Cyberpunk 2077, after numerous updates, has finally reached it’s peak and is now seemingly everyone’s favorite game. However, how many of it’s players are truly paying attention to the message?
One of the reasons why the game has resonated so hard with me is because of how strikingly terrifying the similarities are to our own reality. Of course, in the game all of our world’s problems have been exaggerated to the fullest but they’re problems that are prevalent nonetheless. Climate change, ai, cybernetics, never-ending war, evil tyrannical governments, even eviler corporations slowly taking over the world, insects in our food, sex being a huge selling point in much of our products and media, and many other issues are affecting our world and our future.
Think these problems only exist in Night City? Think again choom!
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Better chrome up and grab some iron choom, we got a world to burn
Still two month left in 2023 to build then destroy Arasaka Tower.
Closer to? We’re fucking in it. Wealth inequality in America is higher than pre revolution France. Theres a fucking genocide going on in Palestine and we are fucking watching it through our phones unable to do anything. Labor conditions are getting worse as protections keep getting gutted. Evangelical lawmakers are trying to make queerness illegal, and then after that any other minority they don’t like is on the chopping block. The IDF trains American police, and that collaboration is being expanded with the building of Cop City in Atlanta Georgia. America’s already a fascist hellhole where you can barely see the stars anymore, we’ve already chromed up, we’ve been chromed up since 2010
Well… Except it’s gonna be much worse, because corps and govs will install backdoor access to the implants they sell and broadcast the “correct thoughts” through neuralink. Think total slavery.
Last I checked, 2077 was 54 years away.
Wake the fuck up Samurai. We got a city to burn
Jokes on you choom were already in cyberpunk dystopia, now its time to grab your iron abd party like its 2023
Sci-fi doesn’t predict the future, it warns against it
We’re already in a dystopia, just without the cool aesthetic.
Everything but the one thing I want; braindances! Gimme!
Listen dude, you’re not wrong but also you just found out that Science Fiction is an alegory and critical comment of the present, which has been true since Frankenstein. So, I’m really sorry to break it to you but you’re not as original as you may think. Still correct though, still correct!
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Will never be Cyberpunk without AV.
This post has adhd
Few days ago I just saw and ad from a German snack producer. They’ll pay you if you advertise their products in your own home. Paint their logo on your wally those kind of shenanigans. That’s pretty fucked up if you stop and start to think about it
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I’ve always thought cyberpunk was riddled with predictive programming..
r/whoooosh
The UN warning against climate change disaster gives the statement even less credibility
Personally I disagree
-Medicine including transplants and prosthetics is evolving rapidly and is not controlled by Elon Musk despite the sensationalist title
-War across the world is sadly increasing but that’s not something that is new at all, still much better than pre-1950s levels
-Sexed up advertising is less of a problem than conservative suppression of sexuality
-Climate change is very bad but we haven’t lost yet
-AI makes pretty pictures and at this point this scares people mainly based on far-reaching hypotheses
-Monopolistic conglomerates are evil, that is correct
-Neon lights are cool and I doubt anyone playing Cyberpunk 2077 and liking it could truly disagree with that
If there’s one recent advance that scares the fuck out of me it’s FPV drones in combat and that’s not even a thing in Night City.
I think cyberpunk and the associated genre was a response to 90s technology. We’re in a much weirder place now.
HER is closer than Neuromancer to the present state of the world
Cyberpunk as a genre is more of a satire of the real world than a prophecy but yeah, things have been moving more in that direction for a while now, though thankfully without the ridiculous work hours.
I hope, I need to Borg out ASAP
Are you just some other gonk or are you ready to chrome up and get some Eddie’s? I promise it’ll be nova choom.
The cyberpunk genre is a cool version of where we’re going, as fucked up as that sounds…
WAKE THE FUCK UP FLORIDA MAN WE HAVE AN ALLIGATOR TO FIST FIGHT!
Already there minus the cool parts like net running and functional cybernetics
Oh no, the real world will be way more boring yet somehow worse than anything we see in cyberpunk. I think cyberpunk is an optimistic future compared to what we will probably get.
At least in cyberpunk the citizens are relatively free do to as they like, it’s a very socially liberal place as long as they don’t fuck with the corpos money. We won’t have any of that.
In 2027 I will be conscripted as a Nestle corpo soldier
Just wait till you find out what the military industrial complex is up to working on classified projects.
It’s only 54 years away
Oh you bet. Hell we’re pretty much already there when it comes to the corporatocracy
Everyone: *Cyberpunk 2077 predicts the future!*
1984 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: **First time?**
well technically we’re closer to 2077 every passing moment.
Books like the Neuromancer Trilogy, which heavily inspired the CP77 world, were always meant as a critique of current times. Additionally, STS have shown that (dystopian) science fiction media influences the development of irl invention.
Unless the people rise up to stop it, yes we are way closer than we should be
[Closer than anyone thinks](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy_commons/comments/17md0gt/microsoft_micro_software/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I made this argument in the cyberpunk sub without mentioning 2077 but instead looking to mr. Robot/watch dogs and got butchered because “we can never have a cyberpunk dystopia because that would remove hope for improvement.” That being said, yes we totally live in a dystopic environment, and China is on a whole other level.