How Dystopian Are We Going?

[Kaden]

And no, you do lose a lot of interesting ways to integrate a character into the outside world is culture has abandoned it.

We will never agree on this point.

The difference between brink and decline is not whether or not "everyone" is always on the net. It's how it's perceived by society and the attitude towards those who live more in the Net than anything else.

Building a mechanic, like The Net, into an RPG and then saying it's not commonly/regularly used is stupid and greatly mitigates the reason for it being there in the first place.