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CatLikeLemming @lemmy.blahaj.zone

6d ago

Cyberpunk Rules

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Cyberpunk is the most prophetic literary genre humanity has ever produced.
- Self-fulfilling perhaps. It would seem that while most of us read them as cautionary, some of us read them as a blueprint, and that is what we are now living through.
  
  Gotta build that Torment Nexus to please shareholders.
  
  Snowcrash was a dystopic warning not a plan.
  Rich assholes think it was a dreamworld.

Which book is that?
- William Gibson for sure. Johnny Mnemonic...I think.
  
  Correct.
- Johnny Mnemonic

Genesis P-Orridge of seminal industrial group Throbbing Gristle did something similar:
[P-Orridge] married Jacqueline Breyer, later known as Lady Jaye, in 1995, and together they embarked on the Pandrogeny Project, an attempt to unite as a "pandrogyne", or single entity, through the use of surgical body modification to physically resemble one another. P-Orridge continued with this project of body modification after Lady Jaye's 2007 death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_P-Orridge

i believe it, and it makes me a wee bit horni.
don't bonk me i'd like it

Are they in the movie?
- Yes! Though they don't get much screen time or introduction.
  My wife utterly loves the movie. She's watched it so many damn times.
  
  Is the movie based on the book, or is the book just the screenplay with different formatting?

I can’t believe that.

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