The CyberComedy Challenge

[ghost-angel]

Re: The CyberComedy Challenge

 

Comedic Extreme: As a result, the typical term of office of a megacorp CEO is approximately 38.4 minutes. he will usually recieve one check that includes his salary, his sgning n=bonus, and his severeance pay. And the rumor mill is so extensive that even such blatantly spurious assertions as "Dryer's now uses flesh-eating bacteria in their vanilla ice cream" will be believed by enough people that it poses a serious problem.

 

Convention: Nobody can tell what is real and what is an illusion anymore.

 

Comedic Extreme: The Six O'Clock News. Oh - you wanted a fictional comedic extreme . . . Virtual Reality is so prevelant that sometimes people can't tell if they actually got up and went to work that morning of is their AI Alarm Clock was just f-ing with them.

 

Convention: The Hackers Code (of conduct)

[Funksaw]

Re: The CyberComedy Challenge

 

Comedic Extreme: The Six O'Clock News. Oh - you wanted a fictional comedic extreme . . . Virtual Reality is so prevelant that sometimes people can't tell if they actually got up and went to work that morning of is their AI Alarm Clock was just f-ing with them.

 

Convention: The Hackers Code (of conduct)

 

Comedic Extreme: The Hacker's Code is stored on a Wiki and can be edited by anyone. The laws are byzantine and require an exorbitant amount of knowledge to contain it all. They're riddled with catch-22s as people make up new rules when they feel like it. This would be nothing except that rove bands of hackergangs go around enforcing it. However, if you commit ritual seppuku first, they won't go after your family.

 

Convention: 99% of journalists are corporate tools, the other 1% are psychotic drug-addled sots with criminal records.

[Michael Hopcroft]

Re: The CyberComedy Challenge

 

Convention: 99% of journalists are corporate tools, the other 1% are psychotic drug-addled sots with criminal records.

 

Comedic Extreme: As a matter of fact, all the journalists who are corporate tools are also psychotic drug-addled sots with criminal records. Most reporting is done from bars and drug houses, which oddly enough does not interfere with the work actually getting done. In addition, every journalist on Earth is addicted to tobacco, which si seemingly unobtainable by anyone else in the world.

 

Convention: the greatest prostitutes ion the world are androids, genetically-engineered, or some other form of artificial life.

[ghost-angel]

Re: The CyberComedy Challenge

 

Comedic Extreme: The Hacker's Code is stored on a Wiki and can be edited by anyone. The laws are byzantine and require an exorbitant amount of knowledge to contain it all. They're riddled with catch-22s as people make up new rules when they feel like it. This would be nothing except that rove bands of hackergangs go around enforcing it. However' date=' if you commit ritual seppuku first, they won't go after your family.[/quote']

 

You mean it's a giant game of Nomic enforced by psychos with guns? BWAHAHA!! Repped. (edit: well I would Rep you, but I can't as I need to spread it around ... dang)

 

I got nothing funny on the journalist thing, I think it's actually a truism so I'll let other ppl with a sense of humor take it.

[Killer Shrike]

Re: The CyberComedy Challenge

 

Convention: Nobody can tell what is real and what is an illusion anymore.

 

Comedic Extreme: Not that it really matters. In fact, the vast majority of people prefer fake / processed / artificial to such an extent that anything real or natural is stigmatized.

 

 

Convention: The more decadent, nihilistic, illogical, selfish, short sighted, and self-destructive you are, the more survivable you are.

[Curufea]

Re: The CyberComedy Challenge

 

Convention: the greatest prostitutes ion the world are androids' date=' genetically-engineered, or some other form of artificial life.[/quote']

 

Comedic Extreme: So much so, that what you are having sex with currently is now a fashion statment. Men go girlfriends shopping and women go boyfriend shopping. Shoes and ties are no longer the accessory of choice- but sextoys are. Furry, fuzzy, beeping and mild electric shocks are in. Gas powered and rotating are out (at least until next season).