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[–] [email protected] 154 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn this dude played Cyberpunk and literally missed everything about the story and the city itself.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sounds "corporations are le bad" with more words

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Corporations ARE le bad though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They are though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, they are, but it's a story and a very cerebral one. Of course it has a lesson to learn from.

At least it wasn't being woke or preaching about the end times of a 2000 year old prediction. It really does become an issue when the aesop anvil doesn't need to be dropped.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A problem the entire cyberpunk genre has

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely, most of the Cyberpunk genre is meant to entertain. The dystopian setting is used as a foil to a hyper-individualistic power-trip main character fantasy.

Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it's good to be aware of. You don't want to live in night city, you want to be the invincible god-like merc that lives in night city. You don't want to live in the matrix, you want to be the bullet time kung fu Neo.

It's for fun, it's a fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I read Snowcrash when I was twelve and super wanted to live in that world. Then I read it again when I had twelve year old kids. Boy did it hit different.