See now with Pokemon Go and the horrifying politics we are now 100% fully in a Cyberpunk novel
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Like I completely see like horrifying politics (riots, terrible politicians, etc) being in the background of some 80s cyberpunk novel about an AR video game
the only thing we’re missing is neural interfaces, and possibly elves.
GIVE IT TIME
THE PIZZA POLICE ARE WORKING AS HARD AS WE CAN
Yup yup, and don’t forget immersive VR, vat grown organs, drones & cyberdogs, automated labor, increasingly complex prosthesis, smartguns, digital currency, research chemicals, cyber terrorism… The list goes on.
this picture could be a fake, but, I feel like it goes along with what was said at the top of this post……
don’t touch cyberpunk if you don’t get it.
don’t act like you’re on some holy crusade when you make a video game with neon and rain and the look of cyberpunk but then throw in stuff like how women’s rights and basic income are the backbone of a dystopia
don’t make a movie with scarlett johansson playing a poor send-up to motoko kusanagi and then lack the spine to even mention the socio-political points of why the character prefers a caucasian chassis in the first place (spoiler alert: it makes incredibly unkind point about western women). especially don’t call it feminist when the themes and narrative are stripped away in favor of a generic revenge tale. don’t retell akira and put it within and about the culture that dropped those nukes in the first place. the teenage edgelord connoisseurs can just go watch these anime and film in the first place
don’t copyright the word ‘cyberpunk’ no matter how noble your intentions are. you have no real way of guaranteeing that your successors at your place of work will share your sentiments.
don’t tell another faux-deep story that cosplays badly as Blade Runner about a hacker or a detective or an android and his manpain
don’t give me more cool-looking stuff that either lacks the teeth to get political or has the fundamental politics of the genre contorted and perverted so that spoiled Gen X dudes never have to challenge themselves or their way of life.
just…don’t, okay?
The thing that also pissed me off about the GITS movie was using Kuze as the antagonist but taking almost nothing from the Individual 11 storyline, considering the original plot used themes of racism, xenophobia, and hatred of refugees, it could’ve been a very timely commentary on current events…
These drinks are great for when I really want to feel like i’m living in a cyberpunk novel….
help; my wife keeps giving ordinary stuff cyberpunk names, like calling our smartphones “datapads” and the fresh fruit smoothies i make for her “nutrient slurry”
I like to do that too…. like calling coffee “Stim-Caf”
if your next cyberpunk protagonist isn’t a Syrian-Canadian hacker whose parents were refugees then you don’t know shit about speculative fiction
Dekatora trucks are cyberpunk af
