>>45084461
Holy shit you're right, this guy is an actual fucking Shadowrunner.

I had no idea that they were real.

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>>45084964
Pretty much what I thought. /tg/ story time always gives me fun ideas to play with, just thought I'd share.

where'd this come from? Is there anymore?

how the fuck does one get a job like that? This is what shadowrun campaigns are fucking based off

I am 90% sure this is not true in the slightest, but my best guess would be high paid private security and investigations

>>45085447
>I am 90% sure this is not true in the slightest
How's high school going, buddy?

>>45085418
Wish I had more. Just some screen caps a friend sent me.
>You will never know what he was referencing with the pony

>>45084481
>shoot him in the balls

holy fuckshit is this real

>>45085447

It's not. It's over-exaggerated. The people who work in MPR and STBD have a lot more clout, and as such, they wouldn't need shenanigans. This guy sounds like a standard PI who works in a group and had some dumbass clients who didn't know about the legit agencies.

>>45084494
sonofawhatthefuck

Where do I get a job like this?! Sign me the fuck up!

>>45085456
>I don't believe wierd anonymous stories on the internet
>I'm the one in highschool

It's alright bro, stick in there and you'll graduate from the primaries someday

>>45084512
>One of us makes the mistake of popping the seal on his hazmat suit.
>His screams....they haunt me.

This is fucking hilarious.

>>45085728
Still. A hardcore scat club.

I did not need to learn of such an existance.

>>45085527
Yeah, it's looking less like "private investigators" and more like "hired muscle"

>>45085810
What do you think PIs always were? Large companies used to use them openly like private Armies. They're pretty much the villains of any western.

>>45085596
>MPR
>STBD
I don't recognize the acronyms, and google is bringing me nothing relevant.
Can someone explain them to me?

>>45085723
>Naive enough to not know this kind of shit is going on in the world
You'd be surprised what money can buy and do. I saw a website in the deep-web once for a guy who kidnaps little girls and makes them into armless and legless dolls for buyers.

>>45085859
I have no doubt that and these kind of things exist, what I doubt is that 1. People so wealthy would outsource any such goonery and 2. One of said goons would shitposting about it on a Chinese cartoon website.

>>45085859
you mean that story with the music and shit? I have a screen shot of it some where but I never really like reading it not sure why I saved it in the first place

>>45085859
>I saw a screen cap on 4chan for a website in the deep-web once for a guy who kidnaps little girls and makes them into armless and legless dolls for buyers.

ftfy. Don't try and pass off screen caps everyone and their mothers have seen for shit that you've personally seen.

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>>45084461

>I just had a mid level adventure where I traveled to africa and with my enourage of mercenary bodyguards, no biggie

Adventures sure are something else

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>>45085924
>getting butthurt over screen caps and who did what
Welcome to the Internet, where no one owns anything and no one has done shit.

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>>45085924
>>45085942
found it

>>45085876

Wealthy people would outsource it so that in case something goes wrong they can't be held accountable. And it's not just the wealthy either. There are "troubled teen camps" that also do snatch and grabs for the families that hire them, and those families are usually middle class or lower.

>>45085418
I'd assume working as PI and eventually going not-so-private and joining a company.
Pretty sure that even today something akin to Pinkerton's exists.

Or maybe the connections of ex-military and contractor work.

>>45085859
He's talking about like 6 year old pasta that was supposedly some dude talking on a forum. Go back in time and lurk more.

>>45085942
>getting butthurt about being called on your bullshit
Not my fault that you were too autistic to just say you saw a screen cap.

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>>45085974
>Implying that's me
Of course I know it's a screen cap. It's already been posted in this thread. Is it too hard to believe others are laughing at how mad you get over something so trivial?

>>45085957
Jesus fuck what?

>>45085981
About as hard as it is to believe that you'd waste time trying to oust me as mad on a cambodian picture slide forum.

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>>45085992
I really don't like having that screen cap but even if this is not real I would not be surprised if it was real the world is big enough for anything to happen same for people to do anything for money like
>>45085859
says now that doesn't mean I have to think about it all the time not like I can do anything in the first place to stop it

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>>45086012
Less trying and more watching your tantrum unfold followed by poor damage control.

>>45084461
Jesus most PI's just take pictures of cheating spouses. This is whole different level.

>>45086035
Kind of jarring when you think about it, isn't it? The realization that if it's within the realm of possibility then someone's paid to make it happen, regardless of how terrible it may be.
>>45086045
Whatever helps you sleep at night friendo.

>>45085957
>screencap of some faggot's fetish fantasy
Wow I'm convinced

>>45085810
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike

That's what PI's are. They usually tend to be ex cops or ex military types with some newbie guys for research. Yeah usually they just take pictures of cheating spouses or bring back stupid teenagers who eloped, kicking and screaming in most cases. But they do also get some of the more shady jobs that can't be turned over to police. In fact the overlap between mercenaries and PI's is pretty large.

>>45086080
All I'm gonna say is that Stockholm syndrome is some serious shit, and that humans in general, when acting to preserve their life, will do some dramatic shit.

Everything after the first 3 paragraphs is PROBABLY bullshit, but considering some of the real life shit that's been uncovered, I'm inclined to believe its possible.

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>>45084537

Poor doggies

>>45085859
And don't forget the people who stuff kittens into jars and make bonsai out of them. Stop believing everything you read on the internet.

To quote an expert on the matter: The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

guys i went to school with kids called lati-fah (the dash be silent), orangejello and lemonjello

at night if a car flashes its headlights at you its a gang initiation ritual

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>>45084461
>>45084481
>>45084494
>>45084512
>>45084537
I don't doubt that events like these have happened. But the accounts are clearly exaggerated, with the details highly suspect.

>>45085418
>how the fuck does one get a job like that?
Work as a detective in a police force for five years, preferably in a major city area, be a PI with a good working record and minimal run-ins with the law and good understanding of the boundaries of what a PI can and can't do compared to a police investigator, or be a federal investigator of some variety. Bonus points for military background before entering that career.

After cultivating an understanding of best practices on the job and a network of contacts, you can seek private employment in 'intelligence' for certain companies. PMC's that provide security often have their own intelligence gathering departments though there are still a handful of straight up PI companies but most have diversified business. You get paid better than the industry average on contract, with additional bonuses for certain high-risk or confidential jobs.

Working for a security-oriented firm in intelligence is a lot of port reports, VIP surveillance and clearing an area before they arrive, etc. Lot of walking unless you're on the IT side of things but that's not really the shadowrunner experience.

If you want to shoot bang things on the regular however, check with one of greek, uk-based (not usually actually operated out of the UK but are founded or registered there for various reasons), or South African companies. Those who were in the navy will find regular employment with a maritime security company - pretty simple, you're by and large an additional sailor with a bigger paycheck and a gun. Its your job to shoot pirates. Contract times vary depending on the trip but hope you're ok with isolation because six month contracts are pretty normal. You get a new gun every port, usually just dump your current one over the side before pulling into port so you don't have to deal with gun importing laws. Just about every country has laws to sell a crate of whatever guns they've got laying around to ship security though so no big.

>>45085596
Shit like is real... ish. One thing I find odd is how literally every story ends with sexual debauchery on a biblical scale. I mean, it happens, and yes, but it's not the only place you'll find rich girls running to when they skip out on their spouses.

But I wouldn't look into it to much honestly. Small circles and that last story reads like straight illuminati shit.

>>45088609
>One thing I find odd is how literally every story ends with sexual debauchery on a biblical scale.
I can't find an archived version of the thread, but it could be that those stories were posted because the thread was about debauchery?

>>45088609
>One thing I find odd is how literally every story ends with sexual debauchery on a biblical scale.

You have point there. However, we have a number of stories posted here, after being send to the poster by a second person, who read them posted some other time by a third guy.
Every person might have omitted some, for thinking them boring or something.
Furthermore, given the amount of debauchery and kinks in the story might well have been posted in a thread about such topics or on a not worksafe board, where other stories might not have been wished.

>>45085859
I saw that story when it was original content. It was offensively fake.

>>45088609
Keep in mind these are a handful of storys from a guy who was in the business for 4-5 years or so.
For every crazy bullshit job, there were probably ten or more where it was a routine, even mundane job, where they drive over to where the target is, ask them to get in the car, get them in the car, drive them back, and pick up a reward.
It only seems so outrageous and unbelievable because he's only told the most outrageous and unbelievable stories.

>>45088667
Thread was on /pol/ if you were wondering.

>>45085876
>1. People so wealthy would outsource any such goonery
Who would they send? Their butlers?

I need more of this
>>45088720
There isn't a /pol/ archive, is there?

>>45088867
There is. Search a post number on 4plebs and it'll be easy to find.

>>45086437
That last one is true, sometimes anyway.

Zulu down in Orlando used to do it. Flash headlights at them and the driver has to hunt you down and bring your hand back to prove he killed you.

>>45085958
Troubled teen camps don't snatch and grab off the street, they take the kids from their houses in the presence of their parents.

>>45089097
Troubled teen camps generally get shut down the first time the law glances at them for ten seconds. They are shady as fuck and do way worse shit then they show Oprah's camera crew.

>>45089097
>>45089134
>Troubled teen camps
Jesus Christ those things are actually real? I really hoped they were just horror stories from the internet.
What could an average person do to help fight the "troubled teens industry"?
spread awarness?

Just earlier today I thought about the possibility of setting shadowrun in today's world.
This is pretty good timing. Maybe too good.

Can someone who browses /pol/ explain why /pol/ greentexts often times involve iluminati type rich people doing incredibly shady things?

>>45089307
...because very rich people do incredibly shady things...

and some of them are like wizards, and have no sense of right and wrong...

>>45089307

You would do shady stuff if you were rich too, come on admit it

>>45089385
Well yeah, but I sure wouldn't fucking greentext it on 4chan. I'd hire someone to do that for me

>>45089433
Well, the guy in these stories is a hired goon, not a rich guy himself.

>>45085849

MPR is Missings Persons Retrieval, and are British. STBD stands for something German, and they're based out of Frankfurt. They don't advertise, but get referrals by word-of-mouth by PIs, police departments, and so on.

They're basically kind of like PMCs, but due to their clientele, they generally have the kind of clout where the shenanigans mentioned in the OP post are unnecessary. They just stroll in, act as rude and in-control as possible, and rely on the fact that their employer usually has enough power to make any issues go away.

The sexual escapades in OP do happen, but not frequently. Usually it's the wife/daughter/son of a rich dude who shacks up with the pool boy, or janitor, or what have you.

I can't speak for MPR, but STBD has absolutely killed at least 2 people (I interacted with them, because my cousin who was staying with me in Germany (we're Russians) was a friend of one of these missing people.

>>45086363
Bonsai kitten was fake you git! How old are you?

>>45088932
I'll save some time and effort.

http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/36559691/
Starts as a thread about a guy getting cucked, turns into degeneracy.
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/36566090/
Degeneracy continues.

>>45089433

My dream is to be as spoiled as this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90HhZ-pyC2Y

>>45084537
I hope this one is real, because I hope its not this easy to brainwash someone

>>45089577
>reading comprehension

>>45086766
>perfectly brainwashed in a single week
Brainwashing is a thing, but doesn't even the CIA take like months doing it? I highly doubt some Russian couple could do it in a week, even if they were ex-KGB or the such.

>>45090608
its a month actually

>>45091056
Month still doesn't compare to the "several months" figure reported in at least one description of the CIA's methods.

>>45084461
WHY IS EVERYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF AMERICA OBSESSED WITH BLACK DICKS


Story is a cliche-filled fiction by a person who never visited Africa except through a TV screen.

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>>45084537
>2am banking

>>45091201
Maybe you can speed up the process with drugs or shit. As in "Not giving a fuck for keeping anything of the old person intact".

>>45091780
LSD could probably help, and I doubt an ex-KGB agent would bat an eye at overdosing someone on LSD, tying them up and throwing them into the basement for a day or two.

>>45089097
Correction: They take the children from their houses WITH THE CONSENT of their parents. A high number of people who have gone to those camps have told similar stories of being woken up in the middle of the night by unknown intruders, who then EXPLAIN that the child's parents have paid them to take the kid.

So, from the kid's point of view, they're not snatched off the street, they're snatched out of their bed.

>>45091201
Big difference between "betray past loyalties and give up people that are important to you" and "behave your-fucking-self and act normal until the pre-nup is signed and wedding over."

Just psychologically bullying people until they do what you want really isn't that hard.

It's just when you want long term character changes or to make people betray something they hold dear that it becomes difficult.

Something relatively trivial that they only need to keep up for a few weeks is easy.

>>45089170
>Troubled teen camps
uh
http://www.outwardbound.org/intercept/camps-troubled-youth-how-it-works/

>>45091266
This

>>45091780
You really can't. That's not how this shy works. For me that was the thing that threw the story from "exceedingly impossible" to "completely impossible" because the behavioral changes as described are just not possible in that sort of time frame.

>>45089307
It's a /pol/ meme/obsession with the downfall of society via liberal degeneracy (backed by bullshit accounts of the fall of the Roman Empire). Everything in these screen caps is catering straight to /pol/'s fetishes. It's propaganda cum fanfiction written by an individual raised on a steady diet of cliches and /pol/'s bullshit.

I think this may be the most blatantly false "true story" I've seen in a decade on this website. I'm usually in favor of the "it doesn't matter if it's a good story" approach but there's little here is regard as a good story. Whatever entertainment value it has resides in the constant parade of shock value.

>>45094091
>how this shit works
>"exceedingly implausible"
lol autocorrect

>>45093739
Wilderness therapy is literally one of the only things that's been proven to work for those kinds of kids. Intercept' actually works. It's a three week camping trip designed to teach both independence and relying on your peers. Followed by three days of group therapy with the parents.

We were talking about the kind of super-strict military style or highly religious camps.

>>45094180
As an Eagle Scout, let me tell you that throwing a kid into an unplanned three-week camping trip is potentially the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard, and their own descriptions on their websites make me think they have no idea what the fuck they're doing.

They use a bunch of weasel words and things that are meant to sound great, but really don't have any backing. For instance, the statement "Meet all Outward Bound, local, State, and federal requirements" doesn't necessarily MEAN anything, if there aren't specific laws about such things, and the fact that they don't at least link their own and the federal requirements is worrying.

Their supervisors must be Wilderness Advanced First Aid trained, which sounds nice, until you learn that's a four-day training course. Wilderness First Responder is 80 hours, also known as "two work-weeks."

Their own site contradicts itself when describing the program, which it ALSO describes as "possibly the hardest thing you have ever done" That sounds like a great fucking thing to throw a kid with no training, or time to prep into! (Oh, and no, it fucking isn't "the hardest thing you have ever done", it'll be "the hardest thing you ever made YOUR CHILD do", since it's not like the teens themselves are on the website.

"It may take every waking moment to get from point A to point B." gets followed up with a LOT MORE SHIT you're supposed to take care of before leaving point A and after getting to point B. They openly state your kids will be starving ("Hunger is the best spice" they note, while claiming your kid will be laughing over a meal they had to make after hiking 'all day'. ) They show no fucking understanding of nutrition. ("Our diet is mostly vegetarian and consists of grains, pasta, nuts, beans, cereals...It may contain more fats and protein than you're used to." Not with that fucking ingredient list it doesn't. )

They may work, but their own website makes me think they're a scam.

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>>45094657
possibly the greatest 4 word intro to any post ever.

>>45095037
Thanks, but it really doesn't mean much here, since there's no way for me to prove it.

>>45089170
Molotovs.

>>45095301
that's why it was such a strong opening gambit.

>>45095301
Post badges or GTFO?

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>>45096039
Things I forget I can do: upload time-stamped pics.

Though I shamed myself by not writing sup'

And I don't know where specifically my Eagle stuff is.

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>>45096632

Look at this guy, not carrying his Eagle Scout Card in his wallet.

Step it up, son.

>>45096897
The wallet with my card in it got stolen, and never got it replaced. But Props, man!

Quick pic editing question: How do you blur things like that? I was trying to do it on Photoshop this last weekend, and could not get it to work. Is it the blur tool, or are you overlaying a layer with some weird settings?

>>45096962

Used paint.NET, lasso select and applied a heavy Gaussian Blur.

Bummer about your wallet/card, man. That bites.

>>45085957
>what is muscular atrophy
Calling bullshit on this, if it wasn't obvious already.

>>45094091
>implying that 'THE ARISTOCRATS!' hasn't been a punchline in one for or another for centuries
>implying that said stereotype doesn't exist for a reason

>>45098433
>The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

I don't care if these are real or not, they're fucking hilarious.

I don't think I'd like to play a Shadowrun game like this. The guys in question only really do information gathering and really quick busts with little shooting, in horrifying places to grab horrifying people. And they get nervous around some PMCs - imagine if a group of shdowrunners got spooked by some private security.

>>45099659
The only reason runners aren't is because they're chromed to the gills or magic. And played by nerds who've never been shot at.

Half of those places sound like stuff that should be sealed with meter thick lead walls. How are they not declared critical health hazards by the govt?

Note that I assume those stories are the most fucked up, and that for each there are a hundred stories of rich bitches going on more "regular" sexcapades.

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>>45099802
Well, sure, but shadowrunners are supposed to be professionals, right? Many of them are ex-gangsters or military, and people who've lived rough lives.

>>45099659
Part of it is the difference in mindset for the jobs. An investigator in these stories uses their guns to force opportunity, to maim, to complete an objective. Rarely is the intent to kill, a possibility for sure but a murder investigation rather than attempted murder is a bit harder to shake with friends upstairs and quick moving in a setting where getting any reliable forensic evidence is nigh impossible.

A private security guy, or PMC. Their first go to is shoot to kill. There is no maim, no opportunities to open, when they decide to start firing they don't stop until something is dead or has fled beyond their ability to engage/off their jurisdiction to engage. And they're usually carrying a bigger gun than the investigators and more familiar with them.

The investigators would more likely be open to a firefight with civilian police in an escape attempt than private security, the former are by and large not accustomed to being shot at and are terribly trained with the further benefit of taught to expose themselves to as little risk as possible and wait for backup/specialists to arrive. The later are selected based on their capability with weapons and tend to come from a qualified pool of people who made a living getting shot at in shitholes and surviving.

I think that's an element that really doesn't show up enough in games, that the cops are really bad at firefights. That's not really their job. But when megacorps sic their private security on you its time to shit your pants because now you're effectively fighting veterans who were hired for being good at their job and their job is killing you.

Goddammit, I want more.

It's 0115 hrs in the bidden morning and I need my fix, man.

>>45084494
>shoot him in the balls
>arson
that's something I find very hard to believe for a PI to do outside of fiction.

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>>45084537
>the new guy not understanding why there's jam but no toast
I have no idea why but this slayed my sides. It's always the little things like this that get me.

>>45094091

Brainwashing usually requires breaking down the original personality of someone, usually extreme torture combined with a punishment/lesser punishment system can do the trick. Mix that in with mind altering drugs, and you can do some very effective things.

The unibomber is an example of a dramatic change within a short time period, he was part of the MKultra program.

>>45106065
Seeing how you can get it, care to enlighten me? I kinda don't get the joke.

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Even if it's fake that was quite an entertaining read...

>>45108339
Not that guy, but it's just a cultural confusion. Some Russians take jam in their tea instead of straight sugar/honey.

Tea's never been seen as a stand-alone drink in Russia, so it always gets something added to it.

It's funny in that you can totally see someone who's new to international work getting confused by this sort of thing. "Oh, is that strawberry jam? Delightful. And where's the toast?" *Russians stare at him in confusion*

>>45110618
Ah, thanks.

But yeah, that can probably lead to a lot of faux-pas'. Kind of like the difference between the percieved meaning of different gestures and mannerisms.

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I choose to believe that these stories are fake, because I wouldn't want to live in such a world.

>>45111013
One of my favorite cultural confusions is how the English and Americans use "quite" to mean essentially opposite things. English speakers use it as the minimum compliment one can politely give, so it comes across as mildly insulting. "That tea was...quite good." means it was just good enough that they didn't throw it out. While Americans use it as a standard mild intensifier, like "pretty" or "fairly". "That tea was quite good." means "Hey, that tea was better than most."

The discovery of this lead to a mildly funny tumblr post alleging that this confusion has been the core problem in US/UK relations in the last 30 years: both sides are mis-rating the other's enthusiasm because of their word choice.