Thread Neuromancy

MarkIX · Post by **MarkIX** » 2003-09-06 11:56pm

I have seen references to thread Neuromancy and presume it is the ressurrection of old discussions I was wondering what the time limit was for this practice

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-09-06 11:57pm

You can bring up an old thread, there's no time limit persay. But make sure the contribution justifies it.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-09-07 12:04am

That said.. hello to the n00b. [bite] Welcome to SD.Net, enjoy your stay!

And btw, it's "necromancy," not "neuromancy."

~ver

MarkIX · Post by **MarkIX** » 2003-09-07 03:06am

I thought I saw someone use the word Neuromancy. Thus I thought that may be the named used on this board now I can't find it, either because I am not compentant in using the search function yet or because I have cloth eyes

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-09-07 03:22am

Neuromancy...right...wouldn't that be like...resurecting a computer? You could set it on fire and then use your neuromancer skills to bring it back to life! You could destroy an expensive piece of technology as many times as you want!! Bliss.

Anyways, watch out for Straha. He's a Thread Necromancer.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-09-07 03:32am

Neuromancy would be the art of bringing brains back from the grave. Sounds like a particularly useful skill in this brainless world we live in.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-09-07 03:34am

Crayz9000 wrote:Neuromancy would be the art of bringing brains back from the grave.

That seems like a paticulalry useless skill, what with the decomposed bodies and all. Are the brains supposed to float in jars or something?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-09-07 03:41am

No, they float inside people's heads while those people perform menial tasks such as driving cars, yakking on cellphones, and being corporate slaves.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-09-07 03:46am

There's a line from Transvision Vamp's song Hanging out with Halo Jones

"Now, Halo Jones, she's a neuromancer,
She looks like a dream, and she moves like a panther"

I always thought she was a New Romancer, but the lyrics sheet says otherwise.

Any thoughts? I don't think it necessary to be dead, as that's implyed in the "necro-" prefix of necromancy. What, exactly, does "-mancy" mean?

*gives MarkIX a verilonitis shot*

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-09-07 03:58am

Reading/Communicating with.

odomancy is the reading of palms

Necromancy is literally speaking to the dead.

MarkIX · Post by **MarkIX** » 2003-09-07 04:03am

the dictionary.com tell me its "Divination" but I also took it to mean "the magical art of/related too".

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-09-07 04:05am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Reading/Communicating with.

odomancy is the reading of palms

Necromancy is literally speaking to the dead.

So Neuromancy is communicating with the mind.
Like telepathy?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-09-07 04:10am

I guess it would be.

Neuromancer comes from a william gibson novel, where a medical corperation AI gave it's owners immortality by copying and writting their memories onto sucessive clones. The owner of the coporation used it to get away with the serial incest/rape & then murder of his own daugther thousands of times. really sick....

SHODAN · Post by **SHODAN** » 2003-09-07 04:10am

I think it means literally 'mindmagic'.

beyond hope · Post by **beyond hope** » 2003-09-07 07:22am

how about thread narcolepsy?

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-09-07 07:24am

beyond hope wrote:how about thread narcolepsy?

It does happen sometimes.

~ver

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-09-07 07:39am

Thread suddenly falls asleep