Re: [HoE] Cyber Hucksters: Deadlands '98 brainstorm

["Simon Chan" <TheBM@email.msn.com>]

There might be a few problems with keeping laptops running after the Last
War, but hey. I seem to remember seeing those pocket-calculator things that
generate numbers for the lottery. You know, for folks who spend too much
money on them and can't think up of new numbers. Small. Solar powered. Few
moving parts. They should survive the war.

So watch out for anyone pinking away at a pocket calculator. Either they're
carefully rationing food for the next few months or they're carefully
rationing the number of manitous to use in a soul-blast.

-Simon



-----Original Message-----
From: John Higginbotham <jahiggin@orion.starlink.com>
To: hoe@gamerz.net <hoe@gamerz.net>
Date: 10 November 1998 07:11
Subject: [HoE] Cyber Hucksters: Deadlands '98 brainstorm


> One of the other players in my Sunday night Wierd West posse
>(Those you've been reading Anna's letters will know him as Dr. Sutton) and
>I were doing some chatting the other night about how technology would
>alter the way Hucksters do business. And, suddenly, it dawned on us...
>just about every single computer in the world has a way to simulate card
>games! Gee, a laptop and the proper program... no more obvious deck of
>cards... oh, that flash? my screen has a flicker problem... been meaning
>to get it looked at. Something else we realized: There's quite a few boxes
>in the software stores marked with Hoyle's name... and it's probably not
>that hard to get a copy of the book on CD-ROM.
> Needless to say, this is something I'm adding to the Deadlands '98
>material I've been casually working on. But I figured I'd toss it out here
>and see if anyone had any ideas of things to add onto it.
>
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