I grew up knowing I would follow my father into the family business. I went to school and studied hard, and when I played games it was cricket or soccer or polo with other kids from the more affluent families.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for February, 2012
When I was young, before I discovered girls, all I wanted was to be a Hellcat pilot. I grew up playing every Hellcat simulator they come up with, fighting on virtual worlds from Earth to Independence and beyond. I fought[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Cybers play games just as much, if not more, as anybody else does. Games are entertainment, and we all need that. In practice, we are often most like reenactors, many of us cooperating to play people who live in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many of you have celebrated Valentine’s Day this week. Many of you have not. For those of you who have, I wonder if you do something special on that day, and then do nothing the rest of the year. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
You know we all see things that are odd or don’t make sense. Some of us mention it, a few of us actually protest it. So why is that the moment someone else says “It’s the rules” so many people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Some people wonder why we choose to fight. We certainly don’t have to fight to survive. If we wanted to, we could simply move to some out of the way systems, live in cyberspace, and never ever have to fight[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello, my name is Jack. I hope you still know T&J when you read this. I grew up listening to them sing. During The War they started doing USO tours, and they kept it up afterwards. I go to their[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I find it very interesting that, for thousands of years, legends and stories of automatons who turned against their creators and killed them were the norm. The golems of ancient lore, the robots and AIs of more recent stories, they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’re going out tonight. You’re welcome to join. We’re getting all dressed up, going to clubs, and dancing the night away. We’re gonna run and swim under the light of a bonfire. We’re gonna do things that will give us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first Terran cyber was born in 2205. For the first twenty years after that, there weren’t very many of us. We’re…particular about who we choose to work with. And the Terran were suspicious, rightfully so with all the stories[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…