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1am ttrpg rant: a lot of what cyberpunk 2020 is trying to do in its mechanics, writing, and world is handled with a lot of intent and is often pointed to a prescient extent, and then shadowrun basically always takes the same topic and removes the nuances in favor of being a kludgy second-run
i like that the ttrpg says that the empathy stat is more a measure of how alienated you are, and the broad thesis of its future is that the inhumanity of late capitalism and the total alienation of now the body itself causes our ape brains to break in a world that's advanced past our wetware
i also already called this out earlier today but it bears repeating: the real threat to the players isn't going psycho, it's that chrome has them get profiled, ostracized, give up their privacy, and be the scapegoat in all circumstances. can you tell this was made by a black man for white audiences
slept on it and ranted more privately: the mechanisms that create cyberpsychos in 2077 are identical to the mechanisms that create mass shooters in modern america and i do not think that's unintentional on cdpr's part
1am ttrpg rant: a lot of what cyberpunk 2020 is trying to do in its mechanics, writing, and world is handled with a lot of intent and is often pointed to a prescient extent, and then shadowrun basically always takes the same topic and removes the nuances in favor of being a kludgy second-run
i like that the ttrpg says that the empathy stat is more a measure of how alienated you are, and the broad thesis of its future is that the inhumanity of late capitalism and the total alienation of now the body itself causes our ape brains to break in a world that's advanced past our wetware
this then turned into "cyberpsychosis is cheesy and bad and ableist" and while it is absolutely not something you'd handle in the same way in 2026, the actual originator of it in RPGs specifically called out that regular prostheses weren't the issue, the problem was your body being a commodity
actual thoughts not 15 seconds apart: "it's very cool that they retconned cyberpsychosis into something much more grey and non-mechanical than it was before. that guy didn't even seem like he'd really lost his mind."->"FINALLY, A MOB OF THUGS WHO CAN PUT UP A LONGER FIGHT, I'M SICK OF EASY PREY"
2020 johnny vs 2077 johnny is such an insane aura gap that it wraps around to feeling like a part of the text itself. of course he'd mythologize this much. of course.
im personally not a mechsplo gal [*] but i think people are dismissive of it as a subculture & microgenre in ways that feel a bit unfair to it and the women who work within the scene imo. i think art subcultures to explore sexuality are neat + evolve esp. in dialogue w/ how ppl engage w robot genres
My son was suspended from school for giving another student a "pigjob" and now we're all sitting around the empty dinner table as a family with our palms flat on the surface staring at nothing in particular in silence. It is understood none of us will ever ask what the word means.
it is so awesome that if you want to change your name on your passport, you can't do it online and you can't do it in-person unless you deliberately drag ass and wait until like two or three weeks before your international flight
i am going to have to staple a printed photo of my face and mail a check for ninety dollars in an envelope that includes my copy of the registered court documents i need to prove my name change if i want to get this done in a reasonable timeframe!!! what the fuck!!!
like i think if i just renew with my deadname it'll cause problems too! my name has been changed in social security!!!! but i can't do this at the DMV or airport or some central government facility??
I think it is so charming that the Romancing Saga 3 remake has a fairy party member that uses human-sized weapons. It's so goofy looking.
Footage source: youtu.be/gRousX9_DN0?...
work update: over 20 clients have been affected by an IT issue and we are being directed to manually file an individual for each ticket, when the only way to make tickets is to spend ~5 minutes haranguing chatgpt and swearing at it until it resets and stops trying to lead you in unhelpful loops
workplace teams doesn't have the cillian murphy gifs of him screaming and trying to kill himself, which is fair, but it doesn't even have the gifs of him yelling and being sad in other circumstances. how am i to express my emotions? with words???
Person who undergoes a horrific transformation into a werewolf only to be puzzled why everyone keeps petting them and giving them little cups filled with whipped cream
i'm saving this for tomorrow man i am so sad all the time rn and i have spent so much time tonight patching, installing, clearing caches, fucking with dlc locations, and i am just gonna go curl up in a ball and go silverhand mode
oh shit there's a hack for three houses that turns it into a linear map-based game with very limited exceptions, compresses basically everything into stuff accessible by menus, and rebalances the exp curve and class progression to compensate while also removing commoner/noble from the game