I suppose that looking at my baby daughter's ear and thinking, "Hey her ear is pointed. Is she a spike baby elf?" qualifies does it not?

On the personal side, I wouldn't mind the datajack and would love to have AR and VR. (Unless I Awaken of course.)

I read you on Cerebral Boosters. Attention Coprocessors, Math SPUs, Orientation Systems and Synaptic Boosters would be cool as well.

AR is, as always, totally awesome.

Y'know, I wouldn't have much of a problem with simsense. I'm not exactly into new fangled stuff but I wouldn't mind having feeling-on-demand. What I'm surprised is that someone has apparently not managed to appropriately tie some kind of simsense mood track set into software to help social bunnies with their jobs. As a quick houserule, that could be necessary for getting the bonus dice from empathy software.

When you compare your SR map to a RL map and wonder in what year the city will move the road.

BULLDREK BINGO!!!

sorry, i could not help myself (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I have a friend, whom I've known for ten years, since high school, and I have never once heard him swear, using regular profanities. He always uses "Frag" and "Drek."

Or likewise try to figure out when they will tear down the current buildings and put up ones that are worthy of cyberpunk fashion in your local downtown...

Don't forget Ares Technology as well. I can just see them merging with the aforementioned ARES Incorporated to form Macrotech, bringing the Firearms/Defense Contractor/Telecommunications & Infrastructure Management all under the same roof. Scary thought, that one...

then they buy blackwater or something similar...

Scary that I'm not the only one who does this. I also wonder when the rich suburbs I grew up in are going to start throwing up barb-wired walls with semi-auto toting private security firms patrolling the perimeter. Or when my local police force will become IPD Inc.

several of these rich suburbs are putting up walls, electrified fences, armed guards, etc. I havent seen barbwire yet but that is just coming. It is hear already... just have to look. Now is it at the SR level? not even close. Now most of these guards carry guns, they are not allowed to shoot unless they are shot at or the bad guy is trying to harm someone.

as for cops becoming incorp... it just just time.. here in GA, most cops work a second/third job in uniform privately patrolling a business (like movie theatre lobby) or playing traffic cop for a church or sitting in their squad car in a construction zone with their lights on. they have taken the steps in that direction...

on the topic of rent-a-cop's, here in norway there have recently been a bunch of noise in the press about there being more "mall security" then cops, and that cops quit as they find their workday and pay is better at said security firms.

hell, there was a story maybe a year ago about a person being slammed to be pavement and put into a questionable grappling hold that could have choked him. again it was security, not cops, and it was done because the person walked out of a store without paying for a 2$ salad.

I changed residences so when FDC finally expands to include most of Maryland, I won't be caught under that umbrella.

...when you resurrect a thread in hopes of more cool SR geek stories ^_^

...then there's ThyssenKrupp AG.

When you've continued to look for a game since 1992, despite everything working hard against the chances of playing...

My first thought was "ohcrapohcrapohcrap"

My second thought was "that guys's kinda young - might be a dragon in disguise"

Hmm, how about watching Slayers: TRY and listening to the dumb, weepy "gold Dragon-blooded" character go on and on and saying to the lovely, "Just slap a trank patch on her"...
...and having the lovely agree.

-Tir

...when you refer to your notebook computer as your "deck" and a wireless phone as a "commlink".

...when (like several mentioned here) find that shadowspeak has become a part of your normal vocabulary.

...when (even more serious) you find that UK shadowspeak has become a part of your normal vocabulary.

...when you live In Portland (OR) and find yourself occasionally looking at tall slender people to see if they have pointed ears.

...when you refer to Portland's West Hills as "Royal Hill" (the West Hills are the "high rent" district in RL).

...when you call any large city a "Metroplex" (I've even done that on news forums)

...when, as it is now 2011, you look at current events and wonder if the original authors at FASA knew more than we think they did.

What's UK shadowspeak like?

So glad I'm not the only person checking hipster ears.

I've done all of these and more than a few of the others mentioned in this thread.

Recently got a cell phone and it HAS been named my commlink and has been called such more than once in the 2 weeks I've had it.

What rating? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Oh the lowest possible I assure you. Maybe one level above lowest. It's a Walmart tracfone. The 'nicer" of the walmart tracfones but yeah. lol

*wince*

I use a Samsung Seek with Boost Mobile, so probably 3ish.

...there is a small dictionary of UK Shadowspeak in the old London Sourcebook along with a small translation table between UCAS and "King's English".

For example:

Baldric: Orc (Derogatory)
Box (v.): Geek
(the) Box: (n.): the Telly or a Computer
Ken: Corporate Wageslave (Derogatory)
Pixie: Elf (Derogatory)
Sep: UCAS Citizen (Derogatory)
Squid: Troll (Derogatory)
Swiss: Expensive

The Polish Shadowrun Wiki site has a fairly large lexicon of Shadowspeak including slang from other nations.

Shadowrun Slang


...yeah I'm an SR geek I guess.