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Adil: Who in their right mind would want to eat Crapfilth? What is wrong with these people? Where is their sense of marketing?
Alana: What the heck is a Vomitronic?
Zhang: Looks like they are on sale over there.

Adil: Hmm, a Chinese brand. “Chaojilaji” doesn't sound bad.
Zhang: Except for the fact that it actually means “Super Garbage.”
Adil: Sigh… never mind. Hey, at least that one over there has a nice font.

Heidi: It may be a nice font, but I can guarantee that ‘Scheißdreck’ in German is not a nice word.
Adil: I am not liking this future… at all.
Zhang: Let's go inside this shop and see what this Vomitronic is supposed to be… although I have a bad feeling about it.

The Vomitronic 3000 proves to be a chair mounted on a swiveling base, with 4 balls mounted above the occupant's head.
Max: There it is… “based on a NASA design.” Wait, I recognize this from somewhere. A MythBusters episode… wait, that thing is meant to induce vomiting?
Zhang: Well, my fears do come true.
Steve: People want to barf on demand? This makes no sense!

Random person: You here for the Vomitronic 3000? I hear it is better than the Puk'Express Pro!
Max: Eh… Is this the latest trend?
Random person: For sure! Look at that guy over there, he's not up-to-date, still stuck in the old trend. Or maybe he cannot afford a Vomitronic.

In the foreground, another person is spraying chemical mace into their own face, while Max and Steve watch dumbfounded.
SFX: PSSSHT
Other person: YAAAARGGHHH!
Random person: Hey dude, “Mace Your Face” is so yesterday, get with the times! Gotta vomit now!

Zhang: Heidi, are you positively sure this simulation has not gone haywire? This cannot be the actual future!
Heidi: I can hardly believe it myself, but the quantum link is working at near 100% confidence level…
Zhang: Then the whole world has gone insane in this future! Wait, can't we figure out today's date now?

Alana: “Barfinator 1000000” available starting from… 2007-13-20? But, that is in the past… and with a 13th month?
Heidi: The calendar system must have changed. It will be even harder to figure out how far in the future we are.
Adil: Does it matter? This future sucks, that is a certain thing!

The other person is now sitting in the Vomitronic 3000, which is spinning up.
SFX: Vrrwiiiiii…
Random person: Hurrrk…
Adil: Oh no, he is trying out the Vomitronic!
Steve: Get out of here! I don't want to test whether the smell-o-vision will accurately render this!

Setting: the team is back on the street.
Alana: Let me get this straight: the favorite pastime of people in this unspecified future, has moved from spraying pepperspray into their own faces, towards vomiting?
Heidi: It is messed up beyond belief. There must be an explanation for this.

Zhang: Maybe it is like the ‘vomitorium’ concept from ancient Rome?
Alana: That is actually a myth, and an incorrect interpretation of the name for exits in an amphitheatre. Also, the only motivation for these people seems to be the trendiness, not binge-and-purge. Macing one's face has no benefits at all!

Alana, not looking ahead, almost walks onto the street while a monster truck passes by. Zhang pulls her back onto the curb. The wheels on the truck are not round, they are square.
SFX: HONK!
Zhang: Look out!
SFX: Bunk bunk