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Personally, one of the type of content that I somehow liked a lot in the subreddit (apart from all the posts about players and DM talking about their TTRPG games sessions and the chaos ensuing), was all the "One step closer" articles, not only do they help with immersion, having idea and inspiration, but I've also learned and discovered many things this way.
Can you elaborate a bit what these "One Step Closer" posts entail? Please pardon my ignorance :=)
Ah yes sorry, I'll try to be clear. It was a flair of posts for news that are at the intersection between our close (or potentially close) future/present and the setting of shadowrun. For example, an user submitted this article, pertaining to the defunding of police by a rich individual who at the same time invested a lot of money in private security group: https://nypost.com/2023/05/26/ebay-founder-pierre-omidyar-gives-nearly-2m-to-defund-police/ Of course this is reminescent of all the security corp in universe (Lone star, Knight Errant).
Another post was a post that discussed a news where some researcher apparently made progress towards decoding the impulses of the brain in term of exact thought: https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-ai-enables-scientists-to-passively-decode-thoughts-in-groundbreaking The user then made the link between this kind of research and the possibility it could evolve in the shadowrun datajacks becoming a real life occurence.
Some news speak about the advance in VR, or the slow spread of exoskeleton for workers, the concept of territoriality for corporation (re)becoming a reality (with elon musk wanting to build his own town), etc. So basically, discussing any news or event that gets us closer to the technologic/social reality of shadowrun, and drawing parralels between the two.
Thanks for the info.
And here you go: Even before Shadowrun we came one step closer. In 1928 Henry Ford, the racist madman, tried to establish a city in the rainforest of Brasil were latex was produced. He imposed many rules trying to control a lot of aspects of the worker's life, including their diet. After six years and revolts against the harsh regime the project was abandoned. Modest as he was he called it Fordlândia.
Yes, that's why I said (re)becoming a reality when I mentioned it. There were many such towns in my country, probably inspired by Ford (I mean, with the impact he had, of course they had to be), and some where even older. That being said, I had not heard specifically about Fordlândia, I'll be going down this rabbit hole now, thanks !