Charlie StrossFeb 2

Years ago (before Epstein, before the GFC, etc) I used to jokingly talk about my pet conspiracy theory, that the world was ruled by the P7: the Pale Patriarchal Plutocratic Protestant Penis-People of Power.

Turns out I was right.

I didn't want to be right …

Show threadAgnieszka R. Turczyńska
@cstross A person I know has created a dystopia near future RPG system (unfortunately, only in Polish). I've heard from him more than once something in line: "I've made a fucking RPG, not a dystopian state operation manual".
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Show threadCharlie StrossFeb 2
@agturcz I have just thrown in the towel on my long-running dystopian political satire/Lovecraftian horror series because the way it's tracking things in real life Cthulhu is scheduled to wake up next month.
Show threadSeiðrFeb 2
@cstross @agturcz As things go, I don't think we'll have a horrible end so much as no end of horrors.
Show threadjaarkFeb 2
@cstross @agturcz TBH, the New Management often seem to be perfectly reasonable and sane compared to what's actually happening.
Show threadCorvusFeb 2
@agturcz @cstross #shadowrun is a known brand in #rpg. It provoked that exact same thought.
Show threadLord Caramac the Clueless, KSCFeb 2
@corvus_ch @agturcz @cstross Every time I read about Elon Musk dreaming of becoming the Emperor of Mars, I think to myself, "Don't those oligarchs understand that the Tessier-Ashpools were the villains in Neuromancer?"