Back when I first read Neuromancer and the various Shadowrun novels I never imagined a day when I’d look back on them and say “Who boy… they were way too optimistic.”
But here we are.
There are primitive cyberlimbs out there, and one of Musk's companies did have a human experiment on a mind/computer interface that went as well as you would expect. But just like in Cyberpunk stories, even if we had functional cyberware only the rich would be able to afford anything good.
The rest of us would be stuck with broken down, second hand junk that 'mostly' works or it would be riddled with spyware and ad ware. Imagine your Kiroshi optics that force deliver 6 minutes of uninterruptable ads every hour targeted to anything you looked at for more than half a second....
Can't even be the chromed to the nines borgbeast, chipped with experimental milspec implants that I'm supposed to be.
Can't have my mind so strained by the chrome in my body that I'm one bad day away from going cyberpsycho and leveling a small corpo office.
I run a Cyberpunk campaign for our TTRPG group. It's pretty easy to come up with a dystopian hellscape - just take any Republican/conservative policies, turn them to 11 and advance the setting 30 years. Works every time.
Cyberpunk this game not at all political (that's what someone once said)). Yes this game with mega companies hold the world in their hands, that they have so much power that they made war between them !!
40K is like bread and the fascists are the mold on it, the moment it became visible we should have cut them out and baked a new loaf that we keep safe from the mold
I'm actually a molecular biologist. Any time I find mold I clean and sterilize everything like I do in the lab. It takes constant work but it keeps the mold way down
I was thinking of Dark Conspiracy, a near-future game from the '90s. In it, one of the things they have are ballotmen, corporate-sponsored voters who live in cheap corp housing, get a stipend to vote, and drink and whore it up and, yet, not as bad as getting no welfare to get our votes subverted.
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But here we are.
And most of all, where is my horrendously bullpupped AK?
the AK you're looking for is the TKB-022.
Can't have my mind so strained by the chrome in my body that I'm one bad day away from going cyberpsycho and leveling a small corpo office.
In some ways the Cyberpunk future we got sucked into is worse than the Cyperpunk future we imagined.
I refuse to believe that Warhammer didn't encourage people to support fascism
Anyone here a urologist?!
The only movie i think goes against that fact is "come and see"
Just as an example