• Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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    12 days ago

    You better start believing in cyberpunk dystopia, Miss Turner. You’re in one!

    Not sure which one. But we already pretty much check all the boxes of cyberpunk.

    • Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org
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      12 days ago

      I think we’re in the boring version of Shadowrun’s cyberpunk universe. Take out the magic, take out the idea that people perform runs doing vigilante tasks and take out the goblinifcation (so no orks/trolls) and no other races. But the idea of megacorps getting bigger and bigger while everything decays around us with escalating costs, yeah that part is real.

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        11 days ago

        I always thought CEOs being greedy mythical dragons that compulsively hoard riches because it’s their nature, to be a brilliantly plausible fantasy element.

        At this point it almost feels like a rational explanation for their inhuman behavior.

        On this track that’s probably the only fantasy element we’d get LOL.