"At the risk of sounding like I'm shilling for this game, it's as close as you're going to get to living Neuromancer without dropping a soda can full of acid and jamming your penis in a light socket."

sounds like a regular tuesday to me

More of the usual "PC game modding FTW" routine :)

Been playing this since yesterday.

I hope the video doesn't do the game justice, because that looks like crap, and I'm not just talking graphics here. Is it fun? How much of that stuff did they copy from Shadowrun?

If my name wasn't already Kilgore, it'd be Enoch Root.

This mod looks really cool. I'm just not sure it will run on my 286.

I've been playing on and off since the first official release, and it's an awesome mod. Fun, varied, well-balanced and strategic. The update really improves the flow of the gameplay, improves the graphics, performance and stability, and adds some really cool new weapons. The Tesla gun and dual pistols are great, and nothing beats sneaking around as an invisible light soldier and killing everyone with the boltgun and katana.

The author seems like he's a bit confused, though; both sides have the same weapons, armor and classes. You can choose from 3 classes, heavy, light and medium, which are the same on each side. Basically, Heavies are the heavy support, mediums are medics and general infantry, and lights are poorly-armored stealthers that can sneak around and do powerful hit-and-run attacks. (lights can be medics, and mediums don't have to be, but they usually are.) You can also choose from a bunch of non-critical add-ons like thermal vision, fast running/high jumping, and, of course, decking, which lets you hack into security terminals and battle TRON style.

But yeah, awesome mod, easily the best Half-Life 2 mod I've played. A great game, and definately worth a download.

Long one of the best parts of Dystopia.

"Neuromancer has got to be the single most difficult book I have ever read, and that includes text books of chemistry and the like."

I didn't find Neuromancer to be all that hard, I've read it twice and once was lounging by the pool on holiday in the South of France. If you do struggle with the book, check out the audio book, its pretty good.

As far as Chemistry goes, I'd take Gibson's work over Physical Chemistry by Atkins any day. Maybe i'm just jaded though, because I have to spend the rest of the day measuring the influence of Surfactants on surface tension.

Wintermute, (nice book ref). I guess I should clarify, The first 270 pages I thought were too sporatic. There was a huge atmosphere to the story that I felt the author had a problem getting it across, once you get to the "meat" of the story he seemed to be able to focus better and the readinig became easier.

The book just didn't flow as well for me in the beginning, I had to force myself to keep going.

Not like some of my favorite books. A World out of Time, Starman Jones, The Mote in Gods Eye, Starship Troppers, The Forever War and Legacy of Heorot to name a few.