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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 23:40:56 JST silverwizard
   I am running a Cyberpunk game where a corporate has their headquarters outside a city, but few onsite apartments, so the people who are *in power* all do what is known locally as The Commute, a two hour traffic jam.
   
   The world is making it clear that there's off-road public transit available, and there's an economy of people doing bike food deliveries, prostitution, and busking along the track for the four hours a day people are spending in traffic.
   
   All for the right to drive to work in their own car.
   
   And - Cyberpunk hurts me
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 00:10:27 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite My bike communte in a city of less than a million in Ontario doesn't prepare me for your New York life
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 00:10:28 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard Too real.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 00:20:12 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite But aren't three piece suits a sign of someone who works in a bank for not enough money but need to pretend you're rich in order to talk to people in ripped shirts like me?
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 00:20:13 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard In New York you can see three-piece suits in the subway so the mindset may be closer to yours than you are expecting.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 00:39:45 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite Oh, I was thinking of like, the people who do a meeting with you when you want to renew your mortgage, and their entire job is to look at a computer, tell you the number it gives you and then you to be sad about it and they tell you they can't do anything
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 00:39:47 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard No, they're nicely tailored suits with the snazzy shoes to match. Either they are overdressing for their bank teller job, or they actually have a fancy job.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 02:10:14 JST silverwizard

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     • Darcy Casselman
     @flyingsquirrel No no - these are VPs and stuff the CEOs are just flying
     
     And yeah - there's a room in the basement where people do offsite meetings.
     
     Meaning yes, these people are commuting 2 hours to be in the office to work remotely
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     Darcy Casselman (flyingsquirrel@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 02:10:17 JST Darcy Casselman

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     @silverwizard You'd think the CEO would jack into his (inevitably his) in-office meat-puppet if he needed to actually be there...

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 02:20:25 JST hypolite

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     • Darcy Casselman
     @flyingsquirrel @silverwizard Interestingly enough, most Cyberpunk universes I know are pretty concerned with having diversity among soulless corporate officers.
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     Darcy Casselman (flyingsquirrel@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 04:21:33 JST Darcy Casselman

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     @silverwizard At least the SVPs get self-driving cars, so they can join meetings during their commute (and get hijacked by enterprising hacker PCs...)

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 04:21:59 JST silverwizard

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     • Darcy Casselman
     @flyingsquirrel Definitely! (Shadowrun - all cars are self driving, so all applies)
     
     The PCs are meeting their contact in their car during his commute, because they can pose as delivery people, and it's a space he can trust!
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 10:30:14 JST silverwizard

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     To my players, "Yeah, looks like his headware was installed before he was grown enough to not have it hurt him. Kinda like a 10 year old who has botox scars from beauty pageants."
     
     My players didn't know how toxic pageant parents are...