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“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.” ― James...

As far as I'm concerned, critical consensus means nothing if a thing doesn't draw an audience, for purposes of whether it's a "hit." Also, being a "hit" doesn't imply that something is actually good. Pablum for the Public sells.

I can tell you, from experience, that playing a Fixer doesn't land as well as it should in a campaign where you're working for corps. Our Retired Cop character's player didn't understand that a plasterboard wall doesn't stop a shotgun blast nearly as well as a reinforced door. He also was 100%...

"Sakuku." I'm admittedly biased, though, as I know the author and like his style.

But you can get the shoot-em-ups, cyberware, and leveling-up along with the anti-corp stuff. It's just not as relatively trivial as a corp heavy hitter sort of thing.

Valid? Sure, but the pre-gens I've seen all seem to fall on that side. Why not mix it up a little and look at the whole genre, in a role playing game? One of the better Cyberpunk novels that I've read involved protagonists who owned a dojo in a poor part of town, taught local kids self defence...

Not so much when it comes to earlier Star Trek and mechanical replacements, though Picard flipped that script. The TOS episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" had Roger Korby replace his body with a synthetic and Kirk did his patented computer Jiu Jitsu on him.

Actor Robert Redford has died at the age of 89. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/robert-redford-magnetic-hollywood-icon-sundance-founder-dies-89-rcna42442

We had Google set up drives that were owned by departments, rather than users, for the sharing of files. Of course that doesn't stop people from screwing up and sharing from their own accounts, but it does minimize it.

Oh, it's definitely a prewritten adventures thing. If you end up stealing stuff from a corp then it's pretty much because another corp hired you to do it.

It's not necessarily about resolving the issues. It's more about recognizing and analyzing them. You don't have to fix them in order to shine a light on them.

That's kind of the problem, where games like Shadowrun and Cyberpunk are involved. Far too often you are working for the corps, instead of the 'punk' aspect of taking down the establishment. I can't remember a single campaign of either in which we were trying to break and rebuild The System...

SciFi has a history of amplifying a single societal issue, in order to examine it.

To paraphrase Heinlein, "I wrote 'Stranger in a Strange Land' and they called me a communist. I wrote 'Starship Troopers' and they called me a fascist. I was just writing stories."

Protecting great art from giant mecha since 1984.

The only problem is that the megacorps are the ones developing the chrome. I fully expect there will be subscription fees to use "your own" eyes.

If you've never read the short story that the Keanu movie is (very loosely) based on, you owe it to yourself. Gibson published it online, for free, and it's easily available in HTML or PDF. I will forever say that Dina Meyer was robbed of what could have been the role of her career (Molly Millions).