Помогите, пожалуйста, с переводом всего этого.
1. These kids, most of the time, are the best bets we have for seeing that tomorrow a few more folks make it to Ascension. All right, the Goth-angst-puppies are a real pain in the ass when they get on their whiny crying kicks, but even they grow up eventually, and during that time, they can be taught.
Как перевести выделенную часть? These kids это про Пустых.
2. Some of our best techs still wear eyeshadow, dye their hair black, and have black lacey cuffs in the office. And those are the guys.
Как переводится второе предложение?
3. They tend to be regular little cults of personality, by and large, with each egotistical head wanting something different out of life.
Как перевести это предложение? Это всё про тех же Пустых.
4. Just look at the social order the have for themselves, pissing on Apprentices for a few years until they can pop over some made-up test the guy who trained them laid out. Compare that to,a proper Ph.D. program, where grad students — er, scratch that.
Это про Орден Гермеса. Как перевести первое предложение?
5. Even though they'd bust a vein before admitting it, Hermetics are implementing a technology through all their god-forms and weird crack-smoking mysticism.
Что за god-forms и как это будет на русском?
6. Some of them really do resemble characters from 1930s pulp books, with two-fisted action and machines made out of brass and glass, fighting the forces of evil. (Unfortunately, the forces of evil are usually the Technocracy, as they mistake one of our projects for Evil Afoot. )
Фраза про Сынов Эфира. Как перевести Evil Afoot?
7. By and large you have to take the Etherites as you find them, because most of them are unique entities.
Be careful of them, but these days it's good to keep a recruiting hand out, just in case you find a friend in need.
Как переводится выделенная часть?
8. To call the group a bunch of punks and criminal wannabes would be to offer them too much credit.
Как перевести выделенные слова? the group - это Адепты Виртуальности.
9. Their other major goal is to get everyone to buy into their little virtual reality, online 24 by 7, plugged in, tuned in and lagged out.
Как перевести выделенную часть и связать с предыдущей частью про "принять их маленькую виртуальную реальность" ?