From: chalz@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:51 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: RE: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - A Newcomer arrives **** Thanks, Charles for the welcome. Nice to meet you all. ** You're welcome :) **** group, who know the only thing guns are good for is signaling or suicide ;) ** I like it ;) In my first ever BP combat, one of my partners had a seemingly comatose woman in a fireman's carry, and in a situation which would take too long to explain, we were confronted by mobsters, and she had programmed reflexes which resulted in her flipping my partner, getting down, and swiping my sidearm before I even had a chance to roll. The next thing that happened was, aiming for her, a mobster hit me and I was down until all fire ceased :/ Thankfully one group member was a medic. Oy. **** > Hmm.. I wonder if there are any 'undercover' > missions in 'Fallout Tactics'... > Haven't tried it. Good? I'm awaiting Tropico's release on friday :) ** Hehehe. Tactics isn't too shabby. A lot of people on the web boards complain a LOT about bugs I have yet to see. Course, I haven't played it much, but I DO know a guy who has, and he's had no such problems yet. *shrugs* Ever play 'Commandos'? It's kind of like that, but less lethal. Not as .. 'dynamic', though, as there seems to be a single course of action in some missions, where in 'Commandos' you were (usually) left to your own devices. Plus in 'Tactics', ammo is plentiful, snipers are wonderful to have, and you can select your team as you go along (with one character being ever-present - your self) and equip them as you like (within reason). You can't get a LOS from NPC's, though. Whether you're in their LOS or in range is a guess :/ But the time changes, so in the dark you have better cover. Oops, off topic. **** > I'll have to ask where he got it Yes, I'm keen to know where as well, so I can drop the article in as a prop... ;) ** I've just sent him an email requesting said info ;) Glad you liked! --Charles -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: chalz@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 12:35 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: RE: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Hmmmm P{BeM? **** Then you will be welcome. What sort of character would you care to play? At the moment I am thinking about a group of LEOs sent out to establish a presence in a remote corner of Poseidon. So something that will fit in with that. Thoughts? ** While I'm not currently interested in a PBEM game, if you ask me, cetaceans would be somewhat invaluable to a new outpost on Poseidon. Aside from the obvious underwater patrols, they could use cicada to help with the sub-surface construction and maintenance, and to a lesser degree transport. Hmm.. With 'Deus Ex' in mind, the 'mission' where you deal with the submerged base and digging facility, I wonder just what a platform/shore combo 'base' to suit humans and cetaceans would look like. Do the cets have their own door? -C -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: chalz@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 1:07 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: OT: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Questions fro the GMs **** REBOL is a nice, tight little language. The main problem I saw was that you would have to include the interpreter since it wasn't integrated with any browsers that I know of (of course it's been about five or six months since I poked around with it a little). ** Yip. Part of the deal with that is they're hoping to get more 'universality' out of their product, it seems. Ie, "Wow, this sounds like just the program I need! Hmm, and I only need this 230K interpreter to run it? Okay!" *grins* Plus the way it works with CGI is REALLY cool. Just put #!/path/to/rebol --cgi and have the script output the proper headers and HTML material and that's it. Converting regular text-based REBOL scripts to CGI was a snap; like my 'whois' toy and my die roller. No server mods, nothing. Just make sure the executable has the proper perms. Now they have REBOL/Command and REBOL/Runtime, which you have to purchase, which - if I follow the the info correctly - allow you to generate executable binaries (platform dependent, of course) out of scripts for distribution. They also have REBOL/View - GUI controls. Have you seen that? Not bad for how little code is required. Also 'Rebpages' - REBOL enhanced webpages accessed through REBOL/View. Quite a trip. Certainly much easier on the network and file access than anything else I've played with. **** CGI is handy but it's very server dependant. And if you have to move it from one place to another you may have to modify it if the server apps aren't configured identically. ** True. Though with REBOL/Core, again, all you need are the proper perms; no server mods at all. *shrugs* I know I sound like a REBOL salesman, but I'm obsessive/compulsive, and REBOL's my current obsession ;) **** Jim Heivilin, System Administrator IAT Services, Open Systems Team University of Missouri at Columbia ** Approximately where in Columbia do you live? I spent a month there over a year ago, with a friend who went to Mizzou. -C -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Megan C. Robertson [mcrobertson@phoenix.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:26 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Hmmmm P{BeM? Greetings dear hearts, especially David. As I think about it, I'm getting more and more interested on having a nice cetacean character in the game. I keep having ideas for things that you could do... Hugs and kisses, Mexal. *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: thazar@globalnet.co.uk Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:51 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: RE: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - A Newcomer arrives In reply-to blue_planet@lists.ient.com on Wed Apr 25 12:38:28 2001 >**** >Thanks, Charles for the welcome. Nice to meet you all. >** Ok, If Introduction's are in order I better do mine I suppose! DomT= Long time role Player and GM but new to the Blue Planet (Mostly I've GM'ed CoC, RQ, Shadowrun, Traveller. At least in the last 10 years or so). In fact I'm so new to BP that I GM my first session tonight. Its a introduction both to BP and for one player their first ever RPG. Outside of BP I'm yet another CompEng type (my degree was in Computer Aided Physics) and I currently work in a Nameless Goverment Institution (nothing remoetly sexy..its just policy not to discuss it ...I guess so the 'sexy' ones have some cover) .....BP seems to attract us Hard Science types for obvious reasons. I was drawn to BP by its mixture of good science, 'real' rules and excellent background. Besides Computers I've been a officer in the Royal Marines, A wooden Boat Builder, Mountain Guide/Rock Climbing Intructor and Science Journal Proof Reader......I get fed up of rules systems that are 'cartoony' in their use of violence and on the other hand hate 'over complex' systems. BP seems a very good balance. The combat system I like particularly. Luckily I never got shot at whilest in the Marines...but I showed up to places where people had been shot and had to deal with the results..... How many GM's out there have 'Science' backgrounds or inclinations? I'm guessing its a case of 'Written for...by'. Oh my first session will be a one off dealing with a Incorperate team looking for a missing reasearch party...did a rival Incorp do them in? Natives? Wild Life? Something more sinister? Or did they strike Long John and go AWOL? DomT ------------------------------------------------ Global WebMail - Delivered by Global Internet www.global.net.uk ------------------------------------------------ *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Megan C. Robertson [mcrobertson@phoenix.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 8:58 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: Re: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - A Newcomer arrives Greetings Dom. Welcome aboard... even if you are a Royal! I'm a webhead by trade and a role-player for over 23 years. I was intitially attracted to BLUE PLANET because I read a scenario for the system on RPG Archive - http://www.rpgarchive.com/ - for it, thought it sounded fun... and as I'm a diver and life science graduate it had added appeal. Fancy a PBeM game? I'm setting one up. Hugs and kisses, Mexal. former sergeant, The 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment. *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:12 AM To: 'blue_planet@lists.ient.com' Subject: [FWD] Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Who is running a campaign right now > -----Original Message----- > From: "Poh Tun Kai" > To: > Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Who is running a campaign right now > Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 13:28:44 -0400 > > Jeff wrote: > > 1. Central Missouri, 4 players, about once per month, > players have become > > active members of the Children of the Widow native resistance group > (thanks > > Kai!) > > Wow, you're still using that? I guess I should be honored... > > Kai Poh > Malaysian Lagomorph > Semi-retired BPv1 GM > > *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:51 AM To: 'blue_planet@lists.ient.com' Subject: RE: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Questions fro the GMs > -----Original Message----- > From: chalz@earthlink.net [mailto:chalz@earthlink.net] > Subject: OT: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Questions fro the GMs > Approximately where in Columbia do you live? I spent a > month there over a year ago, with a friend who went to Mizzou. > On the south side of the city (ie, south of Nifong if that means anything). Jim *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: thazar@globalnet.co.uk Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 9:49 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: RE: Re: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - A Newcomer arrives >Greetings Dom. > >Welcome aboard... even if you are a Royal! Heh. Well I was only in for a short time...although I officialy served 4 years I was wearing uniform for less than 1 1/2 years...6months of that training! I got med discharge part way through sitting my degree.....and then changed to the CA physics. As to PBeM. Yes I'm intrested. However I'm rather short on time....I'm running the aforementioned BP game Wed' nights, Shadowrun Sunday Nights and Playing in a Vampire Dark Ages game Fridays......and I'm about to run Chaosium's massive Mountains of Maddness Campaign. Added to which I'm going to spending a lot of this summers weekends running round in fields hitting people (I like Historical Battle Re-enactment...excitment of fighting a battle with at least the aim of no-one getting hurt)..... So depending on how much time you need from a player..I'm intrested. Maybe I could do walk on's as NPC's if you need 'bit players'? Dom ------------------------------------------------ Global WebMail - Delivered by Global Internet www.global.net.uk ------------------------------------------------ *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: chalz@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:15 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: RE: RE: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - A Newcomer arrives **** Ok, If Introduction's are in order I better do mine I suppose! ** And yet another has been ensnared... **** DomT= Long time role Player and GM but new to the Blue Planet (Mostly I've ** Greets DomT! **** Outside of BP I'm yet another CompEng type (my degree was in Computer Aided Physics) and I currently work in a Nameless Goverment Institution (nothing remoetly sexy..its just policy not to discuss it ...I guess so the 'sexy' ones have some cover) .....BP seems to attract us Hard Science types for obvious reasons. Besides Computers I've been a officer in the Royal Marines, A wooden Boat Builder, Mountain Guide/Rock Climbing Intructor and Science Journal Proof ** I feel so inadequate around here. --Charles -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: chalz@earthlink.net Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:25 AM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: RE: RE: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Questions fro the GMs **** > Approximately where in Columbia do you live? I spent a > month there over a year ago, with a friend who went to Mizzou. > On the south side of the city (ie, south of Nifong if that means anything). ** It sounds familiar, but no real clue. I was mostly hunkered around the area of Gumby's Pizza, probably 5-10mi around ;) Not the best pizza I've ever had (NO ONE compares to Tony's up here in NY), but far, far from the worst ;) If my girlfriend doesn't try to execute me first for suggesting so (she has a thing against Missouri), I might have to slip down there and harass you guys for a round of BP or two. -C -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail2Web - Check your email from the web at http://www.mail2web.com/ . *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: David R. Crowell [gpfarm-dave@northnet.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 4:57 PM To: blue_planet@lists.ient.com Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Cyborg Lampreys Saw this via Steve Jackson Games "Daily Illuminator" thought it might be of interest to this list. > spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought you should see it. > > To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited site, go to http://www.guardian.co.uk > > Robot with living brain created in US > James Meek, science correspondent > Tuesday April 17 2001 > The Guardian > > > Researchers in Chicago have built a cyborg, a half-living, half-robot creature which connects the brain of an eel-like fish to a computer and is capable of moving towards lights. > > The device, developed at a research centre owned by Evanston's Northwestern University, consists of the brain stem from the larva of a lamprey, a bloodsucking fish, attached by electrodes to an off-the-shelf Swiss robot. > > In an arrangement reminiscent of the genesis of the Daleks, the living brain floats in a container of cool, oxygenated salt fluid. > > Placed in the middle of a ring of lights, the robot's sensors detect when a light is switched on. It sends signals to the lamprey brain, which returns impulses instructing the robot to move on its wheels towards the light. > > When all the lights are off, the robot stays still. When one of the robot's eyes is masked, the disembodied brain is temporarily confused, but learns to compensate. > > One of the researchers, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi, said the work was a step forward in neural engineering. "There's an element of uniqueness in what we've done, particularly in the fact we've created a closed loop system, where the lamprey brain and the robot are exchanging information," he told the Guardian. > > Scientists are exploiting the immature lamprey's instinct to keep itself oriented the right way up in the water. In a cyborg arrangement, that translates into seeking light. > > The marriage of baby bloodsucker and Swiss engineering has little chance of conquering the universe as yet. Scientists can only keep the brains alive for a few days and are unable to stabilise them long enough to see whether they can remember anything. > > But they hope their work will ultimately lead to the creation of advanced, brain-controlled prostheses for people whose normal ability to control their limbs has been disrupted by a stroke or Parkinson's disease. > > "The focus of our work is not so much to create a cyborg as to create a tool for investigating the organisation of the brain," said Dr Mussa-Ivaldi. > > Other scientists are already moving towards the practical application of microelectronics to help the disabled. > > In Atlanta, scientists have implanted a tiny glass electrode in the cerebral cortex of a quadriplegic patient and coaxed neurons to grow inside. By attaching a transmitter, the patient was able to move a cursor on a computer screen by thought alone. > > The creation of the cyborg brings closer the advent of machines with animal parts. Advances in miniaturised electronics have inspired other scientists to try to develop devices with living biological components. > > The Washington Post reported that an Iowan entomologist, Tom Baker, has attached moth antennae, capable of detecting the smell of high explosives, to an electronic device which reads variations in the nerve signals sent out by the antennae when they pick something up. > > But the electronics are not sophisticated enough to distinguish one smell from another - so as yet the half-moth, half-chip machine isn't much use for its intended purpose, sniffing out land mines. > > Dr Mussa-Ivaldi said cyborgs were, in a sense, already all around us. "People wearing prostheses could be considered cyborgs," he said. "Some think that when we're attached to our internet connections, we're cyborgs." > > Copyright Guardian Newspapers Limited > *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@lists.ient.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.