I miss cyberdecks.. and Fuchi, thats it - coming back to early ´50s. (need tips) Options

[Snow_Fox]

Yeah I miss decks. It was great, you blast the bad guy's decker and scoop up something the size of a key board and head for the fixer, I mean pawn shop. sigh the days of grabing a Fairlight Excaliber. We had a munchkin once shot the decker with the most expesive toys, (NPC) just so he could sell the deck and pocket the change saying "Well the GM will get us another decker, right?" Don't ask what we did with the geek, just knpw there's one restaurant we NEVER dine at anymore.

I do miss Fuchi, the corp, we had a lot of contacts there and work between the divisions hating each other. We followed them through the various changes but I still miss the corp itslef.

a lot of SR tech is out there. I mean the original wrist phone with viewer was something like (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) 1,500. and that waas just a phone. What do we pay for a cell now that can connect with the internet, the I-phone? Which is almost a deck.

[Mercer]

The barrens isn't like the south side of Chicago, where people drive through it, or even Juarez. It's like Mogadishu.

I agree, except that it's like a Mogadishu located a few kilometers away. Or if you prefer, a Mogadishu located next to a Juarez next to the South Side next to Manhattan. Plus, "barrens" is kind of a blanket term meaning anything from the D zone you shouldn't go into after dark to the Z zones where gangers have anti-air missile capability.

That said, whether or not it's realistic, the "worst-case scenario" is a selling point, like those Brinks commercials that run non-stop on local television or that On*Star commercial with the baby in the car crusher. (Okay, that wasn't a commercial, but it would be a good one.)

[kzt]

That said, whether or not it's realistic, the "worst-case scenario" is a selling point, like those Brinks commercials that run non-stop on local television

One of those stupid "the alarm goes off and the bad guys run away!" commercials? Ignoring that the cops won't be there for >15 minutes 95% of the time, and likely 30-45 minutes and possibly hours. Of course I did had a band of morons spend 45 minutes breaking into the house, do >$2000 in damage breaking the back door, then just leave (taking only a $150 dewalt drill) when they finally popped the door and the alarm went off, so sometimes it works.