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.
CNSA is still doing real non-bazinga space exploration. I’m looking forward to their lunar ISRU experiment on Chang’e 8 in 2028.
My enthusiasm for space exploration is drained, but not entirely extinguished.
The Chinese International Lunar Research Station plan is really well considered, it’s doing a lot of firsts but in a very safe and logical way, gradually developing space infrastructure and spaceflight experience before sending people.
Me right now:
China, unlike amerikkka, can actually do both long term planning and infrastructure development.