I'd live there if I got to be an elven mage.
But I'd probably wind up a troll ganger.
Actually in real life now I'm more of a street doc/ witch doctor/ shaman SO if that transfered, it wouldn't be too bad.
Life in that possible future is much like life in this possible future, it's what you make it.
Full Version: Would you like to live in the SR universe?
You mean you're an alternative medicine specialist, fool?
| QUOTE (James McMurray) |
| You'll have trouble escaping though. The Fort Worth Water Gardens (where the film was made) is being closed down because after a couple decades some idiot finally managed to drown himself. |
I find it hard to believe FW was in an idiot drought for that long.
Actually, it was four people from Chicago that drowned, and it wasn't even in the part where the path went down into a giant whirlpool-like area. Even the dumbest of us here seem to be smart enough not to drown in a 4' deep pool.
Where can I find out more about these gardens?
| QUOTE (James McMurray) |
| You'll have trouble escaping though. The Fort Worth Water Gardens (where the film was made) is being closed down because after a couple decades some idiot finally managed to drown himself. |
Actually it was an idiiot and his four children if I remember correctly. the thing was about 12 feet deep and one of the kiddos was drug into the middle of the thing and pulled under by the pump. or some such thing.
| QUOTE (Shrike30) |
| Where can I find out more about these gardens? |
here ya go
http://www.fortworth.com/01visitors/0104pa...ergardens.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_Water_Gardens
GOtta love the wiki
Definitely SR, even if I had the same job as now because I think it be fun to shoot down a panzer/LAV. Would just stay out of Australia and zoos.
What are the odds that anyone is actually going to read this post?
But I'm looking at the sheer number of people who basically said something along the lines of "No way in hell -- unless I have magic."
Doesn't that somewhat imply that magic is the single ray of hope in an otherwise dystopian setting?
Or is magic just another power grab over the other person after all?
But I'm looking at the sheer number of people who basically said something along the lines of "No way in hell -- unless I have magic."
Doesn't that somewhat imply that magic is the single ray of hope in an otherwise dystopian setting?
Or is magic just another power grab over the other person after all?
Magic is the source of power from an odd direction. I imagine the Sixth World would be pretty decent if I had a million nuyen worth of heavy 'ware or custom vehicles, but we have money today and, while my financial state ain't bad all things considered, I know I don't have a million nuyen.
I don't know that I won't be slinging spells or running up walls when the Awakening comes. It's the big jackpot holding out hope for us, the people with already-determined financials.
As for the odds that someone is going to read your post, the whole "bringing the topic back to the top of the forums" thing improves them substantially
~J
I don't know that I won't be slinging spells or running up walls when the Awakening comes. It's the big jackpot holding out hope for us, the people with already-determined financials.
As for the odds that someone is going to read your post, the whole "bringing the topic back to the top of the forums" thing improves them substantially
~J
Well, there is that.
Hmm ... positives in the SR universe would then consist only of the potential for not being limited within an already-known box. (Shaun of the Dead, anyone?)
Hmm ... positives in the SR universe would then consist only of the potential for not being limited within an already-known box. (Shaun of the Dead, anyone?)
Oddly, enough I was reading this thread again earlier, and I still stand by what I said about living in the 6th world, and shooting down a panzer. Just stay out of the barrens, Australia, Amazonia, and zoos, and things will be fine. I have no delusions that bad stuff is going down in the 6th world, just like things aren't peachy-keen here or X years ago.
| QUOTE (Kronk2) | ||
here ya go http://www.fortworth.com/01visitors/0104pa...ergardens.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_Water_Gardens GOtta love the wiki |
Rereading this thread since some other folks brought this back. And finally looked at this magical water gardens place.... OMFG! They actually designed this and opened it to the public?! This is a tort nightmare especially with kids. Especially with the previous water level operations... what were they thinking?! Geez... Ok. Anyway... back to shadowrun...
Yeah, I wouldn't mind being in the Shadowrun world if I was say... a dragon, a powerful magic user, fully decked out in the latest hardware and controlling my legions of drones, or one of the elites whose family is up in the corporate heirarchy. But with my luck, I'll be in the bottom rung, eking out a meager existence in the barrens, etc. So no thank you. The hot elf chicks, like in heck they'd go out with me, it'd be like winning the lotto and last I checked, hold on lemme check again... nope, still haven't won it. So yeah, real life is my main choice still.
Heh, thats Phillip Johnson for ya. I hold him up as a "Why I chose my career, because people like him could get jobs, so it must be easy."
Im still voting no because life sounds even MORE like an RPG then it did a year ago.
Pros:
VR (fairly obvious, as I can still think faster then I can type)
Enhanced Art. (YAY, no more early onset arthritis!)
Magic (again, fairly obvious)
Cons:
Magic (yet again firly obvious)
SINs (so... you the person Im talking with dosent exist?)
Goverments (even LESS accountability then today, pretty impressive)
Drop Bears.
Yeah, Im gonna stick with today still.
Im still voting no because life sounds even MORE like an RPG then it did a year ago.
Pros:
VR (fairly obvious, as I can still think faster then I can type)
Enhanced Art. (YAY, no more early onset arthritis!)
Magic (again, fairly obvious)
Cons:
Magic (yet again firly obvious)
SINs (so... you the person Im talking with dosent exist?)
Goverments (even LESS accountability then today, pretty impressive)
Drop Bears.
Yeah, Im gonna stick with today still.
| QUOTE (PBTHHHHT) |
| OMFG! They actually designed this and opened it to the public?! This is a tort nightmare especially with kids. Especially with the previous water level operations... what were they thinking?! Geez... |
Maybe they were thinking that some things are just cool enough to accept a little risk of drowning.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to have the intestinal fortitude to continue with those ideals.
~J
...omigod, talk about being resurrected from the boneyard.
And here I thought that bringing back the SR Swimsuit thread would be practicing serious thread necromancy.
And here I thought that bringing back the SR Swimsuit thread would be practicing serious thread necromancy.
| QUOTE (Angelone) |
| Just stay out of the barrens, Australia, Amazonia, and zoos, and things will be fine. |
I live in Australia...
If I consider that in the 6th world that the gap between rich and poor will increase, and I'm already on the wrong side of it, I choose No.
If you're healthy and wealthy enough to have the idle time, steady power, and electronic gadgetry required to waste time idly posting to an internet forum dedicated to nothing but conversation about what is, essentially, nothing more than the structured waste of time, maybe you're not as "on the wrong side" of that line as you like to think.
Just something to think about.
Just something to think about.
I doubt he has ownership of his means of production.
It's all in how you look at it.
~J
It's all in how you look at it.
~J
| QUOTE (Critias) |
| If you're healthy and wealthy enough to have the idle time, steady power, and electronic gadgetry required to waste time idly posting to an internet forum dedicated to nothing but conversation about what is, essentially, nothing more than the structured waste of time, maybe you're not as "on the wrong side" of that line as you like to think. Just something to think about. |
Reminds me of the time my dad went off on a rant when I was a little kid because I claimed that I was "starving." I don't really remember much of the rant, but it involved third world countries and sailors and something about eating a boot.
| QUOTE (Critias @ Jul 11 2007, 02:02 PM) |
| If you're healthy and wealthy enough to have the idle time, steady power, and electronic gadgetry required to waste time idly posting to an internet forum dedicated to nothing but conversation about what is, essentially, nothing more than the structured waste of time, maybe you're not as "on the wrong side" of that line as you like to think. Just something to think about. |
Then again they might have lost their job because of some health problem with no prospect of getting another and trying to avoid the oppressive heat in their cardboard box is at the air conditioned public library where they are using one of the free terminals to surf the web so they do not look like the loiterer they in fact are.
Just something else to think about.
| QUOTE (DuckEggBlue Omega @ Jul 11 2007, 08:09 AM) | ||
I live in Australia... If I consider that in the 6th world that the gap between rich and poor will increase, and I'm already on the wrong side of it, I choose No. |
Nana storms and unidentified dragon-things are the reasons I wouldn't go to your neck of the woods.
EDIT- Drop Bears on the other hand
| QUOTE (Angelone @ Jul 11 2007, 04:37 PM) | ||||
Nana storms and unidentified dragon-things are the reasons I wouldn't go to your neck of the woods. EDIT- Drop Bears on the other hand |
It's raining grandmothers!
That or armless, legless little girls 
~J
~J
Best typo ever, I meant mana storms of course, but if one of the freelancers wants to run with the whole nana storms thing go right ahead.
Here's a thought. Would you live in the SR world if you didn't know where you'd end up? No stipulations. No character creation. Just a roll of the dice. You could a be Dragon. (If you hit the Powerball) Or you could be a some nameless wage slave drone. Or a metahuman. Would you take the chance then?
I'm thinking a lot of people would change their poll votes to No.
I'm thinking a lot of people would change their poll votes to No.
Still a yes personally. Your scenario was simular to life now, except the dragon or metahuman thing. You don't know how your life is going to turn out now either. If I ended up being an elf I'd off myself, but anything else I could live with.
| QUOTE (James McMurray) |
| Who needs an awakening? All magic returning would do is make the screwups different than they'll be if we keep going the way we're going. |
...Gee Dub With Mental Manipulation spells...
eeuuugghhhh!
...makes me feel like I just ate a slug sandwich slathered in warm mayonnaise.
| QUOTE (Lazarus) |
| Here's a thought. Would you live in the SR world if you didn't know where you'd end up? No stipulations. No character creation. Just a roll of the dice. You could a be Dragon. (If you hit the Powerball) Or you could be a some nameless wage slave drone. Or a metahuman. Would you take the chance then? I'm thinking a lot of people would change their poll votes to No. |
Unless I had a good chance to end up a Dwarf Drone Rigger packing a FN AAL GyroJet loaded with "Plus" rounds and having a love for Scrumpy I'll stick to my original "Nyet" vote. To wake up one morning and find myself a pretty little pixie with magical ability would be most insulting.
Ya'll seem to be missing one major fact. If you could be anything in the SR world there's a chance you could be the most fearsome of creatures, the mighty Drop Bear. I wouldn't want to be a dragon, but I'd deal. If I became an elf though, it be all over.
...hmm a Drop Bear. That could change things.
| QUOTE (tisoz) | ||
Then again they might have lost their job because of some health problem with no prospect of getting another and trying to avoid the oppressive heat in their cardboard box is at the air conditioned public library where they are using one of the free terminals to surf the web so they do not look like the loiterer they in fact are. Just something else to think about. |
I'm not saying where I am NOW is bad, but in the distopian future of SR, where I am doesn't exsist anymore. That was the point of my choice to NOT live in the world of SR. There is a line (not the poverty line), but in this world the line is thin, and even if you are on the wrong side, the other side isn't far away at all and you can get there with enough work. In the 6th world, that line is a gaping maw that's nigh impossible to cross.
I could have sworn I'd posted in this thread...weird.
Anyhow...my desire to live in the SR universe can be summed up in three words:
Cyber Replacement Knees.
Anyhow...my desire to live in the SR universe can be summed up in three words:
Cyber Replacement Knees.
| QUOTE (BookWyrm) |
| If I were a mage, oh hell yes. |
$myanswer = $youranswer
Oh, here's my other reason for no... y'all having magic. *shudder*
I already do live in the 2080's..
..I just visit here, to see how the Cyber-revolution started out
..I just visit here, to see how the Cyber-revolution started out
most definately if i could be Hocus Pocus. One of the most powerful mages of all time. Sexy, sly, urbane, gallant. Yes indeed
...yeah, and if I were the suave, smooth talking, well connected, highly respected UK noble Lady Meggan Grande, who someone once commented "could talk bullets out of the air", I suppose I wouldn't mind either. But alas more, likely I'd end up some poor sod living in the Lambeth Containment zone, dodging the coppers and various hooligans, looking to scratch out a few sovs to get another bottle or two of Session's so I could forget about life for a while.
| QUOTE (Kyoto Kid) |
| But alas more, likely I'd end up some poor sod living in the Lambeth Containment zone, dodging the coppers and various hooligans, looking to scratch out a few sovs to get another bottle or two of Session's so I could forget about life for a while. |
Been there ... done that! Wouldn't be much worse 60 years from now.
| QUOTE (Kagetenshi) | ||
Maybe they were thinking that some things are just cool enough to accept a little risk of drowning. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have the intestinal fortitude to continue with those ideals. ~J |
That's one of the great things about the Sixth World. Megacorps never let public safety get in the way of cool ideas. It's just too bad that they shut down the Renraku Arcology in Seattle.
Instead of this UCAS army crap, they should have just put a spin on it, sent in camera crews, and asked people to pay for the privilege of coming in to go up against their state of the art drone tech, to see who is the Best of the Best, with the occassional prisoner with no better prospects on the side. Talk about a silver lining!
| QUOTE (hyzmarca @ Jul 16 2007, 09:02 AM) |
| It's just too bad that they shut down the Renraku Arcology in Seattle. |
It's interesting that the city has turned it into what is basically a homeless shelter.
I still want it to be a new Wasp hive. I think it was AH who smashed my hopes, but oh well. I can still dream.
So you have a large arcology with its warrens of rooms and living quarters where the dregs of the city's society mass for a meager roof over their heads. A place where the authorities mainly stay on the outside and regulate who goes in and out rather than policing the interior. That's actually a good place start one, especially if you can a section that many of the residents do not go into, if the insect shaman does it right I can see them starting a hive in there.
Err... that's if I recall correctly from the book about the arcology and how it's being run.
Err... that's if I recall correctly from the book about the arcology and how it's being run.
Not like they don't have the precedent, what with the ultra-ruthless anarchical homeless shelter which was once the Atlanta Omni Coliseum.
The Atlantis Omni Coliseum isn't still patrolled by leftover medussa drones.
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