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You can just ask random people for quests!

I went to a pub and asked this guy if he had any missions for me. He turned to me with a serious look, said and I quote: "I need you to recover an 8GB white Toshiba flash drive I lost around here yesterday. It has some valuable information, but it's encrypted, so dont go snooping in. If you find it for me. I'll make it worth your while."

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait are you deadass or is this a copypasta

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago

smells like copypasta, but random strangers will deadass just give you shit to do if you ask, and the "ask for rumors"-thing totally works irl

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

It's gotta be a copypasta, the format seems very similar to that one about TES Oblivion, with the person asking for rumors at a bar and being told a guy went missing in the mountains or whatever. Been a while since I loaded up a stalker game, but the "it's encrypted so don't go snooping" bit I think is actual game dialog, no random person would say this.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you feel like youre in a stalker game because it was realeased at a time when 8gb thumb drives were still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They still are??? Tons of people still use them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I‘d like to meet the people that use 8GB thumb drives in 2023. All 3 of them actually.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

BEHOLD!

The entirety of South America

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use 8gb thumb drives! They're what's in my miscellaneous drawer and I haven't needed a larger one

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy above you was obviously being disingenuous. I use 8gb thumb drives to organise my jobs and hobbies. All the work I need for Job A is on Drive A etc.

So there's got to be at least ten of us. Maybe even twenty!!

[–] citty 2 points 1 year ago

You can get a bunch of fairly reliable 8GBs cheap from the right places, I use them for boot media or installers or "man it'd be really nice to move a file from here to there without much thought" scenarios

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hello I am using them! Well actually I don't even have bigger than a 4GB. But mostly I use my big box of 508MB usb sticks they do their job fine because rarely I need to transfer something that needs to be together so I just use like 3 or four when I am lazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I still use 8gig, but for work. If I'm giving this away with three docs on it, I'm buying them in bulk and trying to get them cheap

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it’s encrypted, why does he care if you snoop around on it?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

because he is lying it is not actually encrypted the quest has two endings. it depends on what you decide to do with the drive

[–] huskypenguin 3 points 1 year ago

Me too. The ai is fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I thought I wouldn't have a mission for anyone but then I realized I'm an escort quest and unlockable companion.