I noticed there wasn't much on shapeshifters in fenspace, beyond a mention on the Crystal Millennium page of the wiki. So I started putting something together myself. I'd like input from other people on this. Don't know if this just be part of the general biomod page, or it's own page.
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Shapeshifters in Fenspace are
rare. This isn't from lack of people trying, but the wave doesn't seem
to be inclined to actually product such mods normally. There are quite a
few of the Supernatural Fen stuck in one Were form or another after
attempting to do so. A lot just end up with the classic wolfman look. In
all most shifting tends to be minor things, like skin, hair colors and
minor size changes. Going onto rare, like appearance, gender and onto
full body structure changes. The last is very rare and they generally
have some sort of draw back. [[Andrew Fauho] takes days just to shift
into a anthro fox from human. It makes him sick if he tries to push it.
[[Dakota] can shift very quickly between a humanoid and quadoid form,
there are videos on Fentube of him doing so, but at the cost of having a
massive appetite afterwards. Some of the more minor shifts aren't
controlled, they are triggered by outside, mood, or subconscious action.

 
Not everyone risks a biomod in hopes of getting a
shiftmod. Some go with using sleaves, remotes, puppets or even in one
case, garou power armor. In order to simulate being a shifter. Others
are related, but part of their own Fendom. Some Cybers and even the rare
Transformer falls into this category.
 
...
  [[Vesta Institute of Biochemistry] and [[Kandor City]'s STAR Labs are eager to add any such 'mod to their growing biomod database.
...
 
There are no known truly unlimited shapeshifters out there.*
 
- Notable Shapeshifters -
 
[[Andrew Fauho]
[[N]
[[Jeph Antilles]
[[Dakota]
 
 
 
*Trekkies are paranoid about someone hostile managing a truly working changeling biomod
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Characters
Sabre Fang
Dakota

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/04/20/auto ... r-repairs/

Quote:Automakers are supporting provisions in copyright law that could prohibit home mechanics and car enthusiasts from repairing and modifying their own vehicles.

Quote:The city of Carson, California approved plans Tuesday night for
a $1.7 billion NFL stadium to be shared by the Raiders and Chargers,
the second NFL facility green-lit in as many months in Southern
California.  In February, Inglewood approved a $1.8 billion stadium for the St. Louis Rams to be built near Los Angeles International Airport.

I hate to be one of *those* people, but I've been on a bit of an analogue kick lately.

I take day to day snaps using a 40 year old film camera for sheer shits and giggles. I mean, objectively any modern digital camera will do a better job of making a picture, but at the same time there's still a charm in the simplicity and robustness of the process. Light goes in, magical chemical shit happens, more magical chemical shit happens at the developer, then pictures happen. It's mostly automatic - save for the focus - but thanks to modern batteries the light meter doesn't quite measure correctly anymore since it was calibrated for mercury batteries and because the whole lot's based on voltages and signals, the timing of the shutter and/or aperture can cause things to be a bit overexposed

I bought a record player yesterday. More importantly, I bought something of a crap record player. It's not a high-end turntable system. It's a cheap, portable Steepletone that has a DC power input, Tone and Volume, 2 detacheable speakers that also form the lid. It has a sub-woofer output, line-in, a speed adjustment and that's it. But it makes OK sound, even using a 29 year old copy of Master of Puppets, and manages to sound much clearer than an iPod ever did. It's a fairly simple creature, with no fancy bells and whistles.

It doesn't quite have full bass, but there is something just fascinating about the way it revolves. The process of creation is visible under a microscope.... a needle tracing along a groove moving coils in the head. I mean, it's a physical process, rather than something ephemeral like data which is subject to the whims of battery and electricity. It's just wires and coils that could theoretically (And probably is, tbh) be made in a shed, rather than a process requiring hyper-pure megafactories cutting silicon wafers and moulding OLED screens. It's a piece of technology for the apocalypse that'll run quite happily off a 12V car battery when all the iPods have been cooked by radiation and EMP.

It has no real features whatsoever beyond reveling in it's own deliberate failings. It's a bit crap, but it's not trying to convince you that it's better than it actually is.... so transcends its inherent crappiness to become something just a little bit interesting.

I suppose, the joy of analogue tech is the way it fails. Instead of chirping or blocking, it just sort of degrades gracefully in an intriguing, fascinating and organic way (Okay, so maybe not VHS...). It's not about an absolutely faithful reproduction.... it's about just a little extra creation from nature.

Or am I just being Fedora?
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Hey, uh, would the creation of handwavium, uh, 'handwaved' some of the interesting series that came out after the start of this shared universe away? (Danelaw coming down on series that start to get disturbingly popular so as to prevent another faction of fen from developing, for instance.) I've sort of got an idea for a group of characters and an eventual idea for a plot for them, but I'm just trying to see if the events of the setting might prevent that through the prevention of the series or a shutdown of the series as said above.

This is late news. But it sort of slipped under my radar. 
Trimpe is notable for a lot of work in the 70s on the Hulk and is the first guy to draw Wolverine (in the same book). 

Quote:Trimpe is best known to fans for his work on The Incredible Hulk, a series he drew from 1968 to 1975. It was during that run that he drew the first appearance of Wolverine (in Hulk #180), who would later go on to become one of the company's cornerstone characters thanks to his appearances in the successful X-Menfamily of titles.
In a statement, Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso said, "To me, no artist is as synonymous with the Incredible Hulk as Herb Trimpe, who gave the Jade Giant a sense of pathos and scale that set the bar for every artist that followed him. Like a Hulk-punch, Trimpe's art truly exploded off the page. Comics lost a giant."
Trimpe went on to work on a number of different titles for Marvel, including the first issue of its licensed G.I. Joe, the majority of the company's Godzilla and Shogun Warriors series. He also had runs on Iron Man, Ant-Manand Captain Britain, for which he co-created the character of Elizabeth Braddock, who'll be played by Olivia Munn in next year's X-Men: Apocalypse.

Quote:Trimpe was fired by Marvel in the 1990s, something he wrote about for The New York Times... He returned to higher education, gaining a BA in art and eventually moving on to teaching at a local school in New York state, but he kept a foot in the comic book business, working on covers for a number of publishers, and even returning to Marvel for a 2008 Hulk story.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... s-security
The passwords and other descriptions below applies if it's a AVS WinVote machine.
I personally wouldn't be surprised if these passwords were also used by any other voting  machine with built in WIFI.
From roughly 2002 to 2014 if you didn't like your vote and/or didn't think you would like how the other people were voting then to change them, all you needed was a WIFI capable laptop able to connect to the WEP WIFI of the voting machine.
The password for the administration account on all of these machines is "admin" or "ADMIN" and the WEP password is either "abcde" or "ABCDE".
OH! if that's not enough access, the machine also uses a version of Windows that hasn't been patched since somewhere around 2004.
It looks like the States that use these so called voting machines were informed of all these major problems at least by 2008, but continued using them through 2014.
My personal initial reaction upon seeing that these voting machine specifications included WIFI was "WIFI ON A VOTING MACHINE!"
They  have been decertified, but if I'm not mistaken that is only in 1 state "Virginia I think." and it only took 7 years. So if you don't like your vote or don't think your going to like how your neighbors are voting just take your laptop along on voting day and remember the above passwords you can set all the votes on the voting machines any way you like. Did I mention there is no auto logging of changes?
What I can't understand is why in the last 7 years since the reports started coming out about WIFI enabled voting machines is why some group of college students haven't gotten together and drove from district to district changing all the votes recorded on these machines to votes for "Darth Vader", "Garfield" or maybe their university mascot.
So just remember your electronic voting machine vote counts...  Maybe... You just can't be sure what it will be or how many times it will change after you have voted.   
God Bless 
edited to add link to an article about AVS machines in Virginia.

Check out http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/04/th ... +Planet%29]this article from AmusingPlanet.com -- a village in England which has a model of itself as a tourist attraction.  And within that model is a model of the model.  And within the model of the model is a model of the model of the model...  Article includes photos so you can actually see all the levels.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Yeah. We're home.