Legomancer wrote: I wanted to post something about this on BGG but I'm not sure there's a point. I don't know how to talk about this game in a way that would achieve anything other than replies like "HAVE YOU PLAYED IT?", "INSTABUY, THANKS FOR PUTTING IT ON MY RADAR", or "LOL CYBERPUNK IS SUPPOSED TO BE DYSTOPIC"
Or every third post would be deleted by BGG's newschool overzealous mod attitudes, with wonderful placeholders including:
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Because your duty on the internet is to CONSUME and BE NICE.
Why can't you just be nice?!?
"SAY SOMETHING NICE!!!"
That whole "say something nice" in the comment field really irritates me to a point that I rarely post now. It's just so ham handed and their moderation system doesn't do them any favors. You just get disjointed threads and it's stupid.
This sounds more like the premise of the Netflix show "3%" than anything else (though I suppose lots of things use this conceit, including Battle Angel Alita and many others). It's essentially a crime story about cheating your way to the top since "study hard, work hard, and save= success" isn't that dramatic