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I've just been watching Survivors on iPlayer whilst rebuilding an unfortunate old PC that died of deathstaritis. It made me think about surviving the worst case scenarios, what tech would I want to survive a zombie apocalypse? What software should I keep several copies of? Is gentoo the answer? And then I found a worst of all worst case scenarios: What software is essential to survive the windows experience?

GNU vs Shadowrun

I'm trying to gen a shadowrun character. And no, I'm not playing a hacker, technomancer or anything that relates to my supposedly real existence. It's far more fun to play something completely different. I'm going with a face+driver.

It seems Shadowrun is the game for accountants, assembly programmers and the kind of people who want everything a character owns nailed down. I was at character design about 5 minutes before I broke out KSpread and what I hoped was a final character sheet ended up at 4 sheets. Ok, so one of those was devoted to an insanely modified secure delivery van with pretty much every modification in the book strapped to it... but that's another story. Here's my point:

Invisible Dave (the GM) wrote:
I've only skim read so far, but I notice you have a few programs you could do with at least at level one. Basically browse and command...(snip)... Analyze, Scan, edit, Decrypt and encrypt programs are also things you should put high on your list of items to obtain quickly, although they're not essential, just very helpful

And all I can think is but I don't pay for any of these now.

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