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Stands for 'Better Than Life', a [[simsense]] virtual reality chip. | Stands for 'Better Than Life', a [[simsense]] virtual reality chip. | ||
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| + | The high of choice for many an idiot lush. BTL technology is ironicly one of the fastest developing and growing areas of Simsense technology. The term BTL can refer to any simsense recording were the ASSIST feedback exceeds recognised safety limits. There are many different types of BTL at the bottom end of the market are the so called "Calfornia hots" [[Cal Free]] has a far higher accepted ASSIST threshold than either CAS or UCAS. Making may "Standard" Simsenses originating in [[Cal Free]], Illegal in other countries. Needless to say Calafornia editions of Simsense are a common smuggled item. This form of BTL is relatively harmless, comparable to Strong alcohol or Cannabis, in terms of danger and social acceptability. There is also the possibility of low level subliminal conditioning through the ASSIST Feedback. which is why many Extraterritorial Megacorps use this a the default level for company cinemas and training chips. True BTLS come in three distinctive types. Mood chips, Fantasy Chips and [[Persona Fix]] chips. Moodchips work by stimulating specific moods and sensation, typicly Euphoria and the pleasure centers of the brain. Fantasychips work much like a normal simsense, in that they have "Story" However the emotional and sensation feedback has been elevated beyond all safe limits. Personafix chips are the strangest and potentialy most dangerouse of all BTLS. They work by convincing overriding the users personality. you to can be The Blackwood Sniper, [[Mc Bain]], Dracula, a Zombie or any other individual you want to be. Like all BTLS they are addictive, more expensive personafix chips come with opticly clustered skillsofts, so that the user gains some of the skill of the Persona. These chips lead to all kinds on incidents and extortion rackets as rouge user become convince that all bystanders are vampires, or that they are a loyal zombie who must give all his money to the dealer etc etc. Rumours abound of megacorps and organised crime using long life Personafix chips as a method of slavery. By crafting Personachips with personalitys that want to be Henchmen, prostitutes, unprotected toxicwaste disposal workers,they get there victims in a doublebind. When the chips running they want to work for them, when its not, the poor victim wants another chip. | ||
Revision as of 11:41, 10 September 2004
Stands for 'Better Than Life', a simsense virtual reality chip.
The high of choice for many an idiot lush. BTL technology is ironicly one of the fastest developing and growing areas of Simsense technology. The term BTL can refer to any simsense recording were the ASSIST feedback exceeds recognised safety limits. There are many different types of BTL at the bottom end of the market are the so called "Calfornia hots" Cal Free has a far higher accepted ASSIST threshold than either CAS or UCAS. Making may "Standard" Simsenses originating in Cal Free, Illegal in other countries. Needless to say Calafornia editions of Simsense are a common smuggled item. This form of BTL is relatively harmless, comparable to Strong alcohol or Cannabis, in terms of danger and social acceptability. There is also the possibility of low level subliminal conditioning through the ASSIST Feedback. which is why many Extraterritorial Megacorps use this a the default level for company cinemas and training chips. True BTLS come in three distinctive types. Mood chips, Fantasy Chips and Persona Fix chips. Moodchips work by stimulating specific moods and sensation, typicly Euphoria and the pleasure centers of the brain. Fantasychips work much like a normal simsense, in that they have "Story" However the emotional and sensation feedback has been elevated beyond all safe limits. Personafix chips are the strangest and potentialy most dangerouse of all BTLS. They work by convincing overriding the users personality. you to can be The Blackwood Sniper, Mc Bain, Dracula, a Zombie or any other individual you want to be. Like all BTLS they are addictive, more expensive personafix chips come with opticly clustered skillsofts, so that the user gains some of the skill of the Persona. These chips lead to all kinds on incidents and extortion rackets as rouge user become convince that all bystanders are vampires, or that they are a loyal zombie who must give all his money to the dealer etc etc. Rumours abound of megacorps and organised crime using long life Personafix chips as a method of slavery. By crafting Personachips with personalitys that want to be Henchmen, prostitutes, unprotected toxicwaste disposal workers,they get there victims in a doublebind. When the chips running they want to work for them, when its not, the poor victim wants another chip.
