Decimator wrote:

At that point, does the interrogatee have any defenses against telling the interrogator everything?

High Willpower. Hidden autodelete plugins. Implanted psychosurgical autodelete killswitches. [url=http://eclipsephase.com/miscellaneous-toys]Strong encryption on your cortical stack[/url]. Dead Switch augmentations. Psychosurgical pruning of forks so that they have no useful data (or even incorrect data... hmm, Operation: Mincemeat v1.1). Hardening against psychosurgical torture. A team of loyal and/or desperate allies willing to attempt an immediate rescue before the psychosurgeon gets started. Keep in mind that skilled psychosurgeons don't grow on trees (and, even if they did, it's not like there are many trees left). Psychosurgeons who lack sufficient ethics and possess the necessary skills to make superb psychosurgeons are going to be even rarer (hardly unheard of, but not the sort of resource you have sitting on 1 hour standby, available for brainpeeling at the drop of a stack). Also, psychosurgery is a difficult, tricky process that fails as often as it succeeds, and it takes time (and if you use simulspace acceleration, remember that there's a -20 penalty to the psychosurgeon's roll). So, yes, eventually, if your fork or backup falls into the hands of your enemies, they will know everything, but there's still a window of time--a fairly extensive one, at that--where recovery with a degree of certainty that the data is not yet compromised is a possibility. All that being said, no one can interrogate an ego whose supporting computational structure has been subjected to high entropy. If you don't have compunctions regarding sending out suicide forks, that's the way to go...

Congrats! It was an awesome year!

Ancient History wrote:

Thanks mate! I had a bunch of fun doing it.

One would certainly hope that you enjoyed doing something like this. So, gotta ask: with that kind of project under your belt, what's next on your highly ambitious checklist of things to try and do?

Wow! This stuff was great! You have always done a great job on all the material for all the games you have worked on.... and... keep eating durian!

Amazing work. I have had your blog in my feed reader since post 1, and I keep coming back. Thank you for all of your hard work.

I'm still waiting on the niceified PDF. What's the status on that?

My experience is somewhat similar to Kindalas'. First and foremost, I enjoyed the posts tremendously. There were some really, really good ones in there, and with the richness of the EP universe those small slices of life and strangeness worked really well. But I could only rarely get into a habit of reading them daily. What I ended up doing was say on every other week, I'd go there, read maybe 5 posts on average. Sometimes I'd go there more often, and sometimes I'd read more posts than that, but when I hit one I'd seen, I'd stop - since finding the ones I missed was difficult. I think a weekly or monthly .pdf release would work much better. It mirrors my experience with story plot web comics - I don't like reading one strip at a time, and I have to be VERY motivated to keep track of my progress with bookmarks. The only ones I end up reading in total are those that release PDFs or have an app to track my progress (like Schlock Mercenary). I guess some cookie mojo that tracked progress could work on a website also. And it wouldn't have to be a fancy PDF. Just a barebones text version like on the blog would do the job for me. And now I think I'll go back and dig up some of the ones I missed last year :)

kindalas wrote:

[url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/z9tr11dj0wn0jz9/Farcast%20Yearblog%202013.pdf]... is the PDF[/url]

Thanks mate, much appreciated. Good formatting.