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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 98 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Phil's not wrong that it's fucking stupid.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Phil was wrong in thinking that corps wouldn't make such blatantly stupid choices and products

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

this article came out just after I started GMing shadowrun. I let our decker do damn near anything he wanted after reading it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/07/27/criminals-hacked-a-fish-tank-to-steal-data-from-a-casino/

[–] Derpykat5@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Art imitates life, and sometimes, life looks at art and says "hold my beer"