Tag: cp2020

Culture vulture? LMAO

In the early days of the internet (then called world wide web), the first cyberpunk sites popped up. Most of them didn’t have any new stuff, but some featured slang guides or glossaries. Cyberpunk 2021 has one of those, and its great reading. Maybe this isn’t funny if you are from the US and have heard them all, but I did LMAO.

Clothing by DuPont : Euphemism referring to human suicide bombers (usually religious fanatics or terrorists) who strap high explosives to their own body and them detonate them manually once they arrive at a specific target location. FYI, from 1802 until the end of the 20th Century, the DuPont Corporation was one of the largest manufacturers of commercial and military explosives in the North America.

Culture Vulture : A member of the media.

(Source: Cyberpunk 2021)

People who say I'm dystopian are middle class pussies!

Says William Gibson in this Interview

On the seamless net being woven

“There’s some enormous number, millions and millions, of Iranians who are about to get their first cell phones. The infrastructure has been built. That’s an interesting side of Iran we don’t hear so much about. And you know, they’re not just getting cell phones, they’re getting Internet. What is that going to do to that country? The government is not going to be able to control what those people are watching. I just find that amazing, really.

“We’ve grown up thinking: ‘Over here is the Internet, over there is cellular telephony, and here are iPods.’ It’s not going to be like that. That stuff is all just one cloud of stuff and it works together and you can’t just get a little piece of it. The kids being born today will grow up finding the quaintest thing about the past was that people had these different devices that had discrete functions.”

(Source: This Interview)

Cyberpunkish flash comic/graphic novel

Very nicely done: City of Thamesis

From their website:

Once the seat of power for an ancient, all-powerful monarchy, much of Thamesis is now run by the influential Britomart Corporation who use their seductive psychic technology to exert control.

It has become a city of torn loyalties as it’s inhabitants choose between life as a subject of the Crown or a Citizen of the Britomart.

Meanwhile down in the inner city streets, beyond the reach of either power, dangerous outlaws have successfully hacked Britomart’s technology for their own gain, boosting its power exponentially. Some use it only to escape their daily grind while others maliciously spread terror on the streets.

As the city plunges towards civil war, can anyone bring order to the streets of Thamesis?

Discover how an ambitious young king (Jonathan of the Rose), a scarred ex-war hero (The Lion), a beautiful psychic (The Unicorn), and a teenage scoundrel (The K.I.D.) find themselves caught up in the struggle for control of the city.

DRUG LAB 101 – Ocelots Drug Generation Rule for Cyberpunk 2020

DRUG LAB 101, VERSION 3.0

for Cyberpunk 2020 by Gary Astleford, published with permission

LET’S JUMP RIGHT INTO IT, SHALL WE?

For lack of a better excuse, this file is a result of wanting a more detailed drug system that covers more possibilities. It’s based off of the information supplied in the CP2020 rulebook, the “Hardwired,” “When Gravity Fails,” and “Protect and Serve” supplements, and the Interface magazines (specifically Issue 3 of Volume 1). If drugs aren’t an important part of your campaign, you may want to stick with the normal rules found in the core rulebook. However, a good deal of Cyberpunk literature (Gibson, Williams, and Effinger’s stuff especially) involves the main characters and their struggles with drugs.
When creating a drug, you must ask some questions :

  1. ) What does the drug do? What benefits does the drug grant the user? Why would anyone want to take such a drug?
  2. ) What sorts of negative side effects are there? Do these effects occur after taking the drug, or when it wears off?
  3. ) How strong is the drug? Is it powerful or mild? How easy is it to overdose on this drug?
  4. ) How long do the effects last?
  5. ) Is the drug illegal, or can you buy it at any drug or liquor store?
  6. ) What form does the drug come in? Do you swallow it, snort it, or shoot it?

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Cyberpunk2020 group effort results in a radio station…

You can listen to the music the cpunks like on the last.fm Cyberpunk2020 group radio. It’s free and you don’t need any registration. And you won’t expect what other punks like… obviously we do have a soft side somewhere :)

Think that’s not the way a cpunks radio should sound? Join us and you taste will modify the result!

See: I need help with a Cyberpunk 2020 Soundtrack

I Need Help With A Cyberpunk 2020 Soundtrack!

I’m looking for some cyberpunkish music for a soundtrack to use while playing. A game soundtrack. For that I’m looking for tracks.

To make this a “Web 2.0” thing, I created a last.fm account under the beautiful nick “cyberpunk2020” and created a playlist with some tracks suggested on vfte. Here are the last 10 songs from that collection.

I would like you to suggest some music. If you have a (free) account on last.fm, please tag music you might use for a soundtrack with “cyberpunk2020”. You can listen to those tracks here.

Or you can use the comments to suggest artists or tracks.

You’re also very welcome to join the cyberpunk2020 group on last.fm.

Suggested links: vfte

An old favorite rediscovered: Dan's Total System Technologies

I couldn’t find it on google at first, but now I rediscoved the link. The site is full of goodies and looks plain awful. Updated till 2004 Dan made some really cool stuff:

Snake Eye Patch
The original Snake Plissken had something happen to his left eye and consequently wore an eye patch. So you want the same look without sacrificing your depth perception. This we can do. With the Snake Eye Patch we make the fabric so you can see through it but other people can’t see through the other way.
But we don’t stop there. We also add a Times Square Plus and Targeting Scope HUD in the Patch so you’re enhanced while looking like your disabled. What about connecting it to a computer or your gun I hear you ask, well the connecting cables are part of the string that holds the patch in place so they won’t know that your enhanced.
Also available without HUD.
Cost: 1,000eb

For those who remember Snake Plissken in “Escape from New York”, he converted all the equipment from that movie to Cyberpunk 2020. He also has full borgs, cyberware, guns, huge amounts of vehicles and all kind of stuff

Aussie BioExotics for Cyberpunk 2020

Aussie BioExotics for Cyberpunk 2020

Author: Daniel Radford who published this first Total System Technologies. Published with permission.

[The following article deals with the possibility to alter an human body so far it has animal characteristics. The Chromebooks include several examples. Here are the rules for some Australian animals to convert into. Have fun.]

With most exotics being based upon american style animals designed by american biotechnicians the so called ‘standard’ BioexoticsTM are becoming predictable and the range becoming stagnant.
To counter this a BiotechnicaTM approved Biomedtech, with the help of a few of his friends from other countries, has released the first of an ongoing line of BioexoticsTM. Based on Australian animals the first is called Aussie Exotics.

CUSCUS
With fur in colors from pure white, to cream, to tan, to red-brown the Cuscus is a tree dwelling marsupial with a long naked tail that easily coils up like a spring. The face is dominated by large round eyes (with cat-like vertical slit), and a wrinkled, fleshy nose. No visible ears. Body is sleek and smooth.Major Facial Modification, Short Muzzle, Retractable Claws, Fur Skinchange, Digitigrade legs, Tail (muscled, prehensile), Prehensile Feet, Olifactory Boost, Nightvision

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