A tech worker dive in Chicago's Loop district that caters to the mid-tier programmers, network techs, and data janitors who keep GLMZ's digital infrastructure running and receive almost no credit for it. The bar's name is a programming joke that hasn't been funny for a century, but the sign stays. The interior is aggressively dim, every surface is black or dark gray, and the drinks are named after error codes. The most popular is the 404 — a clear spirit served in a glass that appears to be empty but isn't.

Null Pointer's real function is as a complaint department. This is where the people who maintain the corridor's networks come to vent about the systems they're forced to keep alive, the legacy code that should have been retired decades ago, and the corponation managers who don't understand what they're asking for. The walls are covered in scrawled code fragments, inside jokes, and the occasional genuinely brilliant algorithm sketched on a napkin and taped up for posterity. There's a running tab for anyone who can solve the bar's weekly coding challenge, posted on a whiteboard behind the bar.