them in alphabetical order.....
Posted by: Rotbart van Dainig Aug 7 2007, 11:20 PM
| QUOTE (Demerzel) |
| What does this guy punch a time clock or something? |
If you needed 3 to 4 hours sleep to be completly rested... what would you do with your time?
Posted by: Demerzel Aug 7 2007, 11:45 PM
Hummn, I never thought of the roleplaying ramifications of having a sleep regulator and having 20 hours to fill each day.
Bored often. Full of half remembered useless trivia. Having a very high level MMORPG character that he doesn't stop talking about....
Posted by: Rotbart van Dainig Aug 7 2007, 11:51 PM
| QUOTE (Demerzel) |
| Hummn, I never thought of the roleplaying ramifications of having a sleep regulator and having 20 hours to fill each day. |
Now imagine your girlfriend not having one.
Posted by: Pallantides Aug 7 2007, 11:52 PM
| QUOTE (Demerzel) |
| Hummn, I never thought of the roleplaying ramifications of having a sleep regulator and having 20 hours to fill each day. Bored often. Full of half remembered useless trivia. Having a very high level MMORPG character that he doesn't stop talking about.... |
Doesn't sound like a bad life to me
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Posted by: bibliophile20 Aug 8 2007, 01:24 AM
Sounds like my days recently... I've screwed up my circadian rhythms enough that I'm currently on Hawaii time or something in that general area.
Posted by: Adam Aug 8 2007, 01:34 AM
Remember that not everyone who accesses Jackpoint is a "shadowrunner" so it can be assumed that the person "reading" it, who's login information you see, may not necessarily be one, either.
And, of course, perhaps he or she woke up at 17:30 the previous afternoon, read Jackpoint, went on a few 'runs, chatted to Harlequin, saved the world, and was home checking mail before slipping into bed at 07:00 the next day. Who sez they were sleeping?
Posted by: BRodda Aug 8 2007, 02:04 AM
| QUOTE (Demerzel @ Aug 7 2007, 06:45 PM) |
| Hummn, I never thought of the roleplaying ramifications of having a sleep regulator and having 20 hours to fill each day. Bored often. Full of half remembered useless trivia. Having a very high level MMORPG character that he doesn't stop talking about.... |
Cinder my cyber/mage has one. It's on of the main reasons he's learned to deck. Throw the fact that he is a Longhaul addict on top of that and he has more time than than a sane person knows what to do with. Lucky he's got an obsession or two that takes up all his spare time. Interesting to play someone who thinks that having to sleep 20 hours a week is way to much.
Quick question; how do people rule what happens if you take Longhaul while you have a sleep regulator. Were just saying that as I need 1/2 the sleep a normal person does that the effects of a single dose lasts twice as long. Yes it means he's up for almost 2 weeks strait, but he has pretty bad nightmares and does just about anything to avoid sleeping most days.
*EDIT* That almost 2 weeks number is considering he takes two doses. 8 days + 1d6 days for the second dose.
Posted by: Aaron Aug 8 2007, 02:43 AM
| QUOTE (Demerzel) |
| I was looking at the Jackpoint login page (p.4 Augmentation). It shows current timestamp as August 20, 2070 0704. So 7:04 in the morning, and last connection severed 13 hours 13 minutes and 18 seconds prior. So logged off at 5:50 PM the night before. What does this guy punch a time clock or something? Off at 6pm and in the next morning at 7am… Either that’s one sad shadowrunner trying to keep business hours, or FastJack is letting in the corpers. Or maybe that's just Adam trying to get sympathy for his 11 hours a day schedule? |
I check my email and Web sites when I first wake up and before bed (respectively), too.
Posted by: hobgoblin Aug 8 2007, 10:45 AM
| QUOTE (Aaron) | ||
I check my email and Web sites when I first wake up and before bed (respectively), too. |
imo thats SOP...
Posted by: Cthulhudreams Aug 8 2007, 10:57 AM
You've all got it totally upside down.
He's going to 'work' at 6pm, and staggers home at 5am and is posting while he cleans his gun. I mean, what else the heck are you going to do.
Posted by: hobgoblin Aug 8 2007, 04:09 PM
ah yes, shadowrunners are nightworkers.
thats why they can cooperate with hackers
Posted by: Moon-Hawk Aug 8 2007, 04:38 PM
I wouldn't expect a sleep regulator to affect the duration of Longhaul. It takes a certain amount of time for a body to process the drug and get it out of its system, and I don't really see the sleep regulator effecting that much.
Although having a sleep regulator might help mitigate the crash effects.
Posted by: hobgoblin Aug 8 2007, 04:42 PM
or maybe just drive you off the wall. the body needs to sleep at some point...
Posted by: Nasrudith Aug 8 2007, 04:52 PM
I think the rules say that they don't stack. My guess is that longhaul has the normal effect of keeping you awake for days and you crash normal too. When you're not taking it you still sleep less thanks to the regulator.
Posted by: FrankTrollman Aug 8 2007, 05:27 PM
| QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig) | ||
Now imagine your girlfriend not having one. |
She doesn't have to be your http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=755#comic
-Frank
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