Would you like to live in the SR universe?

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Would you like to live in the SR universe?
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emo samurai View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 06:10 PM Post #1
Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019	On one hand, you have magic and gizmos and gadgets. Magic fucking rocks, and if the Awakening happens, I will become a mage by virtue of my rocking. Crippled people will walk and manipulate things again because of cloned organs and cyberware. Most current diseases will have been cured because of crazy unethical medical research. On the other hand, you have soy food, monsters that go bump and "grr eat human" in the night, and megacorporate control. Oh, and cybered gangs, and drugs, and coffin motels, and... you get the point. So which world would you live in, our world, or the world of sort-of-darkness?

Platinum View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 06:33 PM Post #2
Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,095 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Ontari-airee-o Member No.: 1,115	yes, but only if I was magically active.

James McMurray View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 06:38 PM Post #3
Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957	I've got no problems being a corporate lackey if it gives me the benefits of the 6th world. Some folks on this board think I'm a government lackey and I'm not seeing any magic or cool toys for it. Might as well get the goods if you're gonna get the reputation. :)

Shrike30 View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 06:39 PM Post #4
Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98	Live in the SR world? Where the OTHER 1% of the population has magic, strange and new wonderful diseases crop up every day, people shoot at medics and firefighters to try and steal their cars, and the happy middle class lifestyle is only possible if you're willing to expose yourself to corporate media and brainwashing 24/7? I think I'll pass.

James McMurray View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 06:42 PM Post #5
Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957	Apart from the magic, we're well on our way to something similar already. Depending on what neighborhood you're in you might already be living it. :(

PBTHHHHT

Jul 7 2006, 06:48 PM

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QUOTE (Shrike30)

Live in the REAL world? Where the OTHER 1% of the population have all the power, strange and new wonderful diseases crop up every day, people shoot at medics and firefighters to try and steal their cars, and the happy middle class lifestyle is only possible if you're willing to expose yourself to corporate media and brainwashing 24/7?

There, fixed. Sounds about on par with real life. :D

Shrike30 View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 06:49 PM Post #7
Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98	Heh.

emo samurai View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 06:54 PM Post #8
Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019	Yeah, magic should even things out.

Sahandrian View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 07:11 PM Post #9
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 475 Joined: 17-June 02 From: Concord University, Athens, WV Member No.: 2,880	Yes. Because if I don't get magic, I can still deck.

Backgammon View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 07:13 PM Post #10
Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600	It's a DYSTOPIA. EVERYTHING has gone wrong. Only depressed people would want to live in that.

emo samurai View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 07:14 PM Post #11
Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019	What if you were a magician?

deek View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 07:18 PM Post #12
Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,706 Joined: 30-June 06 From: Fort Wayne, IN Member No.: 8,814	I would certainly be up for that...although I would like to pick up some new skills or something...I wouldn't want to end up being exactly who I am today and be living in SR...I would probably suck:)

hyzmarca View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 08:04 PM Post #13
Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456	The trick to living comfortably in SR is the same is it is today. Don't anger someone who has both the means and the willingness to kill you. Also, never become a cyberzombie.

BookWyrm View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 08:05 PM Post #14
Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607	If I were a mage, oh hell yes.

emo samurai View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 08:10 PM Post #15
Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019	Dude, mages rock.

Shrike30

Jul 7 2006, 08:13 PM

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QUOTE (hyzmarca)

The trick to living comfortably in SR is the same is it is today. Don't anger someone who has both the means and the willingness to kill you.

It's implied that in the SR world, someone with the means and willingness to kill you can be found every hundred yards or so on the street, twigging out on Black Lace and looking for someone to roll because he doesn't like their shoe color. I'll pass on having to move every few months because I shot one of the local gangbangers in the face, thanks.

stevebugge View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 08:51 PM Post #17
Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996	No thanks. If I wanted to live in an SR like setting I'd move to Somalia or Sierra Leone. I'm still in Seattle 'nuff said.

Kyoto Kid View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 08:53 PM Post #18
Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490	...only if I were human and lived in the Swiss Confederation.

Butterblume View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 09:01 PM Post #19
Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081	I so voted no...

James McMurray

Jul 7 2006, 10:16 PM

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QUOTE (Shrike30)

QUOTE (hyzmarca @ Jul 7 2006, 01:04 PM)

The trick to living comfortably in SR is the same is it is today. Don't anger someone who has both the means and the willingness to kill you.

It's implied that in the SR world, someone with the means and willingness to kill you can be found every hundred yards or so on the street, twigging out on Black Lace and looking for someone to roll because he doesn't like their shoe color. I'll pass on having to move every few months because I shot one of the local gangbangers in the face, thanks.

That's only in areas shadowrunners frequent. In corp compounds and middle class or higher SINned areas life is peachy. It's only dystopian if you don't want to live under society's mandates.

emo samurai View Member Profile	Jul 7 2006, 11:30 PM Post #21
Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,589 Joined: 28-November 05 Member No.: 8,019	What do you mean by peachy? I thought that the average megacorp office was a really oppressive place with corp propaganda spewing everywhere and bureaucratic bullshit burying everything that you do, coupled with stupid passive-aggressive office politics keeping you from working efficiently like in Snow Crash's federal government. Those sound like good reasons to run to the shadows if you're good enough to survive on your own.

FanGirl View Member Profile	Jul 8 2006, 12:10 AM Post #22
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438	You just described the average megacorp office of today. Honestly, I could go either way, though I guess it would mainly depend on whether or not my place in society would be better in the SR universe than it is in this one. Since I can't see any way of predicting that, I'll stick with this world. You know, bird in the hand and all that stuff. EDIT: I just want to throw out a quote that seems to run through SR's history: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. No matter how often people lament the good old days, the quote is very, very true. (Look it up, you ignoramuses. :D )

mfb View Member Profile	Jul 8 2006, 12:29 AM Post #23
Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670	jesus christ, no. the fact that the real world is starting to soud like an RPG setting is scary enough.

DragginSPADE View Member Profile	Jul 8 2006, 01:03 AM Post #24
Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 130 Joined: 25-February 05 Member No.: 7,119	I voted no as well. I like being able to do my job without extensive cyber enhancement, thank you very much.

PBTHHHHT View Member Profile	Jul 8 2006, 01:29 AM Post #25
Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327	oh c'mon draggin, you can lose the arm... and part of your brain matter. A person can survive on less of that grey stuff, it's just filler space. ;-)

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