Shadowrun is the exception because of the Awakening and all the fun escapist magic and spirituality flowing through the setting. Magic-less cyberpunkerinos are both uncomfortably close to contemporary society and contemporary society’s ruling class is in a sprint to enshittify the world with more and more layers of shit with a thin gaudy speckling of the aesthetic without anything subversively dangerous in the shitted out substance.
The “punk” is thoroughly stomped on. The corpos sell it like Che shirts. The genre used to be my very favorite and now it’s… this.
As I took a walk today on an errand, I saw the third ZYBERTRUKKK for the year.
I live in a fairly remote area that’s beautiful most of the year, thriving as if in spite of the planet being on fire.
Just seeing one of those fucking things reminds me that there are credulous bazingas that want to burn the planet down, and perhaps eventually destroy the natural beauty that is still around me, all because at some superficial aesthetic level that means more ZYBERTRUKKKs and other treats and makes them feel closer to the cyberpunkerinos.