cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/196/p/2013973/on-the-netrules
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2026
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Did you also call that the water would have a grapefruit flavoring option? Lmao.
Hot grapefruit.
Water, grapefruit, hot.
Jean-Luc Picard's hipster doppelganger.
This is how I feel with autonomous combat drones. I wrote those up in ~2000ish, I forget exactly when.
Life truly imitates art 😭
I've encountered these in the wild and my office has them installed. They're distributed with SIM cards installed, they don't join the WiFi. Fun fact
Can they download more water? What's the internet connection for
I remember before Snowden's whistle-blowing people online assumed it was crazy to think the government would want to spy on citizens personal internet communications, too. Online privacy was tinfoil hat stuff for people who didn't know better.
People still think that...
27 years later: "I told you, man!"
They said 1999 not 27 ye......
Fuck
You started saving for retirement yet?
I've got lots of time, I'm only… oh sh1t.
guard sniffs air
"Wait a minute! Did someone add grapefruit again?? I must inspect immediately!"
I live in the year 2026, I'm pretty sure, and this still made so little sense to me, that I assumed they meant "hacking a water fountain" as in hitting it with an axe.
They mean to hack as in accessing it via a network to cause it to fill faster than it can empty.
I used to play shadowrun and never understood the rules for rigging and decking
Did you play 1st edition, circa 1989? The original decking rules are pretty well represented in the recent Sega Shadowrun game from 1994, just a few years ago.
It's an entire solo dungeon sort of experience, while the rest of the group watches the decker and GM play a one on one game.
It was radically streamlined for 2nd edition on, but it took me a while to notice, since Deckers were always NPCs and decking was just exposition for years.
Forgive the formatting, I'm feeling fragile, probably from my advanced age.
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