So why bother to reply to it? To make yourself feel important? Lashing out at random does not help. Your anger at a game has apparently been misplaced. Again, grow up.

I don't use them. They don't exist (in my take on Shadowrun). Most, if not all, of the otaku were claimed by the crash.

@hyzmarca

They. use. magic. I dont realy see any other explanation for it. Not that I mind. I'e always loved the idea that Otaku were just humans adapting to use magic to their new environments.

i've never liked the idea, myself. it seems cheap that after all the crap otaku have to go through to gain their powers, they're just... magic. but that is the best explanation for what otaku have evolved into--the alternatives i've seen presented are complete balderdash.

I dunno, I just kinda liked the idea that they are astrally projecting into the matrix when they jack in. (which as far as I know was only mentioned in a novel) That one line in a crappy novel always made me like otaku as magic. Just a neat concept.

Well, in Psychotrope, an astrally projecting mage that watches an otaku jack in notices that his astral signiture goes all strange when he does so (I believe that it was described as threads shooting out in every dimension). I would like to point out that this doesn't neccessarily mean that otaku are magical, after all, mundane disease and the like also show up on your astral signiture.

you dont have to get it to produce a radio wave MFB, you just have to get the body to create an induction transfer, which it will do naturally, and highten it

giant dragons and bigfoot? that's magic. i already said that magic is the best explanation for technomancer abilities. monofilament whips are possible today, all you have to do is tie a fishing line to a handle. monofilament whips that can cut people in half with the flick of your wrist are a bit trickier, but not outside the realm of possibility.

i'd like to see an induction field with a 400km range.

Ooo.... could you give some links to articles with such info? This is getting interesting.

Oh, boy! I'm going out right now and I'm going to hack that wi-fi hotspot down the street!

I did a search and found something interesting. If streched real far it could account for receiving and interpetation of radio signals.

http://www.borderlands.com/archives/arch/elf.htm

Heh.... ELF.

Just remember this is just fun info, not "proof it works".

This one even uses "resonance". Irony. Fun.

http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec06/ch077/ch077d.html

Edit: After a quick glance, this could... could explain why cyber interferes with resonance... it affects the "signal".

And one more for good measure.

http://www.wave-guide.org/archives/emf-l/N...aves-(fwd).html

Its mostly just interesting. You'd still have to stretch this data rather far to produce a Technomancer..... or would you ?! **insert funky echo here**

Even more interesting are these so called Binaural Beats. While not really about radio waves, it would suggest a few interesting things, again if streched rather far. Resonance is also mention in this article.

http://brain.web-us.com/thescience.htm

Humans don't consciously use a good portion of their brain. The brain does get a thorough workout, though.

While it is a myth that we only used 10% of the brain, we do not use (even unconsciously) the optimal capacity (an average level of use that does not "burn out the brain"). It is currently uncharted, but is known to be well above our current average usage.

We use a great deal of it during REM sleep, more than when we are awake, though certainly different parts of it.

All in all, as far as I know, we know next to nothing of the brains actual potential.

And while telepathy is theorized it has yet to be proven. I've had strange experiences (closer to a kind of empathy than telepathy) but those can easily be explained away to stimuli being noticed unconsciously. I'm open minded about the paranormal, but I try not to jump to any conclusions. There's just too much we don't know.

Edit: I remember in psychology class about certain people who's brain, at birth, is very different than others in that much of the brain mass we use is just not there (mostly fluid) but they learn to use this "water balloon brain" in the same way as ours. Many seem to have the same level of intellignce as us. Does anyone else remember something like this?

The simple answer is that the only way the "10%" (or "unused capacity") idea is even remotely correct is that typically only about 10% of neurons are firing at any given time. They all pretty much fire over the course of a day, doing exactly what they're capable of.

Incidentally, you responded faster than I thought you would; I edited in some responses to you.

~J

Hmm.. but there are different levels of activity in different areas right? And have we identified the asossiated use of all or most of the brain?

Though I try to keep the paranormal at arms length, I have always believed the brain has more potential or perhaps even raw processing power than we give it credit for. There is, at least, the plasticity of the brains functions. (I believe thats the term anyway.)

Don't forget the aforementioned ventricles, which are basically just sacs of cerebrospinal fluid. Still nothing much surprising.

~J

Well as I said I could be wrong. I'm not much up on my neuro-science so

EDIT: Just did a broad seach and turned up this neat little tid bit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/science/...artner=homepage

While some people get by with very little in the way of a brain, and Daniel Lyon got around with one that was just 650 cc, the people who say that you could get more by utilizing the rest of your brain are like people who try to double the information packing capabilities of their computer by clearing away all the empty space. The zeroes, as well as the ones, carry information.

-Frank

Just back to be a grumpy old man turned Nay-saying Nellie mfb? Or have you changed your mind and decided to play SR4?

Because if they are not magic-based, they really make no sense. And if they are magic-based, then they are just plain cheese.