As a kid, I played a lot of the #Shadowrun #TTRPG. More than you're imagining right now. Even more than that. Keep going. Still more. Okay, a bit less than that. You get the idea.

In case you're unfamiliar, Shadowrun is "What if we had a cyberpunk dystopia, but there's also orks and elves and dwarves and trolls as an allegory about racism, and also there's magic, and a number of the megacorporations that rule the world are run by actual dragons?"

It's wild how well this prepared me for 2026.

Oh yeah, and the megacorps try to use Ai to control the masses, but it backfires and the machines kill a whole bunch of people. Horrifically.

So, y'know. Pretty standard 21st century stuff.