Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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Last War CdB: XID

This is the first in a series of posts designed to play Last War using regulations Bug Hunt. The first thing we do is try to define the technological level of Last War.

generally the latest technology would be located somewhere between the NT2 and NT3, but conviviría with lots of technology and NT0 NT1. The most precarious spots have fallen to an NT-2 itself in a precarious medieval society. Doing a more thorough breakdown, things would look like:


Medicine
The cyber technology and the existence of robots in the game makes the most advanced medical technology is NT2: This would include nanotechnology, biochips and other powerful diagnostic systems that enable a cibermédico try a sophisticated cyber body. However, the reality at street level is different: cybertech clinics have the basics of NT2 to treat ciberimplantes, the rest is usually NT1. So in essence, not very different from a normal hospital something dirty.


Cyborgs
Very important in this setting, there are curious things. 90% of the implant and complete bodies are NT2, made with varying degrees of sophistication. But there is a 9% using a different technology, more precarious as valid but could be classified as a more precarious NT2 NT1 or very late, to taste. These implants and bodies often have trouble finding replacement parts often need to craft it. The other 1% is up to prototype NT3, existing in theory, but (almost) never seen in practice ...


Transportation
Most of the vehicles is NT1: Cars, helicopters, trains ... (The Railward is NT1 but use a nuclear reactor). There are a few vehicles NT2 as hovercraft, and spacecraft cuadracópteros (format "sardine can" and without FTL). And of course, continue using animals for riding and loads.


Armament
The most powerful weapon is NT2 Last War: Lasers, gauss rifles, EMP, etc. But usually found in industrial quantities NT1 weapons, even in societies that have fallen to a proper lifestyle archaic weapons: These are also fairly common, and usually also be combined with more sophisticated equipment.


Lifestyle
Last War is a superb example of High-Tech, Low-Life . For those living in cities, life can hardly exceed NT1 or NT0 and yet have access to and use higher-level computer regularly. For those who live in enclaves, levels tend to go back in a couple of points, and is often the case in communities with a distinctly medieval style but using methanol cars and firearms. Aiken is a special case with its citizens XL integrated into the network, which would be typical of a NT3, the same facilities with Antares .

Wasalt is a city with a sophisticated core clearly NT2 and some suburbs with an average NT1, although much of advanced technology is available to you can afford (and cheaply, is a the premises of the city). Phoenix has a late NT1, definitely not at the level of Wasalt even if technical facilities and equipment capable of handling pointer. Bargain City is a mixture where the average barely reaches to NT1, since what Typically found NT0 much mediocrity or less, with a few special places.

Friday, April 1, 2011

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technological levels

missions XID of Explore Investigate & Destroy, also known as 810 are one of the most common assignments to the teams that make up the WEG . A 810 involves performing a work based on the exploration of the assigned area, investigating any event or situation that is out of the ordinary, and destroying any hazards that could threaten the existence of general Wasalt. Of course, security and confidentiality of the group itself should be kept as far as possible, and that means not always have to shoot the first thing you see.

The 810 are a resource for the main game: Basically means that players will have considerable freedom of action to act as they wish within the basic parameters. The fact that radio silence unless impending catastrophe, having to completely hide its existence and dangers lurk everywhere, imply the need to act independently. The game may well launched without thorough preparation, working even on random events.

The biggest drawback is that both the GM and players should be people prone to improvise, and in the second case also possess initiative to do things.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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WEG

exists within the Agency Expeditionary a different unit from the rest: The Expeditionary Group, a suitably confusing name to disguise a regiment (but not use that designation) consists of five operating companies old-fashioned special. The WEG not have a shield, motto, or even recognized, its members do not have any special badge and its operations classified as top secret. By the way that all its members are human and although most have cybernetic bodies, some retain their full natural anatomy.

The Agency Expeditionary units are almost always civilians, made up of volunteers, spontaneous scavengers and agree to provide any information about his travels. The WEG is instead a military unit, and although it is subject to the Agency Expeditionary actually takes orders from WI & O, the device of Intelligence and Operations not only City Wasalt but of the entire network would .

Applicants enter the WEG are recruited from various places: from regular army units of the city to mercenaries, going through all sorts of types and gals hard to believe they can overcome the evidence income. The incentive to enter is some economic benefits, medical and social, as well as citizens in Wasalt , involving other privileges. The commitment is 4 years in which the volunteer will be subject to the guidelines of WEG, including not disclosing secret information or even the same membership group.

The entrance exam is very rigorous. Does not require particularly have a good body to make things cyber enough to provide it: What you need to have is a couple of eggs (or ovaries). And be very, very mad. Many applicants come to die in the attempt. But once passed, it does not end: First, the recruits will be "normalized" in terms of equipment cyberspace, but not with a pointer body but a series of common additives. They were then transferred to a training facility that even they know its location.

From then begins a training of one year in which they will be trained in survival, stealth, reconnaissance, combat, technical skills, driving, etc. After 9 months must pass a new exam harder than the original, which represent the peak of his training itself. This is when you are receive a cybernetic body and equipment to rise to the occasion, beginning a period of "practice" which must meet a series of objectives in supervised exercises, culminating in a final test of survival, which is by far harder than likely to experience in their regular missions.

Every year there are about 200 applicants. Only 5% gets to the end and become a member of the WEG . Of those who fail, about 30% die in the attempt. But in any case, if you come to complete the training, is an experience that will serve for the remainder of life. And those who get part of WEG know that their chances of survival are much higher than those of an ordinary human.

But of course, tasks and enemies are also well above the ordinary.

The WEG was created to be a branch of the WI & O . Its primary mission is to spy and "advocate" for the network would . Its formation coincides roughly with the emergence of Machina Imperial , not in vain that the Androids which grow exponentially in the city of Aiken are their main enemy. Because of the tremendous power that one of these androids can have, is required of elite soldiers able to cope. Compensating in the process with its innate intelligence to that of beings who do not have all the creativity they wanted.

Another very important enemy WEG is on high: The nations of the orbital and beyond have increased their activity considerably in recent times. Although the control of its operations lies more in the WI & O the WEG is increasingly working with agents Proud Nova and company.

No less important are the resistance movements. groups and Zero One not yet have enough power to overthrow the Red , but the shadows conspiring to keep busy Red confront their enemies, slowing their plans while the resistance gradually gaining adherents.

Finally, there are exploration missions are often very long. These operations mainly focus on exploring the barren lands north and east of Europe, equipped with some special body expeditions to explore the south of the border beyond the radioactive Thousand Miles.

In all these cases, members of the WEG exposed to long periods of isolation in which the unit must fend for themselves to succeed in the most inhospitable places and situations, being prepared to improvise and fight in the most appropriate when the situation arises.

The WEG is why my next campaign Last War. As you see, is heavily influenced by special operations groups real as SAS or Spetsnaz . The characters will be elite players in this group and as such, their missions will be more to deal with gangs of looters and pirates road. Your "power" will be high, but not wit that can not do much. The rules: CdB ... But after the subliminal messages I've received this week by cleaning house and found tons of leaves with GURPS things, do not rule out "experiment" with it either ...

Monday, February 28, 2011

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Last Hard Winter War

That I'm a fan of Bug Hunt is no secret. But having wanted to Last War from the beginning with this system rather than Fudge tout perhaps surprising to some. For me it is a system that works very well, combining the best of both worlds: Fudge and GURPS. And since the setting Last of War science fiction, can be directly used to play. So, what do I bring up to?

In the medium term future (to see if it can be before the summer), I have intention to start a campaign Last War. Open-ended, open weave and so hardcore . All I have absolutely clear is that the characters will be complete very powerful cyborgs, but not by physical power, but for all the wrong strength of public lands, such as radiation or lack of water and food: And this is not that going to give them any advantage, will give them a chance to survive by putting the same level as the toughest hazards they may encounter in deserts and ruins of Last War, and that the campaign will have a network of high flying.

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The Last War I will continue to be necessary to use all the rules of livelihood, repairs and others, and lists of equipment and of course the atmosphere. The Hunt for Bugs obviously also be aware that is not yet available ... But for when it is, and I will have some information as guidance on how to use it to play Last War.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

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20 - Amorphis "Skyforger"



AMORPHIS is a band that just turned-last year-the not inconsiderable figure of two decades of history. Originally from Helsinki, the Finnish capital, this sextet that has mutated from Death Metal to a grand primeval Progressive Metal, today is comprised of the founding members Esa Holopainen and Tomi Koivusaari on guitars, and drummer Jan Rechberger . They have added the incredible singer Tomi Joutsen (no doubt one of the best singers on the international scene), keyboardist Santeri Kallio (largely responsible for the monumental sound of the band) and bassist Niclas Etelavuori .

This is the line-up that recorded during the first half of 2009 - the prodigious record before us: "Skyforger" , ninth lengthy AMORPHIS, edited by Nuclear Blast and licensed in Argentina for the prestigious label Icarus.
has been recorded in the Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki, and produced by famed bassist Nightwish Marco Hietala (who contributes some backing vocals) and Mikko Karmila .
"Skyforger" -like all works of Amorphis - based his lyrics on the Kalevala, Finland's traditional book.

For us, "Skyforger" is the best record of these Finns, far surpassing the great classic of the group: "Tales From The Thousand Lakes" , 1994, an album that was able to dazzle the scene Metal by-then-revolutionary blend of orchestrated keyboards grunts. There are good jobs within the Amorphis discography such as Eclipse or "Silent Waters" , the two previous albums that concerns us, but none has a composition level as evenly as "Skyforger" , which can be considered as a real flood of radio hits.

The CD opens with four stunning themes, namely: "Sampo" , "Silver Bride" , From The Heaven Of My Heart "and " Sky Is Mine " . Believe me when I say that out of my astonishment at hearing this streak, which squeezed repeating ad nauseum over and over again. The vocal work of Tomi Joutsen is absolutely unforgettable therein lies much of the weight of the album, given its enormous performance quality. "Silver Bride" Hiter is most of all, but the level of these four songs is really smooth. Fascinating choruses, logradísimos bridges, clean guitar melodies, high inspiration. And the bonus of a singer like Joutsen , impressing his stamp on each composition.

"Majestic Beast" is one of heavier items on the disc, with a preponderance of the grunts over the clean, and is a good example of the versatility and the wide spectrum that can cover both today Joutsen as instrumentalists. Similarly, in our humble view, with "Majestic Beast" starts less attractive sector of the album, which includes the trilogy of the piece plus the two that follow, "My Sun" (the slower CD) and "Highest Star" . Not that the three above mentioned are not good: in fact, sure cuts would be spread over a disk style, but in our opinion are the least attractive of "Skyforger" .

The flight resumed their final plate height from the eighth track, which gives him title to the work. "Skyforger" , the issue is at the height of the first four, being a source of power energizing sound and tasteful. Again Joutsen takes the cake most intense, although the performance of Esa Holopainen reaches levels of excellence authentic. "Course of Fate" and "From Earth I Rose" is a step below, but also reach very high peaks of creativity, with exciting choruses and a steady level in the melodies, always superlative and very elegant.

Finally, in the Argentina edition plate is closed with a bonus: "Godlike Machine" , which despite being just that: a bonus, we believe over those three songs from the middle of the disc which did mention a couple of paragraphs above.

To summarize: one hundred percent recommended CD for any kind of audience that loves good music, inside or outside the metal. A brilliant work that goes beyond where it is appreciated, another brick in the wall consecration that has managed to build AMORPHIS, without doubt one of the best bands of our time, whose evolution is its secret.

commented: Javier Parente to OXIDE .-

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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ANOTHER SUICIDE ANNOUNCED, THE POST-TRAUMATIC SYNDROME OR Stresa

This letter has been sent by a private escort Tubal Association.
not discuss anything about the alleged suicide says it all. Fortunately today is in the psychiatric services of the Association subject to a great pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy appropriate to their mental picture.
While these things happen in Euskadi, others talk of suits and suit other pine, found relief from their persecution of so much heavy hand and lead spewed from the arms of many cold-blooded killings that took the lives of good people.

Monday, February 14, 2011

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At my age I should be accustomed to what is the winter. Not that this trip is still a hellish winter, same last year was much worse than this from snow, cold feet and a stunning purple wind that came from pine trees by the roots, including destruction of consideration which fortunately were materials .

This year has been a hard winter because it is proving quite demoralizing. Bad luck wants the weekends is when the worst is still to pick the backpack and go for a walk in the woods. The last time I did it was short and very little separated Village. For months I go to my colleagues not to hit bolazos or testing, and even the body is calling me in the winter, something that I missed last time: take a walk along the beach.

a couple of weeks ago was pretty impressive to see and at noon the visibility was painful, all the cars were with the lights on even though it was an overcast sky as many others, that even brought rain clouds low. So these past few days as the sun is out minimally, it has turned into lizard complex. Or a cat, seeing as they have taken advantage of every crack in getting more uncomfortable positions catch all the light possible.

Even I was wondering how nose could be possible that in the month of January was experiencing some symptoms of pollen, which is normally used to appear here in early March. But apparently not an isolated case. And the climate in general is a bit dodgy, because there are more people out there limping.

I'll have to get all the stores and scattered throughout the house if only to remove the craving, just do a book review for the blog, because it has a very serious slowdown is because not even find a best time to go out and do tests.

Anyway ... survive:)

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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19 - ROTTING CHRIST "AEáL"



ROTTING CHRIST (combo native Athens, Greece, formed in 1987) we are accustomed to works fantastic and a lot downloading historical nuances when playing. After much wait since their previous work, during 2010 we surprises with this new full length called "AEáL" . Recall that the band got a lot of impact and rebirth, so to speak-with "Theogony" , published in 2007.

First, we begin to discover why "AEáL" ? Sakis

(frontman and vocal) acknowledges this new vision of the group, consisting of looking to the roots of the ancient Greek tradition, which translates into a large burden of indigenous musical elements. This album features a unique contribution, the Traditional Choir Pliades originating in Ipiros, which mainly focuses to sing at funerals. He himself has lent his art to introduce "AEáL" ancestral air on the theme of the disc: the feelings of the warrior in the battle. "AEáL" is the Latin alphabet transcription of an ancient Greek word meaning catastrophe, destruction or devastation. And this record is all that noise.

is notably the band's growth musically and compositionally, this "AEáL" is continuing and a saga that began with "Theogony" , always in vision warrior and sounds when you say "personally", eyes closed, transported to that world war. Sakis

singer is undoubtedly a very complete, due to his diverse vocal range that few musicians possess the scene. ROTTING CHRIST actually has a plus that stands as a great training to have in their ranks Sakis . Also noteworthy is the work of Giorgos guitar, these Greeks always characterized by the sound of six strings, so distinctive to them.

As mentioned above, this CD helped the Pliades Choir, but also included a special participation: I'm talking about a lady with a unique voice and that more than one would fly head in his notes: Mrs. Diamanda Galas , adding his voice on the last track "Orders From the Dead"; is actually a cover of itself, made by ROTTING CHRIST and counting their collaboration.

Here we leave the tracklist of this great work:
01.
AEáL 02. Aena
Eon 03. Vrosis Demonon
04. Noctis was
05. Dub-sag-ta-ke
06. Fire Death and Fear
07. Nekron Iahes ...
08. Pir ... Threontai
09. Thou Art Lord
10. Santa Muerte
11. Orders From the Dead


ROTTING CHRIST gives us this very good work, we recommend without hesitation, and of which I certify that this is one of the best plates appeared in 2010.

commented: Luis DiSanti to OXIDE .-

Monday, January 24, 2011

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18 - Within Temptation "The Heart of Everything"



"The Heart of Everything" is the fourth studio album of which is probably today the most important band of the international Gothic Metal, natives of Waddinxveen, Netherlands, WITHIN TEMPTATION.
The training was responsible for this compendium of impeccable songs consisted of Sharon Den Adel on vocals (Except singer, described as a mezzo soprano, charismatic frontwoman), Robert Westerholt and Ruud Jolie on guitar, Jeroen Van Veen on bass, Martijn Spierenburg on keyboards and Stephen Van Haestregt on drums.

The album, released during the first half of 2007, is so far the last studio of the band, while awaiting the start of the new record, "The unforgiving" , to within a few weeks. The publisher was the American Roadrunner Records, usually devoted to groups of more extreme or aggressive tint. WITHIN TEMPTATION , however, has a distinctive European sound, but with a slight whiff Americanized in some of his compositions, which was not present in their first CDs.

To be faithful to the truth, this record is a parade of hits, one song after another. The first half of the album is simply unstoppable, and from the two initial tracks, "The Howling" (terrific example of how to conceive a great song) or the equally bombastic "What Have You Done" , probably the spearhead of this terrible record, a sensational topic that includes the tiny guest Keith Caputo, lead singer of Life of Agony (had something to do with the record in this detail?), an excellent counterpoint vocals with Sharon Den Adel .

Then, the disc still sound wonderful countryside passing by, somewhat calmer in the beautiful ballad "Frozen" , before rising again with the ultra radiable "Our Solemn Hour" where we can listen a catchy chorus to a fault. The first half of the plate comes at a good port with the song that gives title to it, followed by "Hand of Sorrow" different composition easily identifiable, very high level.

In the second half, may decline a little hypothetical "meter hits" but never falls quality of songs, which determines as a result this album simply unforgettable. "The Cross" is-certainly-one of the best tracks, not only of this album, but the entire race WITHIN TEMPTATION. In it we can appreciate the versatility and Sharon Den Adel without doubt one of the best singers in the world.

"Final Destination" down a step, but not because it is magnificent, is that his predecessor "The Cross" is superlative. "All I Need" is in our opinion the weakest point of the CD, but it is clear that the same is an issue that could be cut for any band dissemination of style, which, except Nightwish - consider all well below these Dutch.
Registration is closing with the last two songs: "The Truth Beneath the Rose" , the longest in duration, where emotions rise again after the previous "All I Need" , and the final "Forgiven" , a beautiful ballad where again the vocal cords of Sharon shine in full.

To summarize, we can say which, to our taste- "The Heart of Everything" is one of the greatest albums of the decade ended, one of those superlatives and monumental works that have no waste, which has no filler tracks, and which is very difficult to remove from the compactera. It's like a Greatest Hits , but no: in fact it is a board study of a band that squeezed the end of their enormous creativity, his innate songwriting talent and his remarkable ability to create the best songs in style.

In our humble opinion, "The Heart of Everything" deserves a ten in all aspects.

commented: Javier Parente To OXIDE .-

Thursday, January 6, 2011

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17 - Marcelle Lefineau "urban tribes" (Book)



For those who still like to take a book in their hands to flip through or dive eagerly reading, perhaps want to visit the pages "urban tribes. Clothing from a multicultural perspective ", the work of the fledgling author Marcelle Lefineau Argentina.

is not fiction or an essay or monograph, is a diachronic study that the author has resulted in pages, covering different periods as avant-garde styles, fashions, personalities, musical tastes.

This painstaking work, the historical context underpinning and framing each urban tribe, every minority rejections generates extravagant ones, identifying in others, and especially trying to make way for the cultural process of constant modernization and social ideology, tearing the prearranged system for the fees set in each period. Thus, in this tour are flippers, shipsters, beats, hippies, psychedelic, skinheads, heavys, punks, Rastafarians, hip hoppers, rappers, darks, industrial, gothic, with its sub-styles: medieval, Victorian, sick, etc. .. , ravers, or anime otaku, hackers, decorers, freaks, outsiders, metrosexuals, gossip girls, and variants of today.
These cultural, ideological and spiritual, are viable in the aesthetics, the arts, in the differentiation and clothing constructed from a creative, distinctive.

The young writer, designer clothing and big social observer, shows a gallery of "tribals" and started his story from the twenties to today. A journey that highlights the needs and feelings of Western culture, from the perspective of the great designers like Vionnet, Chanel, Dior, among others, the influential music in the styles of jazz, soul, rock, ska, reggae, funk, hip hop, heavy metal, disco, etc., celebrities, concerning all of them.

Finally, it is clear that the book has wonderful illustrations that undergo semantic paratextual the text, the words made-it-by the artist Luis Disanti chivilcoyano .

commented: Florence aspire to OXIDE .-