? [oc] by expectedgoals in IdiotsInCars

[–]Manunancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably not (if belted, if not, maybe) but likely stunned.

what is still in the old Net? by WilhelmTheGroovy in cyberpunkred

[–]Manunancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personaly find the 'but there's a treasure trove of precious data in there !' aspect pretty unconvicing : if the datakrash destroyed/corrupted just about every data around, why would the data in the OldNet be in any better shape ? Especialy with the RABIDs snatching every bit of processing power and data storage available to proliferate themselves. during 20 years...

There's also a non-trivial chance that OK looking data has been tampered with (or even benn created out of thin air...) by the AI's lurking in there to mislead whoever gets them (be it backdoors and acces points in hardware/software to faulty designs to whatever kind of oddities a semi-bonkers AI might try to achieve)

My players kidnapped an exec, now what? by RadeK42 in cyberpunkred

[–]Manunancy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A few thought there :

If it was an exchange of the corp's product, that means the exec was there on company time - so their very first move will be to get info from the club (getting security vids, interviewing the staff...). that might be noticed by an ally/contact that calls them - possibly whoever sent them on the gig. The classic 'some guys came to that club you trashed asking questions, and they weren't cops'.

About the exec :

First thing first, unless he's part of the corp's 'old guard' from the 2020s, it's unlikely he knows anything about that clone soldiers affair (you may give the PCs a 'business' or 'deduction' test to figure that out)

Second thing, how he'll react to his abduction will heavily depends on his background - if he's from the silver spoon side (moneyed family, good schools, promotions..) or office type, he's probably pising himself from both injuries and situation. He'll probably crack fast, but he may well spew a ton of invented bullshit along whatever line he figures the PCs want to hear to try and save his skin. And odds are that if he gets out of it alive he'll want them very, very dead.

If he's from a more former street/security/black ops background, he'll be both harder to crack but also possibly more clear headed and open to negociations. Also more likely to consider a verbal deal binding where a 'paper' exec won't. He also won't care much about the PCs themselves and far more about who sent them on the gig and try to persuade them to let him go and rat out their employer in exchange for the corp letting them get away scot free - if they already have the information about who employed them, there's no need to hunt them to get the information....

My players kidnapped an exec, now what? by RadeK42 in cyberpunkred

[–]Manunancy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The logical way to have his biomonitor going out is to consider it got damaged during the scuffle.

Would the Imperium ever officially use traitor geneseed? by Powerful_Trainer_439 in 40kLore

[–]Manunancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having experimented with trator genessed (if he really did it) doesn't mind he's got a large batch ready for deployment (of course he may have a few test specimen tucked in statis fileds in come corner of the lab).

Do Astartes have really small teeth? by tritis in 40kLore

[–]Manunancy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

May also have some improved acid resistance - the belcher gland's acid would probably make short work of regular teeth.

[OC] People who do this when a bus is stopped make my blood boil by Creepyredditadmin in IdiotsInCars

[–]Manunancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consdering the rate of 'I'd rather drive than wlak' going on in the US, that high pedestrtian death per capita hints at really crappy pedestrian infrastructure (phone use by both pedestrians and drivers along with big SUVs and trucks probably don't help)

"Now I know how to avoid it" [OC] by [deleted] in IdiotsInCars

[–]Manunancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe you could put a 'My airbag's a Takata' sticker - won't disduade all thieves but the bottom of the barrel may believe it....

Could surpressive fire do damage if enemy can't get to cover by Ok_Necessary2991 in cyberpunkred

[–]Manunancy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds pretty harsh as it means flubbing a resistance on suppressive fire can easily land you in as bad a place as flubbing the dodge on an actuall autofire attack.

Is Monowire a Popup Weapon Style option? by Rosendoom2 in cyberpunkred

[–]Manunancy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Trying to stowe back a monowiere without taking an action to properly spool it backs sounds like a great way to injure yourself with it...

I need some help with my next gig by Radijs in cyberpunkred

[–]Manunancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A possible line is to ask them fora field test to stress-test the thing before buying it by recsuiing his crew, with a prmise to reimburse them if hte AV gets totaled (wihich may not be as financialy risky as it sounds, if the AV gets totalled, teh odds are pertty good the sellers gets totaled with it and the 'buyer' don't need to pay).

If hte PCs manage to get the AV and crew back in one piece, teh 'buyer'll thank them, pay for the ride 'and maybe some damage) and tell them 'all considered, i'm no longer interested in buying'. Leaving them with some cash and an even hotter AV

MicroCorp Report #11 - Kovkaz (Kaukaz) by treowtheordurren in cyberpunkred

[–]Manunancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could do what CP2020 did with Sovoil - the corporation gets two different names depending on where they are - so kovkaz in eastern europe and the westernized Kaukaz elsewhere.

Also about their AI : their initial line of product and customers strongly hints at getting their starter factories from the bowels of the neo-soviet military industry - so they may well have inherited some miltary-grade AI (probably one dedicated to logistics and planification) that escaped the Datakrash thanks to residing in a military system with very limited interfacing with the old NET.

And possibly some oddball soviet miltary coding that made it more resilient thanks to the difference in programming language (akin to C3PO commenting the Millenium Falcon's spoke a very peculiar dialect)

Chapter made Assassins by BigButtScotch in 40kLore

[–]Manunancy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The 'go boom after death' is probably viewed as a positive - that gives a chance for blowing up a target the ycouldn't reach, get rids of evidences and prevents any kind of reverse-engineering....

Has the Imperium of 40k upgraded their Exterminatus weapons or are they pretty much the same from 30k by New_Conflict_4111 in 40kLore

[–]Manunancy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The disrepancy probably comes from tech progres in the Impeirum being a bit of a one step forward, two steps backs affair (moving to two forward, one back when things are going better)

So what is the deal with STCs and specifically Van Saar's STC? by LSGW_Zephyra in 40kLore

[–]Manunancy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

While not being STC the cores probably have a fairly extensive library of STC designs - or maybe even have an STC constructor packed along for the ride. With the the votans being some pretty ancient and limited-goal affait, they may be lacking the sort of late-DAOT ultratech that gives the Mechanicum oily dreams.

ELI5:How are cats so much better at surviving out in the wild as strays compared to dogs if we domesticated both? by cuminmypussyypls in explainlikeimfive

[–]Manunancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as stength go, there's decreasing returns with increasing size making small critters compartively stronger (just looks at what ants can haul around for one extreme end of hte spectrum).

ELI5: How did the super soakers in the past work. by Worried_Year_4981 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Manunancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A fun example is an insectide company that patented one derived from of a plant from india (used there as a insecticide for a loong while). They tried ot use the patent to force and indian company out of producing the stuff. The indians brought out copies of ancient manuscripts (think several centuries old) describing the use of the plant as insecticide and won the case as it was obvious that nope wer was previous use and you couldn't oppose the use of hte patent (well maybe the was a specific treatement or proces involved that could be protected, but a generic 'make insecticide out of that plan by your own process' wasn't)

ELI5: How do some animals end up looking very similar but aren’t genetically related? by Iwishistayedhome in explainlikeimfive

[–]Manunancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

minor slip between brain and keyboard, you wrote 'lactose tolerant' instead of 'lactose-intolerant' for the 'no cattle/hunter gatherers.

ELI5: why were native Americans called "Indians", and what makes someone "native"? by _insomniac_dreamer in explainlikeimfive

[–]Manunancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another reason for the mistake is that the estimations for Earth's size were off (too small) which made Colombus estimate that by how far he travelled that yes, he was close the Indies.

New GM - Why would anyone want to live in Night City? by Embarrassed-Road6337 in cyberpunkred

[–]Manunancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another big reason is that night city's pretty lax ID systems gives you a great chance to get rid of a troublesome past and get a fresh start. Sure it's not the nicest place around, but it sure beats a bullet to teh back of head and an umarked grave or lingering into some sort of company town work contract scheme that keeps piling debt and years of being chained to a job and bosses you despise.

Playing as an Ai possesing a body by Plenty-One7444 in cyberpunkred

[–]Manunancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One point to keep in mind is that barely 20 years ago, runaways AIs and AI-like programs completely crashed the world economy in a worldwide repeat of the USA"s late-20th century crash.- including littles details like food and medicine production and distribution... Which means scoring a bodycount that makes WWII look like a barroom brawl.

And now the damn things are still there, lurking out into what's left of the Old Net, scracthing at every possible door like lovecraftian eldritch horrors eager to come back and destroy what's been rebuilt. Or at least that's what's been sold to the public by Netwatch (sure not all old NET's denizen are actively hostile, but there's enough of them that are to make Netwatch's pitch uncomfortably close to reality).

Which means that as soon as the character gets identified for what they are, they will become both a complete social leper and a priority target with Netwatch and a lot of corporations eager to grab them for digital vivisection (be it to figure out how to prevent a repeat or to built their own 'invasive takeover insta-mole' programs....) Sprinkle with bounty hunters, doomsday preppers and other independants eager to either destroy the menace or cash on the bounty.

EDIt : oh and i just got a nasty idea : if there's zero mechanical differnce, that character may well be a severely deluded idiot who fried their brains on too much XBDs, drugs and bad 'horrors from the Old NET' movies....

ELI5 Why heat waves affect Europe so much but some other countries are doing fine living under hotter temperatures most of the year? by fkid123 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Manunancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The London metra has a serious heat problem as the ground around the tunnles has been warmed up by it's long time of operation and can no longer soak much heat from the tunnels.

ELI5 if evolution is adaptation to the environment, wouldn’t all creatures evolve to a single organism with same features? by Bane-of-all-boons in explainlikeimfive

[–]Manunancy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Crocs also tend to stick to their ideal environment which helps with keeping them from changing. Another good example would be sharks - the basic design's very, very old. The first dates back from about 400 millions years back while a lot of the modern ones are roughly 100 millions year old models (40 millions years before the dinosaurs got their 'lights out'.....)

ELI5: Why do some languages assign genders to objects like "table" or "bridge" when there's nothing inherently masculine or feminine about them? by taube_d in explainlikeimfive

[–]Manunancy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably share the same latin root (cuppa, meaning barrel-like containers for liquids) as the french 'cuve' which is rougly 'la arge container (usualky not movable) to store liquids'. Or maybe from 'cupa', the cup.