Shadowrun is the exception because of the Awakening and all the fun escapist magic and spirituality flowing through the setting. Magic-less cyberpunkerinos are both uncomfortably close to contemporary society and contemporary society's ruling class is in a sprint to enshittify the world with more and more layers of shit with a thin gaudy speckling of the aesthetic without anything subversively dangerous in the shitted out substance.

The "punk" is thoroughly stomped on. The corpos sell it like Che shirts. The genre used to be my very favorite and now it's... this. doomer

  • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]B
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    9 days ago

    I hate that bazinga musk got put into mass effect lore, but they named like a space colony after an anti-soviet activist and made the alliance america in space, so I guess the brain-worms are to be expected.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      9 days ago

      King Bazinga should have been a founder of proto-Cerberus for historical realism. hitler-detector