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Title: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Doc Chaos on <09-27-10/0413:13>
So here I am, enjoying a quite hedonistic breakfast: german toast, austrian butter and ham, croatian cheese and some cheap tea which probably got packed in some backwater country I never heard off... yummy!

So what are you going to miss once we are all living in a corporate controlled more-or-less police state? I mean besides your basic human rights.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Critias on <09-27-10/0428:29>
Guns, beer, an' porn, mostly.  Maybe not in that order.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Prime Mover on <09-27-10/0903:46>
Guns, beer, an' porn, mostly.  Maybe not in that order.

It's like a Jeopardy question.  What are reasons I run the shadows?
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: FastJack on <09-27-10/0906:39>
Guns, beer, an' porn, mostly.  Maybe not in that order.

It's like a Jeopardy question.  What are reasons I run the shadows?
Oi! Can I be Connery?

"Anal Bum Cover" for $200.

Hmm... what I'd miss. Most likely real beef and chocolate. What? I'm a man of simple tastes.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Mystic on <09-27-10/0917:53>
Coffee, real honest to God, no frills, black COFFEE!

Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Usda Beph on <09-27-10/0928:16>
Mountain Dew... With REAL sugar & Caffine. Well hey right now it's 50/50 (Corn Syrup & Caffine). But if Michelle gets her way gamer fair will look like Runners' food!
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: FastJack on <09-27-10/1020:52>
Mountain Dew... With REAL sugar & Caffine. Well hey right now it's 50/50 (Corn Syrup & Caffine). But if Michelle gets her way gamer fair will look like Runners' food!
So, have you stocked up on this? (http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_033W423403110001P?vName=Food%20&%20Grocery&cName=Beverages&sName=Soda%20Pop&sid=KDx20070926x00003a&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=033W423403110001P)
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Devil on <09-27-10/1022:25>
Having secrets. Peace and quiet. Being able to eat, drink, or smoke what I want.

Being able to settle things like men when necessary.

I'll probly be fine so long as they don't have some sort of anti-freaky-deaky-sex-law. Say what you want about megacorps... at least they're not puritans.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: DarkLloyd on <09-27-10/1428:19>
Mountain Dew... With REAL sugar & Caffine. Well hey right now it's 50/50 (Corn Syrup & Caffine). But if Michelle gets her way gamer fair will look like Runners' food!
Uhm Usda, you havn't been to the market lately have you? Mountain Dew Throwback, made with REAL Sugar, made just like the orginal formula.
Yes I work for pepsi.  ;)

Here's a locator link.
http://itemlocator.pepsico.com/mountaindew/ (http://itemlocator.pepsico.com/mountaindew/)
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Usda Beph on <09-27-10/1437:18>
Mountain Dew... With REAL sugar & Caffine. Well hey right now it's 50/50 (Corn Syrup & Caffine). But if Michelle gets her way gamer fair will look like Runners' food!
Uhm Usda, you havn't been to the market lately have you? Mountain Dew Throwback, made with REAL Sugar, made just like the orginal formula.
Yes I work for pepsi.  ;)

Here's a locator link.
http://itemlocator.pepsico.com/mountaindew/ (http://itemlocator.pepsico.com/mountaindew/)

Yes. Yes I have. I don't count limited run stuff. It's teasing. Not to mention, I'm a purist. I prefer bottle to cans, and they can say its the original, But I was there for the original. This is close. :D
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Chaotic Insane on <09-27-10/1443:56>
Mountain Dew... With REAL sugar & Caffine. Well hey right now it's 50/50 (Corn Syrup & Caffine). But if Michelle gets her way gamer fair will look like Runners' food!
So, have you stocked up on this? (http://www.kmart.com/shc/s/p_10151_10104_033W423403110001P?vName=Food%20&%20Grocery&cName=Beverages&sName=Soda%20Pop&sid=KDx20070926x00003a&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=033W423403110001P)

He hasn't. However, I have a fridge full of the throwback dr pepper right now. This is why me working in retail was a bad idea. I see the new shiny stock going out or have to audit the sales ad so I want everything. o_o;;

And oh god. I'd die.

Horses. Trails through the woods. EVERYTHING about Autumn (I can has pumpkin spice latte nao? Plzthxbai). Red tea. Big dogs. Having enough room in my house to get away from the other people in my house. Having real meat to eat. Having real ANYTHING to eat. Being able to smell things other than city. Just having a place to get AWAY from expectations and rules and code and guidelines and PEOPLE for a while.

I'm pretty sure they'd still have overprocessed energy crap like monster (<3) so I'd have THAT at least.

Oh, and dear flufftext writers of shadowrun. Roaches = better food source than crickets. They have more protein, they're quieter, they breed much easier and controlled, and they don't smell so GODDAMNED BAD. Sincerely, a reptile owner.

I wouldn't make my worst enemy clean out the cricket tank. That thing made the whole friggen basement smell. And I've heard the breeding process for them is even stinkier than the crickets themselves.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: FastJack on <09-27-10/1449:43>
Mmmm... Pumpkin cheesecake (take the best thing from pumpkin pies and cheesecake and mix).
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Chaotic Insane on <09-27-10/1451:44>
Oh my god I am making my mother make that. o_o In large quantities. All season.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Usda Beph on <09-27-10/1456:38>
Oh my god I am making my mother make that. o_o In large quantities. All season.
Nomms
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Chaotic Insane on <09-27-10/1501:41>
I think I might just have to actually go walk to 7/11 now and see if they have the pumpkin spice switched in yet or if the seasonal's still that mandarin hot chocolate... I need something to make me stop DROOLING NOW. Which is actually kinda hilarious because I can STILL smell the UNNECESSARILY EXCESSIVE AMOUNT of dead fish I had to write off this morning at work.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Dead Monky on <09-27-10/1522:33>
I'm going to miss all the weird, absurd, and niche entertainments I enjoy.  My noise rock, insane Asian horror/sci-fi movies, eccentric comics, and all that other low-budget, low-profit, small market stuff that will get burned and thrown away in the name of the lowest common denominator and almighty Nuyen.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Mystic on <09-28-10/0837:25>
Mmmm... Pumpkin cheesecake (take the best thing from pumpkin pies and cheesecake and mix).

Strawberry Swirl Chocolate-Sunday cheesecake. My own cheesecake resp, add strawberries (or pie topping), mix exactly three times, then add the "hat", a thick layer of milk chocolate on top. Or if Im feelin a bit nutty, add dark chocolate and milk chocolate with a spriknling of nuts . Serve as a whole pie on grahm cracker crust, as tart-"sundays", or a new fav: use grahm crackers to dip.


Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Devil on <09-28-10/1117:44>
That sounds pretty good. This girl I dated a few years back.. she had a secret family cheesecake recipe that was like heroin. Even if you couldn't eat any more of it you still wished you could.

Oh, and if you ever go to Oregon Country Fair you should make sure to try Dana's Famous Cheesecake. Suuuper good.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Angelone on <09-28-10/1202:28>
Well it'll go down one of two ways, if the first happens I will lack nothing for I will be one of the evil overlords. The second I will miss personal hygene the most, because I will have withdrawn from society and will be in the woods living off the land, and making random (but not all) travellers disappear because I killed them for their stuff. I will still have some human contact because I will trade the loot for goods I need.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Dead Monky on <09-28-10/1207:08>
You're going to be a brigand?  Badass.  Let's start a gang.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Angelone on <09-28-10/1225:55>
Another pair of hands is always welcome, just dn't blow me up ;)
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Dead Monky on <09-28-10/1228:07>
Right.

Note to self: Don't blow up fellow brigands.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: FastJack on <09-28-10/1335:49>
Angelone: "Ho, Traveler! Stop! To travel this road, you must pay a to-"

BOOM!

Dead Monky: "Sorry!"

Back on topic:

It's kinda weird. The last few years since my divorce, I've been cooking and baking a lot more (hey, it's cheaper and better tasting). I have a great bread recipe memorized that is minimal prep and only needs 5 ingredients (4 if you make it unleavened). If the big whimper happens, I can see myself setting up an inn/tradepost.

So, whatever you guys haul in, stop by and I'll get your goods. ;)
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Dead Monky on <09-28-10/1343:05>
Sweet.  We have our fence.  And bread!
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: TranKirsaKali on <09-28-10/1344:03>
I will miss real meat.  At least we won't be eating soilent green.  But pure soy will get annoying really fast.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Dead Monky on <09-28-10/1344:55>
There's also krill and mycoprotein.   :-\
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: FastJack on <09-28-10/1401:56>
There's also krill and mycoprotein.   :-\
Don't forget rats! You can always get a good rat-burger.

Of course, if we go the route of Devil & Demon rats, it might not be worth the trouble... ;)
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Angelone on <09-28-10/1423:11>
Things are falling into place, we have a fence and we will have access to real meat as we will be in the wild. Definate opportunites.

EDIT- I spel gud  :P
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Frankie the Fomori on <09-28-10/1429:37>
I kid you not; I will miss my Wife's cooking. We get fresh fruits and veggies every week from a local farm delivered to our door step. And she takes that and creates the most amazing dishes from off the top of her head. We have cut out allot of meat, but no flavor. In the last year I have had two surgeries and because of the type of food Kat cooks I have lost 60 pounds. We still order Pizza and Chinese on occasion but man I am living the dream life almost every night because of her!

Even cooler is I can walk for the first time without aids and pain in almost a two years, so now I can really get back into shape 
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: raben-aas on <11-04-10/0630:05>
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So what are you going to miss once we are all living in a corporate controlled more-or-less police state? I mean besides your basic human rights.

Given the basic corporate and commercial logic BEHIND designing habitats and worker's lifestyles in that way, I would say we wouldn't miss ANYthing.

The basic Neo-Anarchist pride of freedom is BS when you look at it: on the one hand there are people living a happy life, working, being cared for, enjoying safety, good nutrition, have purpose in life and take pride in being parter of a greater good, on the other hand you have backstabbing, desease-ridden vermin fighting over scrabs and sleeping in their own pee who take pride in being "free", whatever the hell that means.

As Facebook has shown: Most people see no problem with being monitored, or sharing their data with "whoever". Most would even gladly trade the "liberty" to receive penis-enlargement spam with the "based on your data" advertisment invites to the next betaphase of Trog of War VII on their Sim Station (or in our case, we would rather get mails that inform us about the newest SR release than mails that inform us about we we can get VIAGRA CHEAP!!!!!!!).

Corp Guide has made a good point about the happy corporate citizen (it would have been made even clearer by an in-game recruitment advertisment of a megacorp, with pictures showing cool appartments, your new car, the playground for the kids, the happy family together etc.). I think every corporation worth their nuyen will not encamp their citizens in cubicles and letting them stack-sleep in a coffin concentration camp – they will design your working and living environment so that you are happy and productive.

And humans BTW are more happy if they ARE productive.
That's why "nothing to do" is not a phrase that implies happiness and fulfillment.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: raben-aas on <11-04-10/0821:50>
Or to put it another way (the bit about mind manipulation and being out of prison):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaohoN5bQqk&NR&rel=1&border=1
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: Longshot23 on <11-04-10/1058:39>
There's also krill and mycoprotein.   :-\
Don't forget rats! You can always get a good rat-burger.

Of course, if we go the route of Devil & Demon rats, it might not be worth the trouble... ;)

Well, we've got a FastJack . . . now looking for a Slamm-0!  ::)
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: FastJack on <11-04-10/1106:30>
Heh... I don't know if anyone pointed this out before, buy you can change your Display Name at any time.
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: voydangel on <11-04-10/1950:46>
Hmmm, maybe I'll reveal my true self (Slamm-0)... lol
Title: Re: Hedonism - while you still can
Post by: hazmat the monstar on <11-04-10/2016:52>
Faygo. But Trid porn should make up for it.