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A big aspect is that megacorps are effectively colonising their own host nations too. Entire cities are corporate-owned, along with...

I think this takes us again to - to what degree is imperialism and colonialism part of cyberpunk? It’s obviously a huge part of...

Easy enough to make Rockefeller a mustache twirling villain as well.

Quite. And the British EIC was finally finished (though not officially dissolved until 1874) when its mercenaries decided to join the...

If I were to do a steampunk megacorp I would base it on Standard Oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil

I know China has a rep for doing things for a reason, but, I suspect "because it's fun and social and not staring at a screen" might...

How very interesting. Did she anything about how she found out about it, who runs it, what other kinds of kids attended, and so on? It’s...

Outrun the tidal wave? Outrun the explosion? Amateurs! I’m going to outrun the SUNRISE!! 😂

If I’d been the GM I’d definitely have gone there.

yeaaah, im so glad they didnt go there. I like the idea of a limited series more and more these days.

I personally think Steal has a brilliant setup for a sequel, perhaps as a Person of Interest type series, but the writer didn’t go there...

Sometimes the opposite happens, as well. They line up the end of a movie as if there's going to be a sequel and they really should have...

It's humorous when they say a small RPG sells 80,000 copies. I mean for a publisher that is like uh what?

I know that D&D has been getting all sorts of wide spread acceptance but, this was a new experience for me. I teach online English...

Yes, it’s not explained for ages why their faces look like that (they all look as if they have acromegaly or similar) until after the...