 CNN: Japan tests mind control technology, And it works... |
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 Oct 25 2005, 10:40 PM
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Shooting Target  Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992  |
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Oct 25 2005, 11:01 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
This is hardly mind control. Please, less absurdly inaccurate thread titles.
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Oct 25 2005, 11:05 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
It'd be nice if SR didn't already have Snake-Eyes. Plus, like Aretusa said, it's a horribly misleading title.
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Oct 26 2005, 12:15 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 903 Joined: 7-February 03 Member No.: 4,025 |
They've been doing this to animals for years. It's a super high-tech device called "Reins."
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Oct 26 2005, 01:18 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Bah, thread crapper. :) The title was a bit exaggerated, but it's on target. Your nervous system is tricked into behaviors originating from a remote control system. A little flashy advertising never hurt to draw attention to a cool invention.
Reins don't mess with the inner ear like this device. Besides, only a small fraction of people generally respond so easily to reigns as they do this gizmo. ;) |
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Oct 26 2005, 02:40 AM
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Creating a god with his own hands Group: Members Posts: 1,405 Joined: 30-September 02 From: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 Member No.: 3,364 |
would make good plot fodder. get hired by the ACLU (or whatever extremist bit is left of them) to destroy everything and anyone with working knowledge of it.
it's something positively game-breaking, as gaining the willpower to resist your own sense of balance is probably a lot of effort. |
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Oct 26 2005, 03:00 AM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
That's fucked up. Anyone that tries to put one of those on me should be prepared to roll a dodge test.
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Oct 26 2005, 03:54 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 52 Joined: 15-September 05 Member No.: 7,750 |
I'd probably be fairly wary of it myself. But in the Future maybe they'll be able to do it at range-which is a slightly more malicious idea.
Of course, if it IS just a simple matter of interfering with the sense of balance and making you tend towards a certain direction, than the available applications are a bit limited. I'm sure someone will come up with an improved method of twisting and subverting our minds to make us follow their whims eventually. Besides like, you know, the media and stuff. |
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Oct 26 2005, 05:37 AM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Bah. It's for your own good.
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Oct 26 2005, 11:00 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 908 Joined: 31-March 05 From: Georgia Member No.: 7,270 |
so you are sitting in your lab, as a researcher, and you say to yourself... "what can i research that's just totally morally questionable? OOOH that silly Free will nonsense."
<Puts on tinfoil helmet> :wobble: |
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Oct 26 2005, 11:58 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
iPod Jive: Dance, bitch, dance. |
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Oct 26 2005, 12:51 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 |
Deus would have loved this bit of tech.
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Oct 26 2005, 01:19 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Validating Posts: 1,618 Joined: 29-January 03 From: Montevideo, Uruguay. Member No.: 3,992 |
"If you promote it, they will come." Good boy, now go fetch me a drink. *presses button and activates Cray74's device* :P |
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Oct 26 2005, 04:47 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 8-February 05 Member No.: 7,066 |
I wonder how well this would work as a "Seeing-Eye dog" substitute. Mix it with a motion sensor or radar unit for collision avoidance.... hmmmm.
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Oct 26 2005, 05:06 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Like I said, it'd be novel if SR didn't have Snake-Eyes. Go back and look at some of the Banded cyberware loadouts. They had Snake-Eyes so Deus could do exactly that. |
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Oct 26 2005, 05:27 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 4-September 04 Member No.: 6,628 |
What I liked was the hints to balance augmentation the article had...and the fact I brought this up already http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?show...=0&#entry287524 :D
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