 VITAS, here you go, "Unknown" virus killing people fast in India, current news: |
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  Aug 26 2008, 05:33 PM
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MechRigger Delux  Group: Retired Admins Posts: 1,151 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Hanger 18, WPAFB Member No.: 1,657  |
Looks like its all getting rolling, Time to seal yourself in your safety shelters and get your antibiotics updated.
Or the Zombie uprising is starting, either way.... |
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Aug 26 2008, 06:37 PM
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Deus Absconditus Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,742 Joined: 1-September 03 From: Downtown Seattle, UCAS Member No.: 5,566 |
Time to go get my ass bit by a gray-skinned cannibal! I'll have PROTECTION!
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Aug 26 2008, 07:41 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
People living amidst very unsanitary conditions are dying due to a contagious disease? STOP THE PRESSES, THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE!
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Aug 26 2008, 09:25 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 829 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 770 |
People dying from a disease in India?
Has Madagascar closed it's ports yet? [/semi-obscure reference] |
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Aug 26 2008, 09:28 PM
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Dumorimasoddaa Group: Members Posts: 2,687 Joined: 30-March 08 Member No.: 15,830 |
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Aug 26 2008, 09:36 PM
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MechRigger Delux Group: Retired Admins Posts: 1,151 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Hanger 18, WPAFB Member No.: 1,657 |
THAT'S not obscure.. everyone here has played that right?
Really... shame on all of you. +1 karma for the reference. |
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Aug 27 2008, 02:48 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 558 Joined: 21-May 08 Member No.: 15,997 |
Is anyone else absolutely terrified by how quickly RL seems to be turning vaguely cyberpunk?
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Aug 27 2008, 04:10 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,416 Joined: 4-March 06 From: Albuquerque Member No.: 8,334 |
Scared? Nope. I'm waiting for datajacks and 2012. As much as I know the SR history is a creation of fiction, I can't help but hope and wonder if the end of the mayan calendar will bring back magic. Frag you all, I wanna throw lightning! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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Aug 27 2008, 04:55 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,263 Joined: 4-March 08 From: Blighty Member No.: 15,736 |
QUOTE (Jhaiisiin @ Aug 27 2008, 05:10 AM)  Scared? Nope. I'm waiting for datajacks and 2012. Captain Cyborg to the rescue! |
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Aug 27 2008, 05:05 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,416 Joined: 4-March 06 From: Albuquerque Member No.: 8,334 |
Color me impressed. Controlling robotic arms with neural impulses? Cyberlimbs keep getting closer.
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Aug 27 2008, 05:20 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,263 Joined: 4-March 08 From: Blighty Member No.: 15,736 |
I've also heard of neural interfaces being used for prosthetics in the US more recently than Captain Cyborg's work. I remember mention of a US team getting cameras to hook up to the brain properly to give a blind person sight back.
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Aug 27 2008, 05:55 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 558 Joined: 21-May 08 Member No.: 15,997 |
I remember that too. And yes, my first thought was "CYBEREYES!!!"
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Aug 27 2008, 06:27 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 26-August 08 From: Lethbridge, AB Member No.: 16,281 |
My thought was along the lines of hoping my shotguns arrive soon. I live in Western Canada and don't wanna give up my land to the Ghost Dance laying down. Even if it's just a crappy apartment, It's mine. That and I don't wanna live in Winnipeg....
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Aug 27 2008, 09:27 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 259 Joined: 2-September 07 From: In the AGS, underwater Member No.: 13,049 |
Wait, you want to oppose the Great Ghost Dance... with a shotgun. Are you Bruce Campbell?
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Aug 27 2008, 09:54 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,188 Joined: 9-February 08 From: Boiling Springs Member No.: 15,665 |
QUOTE (FlyDog @ Aug 27 2008, 02:27 AM) My thought was along the lines of hoping my shotguns arrive soon. I live in Western Canada and don't wanna give up my land to the Ghost Dance laying down. Even if it's just a crappy apartment, It's mine. That and I don't wanna live in Winnipeg.... Don't use a shotgun, use a Fuel Air Explosive! Nukes "won't work" but a FAE should work just fine. What about a MOAB? Non-nuclear, carrying 8.4 tonnes of high explosive, and will wreck ANYBODY'S day... even IE's, GD's, and the odd Cyberzombie or 12. |
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Aug 27 2008, 10:11 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 831 Joined: 5-September 05 From: LAX, UCAS Member No.: 7,687 |
QUOTE (Jhaiisiin @ Aug 26 2008, 11:10 PM) Scared? Nope. I'm waiting for datajacks and 2012. As much as I know the SR history is a creation of fiction, I can't help but hope and wonder if the end of the mayan calendar will bring back magic. Frag you all, I wanna throw lightning! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Echo that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif) |
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Aug 27 2008, 01:52 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,245 Joined: 27-April 07 From: Running the streets of Southeast Virginia Member No.: 11,548 |
QUOTE (Jhaiisiin @ Aug 26 2008, 11:10 PM) Scared? Nope. I'm waiting for datajacks and 2012. As much as I know the SR history is a creation of fiction, I can't help but hope and wonder if the end of the mayan calendar will bring back magic. Frag you all, I wanna throw lightning! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Heh, I'm there with you. Then again, if you know what you are doing, you can control some magic (no, I refuse to add the stupid 'k' to the end of the word) now. It's easier now than it was years ago when I was first taught but still rather difficult. |
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Aug 27 2008, 04:20 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,416 Joined: 4-March 06 From: Albuquerque Member No.: 8,334 |
True. But what people can do now vs what we could do if there were to be some sort of Awakening would be leaps and bounds different.
Granted, chances are that 2011 and 2012 will pass with no hubub, just as 2000 and 2001 did, but still. It's fun to hope. Hehe Oh, and I only use the word magick when referring to White Wolf Mage. Everything else is magic. Damnit. Hehe |
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Aug 27 2008, 04:23 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
QUOTE (FlyDog @ Aug 27 2008, 01:27 AM) My thought was along the lines of hoping my shotguns arrive soon. I live in Western Canada and don't wanna give up my land to the Ghost Dance laying down. Even if it's just a crappy apartment, It's mine. That and I don't wanna live in Winnipeg.... Hey! What's wrong with Winnipeg? Aside from having the largest temperature variance in the world, mosquitoes in summer and bitter winters worse than the arctic circle in winter, being the murder capital of Canada, filled with mystical events in the FIFTH world and likely to be overloaded in the Sixth, and about to be a boarder town with a NAN state that's a JoyGrrl to Aztechnology. ... Got space in your apartment for a Roomie? |
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Aug 27 2008, 04:27 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,991 Joined: 1-February 08 From: Off the rock! Back In America! WOOOOO! Member No.: 15,601 |
What kind of mystical events?
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Aug 27 2008, 09:35 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
An entire Legislature built from the ground up with mysticism in mind, and a disproportionate number of ghosts and ghost sightings for the population and history of the city.
And... Personal feelings. |
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Aug 27 2008, 10:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: 24-February 06 From: Kansas Member No.: 8,304 |
Well on the upside, those that would form the nan simply do not have the numbers to do it, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) not to mention most are US citizens and at least most would never revolt in an armed conflict,...for mexico and the azz's? um...mmm Well on the upside by that point we should have most of those people north of the border if the mexican goverment dosn't fix stuff soon hehe,
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Aug 28 2008, 01:57 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,416 Joined: 4-March 06 From: Albuquerque Member No.: 8,334 |
Give a small group the equivalent of a nuke and numbers suddenly become less important. Not to mention native numbers were concentrated thanks to the events following SIAM and the Lone Eagle incident. In the SR history, a lot of pieces had to fall in to place to create the groundwork for NAN to come to pass.
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Aug 28 2008, 05:58 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,188 Joined: 9-February 08 From: Boiling Springs Member No.: 15,665 |
QUOTE (Jhaiisiin @ Aug 27 2008, 08:57 PM) Give a small group the equivalent of a nuke and numbers suddenly become less important. Not to mention native numbers were concentrated thanks to the events following SIAM and the Lone Eagle incident. In the SR history, a lot of pieces had to fall in to place to create the groundwork for NAN to come to pass. The one piece that will NEVER fall is the granting of extra-territorial status to corps. The government is WAY too in love with their power to EVER share it. Think about it. If they can't control taxes, they can't get the bribes from the corps to make sure taxes don't go up. Politicians love money more than they love their wives (or husbands), and the idea that THEY'RE not getting "their" money is just wrong. |
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Aug 28 2008, 01:35 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Which is why corporations will want to give those politicians a good chunk of money all of their own. Elected officials changed. It was assumed the Senate would never vote to allow themselves to get elected by popular vote, but they did.
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