No. Because none of us is the main character. For the average people cyberpunk sucks.
It sucks for the main character too in most stories.
A good one I’ve been picking up recently is a comic book called “The Future is ******” from a cyber security company called Rekcah. (Hacker backwards).
It’s a world that is simultaneously the most utopian LOOKING and dystopian FEELING I’ve ever seen.
#5 just came out, they have an agressive 60 issue plan. It will be interesting to see if they hit it. $4.04 per issue. $13.37 variant on #1.
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58829/new-publisher-rekcah-mixes-comics-cybersecurity
Every cyberpunk story has characters that at least approximate the comfort level of the reader. The ones in bad shape are transitory and background dressing. Real cyberpunk sounds like a shitty existence for the vast majority.
I’ve never seen a fictional President as bad as Donald Trump. And that includes Lex Luthor.
All Luthor wanted was to destroy superman, fix the global economy by becoming a tyrant and buy
pictures of Spidermanhair you really can’t hold that against him
I mean, we kinda are already living in a cyberpunk dystopia. Multinational corporations committing atrocities without repercussions. Surveillance permeating throughout all aspects of our lives. Ever more widening gap between rich and poor. Crazy technological advancements, including prosthetics or even enhancements enthusiasts implant into themselves.
And if you need the neon just move to Tokyo.
also i am a
1930s1960s cyborg. my dad was a 2020s cyborg (he had computer parts, i do not).edit: had an invention date wrong
Do people not get this? Yeah, cyberpunk is now. It’s a criticism of now, it’s showing us our future
Usually people don’t want to see the bad, hoping that everything will be fine until the end. And then reality catches up with them and they cry, although they were warned.
At least fictional cyberpunk dystopias are walkable.
What cyberpunk fiction has that?
Cyberpunk 2077 the videogame, the Shadowrun videogames
If Night City is considered walkable, then so is every real city.
it’s more walkable than driveable
What do you mean? There’s free, high speed transit stops every few blocks. I didn’t bother with my car most of the game
If they hadn’t fixed that one speed exploit, I technically would still “walk” everywhere; but that’s because I could go so fast, I could scale buildings.
Please report for your mandatory Neuralink™ brain implant next Thursday. The cost will automatically be added to your student loan.
Student loans will start accumulating from kindergarten.
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We live in a cyberpunk world already.
We have all the negatives but none of the positives. No implants that would make our jobs or lives easier. No perfect memory recall. Just eternal debt and struggle to survive in techno-feudalism.
No implants that would make our jobs or lives easier
If you’ve got Parkinson’s (or maybe epilepsy, not 100% sure on that one) i have news
My guy, you’re not supposed to have that stuff. You’re a poor.
You’re not supposed to “want” cyberpunk for the positives. The point of cyberpunk is that having a cure for blindness is only great if your eyeballs aren’t proprietary and rented from a corporation
Yeah but… I could have a tail and an arm that hides a big gun.
