Real-Life Weirdness

[David Johnston2]

Russia just banned John McCain from going there. What do they know that we don't?

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Russia just banned John McCain from going there. What do they know that we don't?

Translation error? They meant John McClane, and his punk-CIA kid.

[dcarson]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Russia just banned John McCain from going there. What do they know that we don't?

They also just shelled a cemetery. Does Umbrella have a Russian subsidiary?

[Dr. Beckenstein]

Twenty years after his murder, the victim is brought back to life and asks witnesses to come out:

https://dutchreview.com/news/rotterd...eepfake-video/


Okay, it is a deep-fake video. But I am sure we will see this more often in the future - what will be the consequences?

So, gaming appliances ... what if they start to use better and better AI, so that real ghosts appear that start to hunt their murders?

[dcarson]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

Was watching a Planet Earth II episode with the young'un that focused on animals in the cities and in particular a troupe of monkeys in an Indian city. PCs would be so paranoid about troupes of monkeys just going in a line from place to place on the balconies and rooftops. Then I was picturing PCs using shape change to try to be monkeys to get somewhere, but blundering into someone's territory and getting into a fight with the local troupe's dominant male.

The fact that they are political assassins might get players attention. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indian-...monkey-attack/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oof-death.html

[L.J.Steele]

55 gallon drum shipments from US immigrants to Carribean families.

https://theprepared.org/features-feed/shipping-barrels

Similar logistics might affect all sorts of games. Or the PCs might need to smuggle something or find something in such a shipment.

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

55 gallon drum shipments from US immigrants to Carribean families.

https://theprepared.org/features-feed/shipping-barrels

Similar logistics might affect all sorts of games. Or the PCs might need to smuggle something or find something in such a shipment.

That's an interesting lesson in economics. Could be good for smuggling something small and not time sensitive.

I wonder if something similar happens in the more crowded Pacific regions? I can see the Indonesian archipelago having similar situations.

Might also serve as a good cargo for a space tramp freighter. I can see the Millennium Falcon carrying such a cargo, as or as not, covering a smuggled cargo.

[Luke Bunyip]

Plane violates numerous European countries airspaces, lands at an abandoned Bulgarian airfield, and the pilot "disappears"...

Bulgaria hunts for mystery pilot

[thorr-kan]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

Plane violates numerous European countries airspaces, lands at an abandoned Bulgarian airfield, and the pilot "disappears"...

Bulgaria hunts for mystery pilot

Anybody seen Mathias_Rust lately?

[tshiggins]

Originally Posted by Luke Bunyip

Plane violates numerous European countries airspaces, lands at an abandoned Bulgarian airfield, and the pilot "disappears"...

Bulgaria hunts for mystery pilot

Buses travel between Targoviste and Bucharest every 15 minutes; there are four fast trains (90 minutes) to Bucharest, every day; and three slower trains (two hours).

Additional destinations frequently traveled to from the local station include oil producing city Ploiesti; the small city of Pitesti; and the affluent Romanian tourist city, Sibiu, with an international airport that has daily flights to many European countries.

So, the question is, "Infiltration, or exfiltration?"