Hmmmmm..... Interesting, as I have never had verisimilitude problems with that, personally...

Just FYI: It's "scrip," not "script." Honest.

Thank You Critias... That was definitley beginning to annoy me...

Wrote this piece about spanging in the future. It got a lot of comments. Feel free to use it.

Had a temp player that was really anxious to try and do this, rob someone at gunpoint. Got himself a Fichetti Pain Inducer and was planning on using it to intimidate the victim to transfer their money to a credstick he would loan to them (he gives them the credstick, they move their money to it by their commlink, they give him back the credstick). He never got around to actually doing this, despite a few opportunities to try and mug someone. I really wish he would have, as to try and discourage him from wasting valuable thinking power (which he really needs) I was going to set him up with a few thousand in counterfeit nuyen that was also already expired.

Why shouldn't people with a Criminal SIN be able to get a bank account? It'll be a no-frills, no credit account, but why wouldn't the bank allow you to entrust them with your money?

People with a C-SIN cost the state very little money (no social security entitlements and such), but they're still consumers of corporate products. Money's still money. You get the rights that don't cost the state any effort to grant you, and they can still track you.

I guess SR bums have learned how to spoof the odd vending machine and so on, and how to salvage old comlinks found in the trash.

Spoof? It's called 'break glass in case of emergency.'
Because anyone stupid enough to put a vending machine in a non-SIN-broadcast area is begging for it to be stolen.

No need to break the glass. Just roll up on that mamajama with an troll, or an ork or two, and walk off with the whole thing.

Exactly, do you know how much vending machine spare parts goes for? That could keep the bums in BTL sim-dreams for a week!

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Actually, a half-hour, where they're subsequently killed while out of touch with the world, and someone else takes a sim-dream.

And the cycle of life continues.

*Sings in the key of off* "The ciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiircle of sim-life!"

Nature is so beautiful... *sniff*

Not after you see what that bum did in the corner of the stairwell on your way to your squat... It gets a lot less beautiful after that.

Damned Bums...

I love this