I read a great book by Al Franken I got for christmas called "Lies and the lieing miars who tell them: A fair and balanced look at the right." and it was great.

It had a part in it about how the bush administration hit the ground lieing, and literally began lieing as they were moving into the whitehouse. They claimed that the clinton staff had terribly vandalized the white house, trashed the place, stole stuff, sabotaged things and left "porn bombs" around.

Well, all these claims turned out to be complete bullshit, but still, Al couldn't stop wondering what a "porn bomb" was. Basically he'd never heard of it (like eveyrone else, apparently, asides from the bush administration) so he finally assumed it was a conventional explosive charge wrapped in layers of porn, and when the domb detonated it scattered porn all over an area, contaminating it with porn fallout.

Now, I was thinking that these could make interesting weapons in some rpg settings, like any modern or post modern setting where you have free thinkers fighting against religious fanatics. The free thinkers could use porn bombs to contaminate areas with porn fallout, making them inaccessible to religious fanatics for a time, maybe even centuries, until the porn had decayed down to normal background levels. These could be effective area denial weapons against those kind who think if they see a woman's ankle they're damned for all eternity.

So now we need to work out stats for a porn bomb. Basically how much area would the fallout from, say, a porn bomb with a warhead consisting of one megabyte of porn printed out contaminate? An acre? A hectare? A city block? A quater mile radius?

Also what effect would a porn bomb have on religious fanatics? Would they have to make a willpower roll to stay in an area contaminated by porn fallout? if so how often? once? Once a day? An hour? A turn?

Also could we make them take a negative mod to their willpower rolls if they're typical homophobic types and we enrich the porn bomb warhead with gay porn?

Now, asides from porn bombs as strategic area denial weapons we could go down to the tactical scale with the porn grenade, meant to be used in CQB with religious fanatics. Say it's like one kilobyte of porn wrapped around a small scattering charge. Toss it into a room before you go in and see if it drives any fanatics out with their hands over their eyes, then gun them down.

Lastly we could have thre pornthrower: A large, long range inkjet head mounted on a handle and linked to a small computer and some large inktanks in a backpack.

To use, pick a flat surface like a floor or wall, aim the printhead at it, pick an image and PSSSSSSSH! PSSSSSSH! The porntrhrower puts it out, billboard size.

I could just see a group of free thinkers pinned under fire, hiding behind some rubble in front of a wall. "Oh my god, sarge! They've got us covered! We're all gonna die! We're all gonna die!"

The sargeant grabs the cowering private, slaps him and says "Pull it together, Hackard! Jablonski, set the pornthrower for "XXX" and hose that wall, NOW!"

Within seconds a huge XXX rated picture is deposited on the wall, the fanatics all wail in horror and cover their eyes. The freethinkers leap out from behind their cover and mop them up.

I was wondering what the stats for porn bombs, porn grenades and pornthrowers would be in various game settings, like d20, rifts, gurps, etc.

Also, I don't think we should EVER let people forget the bush administration  was lieing as it walked into the whitehouse, and keeping the idea of the "porn bomb" alive would do it, even if only to gamers.

Sonic porn bombs earlier this week:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/22/america/NA-GEN-US-Church-Foul-Language.php

Used condom porn bombs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_Coalition_to_Unleash_Power

And of course the ever popular lawn crapping.
(too numerous to cite)

On the other hand Al Franken is comedic genius. Love his stuff.

Mr. Franken might be a "comic genius" - but he is hardly a good historical reference source on anything.

 Now the idea of "porn bombs" in the press seemed to mean programs in the various government and White House computers that automatically went to porn web sites or porn animations when the computers were activated or after a pre-set number of minutes  regular web-browsing would be interrupted by porn.

In a role-playing game , say maybe a High-tech Sci-fi campaign,...I could see little spheres that are tossed at a crowd to distract them. When these spheres hit the ground .....realistic holographic images of couples happily fucking are projected. (in all sorts of positions and outfits, very load screams of pleasure too.)

That would be a great distraction method in the middle of a running chase scene.  The comedy potential makes it even better for a Conspiracy or Illuminate type RPG campaign.

- E.W.C.

Quote from: Dominus NoxI read a great book by Al Franken I got for christmas called "Lies and the lieing miars who tell them: A fair and balanced look at the right." and it was great.

I noticed you changed your tag line.  Did Al Franken's take on political correctness and Islam change your mind?

Quote from: KoltarThat would be a great distraction method in the middle of a running chase scene.  The comedy potential makes it even better for a Conspiracy or Illuminate type RPG campaign.

- E.W.C.

Have you ever watched Dominion Tank Police?

They are already on it

Comic
http://www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=661
http://www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=659

News story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4174519.stm

Quote from: RockViperNews story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4174519.stm

Quote from: BBC ArticleThe plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.

Didn't the Spartan army have widespread homosexual behaviour among troops?  From what I've read, they didn't have problems with morale...

Quote from: StuartDidn't the Spartan army have widespread homosexual behaviour among troops?  From what I've read, they didn't have problems with morale...

Yeah, but we're not as culturally advanced as the Spartans were, at least in some instances. Nor are most of our people homosexual (at least openly, it's pretty hard to gauge how many are homosexual in hiding).

We're all already suffering from a form of "porn-bomb" already, in the form of e-mail spam and pop-ups.  Now, this is just for marketing purposes, but imagine a "smart" virus that gains access to computers, but does nothing apparently harmful, nothing obvious.  What it does instead is selectively search text documents, looking for likely words to mis-spell ever-so-slightly, turning them into obscene words.  It searches image files and inserts tiny pornographic images that aren't immediately detectable, sort of how like Bert from Sesame Street ended up on a poster with Osama bin Laden at a protest rally, only much more subtle.  Every time anyone with the porn virus saves a file, the code takes the opportunity to insert some bit of nastiness that will have a cumulative effect upon the populace at large.  While insidious on the level of the individual user, think what will happen when it infects the computers of countless media production outlets.  Porn will be fucking everywhere and you won't even know it.

!i!

I've seen Fight Club too! :haw:

Quote from: KoltarMr. Franken might be a "comic genius" - but he is hardly a good historical reference source on anything.

 Now the idea of "porn bombs" in the press seemed to mean programs in the various government and White House computers that automatically went to porn web sites or porn animations when the computers were activated or after a pre-set number of minutes  regular web-browsing would be interrupted by porn.

In a role-playing game , say maybe a High-tech Sci-fi campaign,...I could see little spheres that are tossed at a crowd to distract them. When these spheres hit the ground .....realistic holographic images of couples happily fucking are projected. (in all sorts of positions and outfits, very load screams of pleasure too.)

That would be a great distraction method in the middle of a running chase scene.  The comedy potential makes it even better for a Conspiracy or Illuminate type RPG campaign.

- E.W.C.

PYEW! There's that smell of asskisser breath again. Gack! Also I pick up a trace of conservative stench mixed in.

Quote from: JongWKHave you ever watched Dominion Tank Police?

You mean the amazing transforming plastic Ahan from act 3 of dominion? That's back when it was just called dominion. Boss Buaku forever! Hail Masamune Shirow!

Quote from: John MorrowI noticed you changed your tag line.  Did Al Franken's take on political correctness and Islam change your mind?

No, I corrected AL Franken in the danger ilsam poses. I caught my tagline from a show about nazism and how various psychics made predictions that strangely seemed to correlate with nazism.

The idea of the nazis burning books then later burning people reminded me of how some groups today like to burn things, both on the far right and the far left.

Quote from: StuartDidn't the Spartan army have widespread homosexual behaviour among troops?  From what I've read, they didn't have problems with morale...

This bit about gays not being able to fight is a myth. Histories greatest general, Alaxandar the great, was either completely gay or AC/DC, leaning towards the DC.

Likewise Julius Caesar was known to be somewhat bisexual, as recorded by his contemporaries "Ceasar was every woman's man, and every man's woman."

Homosexuality was also rampant among the nazis for some reason too, and one of hitler's early henchmen, Ernst Rohm, really had a thing for the boys. Still Rohm was a tough street fighter.

I still think that while the pornthrower would be the hardest weapon to make technologically it might be the most versatile as it could be adjusted to have the most effect on the particular target of the moment.

So, if a squad was taking fire from, say, southern baptists extremists they could look them up in the warbook refference section, see that SB fanatics tended towards homophobia and racism, and set the pornthrower to spray XXX interracial gay porn. The SBFs would have to make their willpower rolls at like -6 or worse.