[X] My Assistant

[hobgoblin]

Well, truth be told the other day I was at work doing a whole lot of nothing during a slow period, and actually was wishing I had a comlink and AR capabilities.

heh, i know that feel, only i want VR!

[Red_Cap]

I was stripping and cleaning my M4 yesterday (yes, I am in the Army) and I tried to figure out where the best place for the smartlink's camera would be.

[Aaron]

I was stripping and cleaning my M4 yesterday (yes, I am in the Army) and I tried to figure out where the best place for the smartlink's camera would be.

Did you find a good one?

[Aaron]

... when you call picking up your friend at work an "extraction."

... when you refuse to buy a med kit from the pharmacy unless it's Rating 6.

... when something goes horribly wrong and you think, "okay, now it's a shadowrun." [This one's from my girl.]

[fistandantilus4....]

My wife and I play "The World is becoming Shadowrun" when we watch or read the news, figuring out which news item is a SR-esque conspiracy (or should be). Sometimes we have to go really out of our way to make it fit, but it's scary how many things need no tqeaking out all to fit right in the SR universe. The recent focus on Georgia, while Obama was out on vacation and McCain was around, so that the news could waggle their fingers at Obama was one example. Sure that may not be exactly how it went, but it makes for a great example of SR politics.

[Red_Cap]

Did you find a good one?

Yeah, the bayonet lug. I mean, why bother? They don't even issue us damn bayonets any more.

In any case, I came up with another. I'm currently deployed to Iraq and I was talking to a Kurdish Iraqi Army the other day (who spoke surprisingly good English, by the way), and kept thinking to myself, "This fragger is working for Aden, I know it."

[fistandantilus4....]

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[crash2029]

How about when I called to have someone pick me up and errantly remarked that "the LZ is green."

Or maybe when I looked at the massive amount of housecleaning I had to do and wished for a hearth spirit.

Referring to almost any new movie as "Shadowrun with ..."

Calling UAV's, Roombas, and industrial robots "drones."

[Zombayz]

I'm a bad one for casing places out. Cameras, security, mirrors, ways to ignore or avoid them, all that fun stuff.
In addition: Carrying a knife everywhere I go
Knowing how to make a small gun from some wood, a knife, five nails, and a rubber band
Being able to walk into a room full of boobytraps(some hardcore paintballing), and either avoid/disarm/set off prematurely/etc every single one without the guy in the next room noticing.

And my ultimate accomplishment: Being with people in an open field, leave without anyone noticing, and come back without anyone noticing.

[Fortune]

Does fantasizing about hot elves while making out count?

[ArkonC]

Does fantasizing about hot elves while making out count?

Are you implying some people don't do this?

[TKDNinjaInBlack]

After seeing some particularly disturbing sexual acts on the internet, wondering what it would be like if those involved trolls and dwarves instead...

[wind_in_the_ston...]

I'm a bad one for casing places out. Cameras, security, mirrors, ways to ignore or avoid them, all that fun stuff.
In addition: Carrying a knife everywhere I go
Knowing how to make a small gun from some wood, a knife, five nails, and a rubber band
Being able to walk into a room full of boobytraps(some hardcore paintballing), and either avoid/disarm/set off prematurely/etc every single one without the guy in the next room noticing.

And my ultimate accomplishment: Being with people in an open field, leave without anyone noticing, and come back without anyone noticing.

But where did these "interests" and skills come from? Did you first do them in your SR games?

[darthmord]

Given that I carry a gun with me pretty much where ever I go...

I always position myself in places where my back is up against the wall / in a corner. That way, no one can sneak up on me.

I also survery the area to determine the best / safest ingress/egress routes along with secondary & tertiary ones.

I pay attention to door & people placement as well as security systems. One place I worked at had a laptop stolen from the 3rd floor one weekend. Happened during my shift while working on the 2nd floor. The police wanted to talk with me (duh). I explained to them the ease of access to the facility to one that did NOT have an access card. In fact, the place could be entered by someone waving a legal notepad or flyswatter between the doors. Gotta love motion sensors. The police officer sarcastically thanked me for making his job that much easier.

It's not that I am an expert on B&E, it's just that I pay attention more than the average bear. Because of this, I see things everyone else ignores. Drives my kids nuts (especially when it comes to Sense Motives, hehe). Has driven my wife to pay more attention and ask me for help in developing those skills. It's kind of funny in that a boot camp saying is so very pertinent... 'Attention to detail, Recruit!'

As for stats, we've both got healthy Firearms skills with specialization in Pistols. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

My best accomplishment in Stealth... walking across a woman's yard (trick-or-treating) while she was looking right at me and I still startled her when I said "Trick-or-Treat". She apparently did NOT see me walk up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/eek.gif)

[Wesley Street]

All of that pretending to be a ninja as a child has translated well into adulthood. I often startle people at the office by sneaking up on them accidentally.

[ImmoralSalvage]

Yesterday I was talking with a friend of mine. I said that when the awakening comes, and I turn into a troll. I want to hide in his attic so that I don’t have to go to one of the camps. The only condition he came up with was I had to keep a diary. So that when he sold me out he could sell it, and make a profit.

[nezumi]

Sometimes I imagine upping my accidental dismemberment insurance and sawing off my left arm so I can afford a cyberarm.

[BookWyrm]

You know you're an SR geek when.....

you mentally figure how many d6's you'll need to make your train on time.
you mentally picture the tallest person you know as a Troll.
you mentally picture the skinniest girl you know as a hot bisexual elf.
you keep bugging the guy at GameStop for when the new commlinks will arrive.
you keep checking the company's business profile to see if they got bought out by a Dragon yet.
you look at R/C commericals & wonder where you could mount a pistol on it.
you watch Ghost In The Shell & wonder where the heck are the elves?.
you support Native American rights....just in case.

[psychophipps]

All of your characters have SOTA weapons and augmentations but live in a dumpster.

[dog_xinu]

when you sit at a live football game (for me it was a college game) and wondered why they couldnt put up an AR in the arena so you could see little tags coming off the players, telling you whom is whom, basic stats, etc.. seeing where the line of scrimmage is, where the "first down line" is, etc. And as I sit here wondering where it all is.. the geek came out in me, and was designing the sensors arrays including placement, where to place the RFID-isq tags on the players/ball, and how it would be easy to put a LCD type film over your glasses (sunglasses in my case) where that info could be displayed. (this was the conversation I had with myself last sat).

at work I wish we had RFID tags on our badges so I could track down co-workers and see "what zone they are in" to see if it is safe to track them down or not.

[Kairo]

So I was driving down the highway and in front of me I saw a car with a license plate that said

<3UBRBTL (for those of you who are unfamiliar with <3 it is a heart)

I read it as - I Love UBeR BTLs (Better Then Life)

It made me smile on the inside. Has anyone else had an experience like that?

All the time chummer. All the time. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[TKDNinjaInBlack]

All of that pretending to be a ninja as a child has translated well into adulthood. I often startle people at the office by sneaking up on them accidentally.

I actually earned the nickname "ninja" (hence TKD Ninja In Black with TKD for TaeKwonDo) because I took my ninja fantasies from my childhood a bit too far. In college I created a game with all of my dormmates (roommates and neighbors) called "ninja attack." Assuming you weren't seen before you jumped out and hit someone (in a vital would-be knife or blade kill zone) you scored a point. If you were seen, no good. We kept tally for a couple of months but everybody stopped playing because I was winning by 4 times as many points as everyone else combined. Seems nobody else had the conviction to climb trees and wait for opponents walking through the quad and jump down right behind them. Now it makes sense why I always failed a class or two a semester...

[mrslamm0]

Every day I think of something shadowrunish to the point ive been tempted to try to throw together a ghetto Shadowrun LARP (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Whipstitch]

You know you're an SR geek when you're involved in a nasty accident, and one of your first coherent thoughts upon waking up in the hospital is that a cyberskull would have really prevented a lot of drama and medical bills.

Actually, I'm lying. I didn't think that all. My first thoughts were more along the lines of "WTF!?" and "She can't have said perforating head injury, I'd be a fraggin' vegetable if there was an exit wound."

On a lighter note, man, does it feels good to be posting again. I've had a rough summer and the stupid car accident kind of killed my first attempt at a long running campaign as a GM.

[Red_Cap]

Well, I for one am glad to see you came through with your sense of humor apparently intact.

Oh, and I actually ran a Google search looking for Ares Macrotechnology last week. I didn't really think I'd get any non-SR returns (which I didn't, by the way), but it was fun hoping.