CyberPunk 2022
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We should really get a KiA Shadowrun campaign going, at this point.
I'd be up for it, chummer. KiA is pretty global, though, time zones could be an issue.
True.
Plus we're all boomers. How anyone out of college manages to coordinate schedules between 5 different people with jobs, families, and obligations for a huge block of time is beyond me!
I suppose we could do it as a mini living community -- have multiple GMs running different games for different groups at different times, perhaps agreeing ahead of time on an overarching plot or problem. The nature of Shadowrun makes it easy for different characters to drop in and out of various jobs whenever needed.
That might be waaaayyyyy too much work, though.
Alternatively, we might have democratic control over corporations like we are supposed to have over governments.
More like in the Mars trilogy.
I remember when KSR was sane.
Seems interesting. Is it any good, or is it woke crap?
It's pretty progressive, but it's not modern-style woke crap. The author Kim Stanley Robinson was the king of hard science fiction back in the 90s. He did tons of research for those books, and most of the Sci fi is based in real modern science.
Politically, it's socialist, just like Robinson is, and there's a big focus on STRONK WAHMEN main characters, but it was written before all of the tranny fad and the everything-must-be-gay trend. I remember them being a really good read, but I was a lot less conservative when I read them.
Not really woke by todays standards.
Which Mars Trilogy?
Red/green/blue mars
Part of the story is that corporations grow so big that they basically dominate smaller nations
Ohhh. I actually have those. Bought them at a used book sale and just haven’t gotten around to them yet.
Great books but this days I want easy to read uncomplicated books.
I don’t blame you
Google, Microsoft (Azure) and Amazon (AWS) have insane God mode level power over the world's current internet and digital content infrastructure. It makes sense to see them as more than just companies.
Yes, but by breaking them up, not by giving them even more power.
I seem to recall the last time a Goliath was hacked into pieces, a Bell of Greeting was reforged into the freakin' Death Star.
Maybe that was more of a warning for the next time rather than a screw you.
Ben Schott is out of his mind.
Rev up those fryers, looks like corporatocracy is on the menu!
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