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Cyberpunk 2020 RPG tells the future

Started by Blood Axe, June 15, 2019, 05:18:13 PM

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Blood Axe

June 15, 2019, 05:18:13 PM Last Edit: June 15, 2019, 05:36:45 PM by Blood Axe
Cyberpunk RPG   tells the future? Some strange & interesting stuff in a rpg. Never got into Cyberpunk.

I'll just leave this here.
To DEFEND: this is the pact.
 But when life loses its meaning
 and is taken for naught...
 then the pact is to AVENGE !

Spinachcat

#1
June 15, 2019, 06:17:30 PM
The text gets too fuzzy to read when I expand the image. What does it say?

SavageSchemer

#2
June 15, 2019, 07:04:20 PM
Try this.

The more clichéd my group plays their characters, the better. I don't want Deep Drama™ and Real Acting™ in the precious few hours away from my family and job. I want cheap thrills, constant action, involved-but-not-super-complex plots, and cheesy but lovable characters.
From "Play worlds, not rules"

SavageSchemer

#3
June 15, 2019, 07:06:48 PM
I should add that the Woke Wagon is in full-on pitchforks and torches mode over this. I've seen demands that the author make some kind of public statement of inclusivity from something he wrote 20+ years ago (and happened to be balls-on accurate). If I were him, my response would be, "why should I? You're proving my point".
The more clichéd my group plays their characters, the better. I don't want Deep Drama™ and Real Acting™ in the precious few hours away from my family and job. I want cheap thrills, constant action, involved-but-not-super-complex plots, and cheesy but lovable characters.
From "Play worlds, not rules"

Aglondir

#4
June 15, 2019, 07:08:38 PM
Quote from: SavageSchemer;1092136Try this.


Amazing... can you post the page number and book that is from?

Spinachcat

#5
June 15, 2019, 07:12:32 PM
Thank you Savage Schemer!

1) The Woke Wagon needs to be disintegrated with Hellfire missiles.

2) Do we have proof this was actually in the original CP 2020 book? Gotta ask in the Photoshop era.

3) The original Cyberpunk 2020 remains a glorious RPG. Highly recommended, especially if you want "realistic" combat in your games.

SavageSchemer

#6
June 15, 2019, 07:13:24 PM Last Edit: June 15, 2019, 07:18:41 PM by SavageSchemer
It's from the Neo-Tribes book. Not sure where. I took that picture off of reddit :)

EDIT: Just looked it up in the PDF. Page 7.
The more clichéd my group plays their characters, the better. I don't want Deep Drama™ and Real Acting™ in the precious few hours away from my family and job. I want cheap thrills, constant action, involved-but-not-super-complex plots, and cheesy but lovable characters.
From "Play worlds, not rules"

GeekyBugle

#7
June 15, 2019, 07:33:02 PM
Quote from: SavageSchemer;1092142It's from the Neo-Tribes book. Not sure where. I took that picture off of reddit :)

EDIT: Just looked it up in the PDF. Page 7.

So my totally original intro was just my subconscious remembering this. Bummer.

On the other hand how many books have predicted/warned of the coming of the SJWs? Rebellion on the Farm, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Half Past Human (The hipo-gonad nebish and their need to feel safe) any other?
Quote from: Rhedyn

Here is why this forum tends to be so stupid. Many people here think Joe Biden is "The Left", when he is actually Far Right and every US republican is just an idiot.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

― George Orwell

Blood Axe

#8
June 15, 2019, 07:46:09 PM
Just sounds eerily familiar.  
Me first = # me too.
Everyone is special = demanding the your special flag be flown over the embassies.
If your political beliefs are different than you are racists, sexist, xenophobic, etc, etc.

Maybe Cyberpunk Neo tribes is worth a read.
To DEFEND: this is the pact.
 But when life loses its meaning
 and is taken for naught...
 then the pact is to AVENGE !

kythri

#9
June 15, 2019, 07:48:54 PM
Quote from: SavageSchemer;1092137I should add that the Woke Wagon is in full-on pitchforks and torches mode over this. I've seen demands that the author make some kind of public statement of inclusivity from something he wrote 20+ years ago (and happened to be balls-on accurate). If I were him, my response would be, "why should I? You're proving my point".

Wait, so there's a bunch of (assumably) white people, ordering a black person to apologize for something written 20-30 years ago?  That seems pretty fucking unwoke.

Spinachcat

#10
June 15, 2019, 07:52:07 PM
Minorities can only keep their minority status through obedience to the SJW narrative.

Dare to leave the plantation and you're just another punchable Nazi.

Aglondir

#11
June 15, 2019, 09:26:05 PM
Quote from: SavageSchemer;1092142It's from the Neo-Tribes book. Not sure where. I took that picture off of reddit :)

EDIT: Just looked it up in the PDF. Page 7.

Holy Neo-Tokyo...
Just verified it. Page 7.
Written in 1995.

Ratman_tf

#12
June 15, 2019, 10:15:26 PM
Quote from: SavageSchemer;1092137I should add that the Woke Wagon is in full-on pitchforks and torches mode over this. I've seen demands that the author make some kind of public statement of inclusivity from something he wrote 20+ years ago (and happened to be balls-on accurate). If I were him, my response would be, "why should I? You're proving my point".

They've also gone after him for the Voodoo Boys gang, which are going to be in the 2077 game.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/06/12/cyberpunk-2077s-e3-demo-has-weak-gunplay-and-unimaginative-stereotypes/

And the "trans" advertisement. (not sure what trans means in a world where there are insect bodysculpts)

https://www.polygon.com/e3/2019/6/12/18662443/cyberpunk-2077-trans-advertisement-cd-projekt-red-e3-2019

Hate to tell the posters who dislike the "politics" on the RPG forum, but this stuff isn't going to go away soon.
Anyway, there's a video on twitter,where Mike Pondsmith replies to the criticism of the Voodoo Boys.

https://twitter.com/GayLesbianCunt/status/1139217998105833472

*Obligatory comment about a black man defending his game from accustation of racism from white people.*
The notion of an exclusionary and hostile RPG community is a fever dream of zealots who view all social dynamics through a narrow keyhole of structural oppression.
-Haffrung

Opaopajr

#13
June 15, 2019, 10:37:47 PM
Glad I got my Cyberpunk pdf bundle beforehand -- it's gonna be a collector's item! :p
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman

Shawn Driscoll

#14
June 15, 2019, 11:16:26 PM
Quote from: Blood Axe;1092126Cyberpunk RPG   tells the future? Some strange & interesting stuff in a rpg. Never got into Cyberpunk.

Alvin Toffler warned us back in 1970.
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