Solarpunk has been picking up in popularity in the past few years.

Like in this… weirdly gorgeous yogurt ad.

If you were to ask most people what they think the visual design of social VR looks like, I think they would say “Cyberpunk”.

The Oasis, the Metaverse, virtual reality as a crowded, public, bazaar.

uh oh, we built a transmetropolitan

This feels quite silly, but, I was legitimately very disappointed that this turned out to be a run of the mill cyberpunk RPG.

I was kind of hoping for, like, “SimCity the TTRPG”

I’m actually not sure what exactly a city management TTRPG would entail, like, are we pretending to be city council members? Do we have to obey Robert’s Rules of Order? This might turn out to be an incredibly boring game but I’d at least be excited to poke through the rules

like, I’m not sure if it would be good, or fun, but dang it would be novel

I’m not sure what there’s left for cyberpunk fiction to offer, there’s already five corporations that own everything, powered skateboards, portable hacking devices, and a ubiquitous net, that’s just “fiction” now.

you could have a story where an enterprising hacker steals millions of dollars from an idealistic but foolish autonomous collective of bankers who put their trust in an untrustworthy distributed ledger protocol and you’d have to check first whether to file that under “science fiction” or “documentary”

say what you want about solarpunk at least it’s a vision of a future without fucking “creds”