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[smjjames]

while radical rightists are an overwhelming existential threat actively trying to wipe out not only most post-feudal civilization but in many cases human life altogether.

:U

Hot damn, I didn't know we lived in shadowrun.

I'd say the East India Company was peak cyberpunk-dystopia.  An entire region ruled by a corporation with a giant private army.  Everything today is small peanuts compared to that.

I think you mean sail-punk because, well, Age of Sail.

The heck would sail-punk be anyway, heh.

[EnigmaticHat]

Punk is used as a suffix that means "over-applied."

So... I guess ships with completely huge sails and overly complicated rigging.  Maybe all the houses are built like ships and all the doors and windows are sailcloth.

[Sirus]

Punk is used as a suffix that means "over-applied."

So... I guess ships with completely huge sails and overly complicated rigging.  Maybe all the houses are built like ships and all the doors and windows are sailcloth.

So, Dreadfleet in other words.

[Rolan7]

I think you mean sail-punk because, well, Age of Sail.

The heck would sail-punk be anyway, heh.

Spelljammer

My group ran one game of Shadowrun, 5e I think, and almost everything was wireless.  But almost everything also had basically-USB, also.  Smart contact lenses being a notable exception, wifi only...

You could disable an item's wifi pretty fast, or panic-disable all your "personal wifi" (though it'd be like covering your eyes when fighting a gorgon).  I think you could also acquire guns without physical access ports...  I imagine they were typical guns with the port ripped out or jammed full of soy-based chewing gum.

[overseer05-15]

Punk is used as a suffix that means "over-applied."

So... I guess ships with completely huge sails and overly complicated rigging.  Maybe all the houses are built like ships and all the doors and windows are sailcloth.

So, Dreadfleet in other words.

Piratepunk

[ArchAIngel]

Punk is used as a suffix that means "over-applied."

So... I guess ships with completely huge sails and overly complicated rigging.  Maybe all the houses are built like ships and all the doors and windows are sailcloth.

So, Dreadfleet in other words.

Piratepunk

AC3: Black Flag for that one.

[overseer05-15]

Punk is used as a suffix that means "over-applied."

So... I guess ships with completely huge sails and overly complicated rigging.  Maybe all the houses are built like ships and all the doors and windows are sailcloth.

So, Dreadfleet in other words.

Piratepunk

AC3: Black Flag for that one.

Sid Meiers Pirates if you want a decent game

[hector13]

Punk is used as a suffix that means "over-applied."

So... I guess ships with completely huge sails and overly complicated rigging.  Maybe all the houses are built like ships and all the doors and windows are sailcloth.

So, Dreadfleet in other words.

Piratepunk

AC3: Black Flag for that one.

Sid Meiers Pirates if you want a decent game

Well, you mean a game better than AssCreed. Which isn't that hard, really.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Fortunately, a high-level cyberpunk dystopia is pretty much impossible because it requires incredibly competent corporate operators. A few of those arise in reality, but they tend to end up legendary and unmatchable. Most corporate bodies are driven either by a gestalt of nobody or a couple of very, very out of touch and delusional folks.

Human failings, thankfully enough, typically affect the wretched as much as the virtuous.

[smjjames]

Punk is used as a suffix that means "over-applied."

So... I guess ships with completely huge sails and overly complicated rigging.  Maybe all the houses are built like ships and all the doors and windows are sailcloth.

So, Dreadfleet in other words.

Piratepunk

AC3: Black Flag for that one.

Sid Meiers Pirates if you want a decent game

Well, you mean a game better than AssCreed. Which isn't that hard, really.

AssCreed, heh.

(Yes, I know you mean Assassins Creed, was just getting a chuckle out of the way you're wording it)

Incidentially, isn't there a new Assassins Creed coming out, this time taking place all the way in Ancient Egypt? I swear I saw something about that, maybe E3. edit: Ptolemaic Egypt actually.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_Origins is what I was thinking of.

[Egan_BW]

Better, call it AssCred

[Flying Dice]

while radical rightists are an overwhelming existential threat actively trying to wipe out not only most post-feudal civilization but in many cases human life altogether.

:U

Hot damn, I didn't know we lived in shadowrun.

We live in boring real-world Shadowrun where the corps always win and the only people doing shadowruns are national intelligence agents. No bands of post-human Robin Hoods shooting up office towers full of paramilitary goons and sticking it to the man, unfortunately, just the slow creep of corruption and willing surrender of personal liberty.

Found that sargon thing when looking at a Vox article and my reaction was "That gamergate thing is still bouncing around?"

Video games are an absurd issue war?

People gotta argue about something I guess. It started over accusations of sexism in games or something and it just spiralled from there, primarily between two parties. Basically it's like two SJWs went and clashed with each other.

It wasn't even anything like a ridculously sexist game sparking controversy or anything that would lead to productive discussion.

Not even. It was about corruption in gaming journalism which got sidetracked when an asshole broke up with his asshole girlfriend and said mean things about her, she said mean things back, and a bunch of moronic MRAs and third-wave feminists tried to take over gaming for their political bullshit while the latter used gamers as the scapegoat for all their moralizing hatred.

Actual gamers spent their time mocking the shit out of everyone involved because we'd already beaten senators and lawyers in the same sort of fight in the '90s and early '00s. Incidentally, if you look into the last hurrahs from the enemy camp there, you'll understand why so many 20-30 something gamers detest Hillary Clinton. So blatantly throwing us under the bus for political capital that when the winds shifted she didn't even have the decency to pretend to actually care about the issues while the true-believer types like Jack Thompson went down with their ship.

The main distinction between corrupt gaming journos and corrupt SJW gaming journos is that the former were doing it for kickbacks from devs and publishers while the latter were doing it for political purposes and to make dosh from the idiots that followed their every word.

[Yoink]

It's funny how we really live in this high-tech futuristic setting with crazy gadgets out the wazoo but because we've been so saturated with exposure to it during our short mortal lives nobody really gives a shit.

Also a WTF: this SwiftKey dictionary doesn't know the words "tech" or "wazoo" but it wants to interpret "nobody" as "hotbox"!? I swear I haven't used that term since I installed this keyboard, and I'm pretty sure the only other place it has to pull recommendations from is the fresh, virginal YouTube account I made after forgetting the details of my proper one...


Edit: on second thoughts, I guess the less-illicit meaning of hotbox escaped me for a moment there. Huh. Still seems rather more slang-y than the kind of words I'd expect this app to know, though.

[Egan_BW]

while radical rightists are an overwhelming existential threat actively trying to wipe out not only most post-feudal civilization but in many cases human life altogether.

:U

Hot damn, I didn't know we lived in shadowrun.

We live in boring real-world Shadowrun where the corps always win and the only people doing shadowruns are national intelligence agents. No bands of post-human Robin Hoods shooting up office towers full of paramilitary goons and sticking it to the man, unfortunately, just the slow creep of corruption and willing surrender of personal liberty.

This is true, we're lacking in the vital "punk" part of "cyberpunk".

[EnigmaticHat]

Found that sargon thing when looking at a Vox article and my reaction was "That gamergate thing is still bouncing around?"

Video games are an absurd issue war?

People gotta argue about something I guess. It started over accusations of sexism in games or something and it just spiralled from there, primarily between two parties. Basically it's like two SJWs went and clashed with each other.

It wasn't even anything like a ridculously sexist game sparking controversy or anything that would lead to productive discussion.

Not even. It was about corruption in gaming journalism which got sidetracked when an asshole broke up with his asshole girlfriend and said mean things about her, she said mean things back, and a bunch of moronic MRAs and third-wave feminists tried to take over gaming for their political bullshit while the latter used gamers as the scapegoat for all their moralizing hatred.

Actual gamers spent their time mocking the shit out of everyone involved because we'd already beaten senators and lawyers in the same sort of fight in the '90s and early '00s. Incidentally, if you look into the last hurrahs from the enemy camp there, you'll understand why so many 20-30 something gamers detest Hillary Clinton. So blatantly throwing us under the bus for political capital that when the winds shifted she didn't even have the decency to pretend to actually care about the issues while the true-believer types like Jack Thompson went down with their ship.

The main distinction between corrupt gaming journos and corrupt SJW gaming journos is that the former were doing it for kickbacks from devs and publishers while the latter were doing it for political purposes and to make dosh from the idiots that followed their every word.

How is the bolded part even corruption?  Journalism doesn't have to be neutral just because Reuters made that their standard and Fox News made it their slogan.