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We got our cyberpunk future, except none of it's cool and everything's extremely stupid.

cookiengineer 11mo ago
I recommend rewatching the trilogy of Brazil, 12 Monkeys and Zero Theorem. It's sadly the exact future that we are already starting to live in.
- walkabout 11mo ago
  I have seen and enjoyed the first two movies but had somehow never even heard of the third one. It’s now high up my to-watch list, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
duxup 11mo ago
They could at least thrown in some good music and cute girls with colored hair to make us feel better :(
- irilesscent 11mo ago
  You get grok Lady for the latter.
- forgetfulness 11mo ago
  I’ve got great news for you: there are more girls with colored hair than ever before, and we got the Synthwave revival, just try to find the right crowd and put on Timecop1983 in your headphones Cyberpunk always sucked for all but the corrupt corporate, political and military elites, so it’s all tracking
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  - surgical_fire 11mo ago
    > there are more girls with colored hair than ever before The ones I see don't tend to lean cute.
    - forgetfulness 11mo ago
      Well the "hackers" jacking in to the "Hacker News" discussion board, where we talk about the oppression brought in by the corrupt AI-peddling corporations employed by the even more corrupt government, probably aren't all looking like Zero Cool, Snake Plissken, Officer K, or the like, though a bunch may be.
      - surgical_fire 11mo ago
        Good point. Gets my upvote for mentioning Snake Plissken. Escape from LA is such a masterpiece.
JKCalhoun 11mo ago
Pretty sure cyberpunk was always this dark.
- walkabout 11mo ago
  Dark, yes, but also cool and with a fair amount of competence in play, including among powerful actors, and often lots of competence. We got dark, but also lame and stupid.
surgical_fire 11mo ago
AI singularity wil happen, but motherbrain as a complete moron. It will extinguish humans not as a grand plan for machines to take over, but doing horrible mistakes when trying to make things better.
mrguyorama 11mo ago
If any of you had actually paid attention to the source media, you would have noticed that they were explicitly dystopias. They were always clearly and explicitly hell for normal people trying to live life. Meanwhile, tons of you watched star trek and apparently learned(?) that the "bright future" it promised us was.... talking computers? And not, you know, post scarcity and enlightenment that allowed people to focus on things that brought them joy or they were good at, and an entire elimination of the concept of "capitalism" or personal profit or resource disparity that could allow people to not be able to afford something while some asshole in the right place at the right time gets to take a percentage cut of the entire economy for their personal use. The primary "technology" of star trek was socialism lol.
- walkabout 11mo ago
  Oh of course they were dystopias. But at least they were cool and there was a fair amount of competence floating around. My point is exactly that we got the dystopia but also it's not even a little cool, and it's very stupid. We could have at least gotten the cool dystopia where bad things happen but at least they're part of some kind of sensible longer-term plan. What we got practically breaks suspension of disbelief, it's so damn goofy. > The primary "technology" of star trek was socialism lol. Yep. Socialism, and automatic brainwashing chairs. And sending all the oddball non-conformists off to probably die on alien planets, I guess. (The "Original Series" is pretty weird)

I recommend rewatching the trilogy of Brazil, 12 Monkeys and Zero Theorem. It's sadly the exact future that we are already starting to live in.

walkabout 11mo ago
I have seen and enjoyed the first two movies but had somehow never even heard of the third one. It’s now high up my to-watch list, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

duxup 11mo ago

They could at least thrown in some good music and cute girls with colored hair to make us feel better :(

irilesscent 11mo ago
You get grok Lady for the latter.
forgetfulness 11mo ago
I’ve got great news for you: there are more girls with colored hair than ever before, and we got the Synthwave revival, just try to find the right crowd and put on Timecop1983 in your headphones Cyberpunk always sucked for all but the corrupt corporate, political and military elites, so it’s all tracking
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- surgical_fire 11mo ago
  > there are more girls with colored hair than ever before The ones I see don't tend to lean cute.
  - forgetfulness 11mo ago
    Well the "hackers" jacking in to the "Hacker News" discussion board, where we talk about the oppression brought in by the corrupt AI-peddling corporations employed by the even more corrupt government, probably aren't all looking like Zero Cool, Snake Plissken, Officer K, or the like, though a bunch may be.
    - surgical_fire 11mo ago
      Good point. Gets my upvote for mentioning Snake Plissken. Escape from LA is such a masterpiece.

JKCalhoun 11mo ago

Pretty sure cyberpunk was always this dark.

walkabout 11mo ago
Dark, yes, but also cool and with a fair amount of competence in play, including among powerful actors, and often lots of competence. We got dark, but also lame and stupid.

surgical_fire 11mo ago

AI singularity wil happen, but motherbrain as a complete moron. It will extinguish humans not as a grand plan for machines to take over, but doing horrible mistakes when trying to make things better.

mrguyorama 11mo ago

If any of you had actually paid attention to the source media, you would have noticed that they were explicitly dystopias. They were always clearly and explicitly hell for normal people trying to live life. Meanwhile, tons of you watched star trek and apparently learned(?) that the "bright future" it promised us was.... talking computers? And not, you know, post scarcity and enlightenment that allowed people to focus on things that brought them joy or they were good at, and an entire elimination of the concept of "capitalism" or personal profit or resource disparity that could allow people to not be able to afford something while some asshole in the right place at the right time gets to take a percentage cut of the entire economy for their personal use. The primary "technology" of star trek was socialism lol.

walkabout 11mo ago
Oh of course they were dystopias. But at least they were cool and there was a fair amount of competence floating around. My point is exactly that we got the dystopia but also it's not even a little cool, and it's very stupid. We could have at least gotten the cool dystopia where bad things happen but at least they're part of some kind of sensible longer-term plan. What we got practically breaks suspension of disbelief, it's so damn goofy. > The primary "technology" of star trek was socialism lol. Yep. Socialism, and automatic brainwashing chairs. And sending all the oddball non-conformists off to probably die on alien planets, I guess. (The "Original Series" is pretty weird)