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[RealAlHazred]

Some writers have lost sight of the "punk" aspect of the various "*punk" genres. I never liked the "Corpo" archetype in Cyberpunk 2020. I tried to play one once, and my GM never knew how to involve me. You have to immediately disengage the Corpo from their place in the hierarchy. They can't be punk if they're "the Man."

 

[overgeeked]

Some writers have lost sight of the "punk" aspect of the various "*punk" genres. I never liked the "Corpo" archetype in Cyberpunk 2020. I tried to play one once, and my GM never knew how to involve me. You have to immediately disengage the Corpo from their place in the hierarchy. They can't be punk if they're "the Man."

Can't trust a cyberpunk game put out by a guy who trademarked the name of the genre to use as the title of his game. Pure corpo move. No wonder corpos are playable options.

 

[Ryujin]

Some writers have lost sight of the "punk" aspect of the various "*punk" genres. I never liked the "Corpo" archetype in Cyberpunk 2020. I tried to play one once, and my GM never knew how to involve me. You have to immediately disengage the Corpo from their place in the hierarchy. They can't be punk if they're "the Man."

About the only way to do it would be to make the character someone who is working to bring the company down, from the inside, which means you're not likely to be an active participant in any adventure. You have to maintain plausible deniability.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Some writers have lost sight of the "punk" aspect of the various "*punk" genres. I never liked the "Corpo" archetype in Cyberpunk 2020. I tried to play one once, and my GM never knew how to involve me. You have to immediately disengage the Corpo from their place in the hierarchy. They can't be punk if they're "the Man."

The way I saw that work was a character who was trying to change things (if no other way by sabotage) from the inside.

 

[trappedslider]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Steampunk.

Isn't that what happened when goths discovered the color brown?

 

[Willie the Duck]

Tangent: For giggles, try a homebrew combo of Paranoia in a CoC/Lovecraftian setting…

And then the zombie virus breaks out... in the werewolf ninja training camp

 

[Ryujin]

Welcome to the whiplash of Toronto weather. About a week ago we had daytime temperatures of up to 16C. Towards the end of last week we were below freezing, during the day, and I woke up to snow on the ground today.

 

[Mannahnin]

They're pushing that JC Penney's chili pretty hard at lunch. Intriguing.

Chili has the advantage its pretty easy to prepare en-masse.

It's also an easy way to repurpose hamburgers that didn't sell earlier in the day or got broken during production.

 

[prabe]

It's also an easy way to repurpose hamburgers that didn't sell earlier in the day or got broken during production.

And/or ground meat that didn't get made into hamburgers.

 

[Mannahnin]

And/or ground meat that didn't get made into hamburgers.

Right. The burgers and the chili were likely both being made from the same stock of bulk ground beef.