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Cyberpunk

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"High tech, low life."

"The street finds its own uses for things."

We all know the quotes and the books. But cyberpunk is more than a neon-soaked, cybernetic aesthetic, or a gritty dystopian science fiction genre. It is a subculture composed of two fundamental ideas: PUNK, and CYBER.

The PUNK: antiauthoritarian, anticapitalist, radical freedom of expression, rejection of tradition, a DIY ethic.

The CYBER: all that, but high-fuckin'-tech, ya feel? From DIYing body mods to using bleeding edge software to subvert corporate interests. It's punk for the 22nd century.

This is a community dedicated to discussing anything cyberpunk, be it books, movies, or other art that falls into the genre, or real life tech, projects, stories, ideas or anything else that adheres to these ideals. It's a place for 'punks from all over the federated Net to hang out and swap stories and meaningful content (not just pictures of city nightscapes).

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Cyberpunk is my favorite genre of sci-fi, and I definitely found it via movies and TV, so I'm wondering what everyone's favorite pieces of media out there?

Some of my tops are of course the classics like Blade Runner, Akira, Robocop, and Dredd

I think one of the earliest reasons I fell in love with Cyberpunk was Batman Beyond. That theme song also totally deeply influenced my music taste.

What about yall?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I if I had to pic just one, Serial Experiments Lain would be one of the safe choices. Not only was it way ahead of it's time, going as far as to predict online movements like anonymous (knights, in the series), it has many themes that are relevant to this day.

One less known piece is Cloudpunk. This game made me legit fall on tears. It's about how little people carry on under a capitalist dystopia. Which is basically almost how things already are but with flying cars.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I will have to check out Cloudpunk cause this totally flew under my radar, cause it looks very interesting.