...long time no see people 
It's ROOT! Nice to see you around again!
I moved! I'm now in PCC (Arizona, USA), so I've been trying to get on here and post from my laptop with a little 3G card. Not going great, let me tell you. 
In any case, I'm still running a Shadowrun game. Does anyone here play/know 4th edition? I have an AI/Hacker who's tearing through my nodes, and I want to make things more challenging for him, without outright metagaming up a rabbit hole to swallow him or something.
I know this isn't really on the topic of Gabe or Facebook, but I thought it was fun to see everyone on, so I wanted to ask.
- kv
What I've found that always work is throw more dice. Or, throw a bunch of dice, even though you already know the outcome of the encounter. Plus I use a GM screen whenever I run games so they don't know the results (and don't know when I'm forcing an outcome to an encounter). When someone gets real nit picky and are holding up the game then I remove the GM screen, look them in the eye, throw a bunch of dice down, and without flinching I tell them they failed.. even before the dice stop rolling. It's mean, I know, but it gets my point across that the players aren't running the game and that one guy is ruining the experience for everyone else playing. It's gotten to a point that my players won't run Shadowrun because the feel they won't get the experience and pace as well as I can, which is kinda sad because I don't get to play my favorite RPG.
However, if you want to go a more "legit" route, you could create a hacker NPC with a vendetta against your player (remember those background/history notes you made your players write for their characters?). The NPC could show up at inopportune times to throw a stick into things. I could load up the book and look at it in more detail if you'd like more ideas
