r/Cascadia • u/CascadianAtHeart Cascadian Ambassador • 4d ago

Microsoft’s President Envisions a Transformed Cascadia Mega Region

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/brad-smiths-vision-for-the-pnw-microsofts-tomorrowland-everywhere/
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u/scough 4d ago

While I do agree that we should work with Vancouver/Canada a lot more, I don’t want an oligarch doing the planning. Especially if Cascadia eventually became independent, we don’t want to leave one oligarchy for another.

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u/Less_Likely 4d ago

It wouldn’t be a new oligarch. The same oligarchy, just a more defined fiefdom.

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u/aithendodge 4d ago

Yeah, like, Seattle and the I-5 corridor from Olympia to Vancouver as a technocratic city-state, dig? And like, some ley lines appear, and then some orcs and elves and shit show up, right? We could have, some hackers, with these decks, for hacking. We call 'em Deckers, kinda like Deckard, from Bladerunner, right? And maybe some samurais - like, on the streets, protecting people, like Street Samurai! Fuck yeah! Alright, hold on, I've got something for this...

Uh, so, anyone in the Tumwater/Oly area wanna play Shadowrun?