QUOTE (wanderer_king @ Apr 18 2008, 12:46 AM)

Trodes: This net/headband of electrodes and ultrasound emitters enables the user to experience simsense and are used with a sim module. Trodes are often concealed under headbands, hats, or wigs.
RAW P 318.
So, if your average corp jock is walking around the mall, he may or may not be using trodes, but trodes do require a Sim Module.
P.S. If you use Blackout you cannot kill them, as blackout doesn't overflow.... and doing this to random people at the slot mall is really bad idea....
Of course, you can also use a standard issue attack program. or black hammer and attack them in cold sim mode.
And if everybody and their brother is using trodes, everybody and their brother have a sim module, so it's safe to assume most 'links come with one.
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Why people can and CHOOSE to be affected by biofeedback and simsense is an open question that the books don't really answer.
That's where my disbelief really twitches and fights it's suspension, yes.
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Unless you are a criminal or someone dealing with criminals, your chances of a malicious simsense-based attack are really low.
Yeah, like Simsense-based Spam.
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Most likely someone playing a simsense rollercoaster is far safer than someone riding an actual rollercoaster.
Because in 64, some millions of people died in freak roller coaster disasters collectively known as 'the crash', whereas the Matrix always offered a safe alternative?
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As for hackers and riggers doing it that way, doing it with the safety off works better -- extra dice, lower threshold, more IPs, whatever. Sure it's more dangerous, but you also get an edge over your opponent.
Unless, of course, that opponent happens to be a Technomancer, but meh.