Virtual stim bars should be banned…

So, my friends and I decided last night to go to a virtual stim bar in one of the more seedy vNets. I don’t even know why we wanted to go down there. Classes were long today, always are on Tuesday’s, so we wanted to blow off a little steam. As usual, Edgar, the professor I go to virtual bars with, wanted to hit the LowBelt, a seedy vNet out of NYC. Seedy but legal of course. I don’t frequent the more, shall we say, free areas.

But, to get to the jist of this, my head is killing me. I honestly am debating writing my representitive and telling him to outlaw stim bars. Not really of course, but wow, that stuff can be worse than alcohol. Not that I dislike alcohol. I quite like it in fact.

If you’ve never been to a stim bar, let me fill you in. It’s much like any other type of club you find on the nets, or even the nostalgic ‘real life’ bars that dot the landscape. Tons of people, all in hot bodies, loud music, occasional fights, lots of dancing and even more stim packs. Stims are one, of many, techniques used in virtual space to send signals to the brain to stimulate pleasure centers. Exactly like a happy helmet, just that it’s done through a vNet. And dont’ get me started on happy helmet’s…

At any rate, we danced, partied, and stimmed our way to a nice hangover. Or a stimover if you will. Regardless, it was not so much fun this morning teaching. So, I just wanted to share with all that if you find yourself in a seedy vNet bar and a hot blonde, whose probably not a hot blonde, and she asks you to try a new stim called ‘electrode malfunction’, just say no. I really wish I had.