definitely seems like weve been ripped off
We already have cool cybernetic implants. We also have even cooler corporate greed and a massive lack of right-to-repair laws so that you can get stuck with a deactivated implant!
All of the bad stuff, none of the cool stuff.
In real life we had cybernetic implants shut down by corporations because they weren’t profitable enough.
I don’t think there’s anything more cyberpunk than that.
We could definitely use more neon though. Might have to look into WLED and light strips again.
Or worse, your implants start getting repo’d by said corpos. And there’s no Jude Law.
We are not even going to get dense cities like Night City. Imagine how much worse the cyberpunk dystopia is going to be with a 2.5 hour commute each way from the suburbs along a mega highway.
Do NYC, Seattle, SF, London, Tokyo, and all of the other dense cities not exist anymore?
None of those are even close to the density of Night City. Tokyo has a density of 6,363 persons/km^2, compared to Night City’s density of 65,000 people/km^2.
Also those are ‘old’ cities. They have historical reasons for increasing density. Night City is a city founded and built by mega corps, represents the ‘new’ world that the mega corps want to build. My point is that in our world, the type of cities that are being built and our mega corps want, are all suburban spawl.
Look, us YIMBYs are trying our best, okay?
Also you don’t have cyberdecks with 40mm microCD drives but smartphones without expendable storage.
I wanted star trek but I got cyberpunk.
We do have Elon Musk brain implants now. Any takers? Didn’t think so. You do not want to go cyberpunk
We also have killer robot dogs and illicit cloning labs irl now.
there are plenty of cybernetic implants that do not work anymore because the company that makes them refuses to update them so that part is totally already a thing
70s, 80s and 90s were absolute peak Western world and we should go back there and live there forever.
inb4 life was worse because “insert irrelevant shit no one cares about here”
Define “Western world”.
EU (including UK) + US + AUS + NZ.
In Matrix the robots said that 1999 was the peak of human civilization, maybe they were into something.
My grandpa’s pacemaker has beef with being left out of the, “cool cybernetic implants,” category.
Fuck neon, LEDs, all that bright shit spoiling the night. Razor-sharp splashes of light pollution is not an aesthetic, they are an eyestrain and an ad space. My homies enjoy old districts and wilderness where they can relax and see the stars for once.
That doesn’t sound very dystopian
This is fair, if we had neon shit and cybernetics it would make the world a little cooler I guess.
Nah, they’d make it like repo.
Reality check: Life’s more “flickering office bulb” than “cyberpunk neon dream.” Guess we’re stuck in Blade Runner: Budget Cut Edition.
That real “we have cyberpunk at home” aesthetic
