• omega_x3@lemmy.world
    3·
    48 minutes ago

    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.

    • jtrek@startrek.website
      1·
      3 minutes ago

      Not a fan of the “lol natural 20 zaniness happens” trope. That’s 5% of the time.

      Also Shadowrun doesn’t even use d20s

  • eletes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    30 minutes ago

    I love to shit on IoT but we have these Bevi dispensers at work. You can add flavoring, carbonation and vitamins to your drink. The network connection is probably to let the vendor know what they need to refill

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
    25·
    5 hours ago

    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

    • zarathustrad@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 hours ago

      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.

        • EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
          10·
          5 hours ago

          Reminds me of when we had a free and paid snack area when I was at Lowe’s. No camera in the break/locker room, a nice private place to put your stuff in your locker and eat in peace.

          Then they ‘upgraded’ so instead of tap pay you had to go up to a facial recognition camera, sign into an app, buy shop cash, and buy your snack through their app via the ‘aided smart teller’ where you scan your items and do a self checkout situation that took 4x longer than before and kept your change since you have to buy their cash.

          Snacks started rotting in place, the once busy room was almost always dead save the few seats outside the camera field of view.

          Most folks went in the door harder to be seen from but there were only two slim corners and three seats where you weren’t watched the whole time.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    29·
    11 hours ago

    Originally I thought Watch_Dogs was super unrealistic with how its hacking worked and what it worked on, but pretty much the only thing you couldn’t do right now IRL is make a grenade explode remotely. At least for now.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      34 minutes ago

      I’m honestly no longer convinced that some California tech company couldn’t sell the US military on a wirelessly connected grenade.

      Is it an objectively stupid idea? Yes, absolutely. But then so is using Claude to run your strategic planning and they’re doing that, so I guess everything is on the fucking table now.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        30 minutes ago

        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.

  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
    93·
    16 hours ago

    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”

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
    71·
    17 hours ago

    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

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
    25·
    14 hours ago

    Everything in Shadowrun should be online, spying on you, and prepared to kill you. Or for it to try and scuttle away to get time to upload to motherbase.

  • youcantreadthis@quokk.auEnglish
    19·
    16 hours ago

    My go-to for players is that in any remotely realistic setting, sufficiently cobtrived abd stupid bullshit is always possible.