i feel like i should dip on blogging for a minute, but i keep getting pulled back in. if i can resist, i’ll leave this as my last post standing until somebody guesses right. that will probably be right about never, haha.
John Moralessays
Wanna hate me? One more won’t matter.
I had no clue.
So I put it to the bot.
It failed miserably.
So I gave it context.
“Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Mastodon — but not me. I’m too quick for the algorithms.”
Um. I think it got it.
John Moralessays
[FWIW: context was ‘USA-based genderqueer person posing a test. that’s what I have’]
haven’t seen it yet. this thing is not indexed by google at all. maybe another search engine, or the Internet archive has it, but quite possibly none of them do. this is a real thing tho. obscure.
John Moralessays
Aww. 😐 🙂
Katydidsays
DuckDuckGo had nothin’, but it sounds British, just after WWII? Something from Clockwork Orange or Brave New World?
flexsays
Hmm. Without looking for it, I would guess cyberpunk genre. It could be true-crime fiction from the 1930’s, but I don’t recognize the argot. “Shiverwaves” gives off cyberpunk vibes.
If it’s not archived in the usual places, I would start looking in the cyberpunk RPGs, starting with Shadowrun. This type of quote was quite common as headers for sections in 1980’s RPGs, and might be an intro to a section on netrunning.
M. Curriesays
@ katydid, My first thought was Clockwork Orange, but my recollection is that Burgess’s invented language, a slangy but sort of mock-formal mixture of British and Russian, is less likely to include such things as “no me” and “I’s.” It’s been many a decade since I read “Brave New World,” but I don’t recall that kind of language there either. Anyway, I’m pretty sure Bebe’s reading list and mine differ, so I’m unlikely to get this one.
flexsays
Well, I checked A Clockwork Orange and Alex’s droogs were Pete, Georgie, and Dim.
Brave New World is written in a much more Oxford-style English, in keeping with Huxley’s other works.
iirc the conslang in clockwork orange was called “nadsat,” and this ain’t that, as y’all figured. i’ll give you a clue that might send most of you packing. flex was right, it came from a 90s rpg quote. who will ever guess the rpg? no one, that’s who.
M. Curriesays
I see there is a Shiverwave Lake in a game called Lost Ark. So far that’s the only link where the name Shiverwave shows up as a place and as a component of a couple of players’ names. The other names don’t come up anywhere, and it would not surprise me if one game referred to another, or paid homage to a prececessor, as Kroz did to Zork. But this is way beyond my area of competence, so that’s likely as far as I’m going to get.
flexsays
Well, I don’t know for certain, but you mentioned a few months ago that you enjoyed Kevin Siembieda’s games, so I’m going to guess: Rifts?
Outside of that, I could just start naming more obscure RPGs from the 1990s. I couldn’t even be certain the game wasn’t in one of my cupboards, it’s been so long since I’ve looked over the couple dozen I have.
u kno what that means … it’s the shiverwaves for u!
M. Curriesays
The search for shiverwaves has not gone too well, and I’m only killing time because I am waiting until the 72 hour window opens to get a Palau entry certificate (I know, poor poor me, nothing better to do than play on the web and fly to exotic places to snorkel…..)But anyway, you’ll be glad to know that, although I have not gotten any closer to the original shiverwaves (everything just points to Lost Ark), this thread has made it to the first page of Dogpile!
Aye, thy shiver waves are nowhere on the internet so I will deduce that it’s from an older book based RPG.
Are the poor unfortunates who succumbed to Radburn from Mutant Crawl Classics? Radiation burn is one of their game mechanics.
I am guessing as I don’t know much about such games.
everybody had their own hot idea for a game, and this was, of course, from the slush pile of games that never made it. thing was ambitious, came with a boxed set, lots of illustrations, but afaik, went nowhere.
i feel like i should dip on blogging for a minute, but i keep getting pulled back in. if i can resist, i’ll leave this as my last post standing until somebody guesses right. that will probably be right about never, haha.
Wanna hate me? One more won’t matter.
I had no clue.
So I put it to the bot.
It failed miserably.
So I gave it context.
“Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, Mastodon — but not me. I’m too quick for the algorithms.”
Um. I think it got it.
[FWIW: context was ‘USA-based genderqueer person posing a test. that’s what I have’]
haven’t seen it yet. this thing is not indexed by google at all. maybe another search engine, or the Internet archive has it, but quite possibly none of them do. this is a real thing tho. obscure.
Aww. 😐 🙂
DuckDuckGo had nothin’, but it sounds British, just after WWII? Something from Clockwork Orange or Brave New World?
Hmm. Without looking for it, I would guess cyberpunk genre. It could be true-crime fiction from the 1930’s, but I don’t recognize the argot. “Shiverwaves” gives off cyberpunk vibes.
If it’s not archived in the usual places, I would start looking in the cyberpunk RPGs, starting with Shadowrun. This type of quote was quite common as headers for sections in 1980’s RPGs, and might be an intro to a section on netrunning.
@ katydid, My first thought was Clockwork Orange, but my recollection is that Burgess’s invented language, a slangy but sort of mock-formal mixture of British and Russian, is less likely to include such things as “no me” and “I’s.” It’s been many a decade since I read “Brave New World,” but I don’t recall that kind of language there either. Anyway, I’m pretty sure Bebe’s reading list and mine differ, so I’m unlikely to get this one.
Well, I checked A Clockwork Orange and Alex’s droogs were Pete, Georgie, and Dim.
Brave New World is written in a much more Oxford-style English, in keeping with Huxley’s other works.
iirc the conslang in clockwork orange was called “nadsat,” and this ain’t that, as y’all figured. i’ll give you a clue that might send most of you packing. flex was right, it came from a 90s rpg quote. who will ever guess the rpg? no one, that’s who.
I see there is a Shiverwave Lake in a game called Lost Ark. So far that’s the only link where the name Shiverwave shows up as a place and as a component of a couple of players’ names. The other names don’t come up anywhere, and it would not surprise me if one game referred to another, or paid homage to a prececessor, as Kroz did to Zork. But this is way beyond my area of competence, so that’s likely as far as I’m going to get.
Well, I don’t know for certain, but you mentioned a few months ago that you enjoyed Kevin Siembieda’s games, so I’m going to guess: Rifts?
Outside of that, I could just start naming more obscure RPGs from the 1990s. I couldn’t even be certain the game wasn’t in one of my cupboards, it’s been so long since I’ve looked over the couple dozen I have.
wrong and wrong. let the random guesses begin!
What’s RPG?
just kidding.
I never really found them … interesting? …engaging?
I’m more of a word-puzzle, number-puzzle kinda gal.
u kno what that means … it’s the shiverwaves for u!
The search for shiverwaves has not gone too well, and I’m only killing time because I am waiting until the 72 hour window opens to get a Palau entry certificate (I know, poor poor me, nothing better to do than play on the web and fly to exotic places to snorkel…..)But anyway, you’ll be glad to know that, although I have not gotten any closer to the original shiverwaves (everything just points to Lost Ark), this thread has made it to the first page of Dogpile!
ohno!
Auntie Em! Auntie Em!
it’s not a very exciting answer, if everybody wants to tap out.
Well, my next guess would be 1993’s, Cybergeneration, but at this point I’m just guessing.
that’s one vote for tapout…
Aye, thy shiver waves are nowhere on the internet so I will deduce that it’s from an older book based RPG.
Are the poor unfortunates who succumbed to Radburn from Mutant Crawl Classics? Radiation burn is one of their game mechanics.
I am guessing as I don’t know much about such games.
everybody had their own hot idea for a game, and this was, of course, from the slush pile of games that never made it. thing was ambitious, came with a boxed set, lots of illustrations, but afaik, went nowhere.
the quote is from Shatterzone.