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"shadowrun is a tabletop game that dares ask what if you had a smartphone in your head"
Shadowrun is a game that still dares demand that despite the smartphone in everyone's heads, to ever run software you need to jam a serial cable in your ear and wire up to a ghetto-blaster-form-factor BBC Model B
Unfortunately, cyberdecks in the newer editions are just tablets because Catalyst is run by cowards and fools.
The funniest bit is where Eclipse Phase 1e was so blatantly "what the SR4 devs did next" that it clung to remnants of the same old thing
lol. Yeah, I read through EP2e a few months back with no idea that there'd be Shadowrun bits in there.
I have referred to EP as "friendship with William Gibson ended. Now Altered Carbon terf is my best friend" Shadowrun, which may be cruel but Not Wrong
I mean "I would like to not use the coolant system for my brain to cool my laptop" isn't that unreasonable of a request to make, no?
That's a genuinely good justification! and 100% more effort to than SR ever cared about
