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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

The term cyberpunk was first used to describe settings such as Snowcrash, i.e. dystopian corporate sci-fi, before it was adopted as a name for the gaming franchise.

I'm not sure if the person you are replying to was using it as a noun or an adjective, I parsed it is an adjective because it's more inclusive.

Anyway.. using cyberpunk to refer to the game franchise, would be a disambiguation. This is the article referring to the original usage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk?wprov=sfla1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I was referring to cyberpunk as a genre and theme, I remembered some things after reading this post like shadowrun, cyberpunk ttrpg, Gibson's books, system shock, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, I just tend to think of that stuff as corporate feudalism. And I learned that concept from playing shadowrun as a kid and then getting into other cyberpunk stuff.

And yeah, it seems to be the direction we are headed. Elon musk is a fan of blade runner and I don't think he identifies with the poor people but the rich CEO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

They're both nouns, but I get what you mean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Yep, I just want more people to read the book because I like it. Cyberpunk the game rocks, Snowcrash rocks.