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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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Yeah, Peter Thiel didn't even try to hide his agenda. He just straight up announced himself as Sauron.
To be fair (🎶), the palantíri were made by the elves, and only later used for evil after falling into the wrong hands.
(hey, something to think about the next a government wants to place backdoors in encryption protocols)
I'm glad there are people like you to defend the benefit of the doubt. As it is, he's criticized the eleves. He's done all but come out and praise Sauron.
Yeah, that's a hard line in the sand for me, too. I wonder if they'll tell us when they try to do that.
The elves are better humans, ubermenschen if you want. It makes even more sense.
Am I the only one who cannot manage to feel sympathetic towards elves in any fantasy? In LOTR even the Uruk-hai see more of my sympathy than, say, Legolas.
I know though that I am not fantasy literature material. The only fantasy movie I like is Dragonslayer and I really never could finish a fantasy book.
I feel like anyone would be pissed off if some hack 'journalists' spilled the beans that you were gay while you were physically inside a country which murders homosexuals.
I don't have the context to process this, but I'm very much for civil rights as a minimum standard. Thiel should be banished to a small island off the shores of Antarctica, but not because he's gay.
The first time I heard about the guy it was because some online journalists for a tabloidish publication posted a story exposing him as being gay while he was in Saudi Arabia for some meetings.
That's pretty crappy, yeah. If it makes you feel better, he's capitalist first and gay second. He's funded various anti-LGBTQ politicians and supports things like Praxis that are working toward a new kind of plutocracy/feudalism.
We'd probably be in a better timeline if Thiel hadn't survived his trips to Saudi Arabia, then. The man's a real scumbag.
Admittedly, yeah, but I'd rather see him go down for his anti-social agenda rather than some random immutable trait.