The Ice Box 7th Installation – Junior Skrillex

  By Jason | May 10, 2013 - 9:16 AM |
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Sorry for the delay in uploading this episode everyone. Here’s our coverage of FFG’s Creation and Control reveal and our analysis of all cards from Cyber Exodus.

  • ‘-> General Updates subroutine
    • Hello again from Jason, Martin, and Sam.
    • A Study In Static was spoiled early.
    • Jason made a set of runner portraits. Find them on our Facebook.
  • ‘-> FFG announcement subroutine
    • Creation and Control:
      • Highlights:
        • Three new Haas Bioroid I.D.’s.
        • Three new Shaper I.D.’s..
        • Loads of new cards for HB and Shaper.
        • 2.0 bioroids.
        • Loads of spoilers.
        • We’re super excited.
  • ‘-> Card Analysis subroutine:
    • Haas-Bioroid
      • Vitruvius for more archive dives.
      • Viper the next piece in the “cycle” of snake ice?
    • Anarch
      • Joshua B. for more risk/reward Anarch.
      • More viruses! with Nerve Agent.
    • Jinteki
      • Sunset saving Cell Portal from itself.
      • Tangent about cyberspace imagery.
    • Criminal
      • Keeping corps poor with Emergency Shutdown.
      • Is Andromeda coming?
      • Playing it safe with Snitch.
    • NBN
      • New native economy from Marked Accounts.
      • More economy with Popup Window.
    • Shaper
      • Shaper economy theory: Kate/Aesop’s and Chaos Theory/Opus.
      • Junior Skrillex.
      • Dinosaurus is adorable.
      • Yogasaurus and Femmasaurus.
      • Slotting a cartridge into Dinosaurus’s mouth is how it works.
      • Personal Workshop changed the game.
      • Installing mid-run from P.W.
      • New searching with Test Run.
    • Weyland
      • Martin loves Commercialization.
      • The god-awful mess that is Woodcutter.
    • Neutral Runner
      • Repairing brain damage with Public Sympathy.
    • Neutral Corp
      • Will we see more mythic ice after Chimera?
      • Private Contracts
  • ‘-> Derez

The Ice Box 6th Installation – Reboot

  By Jason | March 17, 2013 - 9:16 AM |
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Hey, everyone. We’re back after a two-month absence. In that time, Travis has left, and Sam and Martin have joined. We’re catching up on announcements and releases. I was unable to get rid of much of the background fuzz. I hope it’s not unbearable. – Jason

  • ‘-> General Updates subroutine
    • The show is back!
    • Farewell, Travis
    • Welcome, Sam and Martin
  • ‘-> FFG Announcements subroutine
    • Highlights:
      • Cyber-struggles cyber-escalate to the cyber-brink of cyber-war!
      • Chaos Theory looks like Skrillex
  • ‘-> Card Analysis subroutine
    • Haas-Bioroid
      • Sherlock is the worst card in the set?
        • Staying outside smoking his pipe
    • Anarch
      • Swim suit babe on Liberated Account, living the high life.
    • Jinteki
      • Fetal AI is like an awkward child.
      • Sensei goes into the file folder of “Jinteki ice I don’t want to see in my opening hand.”
    • Criminal
      • E3 is a middle finger to HB, but nobody uses it.
      • “Criminal event” is a keyword for “good card?”
    • NBN
      • Support for a deck type that isn’t there yet?
    • Shaper
      • “Hey! Everything’s an Easy Mark with Aesop!”
      • “Sweeping nationals with some sweet notoriety+datadealer nonsense”
    • Weyland
      • Yeah! Rainforest deforestation!
      • Powergrid Overload is the worst card in the set?
      • The counter to Plascrete Carapace is you’re a better player than someone who plays Plascrete Carapace.
    • Neutral Runner
      • Dyson
    • Neutral Corp
      • Freelancer is the worst card in the set?
  • ‘-> Derez

The Ice Box 5th Installation – Whizzard is a Larper?

  By Jason | January 15, 2013 - 12:14 AM |
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In this episode, we catch up on FFG announcements and cover all cards included in What Lies Ahead. This is also our first episode recording remotely over Skype.

 

  • Hello from Jason and Travis
  • What Lies Ahead is out!
  • Show now organizing into “subroutines

 

  • ‘-> General Updates subroutine
    • Holidays
    • Jason’s move
    • Call for Southeast Texas gamers
    • Game Night Kits
    • Cyberpunk reading list recap
    • Blastoff Spaceship (Travis’s indie iPad game) was submitted

 

  • ‘-> FFG Announcements subroutine
    • Catching up from the beginning in this episode
    • Listeners’ facebook comments in this episode
    • Genesis
      • announcing the data pack cycle
      • improving the role of traces
      • Comments by:
        • Jeffery Klingbeil
        • Kevin Denner
    • What Lies Ahead
      • announcing the first data pack
      • featuring Anarch and Haas-Bioroid
      • Comments by:
        • Matt Nott
        • Wesley Kinslow
    • Eyes Forward to What Lies Ahead
      • detail of Ash2x3zb9cy
      • Comments by:
        • Wesley Kinslow
        • Colin Flores
    • Trace Amount
      • announcing the second data pack
      • featuring Jinteki
      • no fb comments
    • What Lies Ahead? Smoother Criminals
      • detail of Cortez Chip
      • Comments by:
        • Nuno Afonso
        • Matt Nott
    • Cyber Exodus
      • announcing the third data pack
      • featuring Shaper
      • Comments by:
        • Wesley Kinslow
        • Nuno Afonso
    • Upgrade Your Tech
      • release of WLA
      • no fb comments
    • A Study in Static
      • announcing the fourth data pack
      • featuring ???
      • Comments by:
        • Matt Nott
    • Trace Amounts of Perfection
      • detail of three Jinteki cards
      • Comments by:

 

  • ‘-> Card Analysis subroutine
    • What Lies Ahead
    • Haas-Bioroid (4)
      • Comment about treatment of new corp identities
      • Janus is a monster
    • Anarch (4)
      • Whizzard could be a larper
      • imagining Whizzard wielding Morningstar whilst larping
    • Jinteki (2)
      • tricky psi subroutine
    • Criminal (2)
      • finally getting an in faction decoder
    • NBN (2)
      • too much information
    • Shaper (2)
      • thanks for the help, AI
      • cloud programs
    • Weyland (2)
      • credit rebates with Caduceus
      • search and destroy with Project Atlas
    • Neutral Corp (1)
      • comparing Plascrete Carapace with Crash Space
    • Neutral Runner (1)
      • never mock beaten dragons?

 

  • ‘-> Discussion Topic subroutine
    • Coming Soon!
    • send in your suggestions

 

  • ‘-> Wrapping up
    • Trace Amount next episode!
    • Check out Travis’s game:
    • Between Cathedrals: 141414.net

 

 

  • ‘-> Derez

The Ice Box 4th Installation – Big Rigging It

  By Jason | December 11, 2012 - 7:51 PM |
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This episode mainly features our commentary on the second half of the core set cards. Enjoy!

  • Hello from Jason and Travis
  • Silver Turtle?
  • Camping
  • Thanksgiving
  • News
  • Blast Off Spaceship (Travis’s spaceship computer game)
  • Ice Box character portraits?
  • Travis’s Adventures In Kickstarter
  • Maia (Space colonization game)
  • also Legend of Dungeon and Fist of Awesome
  • PAD = palm access device
  • SEA = space elevator authority
  • AP = anti-personnel
  • Card analysis
  • Criminal
  • HQ, sneaking, dodging, and money
  • jobs criminal style
  • pawning a Bank Job
  • anti-Weyland?
  • losing the game with Data Dealer
  • out of fashion?
  • NBN
  • tracing, tagging, and advancing
  • is drawing extra cards appropriate for the corp?
  • ice with upon encountering conditions
  • few ice with ETR
  • bombing agendas with Psychographics
  • supplementing lack of ETR with Red Herrings
  • not even that many credits shipped with the game!
  • Shaper
  • Travis has the hots for Kate
  • economic advantage, links, mods, and big rigging
  • pawning with Aesop
  • icebreakers that maintain strength throughout a run
  • brute-forcing
  • flames coming out of every orifice!
  • Big Rigging It with Shapers! (TM)
  • Weyland
  • tag and bag, transactions, and money
  • Transaction Hole?
  • advance-able ice
  • bad publicity
  • card hoarding with Research Station
  • nuking with Scorched Earth
  • Security Subcontract = Aesop’s Pawnshop for corp?
  • the future where the melting pot is worldwide
  • wrapping up
  • contact info
  • derezzing
  • FFG announcements coming next episode

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The Ice Box 3rd Installation – Stimhack Run

  By Jason | November 27, 2012 - 9:34 AM |
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This episode mainly features our commentary on roughly half of all the core set cards. Enjoy!

 

  • Hello from Jason and Travis
  • Stimhack run
  • News
  • US presidential election
  • Travis’s spaceship computer game
  • Count Zero
  • Maas Biotech?
  • Brad Wilkinson’s deck boxes and 3d printer
  • Inviting the community to jump onboard the visual design
  • Travis’s adventures in Kickstarter: Data Fortress (asymmetrical 2-player modular tile board game)
  • commentary of FFG announcements and other spoilers coming soon!

 

  • Card analysis
  • Corp Neutral
  • ETR = end the run
  • Shoddy explanation of click/credit economy
  • is PAD an Apple riff? (Travis former Apple corp worker)
  • Runner Neutral
  • the weak link
  • runners have jobs too
  • Haas-Bioroid
  • rolling in money like Ducktales
  • Bioroid sequels?
  • Anarch
  • Noise salivating over archives
  • daemon?
  • drilling R&D with medium
  • seedy?
  • Jinteki
  • sysop?
  • unorthodox?
  • weird Jinteki ice
  • Nisei Mortal Kombat 2
  • Snare!!!!!

 

  • Contact info
  • Shout-outs
  • Brain damblage
  • Derezzing

 

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The Ice Box 2nd Installation – How to play A:NR

  By Jason | November 6, 2012 - 8:44 AM |
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This episode is mostly about how to play Android: Netrunner. It features our one-time general overview of the basic rules.

We acknowledge that some listeners are already avid players of A:NR and are in no need of rules description, but we try and keep it casual and interesting anyway.

In order to keep the pacing of this episode up, it’s been heavily edited, and sometimes it seems a bit rough cut. It’s for the best, and we hope to get better with recording and editing over time.

We’ll follow up very soon with episode 3 wherein we’ll get into card analysis. Stay tuned!

  • Hello from Jason and Travis
  • How’s podcast life?
  • Acknowledgement of Agenda7
  • Started reading Burning Chrome by William Gibson
  • Halloween
  • Origin of the banner image with our faces
  • James Kull shared an essay about “netrunning”
  • Travis’s news
  • X-com
  • Plasma jets on Kickstarter
  • Rules description
  • Corporation play area – central servers – R&D, HQ, archives – remote servers
  • Runner play area – stack, grip, heap, rig
  • Corporation card types – IDs, operations, agendas, ice, upgrades, assets
  • Runner card types – IDs, hardware, resources, programs, events
  • Corporation turn – Draw phase, Action phase, Discard phase
  • Runner turn – Action phase, Discard phase
  • Description of a run – initiation phase, confrontation phase, access phase
  • Other rules – traces, tags, damage
  • Victory conditions – 7 points wins, Corp: R&D depletion loses, Runner: flatline loses
  • Contact info
  • Shout-outs
  • Derezzing

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The Ice Box 1st Installation – Welcome to Cyberspace

  By | October 23, 2012 - 5:26 AM |
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  • Hello from Jason and Travis
  • Android: Netrunner is awesome
  • Our hacker names?
  • Our inspirations
  • We love the game
  • About the setting
  • What is cyberpunk?
  • Hackers vs Megacorporations
  • Cyberpunk media examples
  • Netrunner history
  • Living Card Game
  • Android Universe and its games
  • Netrunner + Android Universe = Android: Netrunner
  • Core set Identities
  • Space elevator Kickstarter?
  • 32nd generation iPod?
  • Our favorite IDs
  • About the game
  • Asymmetrical game
  • Contact info
  • Shout-outs
  • Derezzing

 

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