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Old 07-23-2014, 11:39 AM   #3
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Default Re: Advantages List: Cinematic vs Realistic

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding View Post
Luck: Obviously this is one of those perpetual things, but IMO not cinematic.
I've started using Impulse Buys for things like Luck now, so my inclination is to disallow it anyway.

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Zeroed: How is this not cinematic? Real hackers can't actually keep an identity scrubbed perfectly and indefinitely.
There are plenty of people on the planet that are not in any database. I agree it would be cinematic to claim this disadvantage and still function in a modern society. But, as TL goes down, the ability to be Zeroed and function goes up. For this reason, I hesitate to blanketly label it as cinematic.

EDIT: Maybe there should be grey-area list with caveats? E.g. Cinematic in TL7+ societies. I think I will start adding some qualifiers to this list.

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