• Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
    3·
    7 days 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”

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      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.

      • arrow74@lemmy.zip
        2·
        7 days ago

        And they haven’t. They reduced selection and the number of stores, but my local Walmart still sells shotguns

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        6 days 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.

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
    1·
    7 days 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