edgerunneralexis

For me, I'm not sure.

I love synthwave like GUNSHIP and PYLOT and Essenger as much as the next cyberpunk, but besides a few particular GUNSHIP and Essenger songs, they don't feel quite right.

Neither does straight up punk rock or metal, which is the other stuff I listen to.

The cyberpunk music I want needs to be a blend of the two I think — the atmospheric sounds and use of synths and technological effects from synthwave, and the overt rage and message and aggressive, imperfect rock sound of punk rock and metal.

Edit: I'm liking industrial so far!

cyberpunk

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A place for like-minded punks to gather from all around the federated Net, dedicated to the cyberpunk genre and its ethos as a whole. From DIY body mods to using bleeding edge software to subvert corporate interests.

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.

The ideals being both punk — anti authoritarianism, anti capitalism, radical self expression and freedom, anti traditionalism, and the DIY ethic — and cyber — all the stuff I said before, but high-tech.

Cyberpunk is now. Many of the things that were predicted in cyberpunk are coming to pass today. Improvements in prosthetics and brain computer interface have resulted in brain controlled prosthetics, a mainstay of cyberpunk. Corporations increasing dominate global politics, and influence culture creating a situation ripe for subversion. The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer, creating a larger and larger divide. The cyberworld is ever merging with the real world through things such as the Internet of Things, social media, mobile technology, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Hackers have brought gangs, corporations, governments, and individuals to their knees. We have entered the cyberpunk age. Welcome.

Cyberpunk has spread to all forms of media, creating a subculture rather a simple genre. There are cyberpunk movies, television, comics, music, and art everywhere. All you have to do is look. Cyberpunk has influenced fashion, architecture, and philosophy. Cyberpunk has become much more than what it was when it began. And it will continue to evolve and become more relevant as we move further from the Cyberpunk Now into the Cyberpunk Future.

In my opinion, it perfects what Neuromancer and the Sprawl Trilogy introduced, with more sociopolitical commentary and things to say, and far better character work. If you're looking to scratch the same itch as Edgerunners, this needs to be your next read. The best part? It's short.

(My previous post about this, which I was very happy with, got somehow lost in the digital veins of the federated matrix, so here's take two)

Hey there chooms. I had a cool idea that I wanted to lay out for y'all in case it strikes someone'd fancy: a Lemmy community (subreddit) dedicated to anything and everything cyberpunk.

I don't have the time, energy, personality type, or special kind of insanity needed to run any kind of social group, but I do think it would be nova to have a place for like minded 'punks to gather from all around the federated Net, dedicated to the cyberpunk genre and its ideals as a whole.

The ideals being both punk — anti authoritarianism, anti capitalism, radical self expression and freedom, anti traditionalism, and the DIY ethic — and cyber — all the stuff I said before, but high-tech.

A community like this could be a great draw, and is uniquely suited to the underground, corporate resistance nature of the Fediverse. Could be a real draw, especially when the cyberpunk subreddit is little more than an Instagram for pictures of cities at night.

Anyway, that's it, that's the idea.

I may not be particularly inclined toward religion or spirituality, but I did really find this essay interesting and attractive.

Preem sourcebooks, nova new chrome, new rules and places — and even a complete new fan-made edition of the CP2020 rules themselves, rewritten and redesigned!

I forked it to update the file format for modern versions of the GURPS Character Sheet app, and add some custom rules to integrate GURPS pyramid netrunning rules and a different approach to cyberpsychosis.

Shawn P. Wilbur has two excellent articles that, when put together, form the seed for me of these fascinating ideas:

https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/contrun/the-anatomy-of-the-encounter/

https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/contrun/the-anarchic-encounter-economic-andor-erotic/

Here's my own take on the idea: https://vagabondblog.xyz/2022/07/10/anarchic-encounter.html

In the current moment of rising fascism I find this piece particularly powerful. Novatore is one of my favorite anarchist writers; even though I may not agree with everything he says I think he has a lot of unique insights and certainly writes beautifully.

The jump in operating system capability and quality from 1.3 to 2.0 is really substantial, so I want to switch, especially since I'm doing the ECS upgrade to my Rev6A A500 anyway so it would make sense, and 3.1 is way less compatible with early games than even 2.0 without the same leap in quality so it makes sense to stop at 2.0.

My question is, exactly how compatible is KS/WB 2.0? Is there anywhere I can find a list of games that are/aren't compatible? Thanks!

Honestly, this list of features is really impressive, I'm really starting to see what made AmigaOS so special for so many people, and I'm a hard-line *nix gal. AmigaOS seems really unique, in that it's an especially lightweight, responsive, yet structurally clever and well thought through system. It must've felt light years ahead of everything well into the 90s. This is definitely making me want to upgrade my A500 to Kickstart 2.04 or 3.1 to get these features.