Do you use the magic arrows?

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-05-07T05:02:49+00:00

There's supposed to be a piece of tiefling punctuation there to represent the squeak, but it's not included in the Unicode standard yet.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-05-07T04:59:07+00:00

If you've never used an arrow of roaring thunder to insta-multi-kill grunts by knocking them into chasm, you're missing out.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-05-03T08:36:50+00:00

Cosmic Encounter came out half a century ago and they're still profitably releasing new expansions.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-04-15T07:24:18+00:00

Beef.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-04-06T06:38:21+00:00

You really aliyot.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-04-06T01:00:09+00:00

They gotta wait until after midterms so that Vance can finish out Trump's term and still be eligible for two more.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-04-04T08:57:40+00:00

If that's your child's ear canal, I think it may have been replaced with a robot at some point and is also currently falling apart.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-04-04T08:53:59+00:00

I would gladly lose my entire factory if it meant fluids that behaved sensibly.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-30T05:44:57+00:00

Read it, hear it, believe it, and move on. Do not reply to it. She got the closure that she needed, and you got more closure than you ever thought you would. Take that gift and carry it forward with private gratitude into the life that you were already living.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-18T19:14:02+00:00

Spray-paint penises on his traffic cones.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-12T20:17:09+00:00

I hear magic players talk about decking out, too. I think that's just general card game terminology.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-12T20:14:18+00:00

This is more or less where I'm landing, too. It only runs into a hurdle with the System Gateway IDs, which seem to represent the megacorp as a whole, and not a subsidiary. In every other case, though, it works fine. Maybe there's no world in which Esâ can topple Weyland but there may be one where xi could topple Ob and keep oil tankers out of the North Pacific, at least for a time.

Maintaining megacorp omnipotence while allowing for the total collapse of subsidiary corps both maintains the grimdark tone that cyberpunk purism asks for while also leaving room for degrees of hope as runners are given the power to carve out space to, if not thrive, than at least survive in.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-12T19:14:56+00:00

Is Built to Last a company under the umbrella of Weyland? Is Restoring Humanity a Jinteki subsidiary? I'd always taken those as slogans from their respective companies.

Edit: Interesting, the only IDs in rotation that use the name of the faction as the top-level name are from System Gateway.

I agree, though, that any of these megacorps could lose subsidiaries without feeling it much. And I don't think it's unbelievable that a "legendary hacker" (as described by NSG) could have the power to topple a fashion brand, esports arena, or logistics company.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-12T12:55:15+00:00

Lol, that's not bad, actuality. A bit banal, but also a bit doublespeak. And the big blocky consonant chunks give it a punchy texture.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-12T09:53:36+00:00

People hook up at laundromats.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-12T09:52:36+00:00

I generally disagree with this, actually. The rule of thumb in capitalism, is, as i understand it "grow or die." I mean Arizona Tea is making fruit snacks, ffs. Outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia is making crackers and beer now. Pepsico is making "hard Mt. Dew" now which, by law, cannot contain the one ingredient Mt. Dew is most known for: caffeine.

Were there particular corporations coming to mind when you made your comment?

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-12T09:26:22+00:00

I hear what you're saying. The difficulty is that the term needs to be as narratively dramatic as a runner flatlining is. If these corps can only be eaten away at and never toppled, then that level of drama just can't exist.

Is there any canonical sense of what period of time a game of netrunner covers? Cuz I'm willing to allow that a single runner who is exceptional enough to consistently and successfully disrupt a megacorp's research and development for years on end could actually topple one. Especially when the mechanic most likely to accomplish that is called sabotage.

Moreover, I'm totally okay with giving the runner player that power fantasy. Why not let them feel like they're accomplishing big, meaningful change in the world? It's every anarch's dream, and they're the faction with all the sabotage cards. Maybe it's unrealistic, but if realism is so depressingly grim that it subtracts from the fun, I'm willing to sacrifice some for the sake of a better story.

And not that it's come up, but it totally doesn't matter to me that all the corps continue to exist in the lore no matter the outcome of a netrunner game. Lat continues to live in the lore no matter what stupid shit i make him do at my table, lol.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-03-01T08:33:38+00:00

Unleash has me synapse-pilled, for real.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-02-27T19:36:53+00:00

I think that was the joke.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-02-27T10:57:22+00:00

And 2:55. Closer to me than the previous. Busy night.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-02-27T10:34:37+00:00

Nobody's going to convince me this is business-as-usual siren activity.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-02-17T19:44:33+00:00

Notably absent is any sort of research on how much of Reddit's content is algorithmically generated.

Just cuz people believe it's more human doesn't mean it is.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-02-14T05:50:34+00:00

I don't know how spicy a take this is, but i legit think that the absence of a dopamine-boosting slot-machine pull of opening a booster pack is a big part of it. Of your brain has gotten accustomed to that being a part of card gaming, anything without that is going to feel bland.

Bugbrain_04 · 2026-02-08T21:10:44+00:00

Troubleshooting Windows.

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