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<Rivenforge> Oh, here https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mondel...d=20589644
<RedAce> and its 1:30 PM I need to take a shower
<Rivenforge> The kinect story
<RedAce> ...1:40 PM
<Godbot> oh, good
<Godbot> I was waiting for personalized ads to be a thing
<Godbot> cyberpunk's fucking overplayed
<Godbot> do we have to make it real?
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<Godbot> can we not do this?
<Godbot> we managed to avoid steampunk just fine
<PickYerPoison> aw, i like steampunk
<PickYerPoison> also google gives you personalized ads
<Godbot> my issue with steampunk is that like
<PickYerPoison> they've been doing that for a long, long time
<Godbot> steampunk requires a specific setting and time period to work
<PickYerPoison> it incorporates background searches from gmail and google search history
<PickYerPoison> among other things, i assume
<Godbot> so steampunk stories tend to be really samey
<Godbot> they're all british victorian-era people with british victorian-era problems
<PickYerPoison> hee
<Godbot> and I'm talking about personalized ads that talk to you in the supermarket
<PickYerPoison> ah
<Godbot> all minority report-style
<Godbot> "hello, graham netherton"
<Godbot> "please pick that pack of oreos back up and put it into your cart"
<Godbot> "or we will be required to call the nabisco secret police"
<PickYerPoison> "oreo squad, we've got a brand disloyalty situation"
<Godbot> "send this man to a reconditioning camp"
<Godbot> "we need to change his brand image"
<PickYerPoison> there's a chamber that just pelts you with oreos
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<Godbot> a distorted voice over the loudspeaker bellows "DELICIOUS"
<Godbot> then they tranquilize you
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<PickYerPoison> all of the rooms have an eerily familiar monochromatic color scheme
<Godbot> white walls, black floors and ceilings
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<PickYerPoison> what if they just abducted you into a portal testing program
<PickYerPoison> except your portals are black and white and everything is just oreo-themed
<Godbot> the voice on the loudspeaker promises that if you complete the testing they'll give you milk
<PickYerPoison> oreo cake
<PickYerPoison> "companion cookie"
<Godbot> everyone completes all of the tests in under 10 minutes out of sheer desperation
<PickYerPoison> the incinerator is just a mouth
<Godbot> "creme" is 50% test subjects
<Godbot> the rest is food coloring and fat
<PickYerPoison> "the handheld oreo device is now worth more than the combined organs of [SUBJECT HOMETOWN HERE]"
<Godbot> (the cookies are made out of anti-milk)
<PickYerPoison> hard filling bridges
<Godbot> most people don't make it out of the first room
<Godbot> they pull apart the oreo gun and try to lick the circuitry
<RedAce> ...
<PickYerPoison> despite repeated failed tests management refuses to make it look less delicious
<RedAce> I feel like there was some kind of deadly chain reaction leading to these horrrific images you're painting
<Godbot> there was
<PickYerPoison> or use something other than sugar in the circuitry
<PickYerPoison> there was
<Godbot> it's the nabisco police state
<PickYerPoison> things just kinda escalated
<RedAce> so we're quoting this right
<Godbot> I'm cool with that
<RedAce> because this needs to be not forgotten
<PickYerPoison> no arguments here
<RedAce> so that when the nabisco police state begins the resistance is ready