R. Talsorian Games founder and creator of the Cyberpunk tabletop game Mike Pondsmith was not too long ago credited as having stated, “Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration.”
This quote was attributed to Pondsmith in a current statement printed by R. Talsorian Games, designers of the illustrious Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game serving as the idea for CD Projket Red’s upcoming Cyberpunk 2077.
Apparently, RTG posts information about its games on the primary Friday of each month – nevertheless, this Friday, they did one thing “a little different.”
“Mike Pondsmith, as many of you might know, is black,” reads the official assertion. “RTG is, to our knowledge, the first major role-playing company founded by a black man. It remains, in our opinion, one of the most prominent black-owned and operated tabletop game companies.”
The put up notes that till final 12 months, Mike Pondsmith was the one black particular person within the Origins Hall of Fame. “And he’s conscious of how public the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 video game has made his profile.”
The assertion notes that Pondsmith has spent the previous few days reflecting on present occasions and his life as black man within the US, and is at present taking time to organize a significant assertion of his personal about “race, abuse of authority, and power.”
He can also be pondering “what it means to look out your window and see too much of the dystopian future you’ve made a career of writing become the dystopian present.”
Meanwhile the assertion from RTG as an organization is crystal clear with its response to current occasions within the US. “We don’t just condemn racism,” it reads. “We despise it.”
“People, no matter the color of their skin, their gender identity, their sexual preference, their ethnicity, their physical and mental differences, their age, or their religion have a right to live their lives without worrying about being harassed or beaten or killed by others, especially others with power and authority.”
“When power is abused, people have the right and, in fact, the duty to stand up, protest that abuse, and demand accountability.”
RTG has donated $2,000 to the Bail Project, however is fast to take care of that that is only a begin.
“It won’t be the last action we take to help make the world a better place,” the assertion reads. “We encourage you to do what you can as well and to look locally whenever possible. There’s probably things in your back yard that could use attention.”
“In the words of Mike Pondsmith: ‘Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration.’”
