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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  TBH now that tech fascism is a big thing IRL, I’ve kinda lost my taste for Cyberpunk. Hits a little too close to home…

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Breaking: scientist invents the Torment Nexus from the cautionary scifi tale Don’t Invent the Torment Nexus”

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  • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, the prospect of a cyberpunk future is a lot more enticing if you associate yourself with the CEO of the antagonistic Evilcorp Inc., instead of the impoverished masses.

    Then there’s also the hubris that rich fucks read every cautionary tale with. “Surely the powerful technology and the power it will give me wont corrupt me, I’ve read the cautionary tales about how power corrupts so I’ll know what to do to avoid that! Also I’m built different.”

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    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Then there’s also the hubris that rich fucks read every cautionary tale with. “Surely the powerful technology and the power it will give me wont corrupt me, I’ve read the cautionary tales about how power corrupts so I’ll know what to do to avoid that! Also I’m built different.”

      I think this is assuming way too much intelligence, self-awareness, and introspection for said rich fucks. Sadly, wealth is not an indicator of any of those things.

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    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dead on with the first point, but do these fucks even have enough morality to genuinely believe at some point that they are the good guys? Seems like it’s pure egoism from start to finish.

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  • vantablack@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    personally the genre hits twice as hard for me now because of that

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• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Transhumanism is the next step in evolution

  Wat

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Transhumanism is a big theme in Cyberpunk, it just doesn’t necessarily mean that Cyberpunk is correct about how common voluntary cybernetic augmentations are going to be.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh, I’m aware. It’s just, uh… that evolution statement taken as a given is something I would expect to hear from someone who’s maybe a bit too in love with the cyberpunk genre.

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  • glitchy_nobody@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Glasses/contact lenses, pacemakers, insulin pumps, cochlear implants, prosthetic limbs.

    Some stuff does help us and isn’t done purely for evil. It is the monkey murdering brain chips you gotta worry about. And maybe some of the listed stuff being taken over by monopolistic corporations like the glasses industry.

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do people think of cybernetics when they think of transhumanism? I can see the continuum, but I think of transhumanism as being about more fundamental changes

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Mobile phones, as well. Thing is, though, I wouldn’t describe a mobile phone as “the next step in evolution”—it would seem downright silly to, even.

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  • terranoid@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah theres no fucking way I’m ever getting body mods, even if they come out

    I would rather not have to charge my fucking limbs

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    • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      2000 masses - Be careful with the internet, honey, what goes there does not dissapear!

      2025 masses - So I dropped my twerkin on insta and got lit feedback, gotta feed incels on onlyfans and then…

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      *Glass shatters*
      “Hand Grip™ is unavailable right now; system updating…”

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  • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s “a” step, not “the next” step. Evolution has no direction except “different”.

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• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cyberpunk as a genre was just a bunch of xenophobic yanks scared that it looked like the people they locked into concentration camps would have an economy stronger than theirs.

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• mynameisbob@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  cyberpunk is a shitty game I wouldn’t even play it if I stole it. Things have gotten so bad I desire almost nothing and what is even free is not even worth my time. It is really a blessing. These capocorpos can’t even squeeze out mediocre turds anymore. Everything suck for real. Not even worth stealing.

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  • erin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Cyberpunk is a genre beyond the game.

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It started in literature, too.

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  • content_educator_94@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction literature often credited with being sparked by William Gibson’s “Neuromancer”

    It is a far larger and more influential piece of contemporary science fiction and pop culture than simply being an open world video game

    The title of the video game is in reference to the genre that has existed since the 1980s, and honestly the game is more of a retro future 1980s style sci Fi action/crime thriller game than a genuine “Cyberpunk” work of fiction, at least thematically speaking. Uh weirdly Deus Ex (1) is sort of more Cyberpunk in essence than “Cyberpunk 2077”

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