>dude we live in a DARK FUTURE where money controls everything, this is a message no one has ever thought of before
>I'm not gonna do anything to stop this future from happening but make sure to buy this video game I'm making money off of!
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>rips off Neuromancer
>makes millions
Yeah the story of 2077 is Neuromancer beat for beat which is written by polacks
Neuromancer but shit, more like
neuromancer isn't that good either
This. Gibson is mediocre genre fiction and he only goes downhill after Neuromancer, a very ordinary heist thriller.
Neuromancer is good if you aren't up your own ass about books.
>whats that? me first?
>nononono im a NEET i just post my big thoughts on Ganker. I have brilliant original insights like "corporations selling dystopian narratives is hypocritical." Its for others to actually DO something about it!
Hi Mike
Hi schizo
abhorrent post. do better.
He never claimed he only did it. And the frick do you expect him to do? Get guns and shoot up a bank or something?
I expect him to be chippin in
It was over by the early 2000s. Now shit is unfixable so you'll better try to enjoy the ride.
Yeah every generation has its idealists and would-be revolutionaries but I don't see the scenario
Not what *should* happen or what *ought* to happen in a just world, just the clear-eyed evaluation that humanity *is* bound for nightmarish technoslavery
I've noticed a lot of people can't do that, whether it's a function of youth or stupidity or something, to recognize cognitively that something terrible is going to transpire and that resisting it, while certainly ethical, is also a feat akin to knocking away an incoming meteor with a baseball bat
Every day the mechanisms of control and monitoring and exploitation grow a little more thorough, with no sign of it abating and every sign of it accelerating
cringe doomer
>here's how Bernie can still win
I like Tactics Ogre and FFT because they both have pretty good meditations on this point (minus the tech slavery). For bideogames, at least.
>Every day the mechanisms of control and monitoring and exploitation grow a little more thorough, with no sign of it abating and every sign of it accelerating
there's a reason why every cyberpunk setting is rife with crime and is hyper-violent, and it's because that's the natural conclusion of a system based solely out of exploitation, particularly one in which power (often represented by cybernetics) is within reach at all times. I can't predict what the "great equalizer" of our time will be, but any tech singularity-like event will almost certainly have one.
it isn't high art but it is pretty alright for what it is. basically the definition of genre fiction.
>Societal power structures worldwide are bound to financial input and output
>Almost the entirety of the world's infrastructure operates either in part or as a result of the continual operation of major corporations, conglomerates, syndicates, and other such financial entities
>Said financial entities require a near-constant and explosive amount of consumers in order to operate, with severe losses in individual years being sufficient to completely tank major businesses
The answer is extremely simple, with collective boycotts and refusal to engage with those engaging in practices that the power structures in question have their hands in being legitimately the fastest way to kill their value. Storefronts have no reason to continue stocking product that nobody is purchasing, and the can is continually kicked uphill as one area fails to correct the losses of another, leading to a domino effect where even multinational conglomerates can be pressured to adjust their behavior. The REAL problem is that people are too unwilling to sacrifice even the slightest modicum of comfort or luxury in order to make a major change in the world, and the simple idea of not buying a can of Coca Cola™ for a higher purpose is enough to get plenty of people to completely disregard any words spoken by those who would take away their daily panacea. If people could relearn the value of putting their indulgences aside for an extremely small period of time and the vicious impact it makes, there COULD be change. However, as long as the trough is continually refilled with whatever amount of gruel is needed to keep the public placated, they will never simply say "no".
Based & redpilled.
This timeline is fricked. Completely dead end. We will get a fat World War next then it's GAME OVAR
He said this shit 40 years before you were born, moron.
Black person.
>Poodres down three runs in the bottom of the ninth
>Felix Bautista walks Soto and Tatis with 1 out on the board
>Machado steps up to the plate
>GIDPs
KWAB
Generation X in a nutshell.
He got no power. He's an old school nerd who was blown away by Blade Runner and decided to make his own game based on its dystopian future premise
only dumb reddiots think that cyberpunk is dystopian. everyone else recognizes that its cool
He didn't invent the literary genre, he just made a dice rolling game that takes place in the setting.
>we should improve society somewhat
Are we not in early stages of a cyberpunk world already? All we're missing are floating cars and easy access to cybernetics
>early stages
lol
I was trying to be optimistic
Should I bother with Neuromancer if I didn't like Snowcrash? Didn't like how cheeky it was.
Snowcrash is moronic, so yes