http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/tags/tech Gaming Outpost Discussions » Tag: tech - Recent Topics en-US Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:36:55 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/search.php http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/improvement-packages#post-1974 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:04:25 +0000 Tadeusz 1974@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>SF is rife with a variety of ways to radically improve the body.</p> <p>Cyborgs, nanotech infiltration, cyberpunk chrome with chips in the brain to teach skills, a variety of symbionts, Adamification, just general improvement as the brain is upgraded...</p> <p>Hmm, perhaps not as many as I'd thought.</p> <p>Tom Day has been Ascended, partially. Its a process of making the whole body work better as a step toward become totally superhuman.</p> <p>Tadeusz has a Star Empire of Lekostia cyborg skelaton in his body which has a few other qualities than just 1000 pound strength although that its primary use. Its alien tech because as far as he knew, he was the only human in that particular universe.</p> <p>The Symbiont Academy Symbiont has a number of qualities. Many of these are things you have to train yourself to access. Stronger, faster, more durable are the beginning of it.</p> <p>Leikou of Neo-Tokyo, a verser who shows up in Rocky Mountain DMZ (I've used her there anyways.) is an illiterate street samurai aka cyberpunk with wired reflexes and talons.</p> <p>MJ's dop went to Starsong, got his asthma and sight cured. Starsong has such formidable technology that people complain about medical bills involving being turned into a whale by nanotechnology. He also had some skull armor slipped in. His mods were close to trivially simple for Starsongers.</p> <p>Whisp, of course, has been turned into some liquid metal, but that involved magic.</p> <p>Not that an IP that included magic should be disallowed.</p> <p>Nanotech is often used for healing wounds very rapidly.</p> <p>The cyberpunk 'jack' in the back of the head got used in Andromeda on TV. It attaches the brain of the human to a computer.</p> <p>Nanotech could also be used for wireless links by hand and eye signals with local computers as in "Deepness in the Sky".</p> <p>Symbionts often typically filter out poisons from the body. Thus the person can run longer and faster. They also often offer a better control system for healing, more intelligence is involved. (I think this may underestimate how intelligent the design for healing already is.--This is a typical fault of Bio-improvement stories.)</p> <p>What I would like: Five improvement packages, at least. One would focus on almost totally mental improvements. It might be a Psi IP. If you could merely look at a fence, and know that it was six feet, 3.5 inches tall, and you could know just how much force your legs were producing....well, one could do interesting things with that sort of precise knowledge.</p> <p>Another Ascended.</p> <p>Another a cyberpunk street sam.</p> <p>Another a cyberpunk chiphead (have a slot in the back of your head where you stick in the latest download a la Matrix....but the 'punks had this idea way before Matrix.)</p> <p>Another an old-fashioned cyborg.</p> <p>And a nanotech.</p> <p>And a couple symbionts....thats five right? Right?</p> <p>Eric </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/curving-out-electrical-applications#post-5769 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:42:28 +0000 WilliamTWodium 5769@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I know next to nothing about electrical and electronic technology, and when I try to read over the skill descriptions for Tech levels nine and ten I find myself crossing my eyes to make the words form interesting designs. I can understand what each skill <em>is</em>, while I'm looking at it, but I absolutely fail at trying to extrapolate from what it <em>is</em> to what can be <em>done</em> with it. </p> <p>Is there any way, aside from biting the bullet and doing the research, that I can tell with reasonable expedience which electrical <em>applications and devices</em> are possible under a bias of, say, T9@4 and which are not? </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/robots-and-bod#post-2376 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:42:35 +0000 WilliamTWodium 2376@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Hypothetical:</p> <p>Verser Velma meets a nice android named Andy and decides to take him with her as an associate. In her next verse, she and Andy come to in the cargo hold of the Mary Piper Alpha. When they stand up, they need make skill checks to see how well they can walk under these challenging conditions. Velma rolls her B2@4 Walk at Walking Speeds.</p> <p>What does Andy roll?</p> <p>Is this T12@3 Operate Self (Android)? Can I call it B2@4, because it's his body, organic or in-? Or should I keep it tech, but knock the operation down to 12@0 out of charity?</p> <p>If I take one of the tech options, what do I do when Velma decides to teach him martial arts? </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/article-system-tech-notes#post-236 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:51:59 +0000 M. J. Young 236@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I noticed on the front page that there was a comment on an old article, so I went to see it, <a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/article/game_ideas_unlimited_survival/#comment-61">here</a>. It looks like the work of a bot. The name "Nick" was hyperlinked to some sort of automotive site. I edited out both the link and the e-mail address, but left the comment (it was rather inoccuous, and editing was readily obvious while I didn't see the ability to delete until after I'd done the editing). Probably next time I would just delete the comment, but I thought I'd alert you to the possibility that there's a bot program out there that has figured out how to comment here.</p> <p>I'll keep on it.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p>