TTK12G3 on 19/2/2013 at 16:37
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Probably the same way you can hack a machine by stuffing it full of money.
I believe you are actually rewiring it.
In any case, what do you want? A hex editor minigame?
driver on 19/2/2013 at 16:41
You can rewire (replumb?), but if you can't be bothered you could fling money at it to 'win'.
Jason Moyer on 19/2/2013 at 16:57
I hacked an ATM by stuffing money in it once. It added it to my account and everything.
faetal on 19/2/2013 at 20:25
I thought it was nanites, not money that you stuffed it with. You know, atomic scale robots which probably (within the fiction) could re-wire a system.
Sulphur on 19/2/2013 at 20:30
That was SS2. This? This is BS.
Phatose on 19/2/2013 at 20:36
In System Shock 2, yeah. Not in Bioshock. Bioshock you just buy it out with plain old Andrew-Ryan Dollars.
But then, given the whole Ayn Rand thing Bioshock has going, you can probably handwave it as buying special access rights. Rapture security, like everything else in Rapture, is for sale if you've got the cash. Capitalism, Fuck Yeah!
Both games have inexplicable things like that. In Shock 2 research only ever requires just plain elements. You might need Molybdenum, but never Hydrochloric acid. And they keep jugs of Fermium just hanging around in their Chem storage like it's not crazy radioactive, and like it doesn't decay by half every 100 days.
ZylonBane on 19/2/2013 at 21:19
Quote Posted by faetal
I thought it was nanites, not money that you stuffed it with.
No. In SS2 if you can't manage a hack, and don't have any of the rare single-use autohack items, too bad, not getting in.
Quote Posted by Phatose
But then, given the whole Ayn Rand thing Bioshock has going, you can probably handwave it as buying special access rights. Rapture security, like everything else in Rapture, is for sale if you've got the cash.
You really can't handwave it without asserting that
everyone in Rapture was batshit insane. Put yourself in the place of a Rapture shopkeeper-- You have a choice between purchasing two security systems, one with a built-in bypass mechanism that anyone can use (thus ensuring that you will be robbed constantly), and one without such a stupid feature. Which one are you going to buy?
SubJeff on 19/2/2013 at 21:46
Yep, ZB is quite right. This is another ridiculous thing in BS.
Quote Posted by Phatose
And they keep jugs of Fermium just hanging around in their Chem storage like it's not crazy radioactive, and like it doesn't decay by half every 100 days.
Perhaps they are able to safely store it and stabilise it in the future.
Fafhrd on 19/2/2013 at 22:04
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
You really can't handwave it without asserting that
everyone in Rapture was batshit insane.
It
is supposed to be a Randian utopia.
Phatose on 19/2/2013 at 22:23
Far as I could tell "Everyone is Insane" was actually a pretty good description of Rapture. We are talking about a city where after everything goes to hell everyone starts dressing like it was a masquerade ball.
