Hammerjack@lemmy.zipM to Cyberpunk@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 days agoI wouldn't say "hoping for" but which cyberpunk dystopia do you think is most likely to happen (of any franchise)?lemmy.zipimagemessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-up1297arrow-down110
arrow-up1287arrow-down1imageI wouldn't say "hoping for" but which cyberpunk dystopia do you think is most likely to happen (of any franchise)?lemmy.zipHammerjack@lemmy.zipM to Cyberpunk@lemmy.zipEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square76linkfedilink
minus-squareSixty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoCyberpunk? Deus Ex, just the first game. The sequels have the depth of a puddle. Or if climate apocalypse then something like Mad Max, but way dumber perhaps. That’ll do.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day ago“This plague…the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.” “Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they’ll beg us to save them.” “You misunderstand. They’re rioting because we’re trying to save them with vaccines. They don’t think they need to be saved.” “God, people are so fucking stupid. Why do I even want to take over the world?”
minus-squareSixty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoYeah we were too optimistic in our dystopia fiction. Idiocracy lacks the malice and bad faith.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoThe ones with fascist governments are the closest, like 1984.
minus-squareseeigel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoIf fascism is not a distraction. I still can’t believe that the billionaires have let Trump win with no further plans.
minus-squarestringere@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 day agoThey’re working toward the Network State model where they basically get to be tech-enabled neo-feudal lords with near slave populations. https://thenetworkstate.com/
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoYep, Ive heard it referred to as techno-feudalism.
Cyberpunk? Deus Ex, just the first game. The sequels have the depth of a puddle.
Or if climate apocalypse then something like Mad Max, but way dumber perhaps.
That’ll do.
“This plague…the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.”
“Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they’ll beg us to save them.”
“You misunderstand. They’re rioting because we’re trying to save them with vaccines. They don’t think they need to be saved.”
“God, people are so fucking stupid. Why do I even want to take over the world?”
Yeah we were too optimistic in our dystopia fiction.
Idiocracy lacks the malice and bad faith.
The ones with fascist governments are the closest, like 1984.
If fascism is not a distraction. I still can’t believe that the billionaires have let Trump win with no further plans.
They’re working toward the Network State model where they basically get to be tech-enabled neo-feudal lords with near slave populations.
https://thenetworkstate.com/
Yep, Ive heard it referred to as techno-feudalism.