Any relevant links you wish to share with the rest of us? Other than the standard hype sites like americanantigravity.com?

Somewhere, I've got notes from where I'd adapted rules for a medium skimmer drone into a hoverboard-like mode of transportation. They didn't have the altitude of the BttF hoverboards, but they didn't really need it, either.

In fact, in my campaign, there was an adrenaline-junkie part time extreme-sports enthusiast part time street samurai who as soon as the Renraku Arcology went into lockdown, called in a few favors from a rigger buddy of hers, and had him fly his helicopter up to the side of the arcology (flying in just under the upper floors' anti-air machinegun emplacements' fields of fire). Once the helicopter was in place, she lowered herself and one of her her skimmer boards by winch onto the sloped side of the building, and then rode the board down the side of the Arc almost all the way to the bottom, where a mage buddy of hers who also owed a favor levitated her out just before things would have gotten ugly. The skimmerboard was a loss, but it was one of her older ones anyway.

As an added bonus, she had the rigger film her with surveillance drones all the way down (she was wearing a full helmet that concealed her face, she may be crazy but she's not dumb), and then later took that footage, plus footage from her helmet cam and from the chopper's own sensor suite, and edited together a nice trideo clip of the stunt that she was able to sell off to some trid pirate buddies of hers, who then in turn were able to sell it off to a legitimate extreme sports media outlet (and her deal with the trid pirates stipulated that a percentage of the resale would come back to her and her team).

Sometimes, the best runs don't come from a fixer or a Johnson. As for what Deus thought of the whole stunt, the AI's never commented.

Yeah, the ones I had were like that, only a lot less bulbous and clunky looking. That, and there weren't control handles, you basically ran a cable from your datajack down your clothing and plugged it into special boots that had an induction pad (like the kind found in smartlinks and subdermal datajacks) built in. The deck of the skimmer board was set up to be the receiving induction pad, so that you could have datajack control just by standing on the thing.

Oh well. Dumpshock's style seems to have gone to hell in a handbasket while I wasn't watching... Leave the house for just a few years and you won't recognize it when you get back. *g*

Sir, I do believe your sarcasm detector is damaged beyond repair. Please replace it post haste!

I concur doctor.

maybe "taking it up the butt" is the preferred mode of "taking it" for some? eh? eh?



btw: love the zoidberg quote <3

in summation:

1. Using "gay" when meant as an insult is lame. (It makes you sound foolish and is sooooooo 1995)
2. internets r serios business. >_< (Everybody else should stop taking themselves and a posting board so seriously.)

Nothing personal guys... I like you all, it's just that I started having flashbacks to DS before the Lounge was closed. Everybody reserved the right not to be offended and yet took offense at the tiniest slight.

<3

I just have no idea how to respond to this.

JaronK

Wow, way to back up the "mature" end of the discussion.

Was that supposed to be intelligent? Did you actually believe this would at all add anything worthwhile to this thread? Grow up.

Well, really vectored thrust isn't feasable as you'd still get nowhere near as maneuverable as a skateboard and it's be freaking huge to support a human and have enough fuel to run for any length of time. We're talking surfboard or likely much bigger. Fuel is the issue really.

Ah, I see now, from the above comment. I bow to your superior intellect. U R g0dDz0rz!

Yeah, I see you sicced your little stooge Urethra or whatever his name is on me too. Way to go.

The link to a real-world personal air-cushion vehicle that was posted earlier in this thread (http://www.reallycooltoys.com/toys/i5info.html) shows one possible way of overcoming the problems of frictionlessness: adding wheels that only come in contact with the surface when the rider leans and shifts their center of gravity, and when they do lean, those wheels touch down just enough to provide the minimum friction needed to acomplish the desired effect.

Gotcha

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Everyone check their sarcasm detectors. I think the network is down again.

If you've ever seen a video of those, you'd know they can't turn for squat. The wheels cannot get enough traction to even approach the maneuverability of even a normal skateboard.

Just do us all a favor and shut up. I have played shadowrun with homosexuals, and they're pretty darn good at it. If you're so incredibly closed-minded, perhaps you might actually go out and meet a few of them. Then again, you may already have; how do you know that Fred, the guy who you play RPG's with every other thursday, does'nt spend wednesday drinking cosmopolitans and hitting on guys on the local crew team?

Also, on the issue of vectored thrust, I might point out the Harrier jump-jet. It takes off and lands (while carrying a few AAMRAAMS, no less) on vectored thrust produced by an ordinary turbofan.
Once again, most people view a hoverboard as a skateboard sans wheels. This is not a hoverboard. A functional hoverboard would require a large skirt, powerful fan, gargantuan fins, and a set of very powerful gyroscopes to keep it upright. It would not be propelled much like a normal skateboard, either; it would be steered by a pair of rudders and not leaning to the left or right, much like a small boat. In fact, it would not be so much a skateboard as miniature, gyroscope-stabilized, foot-powerd hovercraft with little wings attached at 45 degree angles.

The German Kids? I heard they were adepts. Kicked out of the circuit, right?

I think Grifter was arguing AGAINST the gay-bashing...just so you know.

I also think that the harsh words spoken early on in this subject were just sarcasm. I get the impression that the gay-bashing was just a point being made about using the term "gay," with negative connotation.

Besides, I don't think any of it has anything to do with hoverboarding. One of the best runners I ever knew was known as (his words) the Shadowflamer. He was an adept that specialized in cat-fighting, and was a wiz in the club scene. Never could get past his fascination with Bet Midler BTL's though.

Anyway, everyone, lets all lighten up, eh?

But, what if you're writing a poem and need a synonym for happy that rymes with day?

Which is why I don't use jetpacks either. That, or I get a lot of PCs with burnt tushies.

SwingKid- Thank god, someone has a freakin' working brain here. You are correct.

SpasticTeapot: Okay, first of all, you have no idea what the hell you're talking about. You just want to jump on the Grifter-bashing bandwagon. Secondly, you're jumping on me for making fun of homosexuals, which if you'll notice, I didn't do, and you go ahead and stereotype them all as hanging out and drinking cosmopolitans.

For those too stupid to understand what my post was about, I was making fun of everyone here with their holier-than-thou attitudes, who believe that "Thou shalt not use the word gay in any manner that I myself deem inappropriate." What are you people, the fucking lexicon police? You know, this is a PUBLIC forum, and while I do not advocate descrimination of any kind, neither do I get all upset and throw a tantrum just because someone uses a figure of speech I don't agree with. You have an option to NOT read it if you don't agree with it.