Here’s mine, using a fair share of Mushroom for the light buttons, the “Room” tiles are actually pretty great!

With Pokemon yeah basically

Anything kernel level can theoretically modify anything in your TPM too, so Linux programs that use it (admittedly I’m not sure any user program use it) could be manipulated in weird ways

Hopefully we can still get some traction going against Vanguard, Windows users haven’t been the greatest fans of the system on Valorant, maybe with enough voices riot will think twice about it? We still have a few possible outs though, Vanguard is not gonna be enabled on the macOS version, so either we can convince riot that Linux is as big of a platform as macOS or we can hope for Darling to get to the point where we can play games with it.

Thanks for doing the work, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see…

CarPlay and Android Auto aren’t car OSes though, they’re merely an infotainment interface. You still need a way for the user to check the tire pressure, choose between sports mode and eco mode… Cars manufacturers could just implement the basics and let CarPlay/Auto do the rest but in that case anyone that doesn’t have a compatible phone is stuck without infotainment, same if you run out of battery.

CarPlay and Auto being so good is somewhat to blame for first party interfaces being that bad though: why spend litteral millions on look and feel if you know the users who care won’t be using it

Sea Drakes were all made by the Sea Dragon, but that doesn’t mean they’re all loyal to her, maybe one got snatched by the corporation you’re targeting when they were young for instance!

The Sea Leech sounds like a pretty interesting thing to meet, very alien looking, very toxic. Also depending on your run maybe you’d want to include some Sea Drakes!

Right so the Emerged Dolphin is called a Flipper, Fish are of course E-Fish, Sharks are Ravagers and Whales are extremely rare and are called Migaloo. For the birds I’d probably use the stat block of the Iridescent Owl, a toxic owl that mutated due to heavy metals and oil.

There’s the technomancer fishs/dolphins/whales that tend to confuse runners a bit at first, I’d probably try to go for a toxic bird too? Like take the stat block of a toxic critter and apply it to a sea bird half-fused with oil

I think it’s canon that wether in DnD or PF anyone can learn arcane magic if they take the time to do so (and they have a way to pay for it, most people can’t afford to not work for 5-10 years)

The thing is, even if someone has the money and the time maybe they don’t want to spend it, especially if magical scrolls/wands can let you cast spells fairly easily.

To me it’s the same thing as saying to some kid “you can learn to be a robotics engineer and in 5-10 years and $100k of debt you’ll be able to make robots that can do anything for you, including being strong” and the kid just replies “That’s cool, but I think I’ll just go to the gym thank you”

It somewhat makes sense in universe though, if any guy who spends a few years in a magic school can best your guards/rookie soldiers without a sweat there would only be magic users!

Not exactly, most of the characters seem to call the company E Corp but the main character (who’s also the narrator) “corrects it” in his head.

But think about it though, it could be a way for X users that are prone to identity theft to be easily recognizable, like for instance if you’re notable enough they could verify your ID and then give something to your profile so people know it’s the real you! I’m thinking maybe a Blue X ?

You all can’t see Musk’s genius, that’s all.

That’s a very old post but yeah, it is, so is Ghidra (a retro-engineering tool). A lot of people have had the exact same argument of “the NSA made it, it has to be evil!” but lots of security people dissected the code (the fact that it was made by the NSA probably made more people look through it in fact) and no backdoor has ever been found in years. It’s safe to use.

I just realized I’ve totally forgotten to post about my own characters!

Right, so the character I’m currently playing isn’t really that weird but has a few quirks: mainly, he’s a Tarot Mage and he’s trying the get the 5 Tarot Summoning metamagics. It’s especially not that great cause he has the Arcana mentor spirit, so he didn’t have a choice for his first two metamagics, meaning he’ll have to get to Initiate Level 7 (!) just to be able to possibly call a dragon to the team’s position… Definitely not the best use of Karma, but I live for the randomness! He’s also has a very weird way to be strongly-willed: as an Ogre with Exceptional Attribute, he has a Willpower of 8. His way of being so strong willed is to always let go, he’s the most zen person you’ll ever see. He figures if Destiny is already written then why try to force things, just go with the flow.

I have another character already built for a mini-campain we’ll hopefully start soon enough, he’s a three eyed gnome, from a family of farmers in Tír na nÓg. He decided to run with his brother (another character in the campain) since their family of 8 rejected them (my character for having 3 eyes, the other character for being too big (he’s a dwarf)). He’s a 4 RES technomancer with the technoshaman stream and a love for explosive shotgun shells. He’s a christian and a strong believer at that, he believes resonance is how God integrates into the Matrix and he sees all his sprites as Angels, making good use of “Machine Angels” that help him shoot better through their divine intervention. As a technoshaman he has a Sprite Pet which he sees as his guardian Angel.

I love that concept! I’ve been experimenting with giving my goons 3 or 4 Edge lately and I feel like my players finally understand how impactful Edge can be!

When in doubt, I always try to get some inspiration from action movies since I always immagined Shadowrun as basically the TTRPG version of them. For instance, you could do a “heist montage” where your players make a single test one after the other, and the number of “rounds” is a function of the run’s difficulty. After each roll, you say something like “Echo manages to hack the server, deactivating the doors’ bioscanners, the whole group gets in” without really getting too much into how they did it

Yeah, I’d do the same, make it clear that if they see the HTR they fragged up. Have the them be Professional Rating 5 or 6, probably with a mage. And don’t hesitate to shoot to kill, they probably have some Edge to burn and it’ll be a lesson they’ll remember.

One way would be to have him very differently with the runners compared to basically any other NPCs:

• Since he’s head of security and he was raised by MCT he probably knows everyone in his team personally, maybe some of them would be people he’d call his friends. Maybe he has the occasion of saying goodbye to a colleague, and as he’s one the verge of breaking down the colleague doesn’t quite understand why he’s making a scene since they’ve been saying goodbye for each other for 35 years now. Maybe he has a moment when he leaves the armory when he remembers all that happened here, maybe he refuses to leave without the drone that saved his life… You know, show that he cares about people, about places and things
• When he talks to the runners, have him be as cold as possible, if the runners argue or don’t seem coordinated enough have him give snarky comments. If the runners’ lives are in danger have him not care at all and leave them behind…

For that added bit of realism if you have metas in your group have him stop mid-sentence while saying some anti-meta comments, to represent how his son is slowly changing him.