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Cyberpunk

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A transhumanistic edge of society in dystopia. Daily life has been impacted by rapid technological takeover.

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[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 53 points 5 days ago (3 children)

we have none of the cool aspects of cyberpunk but all of the bad ones.

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 days ago (2 children)

well, we have pills to change gender, pills to talk to God, we can immediately reach out to most humans in the world without moving, and we have a lot of fascists to kill

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

we can immediately reach out to most humans in the world without moving

That window has been closing since 2008. We interact with who we're supposed to interact with. The chances of me hearing the plight of a third world farmer directly from his mouth is slim to none.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh the proper channels are closing.

But the improper ones are opening more.

Heck, were seeing analysis of how US liberal media suppresses violence against Palestinians less than a year after in happened. During the cold war that would be ten years.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

I'd say that's mostly Tiktok/China holding up a mirror to the west. As soon as some deal is struck between them and China, that too, will stop

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I said we can, I never said we do. More possibilities doesn't mean better possibilities.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Acsshually it's more likely that you're talking to a bot trying to pass as a human than a human. That's as punk as it gets.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Cigarettes that need batteries, cheap led blue lights to stop the homeless from shooting up, electric cars and robot dogs for the elites, giant corporations infecting politics

We're in it bub for a very long time.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i mean we have smart watches for 80 bucks, that's pretty neat. air fryers are cool too

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Air fryers are not the first thing that come to my mind when I think cool cyberpunk, probably is not even the 100th thing.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

well i for one quite like having perfect fries on demand without risking burning my house down

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 5 days ago

without risking burning my house down

as long as a netrunner doesn't hack it

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 5 days ago

what, you don't remember the air fryier scene from Johnny Mnemonic?

[–] solomon42069@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Can someone please get Elon addicted to Stardew Valley? Maybe we can change the world if we change its biggest baby.

[–] Melobol@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

He doesn't use the drug he sells. LoL Stardew Valley is on all Teslas, playable with controllers.
Tho I do wish...

[–] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

He does all joja playthtoughs

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 days ago

I mean, it's close.

But this is like if neuromancer was written by Tom Sharpe instead of William Gibson.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

We've been in a cyberpunk timeline for a while now.

And I'm making a new years resolution right now to make it even more so, emphasis on the punk.

[–] TwoFacedJanus1968@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

The Cyberocalypse will not be streamed.

Watching a documentary on NEOM and all the other Neo-EPCOT plans of the Saudis, and I'm starting to wonder if we're heading into a Cyberpunk & Digital Dystopia OR if that is just the facade of a future that all these billionaires and financial firms are using to scam us into a much more analog and material dystopia as they monopolize all the real resources and real estate in some post-modern form of feudalism.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Yeah should a known we'd be getting shitty side of a tech society

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Still have cp77 in my backlog... maybe this is a good time to give it a whirl.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That's the deepest fried image ever posted.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

+1 Insightful. Meme-brained thinking is inferior thinking, so let's all try to stop doing it.

when you put it that way, things don't seem so bad. cyberpuuuunk!

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

It sounds quiet. Can I join? I've got some leftover mince pies

[–] riccardo@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

well that's how I've heard of the news too... was away for the christams vacations so I'm a little out of the loop

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

You can cut out the middleman and just link directly to Bing