I'd like to point out that the water fountain is, in fact, not on the network.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2026
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You can thank the decker for that.
It's been hacked
How distracting!
We were playing a game and my players wanted to release a bunch of bees into the airducts to clear out a public space and I asked where they would get a bunch of bees; you'd need some sort of special contact or something. One of my players pulled out his phone, and sure enough we could just buy bees that day on Amazon. Now any seemingly contrived plot is met with "we can just buy bees on the internet today"
Friend of mine was playing Cyberpunk 2020 and needed a shotgun in-game. He decided that since his character didn't have a record yet, he would go buy one at wal-mart.
It's the dystopian future. Of course there's wal-mart.
No one foresaw that wal-mart would stop selling firearms.
And they haven't. They reduced selection and the number of stores, but my local Walmart still sells shotguns
Can confirm, two the Walmarts in my city sell shotguns and bolt action hunting rifles
Oh hi Phil
You're tearing me APART, Andrew!
The "good" coffee machine at my workplace was updated, so you have to use your phone to select the coffee
Mind you, it has buttons. And a full color screen. It worked fine before. But now you need to scan a fucking QR code that opens a slow ass website, just to press a button
Age verification for that cupa joe.
Citizen, we need to know it's you for the social demerits. Caffeine is a vice, and costs social cridt points, citizen.
Cool guess I’m quitting coffee in that case.
Yeah, that basically was my reaction when I saw it the first time
At least it's not an app. yet
Phil's not wrong that it's fucking stupid.
Phil was wrong in thinking that corps wouldn't make such blatantly stupid choices and products
I remember there was this whole period where tech savvy Shadowrun GMs on Dumpshock were grappling endlessly with the "unrealistic" gameplay concessions that riddled the hacking rules and trying to come up with solutions that allowed for a balance of good gameplay and believable IT design.
And then reality just YOLO'd itself off a cliff of utter insanity and it turned out the rules were right all along.
The one thing none of us had accounted for was how incredibly stupid businesses are capable of being.
Art imitates life, and sometimes, life looks at art and says "hold my beer"
I won VIP tickets to a music festival and the bathroom had screens connected to a network to show up the show. It wasn't working, so it had this IT guy with a notebook connected to the uniral trying to fix it, while everyone else was trying to piss
Thanks, I hate it
PS, that the water fountain is internet connected
Her name is Bevi and she’s the best fucking water dispenser in the world. I hate IoT with a passion but Bevi fucks. Carbonated+electrolytes cucumber, black cherry, key lime, and some of the seasonal flavors are soooo good.
Let the man try, if he rolls a nat 20 the fountain not only overflows but also starts a bunch of different music at the same time with the fountain trying to match the different beats. A nat 1 turns on all the lights making it much harder to hide.
Not a fan of the "lol natural 20 zaniness happens" trope. That's 5% of the time.
Also Shadowrun doesn't even use d20s
Every RPG is D&D and every D&D game is a marvel movie.