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Yeah, this is a long one. We go extensive and deep on the Japanese language and its representation on cards in the Reboot portion of the FFG cardpool (with a few Reboot booster cards sprinkled in). Two hours of talk about Japanese not up your alley? Then tune in instead for a Discord conversation about Celebrity Gift and a full analysis of the Jinteki: Personal Evolution preconstructed deck. Presented in four segments: Title card: Neural Katana 6:55 Anonymous Tip: Celebrity Gift Hedge Fund | Sundew | Thistle | Subliminal Messaging | Mental Health Clinic | Commercial Bankers Group | IPO 17:30 Enigma: Jinteki and Japanese The Japanese of Jinteki, article by thopol The Japanese of Jinteki 2.0, article by thopol Part 1 26:15 jinteki: Jinteki: Personal Evolution | Jinteki: Replicating Perfection | Jinteki Biotech: Life Imagined Midori (Japanese version) 35:35 nisei: Nisei MK II | Caprice Nisei | Nisei Division: The Next Generation | Akiko Nisei: Head Case Japanese pronunciation site using the following sentence: 日本で生まれた後に海外へ移住し、彼らを親とする世代の人間は、「二世」と呼ばれている。 NISEI becomes Null Signal Games 44:15 zaibatsu: Zaibatsu Loyalty Part 2 47:05 tennin: Tennin Institute: The Secrets Within 48:50 katana: Neural Katana 51:50 tsurugi/ken 53:50 ronin 56:20 sensei 58:00 shinobi/ninja: nin (dictionary entry) 70:15 ashigaru 73:15 shiro & yagura 74:30 kyudoka Part 3 77:40 komainu & Pup 82:35 kitsune 86:30 inazuama 89:15 shi & ku (kyu): Shi.Kyū 93:10 mushin no shin 97:25 Susanoo-no-Mikoto 100:55 Hokusai: Hokusai Grid | The Great Wave off Kanagawa, by Katsushika Hokusai 103:20 Tokyo: NeoTokyo Grid Part 4 108:50 Caprice Nisei 110:00 Akitaro Watanabe 111:25 Midori 112:05 Toshiyuki Sakai 113:25 Tori Hanzō 114:55 Chairman Hiro 116:30 Ken "Express" Tenma: Disappeared Clone & Tenma Line 118:50 Ben Musashi Ben Musashi (Japanese version) 120:30 Kaede Ueno 121:35 Mako Shuusei Part 5 123:45 tenuki 125:50 himitsu-bako 130:00 Swordsman 130:50 Restoring Face 135:35 Lotus Field Lotus Field, by Adam S. Doyle 137:40 Trick of Light & Edge of World 138:35 Marcus Batty 138:50 Akamatsu Mem Chip 139:05 ichi: Ichi 1.0 | Ichi 2.0 139:25 Origami 139:30 John Masanori 141:30 Dedicated Technician Team: PE Never Advance Teaching and Learning: Jinteki Deck, blogpost by TheBigBoy 192:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 8 Martian Populace, by Dmitry Burmak Reboot Project home page A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

And now for part two of our coverage of the third Reboot Project booster for Netrunner: Style and Slander. This time around we take a look at the Runner cards in this booster, a quarter of which are imported from the second half of the FFG run of the game and three-quarters of which are original designs. And, like most of the boosters, this one focuses largely on one faction: Criminal. Presented in six segments: Title card: Trojan Stable 3:50 Anonymous Tip: Frantic Coding and Paige Piper (and Tollbooth) Frantic Coding | Paige Piper | Tollbooth 7:15 Satellite Uplink: Style and Slander, Runner side Buffed imports: Respirocytes | Exclusive Party Unchanged import: Ubax Anarch original: Trojan Stable Criminal originals: Dionysus Bagbiter: Luxe Larcenist | Elysium | ZDNet Access | Stolen Contacts | Gemon | Maron | Lamis Shaper original: Reverse Engineering 17:50 Sharpshooter: New icebreaker options in Style and Slander Centrals-only breakers: Breach | Passport | Alias 28:30 Lucky Find: Exclusive Party and four other new economy options in Style and Slander Trojan Stable: Cache | Grimoire | Aesop's Pawnshop | Daily Casts | Surge | Virus Breeding Ground Elysium: CyberSolutions Mem Chip ZDNet Access: Armitage Codebusting Stolen Contacts: Easy Mark | Day Job 42:25 Connect the Dots: Original Runner cards in Style and Slander Dionysus Bagbiter: Ghost Runner | Bank Job | R&D Interface | HQ Interface | BlacKat | Theophilius Bagbiter | On the Trail/Moment of Truth Elysium: Subsidized Processor Reverse Engineering: Patron | Akiko Nisei Stolen Contacts: Comet | Ken Tenma | Sniper | Liberated Account Trojan Stable: Noise | Street Peddler | Retrieval Run | Cyberdex Sandbox | Cyberfeeder | Scheherezade | Scavenge | Nerve Agent | Cyberdex Virus Suite | Breaker Bay Grid | Progenitor | Exile the face that launched a thousand ships, deck by zailey 87:20 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 7 Khondi Plaza, by Maciej Rebisz Reboot Project home page A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

This episode is the first of two covering the third 30-card booster for the Reboot Project: Style and Slander. Unlike the first booster, which was balanced across factions, the next four focus more heavily (though not completely) on one faction for each side. For the Corps, that faction is NBN, which gets eight cards added to its pool, while the other three factions only get two each ... sort of! In amongst the 18 Corp cards are 14 Reboot originals, which we will cover in full-depth. Presented in six segments: Title card: Sizzler 1:50 Anonymous Tip: Rushing Corp archetype document 6:40 Celebrity Gift: Style and Slander, Corp side Buffed imports: Bailiff | Long-Term Investment Unchanged imports: Ultraviolet Clearance | Self-Growth Program Haas-Bioroid original: Chronal Retrofitting Jinteki originals: Kyuudoka | Recycling Plant NBN originals: Sizzler: Igniting the Discourse | Smear Campaign | Gish Gallop | Plausible Deniability | Retrospective | Due Diligence | Anklebiter Weyland original: CDO Portfolio Collaboration agendas: Power Grid Reroute | Psychomagnetic Pulse | Adaptive Netbranes 17:00 Server Diagnostics: Bailiff and other new ice options in Style and Slander 26:30 Restructure: Long-Term Investment, Ultraviolet Clearance, and four other new economy options in Style and Slander Long-Term Investment: Rex Campaign | Prisec 44:30 NEXT Level Clearance: Original Corp cards in Style and Slander Power Grid Reroute: Character Assassination | Haas-Bioroid: Stronger Together | Punitive Counterstrike | 24/7 News Cycle | Ikawah Project Adaptive Netbranes: Mushin No Shin | Cerebral Overwriter | Project Atlas Psychomagnetic Pulse: Custom Biotics Due Diligence: List of gray ops operations | Consulting Visit Smear Campaign: Rebranding Team | Reality Threedee | Broadcast Square | Exposé | Tech Startup Anklebiter: Vulcan 1.0 / Mind Maze Allow Me to Break the Ice, article by SimonMoon Kyuudoka: Clone Retirement | House of Knives | Weyland Consortium: Because We Built It Recycling Plant: Industrial Genomics Chronal Retrofitting: Director Haas' Pet Project | Bifrost Array | Research Grant | Self-Destruct Chips Gish Gallop: Haarpsichord Studios Plausible Deniability: The Future Perfect | Film Critic | Exchange of Information Sizzler: Paparazzi | Old Hollywood Grid | Profiteering | GRNDL 100:25 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 6 Reboot Project home page A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

After taking a look at the pros and cons of running R&D a lot, we'll dig into the archives for the fourth part of Elusive's series on The Skills of Netrunner, this time focusing on deliberate improvement of your play. We'll also crack open our first Runner preconstructed deck -- MOpus Kit -- and see what makes it tick. Presented in four segments: Title card: Rielle "Kit" Peddler 1:35 Anonymous Tip: Running R&D Armitage Codebusting | Kati Jones 7:40 Archived Memories: Sharpening Your Sword 26:35 Same Old Thing: MOpus Kit Recommended Teaching/Learning Decks, blogpost by TheBigBoy 57:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 5 Mars (outside), by Julian Kak Reboot Project home page A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point A collection of information about the preconstructed decks Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Runners received 16 new cards in the second Reboot booster: Mind and Mayhem. Of these, 11 are original to the Reboot Project ... and many of these land in the Anarch faction, which receives the spotlight in this pack by gaining a new identity and other tools. But all the other factions (even the minifactions) also get some brand new tools. Presented in seven segments: Title card: Glee 4:00 Anonymous Tip: Changes to Anarchs Parasite | Datasucker Inside Job | Emergency Shutdown | Faerie Yog.0 | Mimic Self-modifying Code Hadrian's Wall | Wall of Thorns Fenris | News Hound Lotus Field | Wormhole 12:05 Satellite Uplink: Mind and Mayhem, Runner side Nerfed import: PAD Tap Buffed imports: System Outage | Frantic Coding | Patron | Process Automation Anarch originals: The Horde: Defiant Disenfrancistos | P4inappl3 | Stim Graft | Glee | Termite | For the Laughs Criminal original: Walrus Shaper original: Futureproofing / Epiph4ny Apex original: Repurpose Adam original: Synaptic Remodulator Apex original: Cloudburst 25:30 The Source: Nerf to PAD Tap Rezeki Fall Guy 32:50 Sharpshooter: Walrus Morning Star | GS Sherman M3 Aurora | Sharpshooter | Deus X 41:00 Lucky Find: PAD Tap, Process Automation, and four other new economy options in Mind and Mayhem Stim Graft: Stimhack Glee: Desperado PAD Tap: Sundew Futureproofing / Epiph4ny: Dirty Laundry | Prepaid VoicePAD | Ken Tenma | Daily Casts Synaptic Remodulator: Always Be Running | Dr. Lovegood | Independent Thinking Process Automation: Easy Mark | Build Script | Diesel 53:00 Connect the Dots: Original Runner cards in Mind and Mayhem Glee: Wanton Destruction | Personal Workshop| Bhagat | Human Rights Riot Synaptic Remodulator: Hourglass | Strongbox Planned Assault | Ruhr Valley Cloudburst: Emergent Creativity Termite: Imp | Lamprey Keyhole | Akiko Nisei Repurpose: Hayley Kaplan | Faust | Apocalypse The Horde: Hoshiko Shiro Helium-3 Deposit Stim Graft: Heartbeat | Box-E | Titanium Ribs P4inappl3: Eli 1.0 | The Foundry | Xanadu | Reina Roja | Rook | Akitaro Watanabe | Braintrust Walrus: Iain Stirling | Breach For the Laughs: Demolition Run | Edward Kim | Hemorrhage | Hostile Infrastructure 100:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 4 Reboot Project home page A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

This episode is the first of two covering the second 30-card booster for the Reboot Project: Mind and Mayhem. Unlike the first booster, which was balanced across factions, this one focuses more heavily (though not completely) on one faction for each side. For the Corps, that faction is Haas-Bioroid, which gets eight cards added to its pool, while the other three factions only get two each. In amongst these 14 cards are 9 Reboot originals, which we will cover in full-depth. Presented in seven segments: Title card: Echo Memvaults 1:20 Feedback Filter: TheBigBoy's comments on a couple of decks HB Fast Advance preconstructed deck Mindless Mind (original | my Reboot Worlds version) 6:10 Celebrity Gift: Mind and Mayhem, Corp side Buffed imports: O₂ Shortage | Armed Intimidation Unchanged imports: Magnet | Lateral Growth | Amani Senai> Haas-Bioroid originals: Echo Memvaults: Reality Reimagined | Nostgiologists | Microtransactions | Nootropics Campaign | Vulcan 1.0 / Mind Maze Jinteki originals: Caterpillar / Monarch | Thicket NBN original: Talent Scout / Red Carpet Weyland original: Foxtrot / Blockade 17:15 Matrix Analyzer: Buffs to Armed Intimidation and O₂ Shortage Armed Intimidation: Oaktown Renovation | Argus Security | Posted Bounty O₂ Shortage: "Allow Me to Break the Ice", article by SimonMoon Biotic Labor "the best deck using O₂ Shortage", by TheBigBoy Diana's Hunt | Aumakua BP Redgun, deck by Woody23 34:25 Server Diagnostics: Magnet and other new ice options in Mind and Mayhem 50:15 Restructure: Lateral Growth and three other new economy options in Mind and Mayhem Nostalgiologists: Corporate War 57:35 NEXT Level Clearance: Original Corp cards in Mind and Mayhem Nostalgiologists: Project Vitruvius | Geothermal Fracking Nootropics Campaign: NBN: The World is Yours | Spark Agency Research Station | Cybernetics Court | Executive Boot Camp Cerebral Imaging Echo Memvaults: Shipment from MirrorMorph | Sentinel Defense Program | Accelerated Diagnostics | Shipment from SanSan | Shipment from Kaguya An Offer You Can't Refuse Self-Destruct Chips Housekeeping Thicket: Eli 1.0 | Himitsu-Bako Talent Scount / Red Carpet: TGTBT | Enigma | Hourglass | Midseason Replacements Foxtrot / Blockade: Morning Star 98:25 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 3 Tianbian, by Emilio Rodriguez Mars, by Sarah Webb and Kirsten Zirngibl Reboot Project home page A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Rather than shoehorn all of this timely news and information into another episode, we're putting it out in a shorter one. We'll cover the spoilers for the brand-new booster pack -- New Normal -- as well as the latest patch notes (all buffs this time). Finally, we'll wrap up with a winter Worlds report, including a writeup of my own middle-performing Cybernetics Division deck. Presented in three segments: Title card: Calling Card 1:45 Precognition: New Normal and patch notes New Normal: Lab Rat | Calling Card | By Popular Demand | Cerevue Campaign | Zero-waste AgRefineries | Doublespeak | Bowstring | Crunch Time Patch notes: Caterpillar | P4inappl3 | Glee | Dark Pool | Hype | Communalink Rollout | Project Genesis | Kaede Ueno 15:15 Experiential Data: Reboot Winter Worlds 2025 Gob Lynn Mode's stream | Manta's stream 2025 Reboot Winter Worlds decks my Cybernetics Division deck 30:15 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 2 Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

After reviewing a conversation that lays the groundwork for our analysis of the preconstructed decks, we'll examine one of those decks -- HB Fast Advance -- in depth. We'll also dig into the archives for the third part of Elusive's series on The Skills of Netrunner, focusing on the different types of decks. Presented in four segments: Title card: Gordian Blade 3:00 Anonymous Tip: Improving at the game 22:30 Archived Memories: Choosing Your Sword 53:10 Dedicated Technician Team: HB Fast Advance Recommended Teaching/Learning Decks, blogpost by TheBigBoy 88:55 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Mars, part 1 Reboot Project home page A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point A collection of information about the preconstructed decks Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

As was true for the Runners, the Corps each received two original cards in Reflections -- the first booster for the Reboot Project. We'll cover each of those cards in depth, along with analyzing the eight cards that were imported from the latter half of the FFG cardpool, closing with a card that was and then was not... Presented in nine segments: Title card: Kwolek 3:00 Anonymous Tip: The Corp ice suite 6:00 Celebrity Gift: Reflections, Corp side Nerfed imports: Ikawah Project | Exchange of Information | Commercial Bankers Group | IPO Buffed imports: Political Dealings | Ben Musashi | Fly on the Wall Unchanged import: Ravana 1.0> Haas-Bioroid originals: NEXT Level Clearance | Waldemar 1.0 Jinteki originals: Thistle | Anglerfish NBN originals: Snickerdoodle Kampala City Grid Weyland originals: Bouncer | Kwolek 19:15 The Source: Nerfs to Ikawah Project, Exchange of Information, Commercial Bankers Group, and IPO- Exchange of Information: Breaking News Commercial Bankers Group: Gagarin Deep Space IPO: Hedge Fund | Restructure 26:00 Matrix Analyzer: Buffs to Political Dealings, Fly on the Wall, and Ben Musashi Political Dealings: Industrial Genomics || Global Food Initiative | The Future Perfect | Fetal AI Fly on the Wall: Butcher Shop v4, deck by jakodrako Ben Musashi: Hokusai Grid 35:15 Server Diagnostics: Ravana 1.0 and other new ice options in Reflections 51:45 Restructure: Commercial Bankers Group, Snickerdoodle, and IPO Snickerdoodle: Special Offer 57:40 NEXT Level Clearance: Original Corp cards in Reflections NEXT Level Clearance: MCA Austerity Policy | Caprice Nisei | Aggressive Secretary Waldemar 1.0: Haas-Bioroid: Stronger Together | NEXT Design | The Foundry Thistle: Turtlebacks Anglerfish: Trick of Light | Satellite Grid | Kakugo | Feedback Filter | Obokata Protocol Bouncer: Self-modifying Code | Heimdall 2.0 | Enigma Kwolek: Atman | Inti 93:45 Ghost Branch: Shipment from Tennin 98:50 AstroScript Pilot Program: Partial flavor inserts from revised core set and Reign and Reverie Reboot Project home page A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay

Having reached the end of the primary portion of the Fantasy Flight cardpool, we now accelerate closer to the present to start looking at the booster packs for the Reboot Project. The first one, Reflections, brings in eight Runner cards from the latter half of the FFG cardpool ... and also adds in 6 original Runner designs that are exclusive to Reboot. We'll delve into all of that in this oversized episode. Presented in eight segments: Title card: Sports Hopper 2:45 Memstrips: Early history of the Reboot Project Reboot Project master spreadsheet 17:35 Satellite Uplink: Reflections, Runner side Nerfed import: Crowdfunding Buffed imports: Bhagat | Akiko Nisei: Head Case | Build Script | Sports Hopper Unchanged imports: High-Stakes Job | Nyashia | Psych Mike> Anarch originals: Molotov / Blaze | Human Rights Riot Criminal originals: On the Trail / Moment of Truth | Sniper Shaper originals: Connect the Dots Subsidized Processor / Borrowed Storage 51:20 The Source: Nerf to Crowdfunding Magnum Opus cards 58:10 Quest Completed: Buffs to Build Script and Sports Hopper Build Script: Easy Mark | Process Automation | Diesel Sports Hopper: Plascrete Carapace | Deus X 72:00 Sharpshooter: Sniper 76:45 Lucky Find: Crowdfunding, Build Script, and On the Trail Crowdfunding: Daily Casts Build Script: Green Level Clearance | Sure Gamble 85:25 Connect the Dots: Original Runner cards in Reflections Molotov / Blaze: Datasucker Subsidized Processor / Borrowed Storage: The Professor Human Rights Riot: Gang Sign | Imp Sniper: Ken Tenma | Ninja Connect the Dots: R&D Interface | The Maker's Eye 105:00 AstroScript Pilot Program: Worlds of Android -- Luna, pt. 7 Alix T4LBO7, by Diana Martinez Docklands, by Camille Kuo Reboot Project home page A chart with all of the ice that have been discussed to this point Reboot Project Discord server Play online: Reteki.fun Contact me on Discord, BoardGameGeek, StimHack, or Reddit: Aweberman Contact me via email: anreboot2.1@gmail.com Episode transcript Concise show notes 2.1 focused BoardGameGeek thread 2.1 focused Stimhack thread Music: "Future" by Alexi Action from Pixabay