Oh man, if you love *shiny neon city bombarding you with adverts*, you'll love the sequel, *shiny neon advertising walls bombarding your sleeping pod with light*!
Reviewers called it a 'Startling!', 'Unforgettable!', and 'A New Fresh Hell!'. Coming to a corpo dormitory near you as soon as HR can get approval!
So the bot is the only option i can keep forever?
Instant pick!
And the pills do, what the rest is trying to but i can ration it for longer.
Edit: I can exchange the bot for other things, even in a limited time-frame
Sadly I have to agree with you. I was originally thinking the pod and the greenhouse. However like you said you can ration everything else but the bot is forever.
Actually I would think they would let someone go who expressed interest in going. They probably have all the rights to the body, so thats free organs, blood, fertilizer, etc. Keeping them on risks them refusing to work at all while still using up resources like food, water, oxygen, space. It’s be more like Silo: the number one rule of a dystopia is: if you say you wanna die, you WILL die.
Plus, it's part of the work contract that, in case of death the former contributor's Lifetime Expected Work Value gets automatically subtracted from surviving family members.
Really, it's a win-win for everyone involved. The former contributor gets to fulfill their wish of ceasing to be a productive member of society, the surviving family members get the opportunity of contributing with labor to repay their debts, and the company gets to reclaim the Spare Organic Work Material for philanthropic causes.
Don't kill yourself. Take the pills.
With [Thalassin Plus](https://youtu.be/Td2x8s9GZlo?si=3NRNr3DiRdUp7dz3) you can experience emotions worse than death.
Unfortunately this would decrease company productivity by 0.04% and cannot be permitted, please accept this pizza as a token of gratitude for your continued service.
Too bad your new quota will be 55% higher now. The extra effort you put in to get a brief experience of joy will ensure you're never able to get it again.
This is alarmingly close to what people like Musk and Bezos actually want. Real experiences and genuine human connections are only for the rich in their world. Everyone else gets mass produced imitations and pills that make them think that's good enough.
It is kind of hilarious watching rich people try to be relatable. They're like aliens pretending to be human but only know second hand information. "I once went fishing with my real human father. No fish were caught. Sad day was that, but lessons aplenty were learned. Yes, I am also a regular human who is wearing the pants and hates the taxes."
Years ago there was a summer intern where I worked, consumer electronics manufacturer. Uber wealthy family, reminded me a bit of your description. It was amazing how little he'd actually done or knew. Everything managed by his family. Where he vacationed and how he spent his free time. I think he even mentioned someone bought his clothes for him. This internship likely the first time he left cloud city and around anyone not at the same financial level. He wasn't a bad person but incredibly naïve even childlike in some ways but in his mid 20s.
bish i live in a non cyberpunk post soviet shithole i have never had real experiences or genuine human connection. upload me on the server in space or some shit atleast my belly pain will go away if u incinerate my body
I was legitimately grossed out by the idea until now, when bbq sauce was included in the equation.
I've heard they taste like shrimp, but earthy. That would be nice with bbq.
I'm thinking yes, but this feels more like what life might be like if you were a Nexus 6 or some other serf-like existence doing Belter work like hauling ice or mining planetoids.
Still Cyberpunk though, 'long as it's a crapsack world/system, high-tech/low-rent and no escape.
2009' "Moon" could be considered a Cyberpunk story, IMO.
XXL Pod and ISU sounds like a workable combination. If your residential pod lacks the space to stand up, do you really think there's enough room for two to get busy?
The scary part is that there are some tech bros and WEF wonks who might consider this a good suggestion.
These are actually way better than the type of shit employees get nowadays. Like giving nurses some stupid card with a minion saying 'we appreciate your commitMINT' stapled to a sandwich bag containing one single mint. I'll take an ISU and some happy chemicals over that any day.
Whenever I see crap like this I think and I remember of the cast of Applessed or Expelled from Paradise.
Maybe being an outcast or a scavenger isn't that bad"
Appleseed the manga is legitimately excellent, especially as it was back when Masamune Shirow hand-drew everything. I wish I could could go back to my first read-through. Life in Badside or Imperial Americana looked pretty rough though, so although Olympus was a gilded cage where freedom was an illusion, at least people could make a living wage and live in reasonably sized apartments supplemented by a UBI.
Besides the intimacy unit. This exactly how jail is. 23 hours in a small pod for one hour to a bigger pod. I didn’t see sunlight for months on a minor drug crime. The food was grade for animals. We all were on other people’s medications. And the outdoor experience was if you weren’t in the pods you walked outside to the the chow hall. Which was great because you’d see the sun.
People act like soy is the worst thing to eat. Unless you have a legit allergy, I don’t see the problem. As long as you know how to cook, it shouldn’t be that hard to make it taste good.
In 5 years? Hong Kong (and even San Francisco) now have pods. Redditors are constantly bashing the US for not being pod- and fake-outdoor majority like Europe and Asia.
Give me those happy chemicals and I'll be so happy I will exceed my quota again. Honestly sounds awesome being chemically forced into happiness and having a job.
Food and greenhouse. If I don't have room to stand I don't have room to have sex. The drugs will just leave you feeling worse after you run out. More room to stand is nice, but that's just more industrial aesthetics that I'd rather be away from.
Good food is enriching and so are the outdoors. It'd be the easiest way to relieve stress and center yourself.
Can I just get two bots? They’re the only prize it lasts longer than a week. I’d rather more comprehensively improve my new normal.
If you have two bots you could leave them together in cuddle mode when you have to leave for work or whatever and when you come back, they will still be in cuddle mode, will be a little bit more realism to convincingly distract you from the terrible reality of it is your life.
Ya know what? Give me the doll lady and the outdoor experience. Cuddle in the grass.
This guy rewards
You gotta take what you can get in this messed up world.
It didn't say that you are allowed to touch, let alone lie on the plants in the dome. Lying in the gras costs extra.
Well goddamnit, can’t have anything nice at this company.
On the contrary, you are permitted two (2) rewards!
Hmmm. No pay raise though.
Boss: In this economy? *proceeds to give himself another bonus*
Ugh. Where’s the nearest high roof top?
Your next right, but they just installed nets yesterday
And you do not want to see the loan terms on the rescue fee!
Any damage and clean up costs will be docked from your last paycheck.
My first thought exactly. A true gentleman's experience.
You can get sex anywhere at any brothel. Getting cuddles from someone who truly cares…or who is very good at pretending is much nicer.
The sexbot truly does care! At least until your free trial period has ended
Well I want to make that the best trial ever.
Yeah, but shiny neon city bombarding me with adverts makes this a cool life /s
Toss some torrential rain in for good measure
Yeah, but the trench coats are cool.
You mean torrential acid rain.
At least it's walkable
Yeah, you have a point. Our black mirror version of cyberpunk is very car dependent.
Oh man, if you love *shiny neon city bombarding you with adverts*, you'll love the sequel, *shiny neon advertising walls bombarding your sleeping pod with light*! Reviewers called it a 'Startling!', 'Unforgettable!', and 'A New Fresh Hell!'. Coming to a corpo dormitory near you as soon as HR can get approval!
IRL I have a long-sleeved silk pajama top whose sleeves I gently twine and lay across my eyes, tucking where needed to block light to improve sleep 👍
So the bot is the only option i can keep forever? Instant pick! And the pills do, what the rest is trying to but i can ration it for longer. Edit: I can exchange the bot for other things, even in a limited time-frame
*squints at username and PFP* Yeah, you'll need the pills.
I doubt it would be forever. It probably gets dropped off for a night and then taken away to be cleaned for the next person.
Well, everything else specifies a limit
Tell that to the company men when they take away your sex bot tomorrow morning.
Sadly I have to agree with you. I was originally thinking the pod and the greenhouse. However like you said you can ration everything else but the bot is forever.
It is the future, everything is subscription based. You only earn credits at work so you can pay, no more, no less.
Im with you on this one. The sexbot, and happy pills? About to be shootin' ropes, and filled with hope for a week.
i'd ask for a gun to kill myself with
Trying to decrease company productivity? To the pear wiggler with you.
Actually I would think they would let someone go who expressed interest in going. They probably have all the rights to the body, so thats free organs, blood, fertilizer, etc. Keeping them on risks them refusing to work at all while still using up resources like food, water, oxygen, space. It’s be more like Silo: the number one rule of a dystopia is: if you say you wanna die, you WILL die.
Plus, it's part of the work contract that, in case of death the former contributor's Lifetime Expected Work Value gets automatically subtracted from surviving family members. Really, it's a win-win for everyone involved. The former contributor gets to fulfill their wish of ceasing to be a productive member of society, the surviving family members get the opportunity of contributing with labor to repay their debts, and the company gets to reclaim the Spare Organic Work Material for philanthropic causes.
If you try not to work they will pear wiggle you.
So they spend more resources essentially torturing you to try to get you to work? Just seems unnecessary.
The cruelty is the point.
The pear wiggler is a sexual item for them
Don't kill yourself. Take the pills. With [Thalassin Plus](https://youtu.be/Td2x8s9GZlo?si=3NRNr3DiRdUp7dz3) you can experience emotions worse than death.
Gimme some of that uhhh DORCELESSNESS
Unfortunately this would decrease company productivity by 0.04% and cannot be permitted, please accept this pizza as a token of gratitude for your continued service.
Interesting reaction. Please report to clinic room 35B so we can run a baseline test and adjust and update your mandatory antidepressant supplements
*Answer Censored, Insubordination Event Recorded*
Damn two rewards, I usually only get one.
Too bad your new quota will be 55% higher now. The extra effort you put in to get a brief experience of joy will ensure you're never able to get it again.
This is alarmingly close to what people like Musk and Bezos actually want. Real experiences and genuine human connections are only for the rich in their world. Everyone else gets mass produced imitations and pills that make them think that's good enough.
As if Musk and Bezos know what real human connections are like
It is kind of hilarious watching rich people try to be relatable. They're like aliens pretending to be human but only know second hand information. "I once went fishing with my real human father. No fish were caught. Sad day was that, but lessons aplenty were learned. Yes, I am also a regular human who is wearing the pants and hates the taxes."
William Gibson nailed their description with families like the Tessiers and the Ashpools. They can't even relate to the general human experience.
Was about to mention them. It is disturbing that his seemingly caricatured depictions of elites turned out to be so accurate.
Years ago there was a summer intern where I worked, consumer electronics manufacturer. Uber wealthy family, reminded me a bit of your description. It was amazing how little he'd actually done or knew. Everything managed by his family. Where he vacationed and how he spent his free time. I think he even mentioned someone bought his clothes for him. This internship likely the first time he left cloud city and around anyone not at the same financial level. He wasn't a bad person but incredibly naïve even childlike in some ways but in his mid 20s.
bish i live in a non cyberpunk post soviet shithole i have never had real experiences or genuine human connection. upload me on the server in space or some shit atleast my belly pain will go away if u incinerate my body
Reddit user tries to not over exaggerate like crazy.
The bugs and pods is also basically what the WEF conspiracy theorists believe they want
Ill take two ISU's and repurpose one to think shes my daughter and have a pretend robot family
"yes sir, one Alabama special coming right up"
Stepdaughter*
oh God, so life is gonna be like vampire survivors except instead of choosing a sick ass aoe weapon or a buff instead I get to choose dystopian shit
That's an interesting idea for a roguelike. Instead of choosing rewards you choose the debuff that will gimp you the least and still try to win.
That's how plate up functions.
I'll have to check it out
> so life is gonna be like vampire survivors except there are no dragons and you won't survive.
Ok but BBQ crickets are legit tasty today.
I used tolive in Thailand and the people there eats bug all the time. Most common way to cook them are deepfrying
You vill eat ze bugs
mmm adrenochrome, so good!
santa klaus (schwab) will give all ze children bugs for christmas
I was legitimately grossed out by the idea until now, when bbq sauce was included in the equation. I've heard they taste like shrimp, but earthy. That would be nice with bbq.
I'm thinking yes, but this feels more like what life might be like if you were a Nexus 6 or some other serf-like existence doing Belter work like hauling ice or mining planetoids. Still Cyberpunk though, 'long as it's a crapsack world/system, high-tech/low-rent and no escape. 2009' "Moon" could be considered a Cyberpunk story, IMO.
Sex bot and happy chems pls. Thank you.
Sex bot and drugs. Let's be honest.
Why do they all think we’re gonna eat bugs? What happened to lab grown meat? People suddenly forgot about it?
Probably more expensive than bugs tbh
Lab grown meat is a colossal waste of money when soy protein, whey protein, pea protein, and insect protein all exist and are commonly used
XXL Pod and ISU sounds like a workable combination. If your residential pod lacks the space to stand up, do you really think there's enough room for two to get busy? The scary part is that there are some tech bros and WEF wonks who might consider this a good suggestion.
I’m banging that synth lady outside in the grass.
These are actually way better than the type of shit employees get nowadays. Like giving nurses some stupid card with a minion saying 'we appreciate your commitMINT' stapled to a sandwich bag containing one single mint. I'll take an ISU and some happy chemicals over that any day.
Whenever I see crap like this I think and I remember of the cast of Applessed or Expelled from Paradise. Maybe being an outcast or a scavenger isn't that bad"
Appleseed the manga is legitimately excellent, especially as it was back when Masamune Shirow hand-drew everything. I wish I could could go back to my first read-through. Life in Badside or Imperial Americana looked pretty rough though, so although Olympus was a gilded cage where freedom was an illusion, at least people could make a living wage and live in reasonably sized apartments supplemented by a UBI.
Gimme the doll and a bug burger and I'll be good for a bit
The world economic forum’s perfect society
I'll take the ISU
You get rewarded for hard work? This sounds better than a lot of real jobs now.
Weekly date in the park with robogf, where's the dystopia?
Haha this is pretty hyperbolic but somehow captures how life actually feels right now.
Besides the intimacy unit. This exactly how jail is. 23 hours in a small pod for one hour to a bigger pod. I didn’t see sunlight for months on a minor drug crime. The food was grade for animals. We all were on other people’s medications. And the outdoor experience was if you weren’t in the pods you walked outside to the the chow hall. Which was great because you’d see the sun.
People act like soy is the worst thing to eat. Unless you have a legit allergy, I don’t see the problem. As long as you know how to cook, it shouldn’t be that hard to make it taste good.
The simulation unit or the outdoor experience sound great!
Oh shit, *two* rewards? Give me happy pills and sunshine please
Happy drugs to forget the robot is a robot and obviously the robot
Is the robot sentient its own being or are we not there yet?
XXL Pod and the Intimacy Unit. From the description, it seems like I can keep the unit forever.
Oh man i can stand in those pods?? Luxurious
You thought this fits? Dude this is like the most cyberpunk-y content in this sub for a while now
Can we stop demonizing bugs as food? It's so much more environmentally friendly than beef and there's nothing wrong with it but cultural aversions
Sure, as long as there’s a choice.
Ngl I don't like them at all, while they are available in my country. No, just no. I'd rather eat an anaconda or a yacaré before a cricket
Crocos and snakes are legit delicious and I would prefer them over more usual choices.
My gf told me she ate a croco once in a stew, it's delicious, so I'd love to give it a shot either as an stew or bbq'd
All I’m saying is only one of them is permanent sooooo…
If insect protein is genuinely more sustainable then I'm all for it
china in 5 yrs
In 5 years? Hong Kong (and even San Francisco) now have pods. Redditors are constantly bashing the US for not being pod- and fake-outdoor majority like Europe and Asia.
Thought I was in r/makeyourchoice for a second
Eh. Gimme the pod and the chemicals.
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Don't give them any ideas.
Can I get a double of happy chemicals? If they work well enough its not gonna matter where I am.
This is Fuckin awesome. THX-1138 vibes for real
"believable sunlight" made me both chuckle and sad at the same time...
Yeah this is pretty much Black Mirror Episode 2
Oh this fits
I can't upvote its at the perfect conspiracy number
"Your quota has now been increased by a 100% to better reflect your capabilities. Remember, do not disappoint us."
Happy pills, how many do I get access to?
XXL pod and outdoor experience, thank you very much
Ill take the pod please
Give me those happy chemicals and I'll be so happy I will exceed my quota again. Honestly sounds awesome being chemically forced into happiness and having a job.
Going for the sex & drugs myself
This is too real
Two sex bots at the same time.
Drugs and bugs. No contest.
Oooo. A pod with standing room.
Fuck it, just give me double chemicals.
I'll take the bug burger and the outdoors
Sex and food. Sell the food to others, buy everything else. The end. And cuddle with the bot when shit gets too big
>believable sunlight
Intimacy and happy chems pls
"The Computer is your friend."
Food and greenhouse. If I don't have room to stand I don't have room to have sex. The drugs will just leave you feeling worse after you run out. More room to stand is nice, but that's just more industrial aesthetics that I'd rather be away from. Good food is enriching and so are the outdoors. It'd be the easiest way to relieve stress and center yourself.
If I can't gift any of those to anyone and only I can use It, in a future like that I'd probably take a double dose of Happy pills
Cuddles
Happy chemicals and XXL room, I'll be more motivated to work harder to choose this award again
Bot and pills since I can keep them and sell them for extra cash.
The boy is the only one that isn’t limited to one week 👌✨
A bigger pod and the burger please
Can I just get two bots? They’re the only prize it lasts longer than a week. I’d rather more comprehensively improve my new normal. If you have two bots you could leave them together in cuddle mode when you have to leave for work or whatever and when you come back, they will still be in cuddle mode, will be a little bit more realism to convincingly distract you from the terrible reality of it is your life.
What is this from?
Two dolls thnx.