Saturday, February 4, 2023

Cybernetic etymology

In my latest oneshot which has had a goalpost of “within the year” for about half a year, I’ve been interested in combining nautical themes with cyberpunk themes

Primarily because the central conceit and perhaps the main organizing idea of the adventure is to make one or more puns along the lines of having a fantasy setting where players hack into a literal net made of ropes 

Cyberpunk is the best genre (hyperlink) but I’m not actually interested in running a sf adventure 

this primary reason recently received a secondary jolt of positive energy when I realized that cybernetics comes from the Greek word for steersman

Clearly I’m onto something 

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