We wonder: analog or digital? Long version: Do you prefer the flawless reproduction of modern digital recordings, or the homey, comforting crackle of analog?

I’m all for realism when it comes to movies and video games. Realism is good there. Not going to say digital copies are good though. I know better. After dealing with holograms and the ATACS I’ve found overt realistic but not real copies to be fucking unnerving.

Digital, perfected copies are alright until they invade the real world. Seeing a person walking at you and through you because they’re a hologram is fucked up. Talking to someone and having them disappear or worse having a woman flirt with you and reach over then your hand goes through her and that’s for shit. Fucked up thing about holograms is you can walk all around them, get close to them and won’t know the difference until you try to touch them or shoot them.

Only thing worse than fake people that aren’t there is a carbon copy that is really there. The ATACS, Autonomous Tracking and Combat System, are the most fucked up thing I’ve ever seen. Worse than the crazies, war or anything else. Guess it’s worse because it is a copy of me. An exact duplicate of my personality in a metal machine set out to enforce the laws of that son-of-a-bitch Robertson. It’s hypocrisy, heresy… just not fucking right at all.

Technology’s gone too far in creating doppelgangers. There’s a point where you shouldn’t cross the line. Yeah, there’s probably some good uses for it but the world isn’t programmed to go for the good uses of most things, especially tech. Plenty of days it works to my advantage and others it doesn’t. Do I want to go back to poor reproductions, poor quality; hell no but doesn’t mean I like where it is going either.

People can argue with me all day if they want. First bastard who tries I’m introducing to Viper Plissken and the second one I’m telling him to shoot. Everyone else says all this mimicry is good. It’s advancement. I used to agree. Then I met the first ATACS line. Changed my mind in a hurry. Actually sitting down and talking to the revised model, convinced me that the doppelgangers aren’t always happy with the situation either. Liking tech less and less these days.


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- 3 boxes 45 ammunition
- Revolvers
- Side arm
- C4.... lbs?
- Wire
- Control
- Canvas bag
- Steel Brief case
- Rubber gloves
- Lock Picks
- Vials
- GPS
- Filtration mask
- Eye protection
- Throwing spikes - 2
- Throwing stars - 2
- Glass cutter
- Stun wand
- Access card
- Screwdriver
- Flare gun
- Magnesium rounds
- Watch
- Luck. Lots of luck

Title: What the Hell?
Fandom: John Carpenter (Escape from NY/LA)
Characters: Snake Plissken
Prompt: 012: Orange
Word Count: 829
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: Continued from Here
Summary: Snake wakes up a bit more clearheaded but no less confused.



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Title: Disorientation
Fandom: John Carpenter
Characters: Snake Plissken
Prompt: 007: Days
Word Count: 885
Rating: PG-13
Author's Notes: A continuation of this.
Summary:Snake waking and still groggy from the drugs forgets to escape.

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2. I guess the moral here is: you must be careful what you pretend to be because in the end you are who you're pretending to be. - Mother Night

Takes place five days before this: Carbon Copy Plissken



“How is he?” Dr, Fry asked as he prepared the room.

“Heavily sedated.” Elizabeth Tanzer responded as she closed the door.

“That’s good.”

“We had to strap him down and the other doctors suggest further restraints on the table.” She seemed nervous as she stood in the room stuffed full of equipment.

“Why?” Finally Dr. Fry stopped his task to face his assistant.

“We... we think he was having violent nightmares. He showed all the signs of a post traumatic event in terms of blood pressure, pulse and brain activity but he was asleep.” Elizabeth was concerned for the patient as much as she knew Fry was. The others here treated him like an animal or less. She had only been around him twice while he was awake. Plissken to her seemed no different than most men when introduced though he was a little standoffish and rude. He had been imprisoned by them and she could see how anyone might react the same way.

“Good.” Fry’s words were flat when he met the questioning gaze. “Most brain’s when sedated slow the transfer of thought patterns. If his is active the procedure will take less time than anticipated. He may only require a week of sedation instead of the month we started with. It will lessen the amount of trauma he experiences waking up.”

“He won’t wake up.” Tanzer couldn’t keep the emotion down.

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Words: 1,112

This madness is all xena_warrior's fault. It is pretty wild though to really look at the character in this much detail!


Abbreviations:
EFNY: Escape from New York (Movie, script or commentary)
EFNYN: Escape from New York Novel by Mike McQuay
EFLA: Escape From LA (Movie, script or commentary)
SPC: The Snake Plissken Chronicles
AOSP: The Adventures of Snake Plissken
Other sources as needed

the first 50 can be found here.

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This madness is all xena_warrior's fault. It is pretty wild though to really look at the character in this much detail!


Abbreviations:
EFNY: Escape from New York (Movie, script or commentary)
EFNYN: Escape from New York Novel by Mike McQuay
EFLA: Escape From LA (Movie, script or commentary)
SPC: The Snake Plissken Chronicles
AOSP: The Adventures of Snake Plissken
Other sources as needed

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