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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      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

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      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.

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

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

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            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!!

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              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

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          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.

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          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

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      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

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