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[PA Comic] Monday, January 14, 2013 - Demarcations
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They just wanted some love.
But he has said in the past that he enjoys when folk manipulate the language.
On the other hand, Gabe is always zero to murdering babies about canon and lore and genre related "faux pas".
Birthday comic was very appropriate today
Yeah I had to stop watching that show because it just made me think two things: "How do I adopt all of these poor animals" and "How do I kill all of their original owners".
I'm assuming also characterTycho also knows of the background of the upcoming video game (what, with it being based off a tabletop RPG), ergo he ain't mad at all in regards to the name.
See: World of Warhammeronlinecraft.
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The comic is good, is what I'm saying.
This.
Also, the full title is actually not just "Cyberpunk", it's "Cyberpunk 2077".
But it was a good joke, so I'll cut the guys some slack on the factual errors.
Girl with Avenger Dickerdoodles: Icing or.....
Also, arm-eating kid pic is adorable.
No real "hitpoints" in the game, hits affected character traits.. so you go wounded and it affected your ability to do stuff. No real levels either, just the skill tree... and all based on d100 rolls and modifiers to those rolls. For example, unlike DnD and other RPGs, getting sniped in the head would just generally kill a player... no matter how experienced.
"Netrunning" was the internet, and effectively made a sub-RPG within the RPG that the netrunners would play while the main characters were on a mission. Frequently the netrunner was disabling security, grabbing intel, and causing distractions while the "wet" team did it's part. Unfortunately, they generally had to come along for the ride, as some networks were only accessible once beyond physical countermeasures... so they had to have some other useful skills as well to at least survive that far.
As you add cybertech to your character (like her apparent bulletproof skin, and eye augmentation), your player loses touch with their humanity... and eventually you end up with these tanks that have cyberpsychosis... that decide to just go on killing rampages. What government/corps left have squads of folks that get to try to put down, capture, whatever these psychos. These squads were kind of a major trope in some campaigns, and somewhat considered a suicide mission. The trailer appears to represent one of these psychos being rehabilitated and inducted into one of these squads.
As someone who played the game extensively with a group of 6 or so people, I look forward to seeing the game in FPS mode.
So Gabe, if you wish to lodge a complaint, set your wayback machine to 1988.
Netrunning is basically a sub-RPG within the RPG to support players in some missions.
tl;dr: Pretty lady overly augmented, loses track of her humanity and goes on cyberpsycho rampage. Team gets floored until overly augmented fellow just about kills her. Girl is rehabilitated enough to join squad.
If you are upset - set your wayback machine to 1988 and complain all you want.
It's also good to know that there is something to stimulate my fawning fanboy anticipation gland after Aliens: Colonial Marines - the game that motivated me to buy a PS2 when it was first promised 12 years ago - releases next month.
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That is precisely my big huge soft spot. I just cannot bear to even know about those things. That´s how I have 3 cats now.
I feel like the "I love cats" girl every time.
(j/k)
But then when one of those ones with the older guy and the starving African children come on, I'm just like "eh."
The nerds in my area were either into Cyberpunk 2020 or Shadowrun. (and there were some hipsters of the time who preferred GURPS Cyberpunk). Me, I never liked the idea of elves, orks and magicks floating around my perfect Gibson/Blade Runner inspired stories so it was Cyberpunk 2020 all the way.
I kinda feel sad that nobody around me seems to know that Cyberpunk 2077 comes from that good old pen and paper game. D20 truly ruined everything as far as I'm concerned.
I get intently glued and caught up when watching animal cops too
I kid, of course. Both systems handled their respective wheelhouses very well. When I think of Cyberpunk, I don't think of Blade Runner or William Gibson first, I think of Cyberpunk 2020 and Shadowrun. I still play a biweekly Shadowrun game to this day, although I think One Roll Engine would make for a great Cyberpunk game.
* (probably to run away from the REAL timeline which is rapidly overtaking it... in the Shadowrun timeline, for example, the Cold War didn't end until much later, and we should have seen a dragon by now.)