[X] My Assistant

[Fire Hawk]

To quote Denis Leary:

"It's called NATURAL SELECTION; it's the bottom of the f*kin' food chain! Let's put more messages in the songs: Kill the band, then your family; then yourself, okay? Make sure you get your whole head in front of the shotgun - thanks for calling!"

[kryton]

Hey KillaJ there's no reason to be a prick dude. Decorum man decorum......Just because your a gamer doesn't mean your mother didn't teach you any manners.

Drugs are a real substitute. They're a form of coping. The question is very valid. It's existentially valid.

When reality starts to melt away then you loose not only your bearing but possibly your sanity. That's the part that goes with BTL addiction...at least with the addict in Psychotrope.

Renny is one of my favorite stories from SR1.

Descartes approach to reality, what was it..Hyperbolic doubt lead the way for modern western philosophy......How does one prove a memory is real? With the technology available then reality is no longer just a suposition but a opinnion or belief. That's the issue at hand.

You can't smell, taste or even see memory. It's insubstantial and requires different parts of the brain.

So for someone like Maria Mecurial that reality might be very scarey. How does one tell a fake memory from a real one? We often remember bits that aren't 100% real or correct. We believe that they are real but the reality may be different. What we thought happened may have happened differently. Even our imagination can throw in bits that are totally made up? Because we know something does that make it true?

One does not find love with a prostitute. That's not to say one can't fall in love with a prostitute....It happens to strippers all the time. (hmmfhf not that I've had lots of practice with strippers....although there have been some interesting bachelor parties....A fez has magical properties when brought into company with strippers....I think it has something to do with the tassels?)

Anyways what we feel and what we remember can and are different things. What we thought or remembered to be pleasureable may only be that way as nastalgia. I remember Highschool fondly but I think alot of the bad bits or outshined by the good bits.

[kryton]

What if reality becomes so polluted that the only real thing is the here and now? So you have Kicks parties where members get "flat-lined" for the ultimate high only to be brought back from the brink of oblivion...Maybe that's a new kind of psychosis. One where you do things that are so out of bounds you do them for the kicks. You become an adrenaline junky of sorts?

Cyberpunk had a whole series on this that was excellent......

One idea I had for the matrix and twisted reality was what would happen if say a Master Shedheim were to access the matrix? What kind of consciousness would it have? How would it's avatar look? So I figured Otaku could be good hosts and produced some freaky images of children in photoshop. The idea being that they're reality so so fundementally different that they just are "off".

www.mdc.net/~kryton/shadowrun/toddler_1.jpg

www.mdc.net/~kryton/shadowrun/kid4.jpg

http://www.mdc.net/~kryton/shadowrun/kid2.jpg

http://www.mdc.net/~kryton/da_bears/IMG_0809.JPG

[Kanada Ten]

I imagine Shedim would be a major kick-party crasher.

[kryton]

The idea was that Haberstam never could make his children sustainable....Until "one day"...........