It's still pretty cold in FL for this time of year. How's PA?
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 7:39 pm
We are still a tad chilly, hovering just beneath the freezing point. That sounds cold, until you realize we were at -35 windchills or so, I think, not that long ago.
I'm on a Dinosaur bender on netflix now. The cyberpunk section of my brain says "why can't we construct vehicles based on dino design? Removing the heart and lungs to form the power plant, removing the digestive system to create the cockpit? Synthesized muscles and alloys for movement and structure. Dinos were evolutionary specialists . . . the triceratops was a living tank. The ankylosaur was nothing short of a defensive giant. Raptors like Dynonichus was a fast machine of death. in a cyberpunk game, those could be most interesting.
Yikes, no surprise the rest of the US is colder than FL. Crazy winter this year...
At that point it would resemble something akin to Shadowrun, only w/ dinosaurs replacing the elves and such.
Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:48 pm
Oh, I'm not saying running a game like that, or using biological creations. I'm talking technological advancements and vehicles based on dinosaur evolutionary traits. The Triceratops was nothing short of a tank, T. Rex was a monster of an assault being, and the ankylosaur was a powerful tank that virtually nothing could penetrate. Biologically, they were perfect. Take those designs, and redesign them with techonology to make new vehicles and/or power armor.
I just like that idea. I also had the idea of using cybernetics to create a skeletal drone. The parts are made to interconnect with living tissue, thus they should be compatible with one another. Then, add in some sort of seeking and minor movement servos, and if the body recieves too much of a blow, parts will pop off like a toy- designed to break when too much stress occurs. Now, the fun part comes from the parts being able to move and home in on each other to reconnect. The body would rebuild itself. Add that to a distance control setup (telepresence, the driver assumes the identity of the rig by controlling it as if it were his/her own body), and you have an intelligent being that can't feel pain, cant be destroyed easily, and will auto-repair.
Oh, I'm not saying running a game like that, or using biological creations. I'm talking technological advancements and vehicles based on dinosaur evolutionary traits. The Triceratops was nothing short of a tank, T. Rex was a monster of an assault being, and the ankylosaur was a powerful tank that virtually nothing could penetrate. Biologically, they were perfect. Take those designs, and redesign them with techonology to make new vehicles and/or power armor.
I just like that idea. I also had the idea of using cybernetics to create a skeletal drone. The parts are made to interconnect with living tissue, thus they should be compatible with one another. Then, add in some sort of seeking and minor movement servos, and if the body recieves too much of a blow, parts will pop off like a toy- designed to break when too much stress occurs. Now, the fun part comes from the parts being able to move and home in on each other to reconnect. The body would rebuild itself. Add that to a distance control setup (telepresence, the driver assumes the identity of the rig by controlling it as if it were his/her own body), and you have an intelligent being that can't feel pain, cant be destroyed easily, and will auto-repair.
Ah, I understand. Yeah, science has accomplished much by imitating nature.
Your drone idea reminds me of the Dark/Devil Gundam from G Gundam. It shows that self-repair, self-evolution, and self-replication make for an unstoppable villain of the hive mind variety, which match quite well with machines operating independently as part of a larger body, as you discussed.
Nope, just a caveman . . . the figure line was with cavemen and bones. Still, I do see the resemblance. I actually had the T Rex once upon a time, it was a big one . . . at least, to an 8yo.
Cool. It reminds me of that 80s cartoon, Herculoids, though of course those were not skeletal monsters.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 10:05 pm
Ah, yes . . . I recall them. A most interesting group. A wyvern, an egg-launching dinosaur variant, a stone gorilla, and a pair of blobs that followed a family around.
I would say they were odd, but most cartoons are when reduced to the simplest explanation.
Quite true. One can make quite a fun game out of explaining anime/cartoons in the most literal sense possible.
Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 9:53 pm
This show centers on a possible stable mutant race living in an arborial setting. All members of this sect are approximately 7.5 inches tall, are male, and have constructed a village out of local fungus. This group has a unique variant of the common tongue with reusing a titular word in place of randomized verbs, nouns, adverbs, or adjectives. The group has multiple encounters with local humans to various effects.
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