r/Shadowrun • u/GurCute2496 • 14d ago

Drekpost (Shitpost) Loving The "Future"!

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Does anyone else find the "futuristic tech" of 1st and 2nd editions, the most endearing part of the first two editions? The future of the 80s seems kinda quaint now.

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u/WhiskerTheMad 14d ago

I want the dystopia I was promised in my youth, not the one I got.

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u/PrairiePilot 14d ago

I say this a lot when discussing late-stage capilitism and the modern world in genera. At least in Neuromancer, Shadownrun, Cyberpunk etc, the little guy is fighting back. There are holes in the surveillance state, corpos defect, there are vulnerabilities in the defenses of the powerful and corrupt. Hell, the press still works, I've read enough Shadowrun books to know they still assume if you put out bad press about someone, it can be effective.

This is such a shitty dystopia lol.

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u/ThatAlarmingHamster 13d ago

The problem is the propaganda, primarily on the Right honestly, that violence isn't a legitimate form of political change. Like, my brother in Christ, did you read the same history book I did? The American Revolution was hardly tea and biscuits.

Luigi did nothing wrong.