Yup, poplar use makes them just a naming convention now.
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Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoOnly cyberpunk and SolarPunk are punk.
The others follow the suffix, like a watergategate.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 4 days ago
warm@kbin.earth 4 days ago
Ugh and then CDPR used a genre as a name for their game, tarnishing it.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Nah Cyberpunk the TTRPG is from 88, it came out 6 years after the word was first coined. Hardly tarnishing it.
warm@kbin.earth 4 days ago
Hadn't heard of that! I doubt many others have either.
Kelly@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It was a thing back in the day. Its just that the day was 30 odd years ago.