The Totally Radical Thread for Crotchety Old Bitches

Thanks to a botched russian roulette trick during an interrogation, my buddy Greg shot a pimp in the balls today during the Shadowrun game. I gave the advice that maybe they should have had Mike use the Agony spell, or the Viking-look guy beat the guy, but Greg decided to do a Russian roulette thing. He was like "I pull the trigger" and I was like "now I roll to see if it landed on the loaded cylinder." Rolled a 1. "Congrats, you shot him in the balls." Luckily Mike had a healing spell to keep him from dying, lol.

Really? You get so many options to pull a Jack Bauer in that game... And, the tired old roulette spiel is what he comes up with?

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaame.

/backseat gaming

I tried to gently direct them. The mage guy had a spell called Agony that inflicts massive pain with no real damage, but they went with the RR schtick. I rolled a die... one.

Then again, nothing says "we're serious, motherfucker" like a .44 round to the nuts followed by a healing spell to make sure you don't die.

edited 25th Jul '16 7:15:29 PM by MarkVonLewis

Oh lord. That is almost as bad as players kicking a live land mine asking if it still works when they just found it.

"What does this terminal do?" Bwhahahahaha!

I really hope there was a simple paperwork error. My food stamps got knocked down from 194 dollars to SIXTEEN. Because of "a change in income." Which makes no sense as the only change in income is that I was FIRED.

Most of my problems will be solved in December, once I graduate the program, but that is going to be a tough wait.

So the good news is I'm away from my bartending job and just spent the weekend with partner in Rhode Island. The bad news is that my laptop's hard drive is bricked and de-bricking it is going to be really complicated, really expensive, and have at best a 50 percent chance of recovering the lost data. That lost data includes every single creative project I've done for the past 3 years, as well as the software I need to make more things.

Back up your computers, guys. Don't be me.

Hmmm... It would be expensive if the drive won't start. Then you would have to open it and replace parts. I don't currently have the tools to read a wrecked hard drive that runs, but there should be free software sufficient to the task online.

...did you say every creative project for the past three years? That is a drive worth recovering. If my mailbox were not 700 kilometers from my current residence...

edited 26th Jul '16 1:39:22 PM by war877

The drive functions, but does not mount. Looks like a corrupt filesystem. Even if I knew how to fix a corrupt filesystem, there's a possibility the drive may be protected or unreadable in my linux partition because of apple core storage.

It's funny, this stuff is why I have a linux partition, but working on linux might be making this even harder.

War 87 - is this something in your area of expertise? Because I have been able to image the drive, I just don't know how to start repairing it. Would you be open to communicating off this forum with some detailed help?

edited 26th Jul '16 4:39:44 PM by KyleJacobs

It is not an area of my expertise. It is close to an area of my expertise. You managed to image the entire drive? Excellent.

All I know is what file systems look like, rumours of recovery software that tends to destroy data instead of recovering it, and that it should be theoretically easy to create software that pulls files out of an image. I could do some research.

What is the original format of the drive, and the file type of the image? I assume ext3 for the former?

Anyway, repairing a drive is easy, once you get the data off, if it is not physically damaged. You just reformat.

You can pm me.

Hard drive issues just suck in general. I hope you get your stuff back and things in working order.

I figured you folks could use a chuckle.

They should work for the ministry of silly walks.

Ok, so awesome news re: my laptop.

Brought it to the genius bar yesterday, and the guy who worked with me ended up taking great care of me. It turns out that the drive is fine, it just wouldn't mount on Linux because of Apple's core storage system. The problem is actually with the onboard graphics. Normally that's upwards of a $300 repair, but the guy at the genius bar was able to find a loophole that let me get it fixed for free. So now I have a brand new SSD, my data is fine, and I have my laptop back in 3 days.

If the internet's lack of security does not make you paranoid, you should consider uploading all your important stuff to google drive, or another cloud.

Kyle: Good news indeed! Nice intersection of "all is not lost" and "oh hey loophole". When I worked customer service, those were days I lived for.

Fortunately I also got an external drive bay out of this fiasco, so I'm thinking more along the lines of multiple redundant local images. My important documents already have a cloud backup.

So my buddy Greg from work keeps talking about wanting to commit bank fraud in Shadowrun to bankroll a bunch of cyberware. I'm using GM Fiat to disallow that, but if I do I'll roll a die to see which bank he actually ripped off. Should I roll a one, he'll have stolen from Zurich-Orbital.

Mark: ...That sounds like a situation begging to bite him in the ass. I would let him do it and have the Corp single him out for retribution.

My D20 Weird War Two table is going to be the strangest yet. I have one resistance fighter form France, a field medic from US West Coast who is basically a horny corporal Clinger, a British SOE occultist, and a Russian Scout working for Smersh and the Soviet Paranormal investigation program.

edited 30th Jul '16 3:30:48 PM by TuefelHundenIV

That, or throw in many a surprise. Like accidentally hitting a blood bank. Or a warehouse of junked (and delusional) decks waiting for organised recycling... Which happens to be connected to some Very Nice Men In Suits by a convoluted web of dummy corps.

edited 30th Jul '16 3:31:32 PM by Euodiachloris

Tuef: That's what the die roll is for, is which corp goes after him. Like I said, should the roll be a one, he'd basically have stolen from all 10 AAA megacorps and the Corporate Court.

I don't want to do that, though, because him being hunted would adversely affect the other group people.

Though unless he makes some more hacker contacts he'll be out of luck. His crude street samurai is on less than good terms with the technomancer NPC lady. Then again, if he does do this foolish action, he'll have to spend a good chunk hiring the Nartaki shadowrunner, Kali.

edited 30th Jul '16 3:39:51 PM by MarkVonLewis

My life sucks right now. Mostly because of money, government fuckups, lack of medication, and way too much time alone.

It'll get better once I've graduated in December—I'll be able to work full time. But I'm going to miss acting school.

Lerad: Sounds like you got a handle on this. Hang in there.

Ah my native New Mexico:

The "New Mexico Accent" (I think I dated someone like her once)...

Some of the accent bits are the same as here in Michigan (like the pronunciation of crayon)

In other news, picked up some Tiger balm today because my Icy Hot ran out. Man, the scent of it takes me back, lol.