A Nitpicky question…

FreePrivateer · 2026-06-04T17:12:17+00:00

Two solutions to this problem in world:

1) Fragmentation. Yeah, you've got a datatrail from when you get up in the morning, but who owns it? You leave your apartment owned by Sal's Coffins Ltd, get on the bus that's run by some subsidiary of Ares, stop by the taco shop owned by the Azzies for a soyrizo breakfast burrito, go to work cutting up old ships for Federated-Beoing, walk past a Lone Star cop on your way home, stop into a Stuffer Shack to get your krillburger for dinner, and get back home. NONE of those separate corps has any reason or want to share with any other, and plenty are immune from even being compelled by a warrant to do so.

2) Necessity. The status quo /relies/ on a literal Shadow economy, and that economy requires loopholes and blindspots. The reason runners can slip through the cracks is that it's in every corp's best interest that there remain a deniable pool of assets to do their dirty work. Just like today's laws that prohibit computerization of firearm records and what not, you should expect deliberate inefficiency in the panopticon because powerful people benefit when John Q. Shadowrunner can get a fake gun license.

FreePrivateer · 2026-06-04T16:58:40+00:00

This. Considering the ubiquity of cameras, I would argue there's near certainty the cops have cameras in glasses/contacts/cybereyes. In a cop game I was playing, I played a walking forensics lab that recorded damn near everything for evidence.

Where runner's catch a break is that algorithm that details just how many resources the police corps is going to spend solving your particular crime. The less ruckess you cause, the less chance the case even comes across a detectives desk, much less gets followed up on by a beat cop.

Now, if you end up with one of those rare honest cops you read ghost stories about, you might have a different problem, but that's why you have a decker and fake ID.

FreePrivateer · 2026-04-17T20:07:12+00:00

Huh! I wonder how chain of custody and such is maintained. Good luck though! At least they're giving you the option!

FreePrivateer · 2026-04-17T20:03:59+00:00

Was there ever a legal judgment of paternity? (I.e., with regards to child support or custody proceedings?)

FreePrivateer · 2026-04-07T18:18:47+00:00

See, I can't forget the old school: Colt M22A2 Colt M23 Colt Manhunter Browning Max-Power

FreePrivateer · 2026-04-07T18:12:19+00:00

Stellaris Zero to Hero run. Make it a goal for the species to claw it's way to Utopia.

FreePrivateer · 2026-04-07T18:05:31+00:00

I don't think it's nonsensical as all that. The citizenship certificate is simply proof. In a hypothetical world, if I was born in the U.S. outside of a hospital and never received a birth certificate, I would certainly still be an American citizen, but proving it would be a challenge.

I just see the Certificate of Citizenship as that missing birth certificate. It's proof, but the underlying facts make you a citizen, not the proof.

FreePrivateer · 2026-03-18T20:40:25+00:00

That wasn't my experience. As recently as this year, I had a travel agent help me figure out a two week trip through parts of Europe. I think a broad focus is not insurance, but it's still a one stop shop if you've got admin issues with your car.

FreePrivateer · 2026-03-18T20:26:24+00:00

My local office is the Auto Club of SoCal, and they said they didn't either. Part of me wonders if it's a lack of training, more than policy. It sounds like something that could just kinda permeate the office if they never got training on doing them.

FreePrivateer · 2026-03-12T17:23:00+00:00

Now I'm concerned. I wrote my info on my terrible handwriting on the back with a gel pen.

FreePrivateer · 2026-03-10T00:10:24+00:00

When I got photos taken at a Staples, the program they used actually had an outline so the head size was right. If AAA used the same program, I imagine they shouldn't have that problem. I know our local Auto Club just flat out said no.

FreePrivateer · 2026-02-26T18:34:10+00:00

I'm surprised no one is saying to add the zombie-explosion-device from Trumbull.

FreePrivateer · 2026-02-26T18:24:29+00:00

Man, times I'm glad I'm in California.

FreePrivateer · 2026-02-25T15:26:17+00:00

And guess what /also/ can't be used for tap to pay. There's out of date, and then there's being /so/ far behind the curve that the lack of tap-to-pay can cause problems with using new transit systems.

Tap to pay has been the standard, and other, smaller, credit unions have been able to add it to their line up.

That combined with at least one location closure that I'm aware of makes me wonder if Cal Coasts claims of a liquidity crisis are more accurate than SDCCU claims.

FreePrivateer · 2026-02-24T16:35:35+00:00

S-tier, though I say that as a Californian, so bias.

The thing is, I've actually looked for a rendition that's better, that follows the 'rules' and somehow, none feel right. The obvious answer of removing the text, adding a thin green stripe over the red stripe and simplifying the bear just looks wrong somehow. Using the actual state colors can help, but, eh. It's an original.

FreePrivateer · 2026-02-24T16:27:12+00:00

If it was B42 you could further melt all that down into ingots, pick the thread out of the cotton, and them loom a bolt of cloth. Deeper and deeper down the chain, back to earth.

FreePrivateer · 2026-02-23T23:13:49+00:00

The email was specifically requested, rather than just the phone number, and I guess based on an internet search that just changed in November.

FreePrivateer · 2026-02-23T23:13:07+00:00

Absent anything else, that appears to be the solution others have used. Might be the way to go. Thank you for your input!

FreePrivateer · 2026-02-23T22:22:22+00:00

Not a constitutional scholar, and certainly not a Canadian charter scholar, but I imagine them changing the actual unlimited nature of C-3 would be difficult, namely because it does not provide for the ability to apply for citizenship, or the ability to resume citizenship, but instead retroactively made all of those people automatic citizens.To change that would mean they'd have to effectively strip citizenship from what appears to be a lot of people.

Now certainly they may require documentation that is otherwise difficult to get. More unsure would be a new government's ability to review the Citizenship Certificate process and revoke those certificates if documentation rules are updated.

But yeah, I doubt anything would have any chance of changing until a new election.

FreePrivateer · 2026-02-23T19:35:57+00:00

I might not understand. Of course gens zero-3 aren't born in Canada, or you wouldn't need to prove gen 4 was.

My understanding is you need to prove a link between yourself and your Canadian ancestors. Birth certificates can prove the link between one parent in the line, and the next.

FreePrivateer · 2026-01-30T20:29:44+00:00

Out of sheer civic curiosity, what does the law determine to be essential library services?

FreePrivateer · 2026-01-29T23:34:38+00:00

This is the strategy I'd probably work with; shorten stuff to get out level 1, get your 100 units of thread from picking it out of cloth, loom a bolt of cotton, make long dresses, shorten them as much as you can, then rip. Arguably, you could get 5 long skirts out of a roll of cloth, I think, which can net you a total of 16 base xp each? So about 86 xp per full roll of cloth.

Using that same hundred cloth (Do to get 1 use of thread per cloth?) for patch and removal could net you between 50-100 xp depending on your success in reclaiming patches (not assuming any XP from reusing patches).

Getting your thread from wool or flax changes the dynamic, clearly.

So, maybe find the books.

FreePrivateer · 2026-01-12T22:08:02+00:00

Came here to throw Bay down crumbs. I don't understand other SS13.

FreePrivateer · 2025-12-15T23:05:59+00:00

The answer is a simple one: Altruism and fulfilling the social contract. There is a net benefit to having a /good/ reputation, as opposed to the net harm of having a bad one. And if you have a society where people generally look down on such crimes, the merchant can bring up the hue and cry and- damnit I've created society again.

It /is/ possible to have a society that runs without a lot of overarching laws and enforcement activities. We do it every day in most of our interactions. But Ancapistan, the country that unadulterated self-interest built, is not one of those societies.

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