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RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

Games Idiot Court Jester

God willing, we will live to see a triple stuf Oreo

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RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

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CMD598 posted:

America failed to take the appropriate steps at the right time and will thus will slowly fade from relevance and most likely collapse into a series of smaller states. I give it about 15-20 years max, in 10 the decline will be obvious and undeniable as you'll slowly start noticing certain products and brands disappear from continent wide distribution or literally become unaffordable (honestly already happening, just putting a V8 in a wrangler makes it worth $100k apparently lmao). If this whole Russia/Ukraine thing goes tits up and we end up getting dick slapped it'll happen even faster as all our defensive arrangements start looking like hollow promises by paper tigers and the MIC grinds to a screeching halt. No one will ever directly attack us due to our vast nuclear arsenal so we'll just sit here at home until we die.

Nevermind the logistics that are already straining and showing no signs of being even band-aided along...

If anything we or the successor states will remain relevant for that alone

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

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Parrotine posted:

Oh baby do I have the cookie for you



My god, we've finally done it

RBA Starblade
Apr 28, 2008

Going Home.

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Lib and let die posted:

It's 2035, and all across America, Amazon Habitation Clusters dot the landscape. At 5:30AM, your Amazon Alexa-enabled SmartBed gently transitions you from sleep to wake (joke's on Alexa - you've never had a good night's sleep since you signed on to work for them). Softly, music starts to play as the lights slowly increase in intensity, mimicking the rising sun in order to take full advantage of your circadian rhythm to wake you up as comfortably as possible. "Alexa," you stammer "read my my schedule for the day," only half-listening to the soothing, digital voice's response as your run your officially licensed Amazon SmileMaker toothbrush over your fuzzy morning teeth. Small goods packaging line today. You notice your teeth aren't quite as clean as you'd like them after rinsing, and instruct Alexa to have a fresh one requested for your unit. "Sure," the digital voice responds, with algorithmic friendliness, "I'll deduct 250 SmileCoins from your wallet and your new Amazon SmileMaker will be here by the time your shift is over. Can I help you with anything else at this time?" You respond back affirming that no, your normal morning cup of coffee will suffice, and you step in the shower another 25 SmileCoins poorer for your daily hit of that black gold. It's quite a steal, really - knowing a cup of Whole Foods's best Colombian blend is waiting for you after your shower has become a comfort, and you get it at a premium since you're on contract with Amazon.

You step out of the shower and towel off. "Alexa, uniform please." As you dress in the crisply-laundered (50 SmileCoin service fee!) blue-grey jumpsuit The Company's come to be known for over the last decade, your video-enabled security system monitors your progress, alerting the driverless shuttle assigned to your shift of the ready state of each allocated citizen of Smile City on its route. After sucking down your now tepid cup of coffee, you head downstairs - it used to weird you out that ever other occupant in the building was nearly in lock-step with your morning routine, but now even that observation has become routine. You briefly consider hoofing it to the packaging line, but you weren't really listening when Alexa read off the weather report and it looks like it could rain, so you suck it up and pay the 100 SmileCoin fare for the shuttle. Remembering that today is payday, you idly navigate through your phone to your banking app - a whole $73.12 richer than you were last week.

Sure, to an outsider from one of those "non Company" cities, it might not seem like much, but in here it doesn't really matter. The Company has everything I need covered, and they even let me pay for it at Company stores with their proprietary cryptocurrency - it's been a while since you sat down and did the math, but when you signed the contract SmileCoins were valuing way ahead of the US Dollar, so it seemed foolish not to opt-in to be paid partially in SmileCoin!

This sounds pretty good considering the other internet-predicted future of total civilization collapse

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