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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.
It's the shittiest form of cyberpunk.
We have cybernetic implants! But they're only for people who need them or are being headed up by a dipshit (Elon's Neuralink)...
We have AI! But it's just a glorified chat bot and it's not even necessarily good at even that...
We keep having gnarly pandemics of new diseases.
The mega corporations are exactly what you expect.
The quality of life is exactly as you expect, except even the best possible quality you could get if you were rich also kinda fucking sucks compared to fiction (can't even live on Mars forever in a Matrix connected blow job machine IRL)...
The dystopia would be more bearable if I could become a cybernetic superman on Mars. Just sayin'.
You expected to be the main character, but you've just realized you're just one of many NPCs in a cyberpunk reality, just trying yo get by, but getting screwed at every turn by corporations, governments and fate.
Well said! I’m looking forward to the solarpunk/biopunk future nowadays because of… all that
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.
Damnit, I managed to trip into a Shadowrun campaign and I didn't even roll a Dwarf.