Being Rick Rolled 2070, What kind of annoying jackassery happens on the matrix? Options

[Heath Robinson]

What would replace Rickrolling? People in 2070 still probably use video sites that spread earworms and viral vids. Memes and whatnot still spawn forth. NERPSrolling, therefore, is clearly the best contender. You get linked to a potentially awesome video (like, some hard trogcore), but you end up seeing one of the cheesier 50's NERPS trid ads with a horrible earworm that you will never get out of your head.

In my social group, we've come to an agreement that one general image macro set are Lolfwyrs - pictures of dragons with facetitious captions. Favouring Lofwyr as a target, but taking any available Dragon in an exploitable pose or featuring a memorable expression. Favourites include "Lofwyr smells bullshit", "IS THAT CAKE?" and "Dragon hate pizza!"

The potential for mangled sentence memes is heightened when you assume that people have totally arbitrary conceptual lebenshtein distances. "I" and "Dragon" can be crossed as easily as "made" and "mead". In fact, it would be entertaining to throw this in for a low Computer character, or someone dealing with heavy penalties. A bizarre substitution if they're using DNI for text entry.

[Draco18s]

I Love ICs: A Viral marketing alternate reality game turned sour when one of the game's videos got corrupted and caused the watcher's comlink to disconnect from the matrix entirely for several minutes. The company behind the marketing campaign did fix the issue fast, but unfortunately several copies of the video were saved. Links to these videos show up frequently under various guises in an attempt to get unsuspecting users to watch it (and get kicked off the net). No permanent damage is done, save from the ill effects of a violent dump from full VR (even then, the headaches and nausea last only an hour or so).

[Kanada Ten]

Electric Koolaid (Icebang): In the one reported case of Icebanging, members of a Renraku Bratpack and AP Computer Science students at a Renraku Education Center, stole user passwords for their Intrusion Countermeasure class, and, impersonating members of a rival Evo gang, invited members to a Matrix Rave at the class node. They sculpted the environment to appear as a typical rave; even the IC were designed as emotbots, serving watered down sim spikes. When the passwords expired at midnight, the IC - thinking that the node was under massive attack - locked down the node and began attacking the Evo attendants, in some cases using black rated programs. Many of the victims were using hot modified sim modules and suffered serious injury. The perpetrators were arrested and tried by Renraku, but Evo's demand for damages have so far been denied by the Corporate Court. A subsequent chilling effect on pure VR raves has led to increased AR focused events. Icebanging is a serious offense.

[Kanada Ten]

Freeking: Public displays of cybersex. Minors caught engaged in freeking are often face child pornography charges, and such cases are on the rise as freeking has become more common at AR parties and raves.

Wikimancing: (see Wiki)

Deet: One desensitized to all forms of stimulus, or the condition of being desensitized to stimulus. A deet no longer registers surprise, shock, joy, etc to virtual or physical events. Those inflicted with deet show extreme apathy about their life and the life of other, and while many deets initially go on "rush" drugs or exploits, they soon grow bored with this and progress to passive observation of life. Deet shows similar symptoms, outwardly and atonomically to BTL brainburn, even in those with no contact to high peek simsense. It is hypothesized that long term exposure to simsense from a young age may be the cause, leading to a scare over sim nanny programs. Deet can be treated with a combination of medicine and therapy; however, lack of diagnosis often leads deet sufferers to apathy suicide (starvation, dehydration, hypothermia, etc).

[O'Donnell Heir]

Draco... your confusing yourself a bit. He really does mean script kiddies. Annoying little do-next-to-nothing apps that just exist to piss you off. Like seizure flashing banner ads?

A hacker has talent, a script kiddie dosnt.

Heh, just had the idea of taking those flashing banners into 2070: Low level IC banners. force you to pay attention to them by causing harm and annoyance.

A hacker is usually someone who finds their ways into systems for the sheer pleasure of it, and the biggest hackers from the heyday of hackign in the 80s and early 90s were fairly benign, with the best claiming certain networks and protecting them from other hackers.

A Script kiddie modifies a script given to them to do what they want, usually just annoying stuff for no real purpose. They're the malicious code stealers who often take credit for doing something after stealing code from someone else to do it.

It's like Something Awful (the Hackers) versus Ebaums World (The script kiddies).

[Draco18s]

Script Kiddies likely can't even modify prewritten code to make it do what they want. The point it at a direction and click "go" and it "goes."