"New Text Document" really pulls this meme together.
Everything is made better with just a lil shitposting.
Without, for anyone interested.
Not interested.
High tech, low life.
Cybernetically enhanced gang members = High-tech low-lifes.
This isn't cyberpunk, just a dystopia!
North Korea funds its nuclear missile program with stolen cryptocurrency
Cox Media is listening to conversations through smart devices to sell targeted ads
Neuralink killed a bunch of test animals but still got approval for human trials
The WGA was recently on strike for, among other reasons, keeping AI from stealing their jobs
It's not exactly Neuromancer yet, but the news sounds more cyberpunk dystopia every day.
Yeah, where's my micro-CDs? Where's my cyberdeck? Where's my cool robotic arm?
We didn't say it would be a cool or fun dystopia.
You have to make it yourself if you're not rich.
If you can't, it's because you're not a main character.
Sorry babe, them's the breaks.
Just try living in any east Asian country
The world started feeling all the bad bits of cyberpunky in the aughts. By the 2010s friends acknowledged it, had a now that I think about it moment or refused to accept a future without Spinners. ( Relevant XKCD )
These days, we know that only rich people and police would get flying cars, but for reasons we can't quite fathom, the surveillance sector of the US and Five Eyes really screwed over the information security sector, so that it's a black-hats paradise right now.
But in the 2020s so much of the scary horror shit written about in 1980s+ Cyberpunk has come true, and those we haven't seen may just be hiding in labs and undeveloped countries somewhere.
If time travel were possible, I'd be suspicious someone was mucking with the timeline since 2000, if not before.
Me when I get in an accident and the ground ambulance cost 2k while the air ambulance would have been covered by my insurance because apparently it makes more sense to spend 5k on a helicopter rather then 2k on a ground ambulance turn out I'm also in debt to the hospital because It was out of Network and since I can't afford it I don't pay it and my insurance cancels because I have less then a 600 credit score so now im uninsured snd i can't afford my pain meds so i start to go looking for drugs from dealers on the street because they're cheap and eventually I'm addicted and sell everything to afford more drugs then I end up homeless and get raped by some dude who offered me a place to stay for a week and then I eventually take my life because I can't live with this pain anymore 😔. The crazy thing this can all happen in less than 3 months.
we are just starting to walk into one mark my words
It's not gettin' to the Land of the Cyberpunk that's the problem. It's gettin' back.
"Rake the leaves, Samaria"
Free yourself from the machine and shitpost, or whatever broken Latin is on my Lemmy profile
