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GolfPoppertoday at 7:23 PM2 repliesview on HN

30 years ago, playing cyberpunk tabletop RPGs, my friends and I would laugh with each other at how silly the idea of major corporations hooking vital computer systems up to the internet would be.


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bluefirebrandtoday at 10:51 PM

The latest edition of the Cyberpunk TTRPG has basically eliminated The Internet as a mechanic. Instead the net is a series of maybe overlapping sandboxed LANs, essentially. No more hacking the company infra from your apartment, you have to drag the Netrunner on site to hack the mainframe

demagatoday at 9:24 PM

Convenience beats anything else.