Cyberpunk is inherently dystopian could you clarify what you mean?
volnitsa
look outside
stephendbxv
you’re living in one right now
ToranjaNuclear
Something a little better than South Korea, maybe
Electronic_Body_2656
Art courtesy of Simon Stalenhag fyi
TiredOfBeingTired28
Depends on your personal idea of dystopian.
Otherwise Cyberpunk 2077.
Cyberpunk by its idea is a dystopia.
Guess the matrix as well.
Though not sure if it is truly cyberpunk.
Wastelands of uninhibited land due to wars and climate change. People packed into cities apartment blocks, crime is high as legally you have very little chance to survive let alone thrive. Food shortage most beyond processed only rich truly see good food. possible robots, most likely drones. Maybe packs of them off their leash outside of cities.
RealJoshUniverse
Art – Simon Stalenhag
Taewyth
A cyberpunk dystopia is… Cyberpunk. That’s it.
Nice choice of illustration though, tales from the loop isn’t cyberpunk but it’s awesome
Edit: maybe your illustration comes from the electric state and not tales from the loop, I just recognised the style
RoboTiefling
Let’s see… I think it’d look like… massive wealth inequality, with just a couple hundred extremely wealthy people owning basically the whole world, and leveraging that wealth to keep the population constantly on the verge of homelessness and death, literal slavery still going on but rebranded as something else like “prison labor” to put a vaguely respectable veneer on it, constant warfare to keep weapons manufacturers in business, maybe some killer robots initially marketed to the public as something cute like dogs, before having machineguns and bombs strapped to them so they can be used to blow up starving children…
Food companies patenting existing plants so that anybody who grows, say, a stalk of corn has to pay them or lose their home (if they can afford one, which most can’t because businesses are buying them all up for investment purposes)
decades of rampant pollution by manufacturers poisoning the water, air, soil, flora, and fauna to such an extent that every living thing now contains plastic and industrial chemicals, typically from birth… manufactured famines to artificially generate demand for food products by rendering the soil incapable of supporting plantlife, cybernetic implants of some kind being available only to the extremely wealthy, but tested on the poor…
For good measure, maybe throw in some kind of evil moron who inherited more money than he could spend in 100 lifetimes, and have him do something crazy like try to put microchips in people’s heads because he saw it in a 2011 videogame where people could be piloted via brain-chip like an RC car and used to do assassinations, and he thought it’d be cool if he could do that.
Maelstrom-Brick
Where is that from? That would be an incredible boss in a game! Love it!
coda313
don’t know exactly how to call it, but it seems like a concept from the “tales from the loop” artworks
edit: oh I saw your comment saying that the artwork was made by Simon stalenhag, so its *literally* a tales from the loop artwork loool
Neon_Phoenix_
You are living in one, mate. Corporations have more power than some goverments and tech is being used to control and manipulate the population instead of rising the quality of life, the same problems that 80’s writters warned us about.
VoloxReddit
Cyberpunk is inherently dystopian. If it’s not dystopian, it’s not Cyberpunk.
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Cyberpunk is inherently dystopian could you clarify what you mean?
look outside
you’re living in one right now
Something a little better than South Korea, maybe
Art courtesy of Simon Stalenhag fyi
Depends on your personal idea of dystopian.
Otherwise Cyberpunk 2077.
Cyberpunk by its idea is a dystopia.
Guess the matrix as well.
Though not sure if it is truly cyberpunk.
Wastelands of uninhibited land due to wars and climate change. People packed into cities apartment blocks, crime is high as legally you have very little chance to survive let alone thrive. Food shortage most beyond processed only rich truly see good food. possible robots, most likely drones. Maybe packs of them off their leash outside of cities.
Art – Simon Stalenhag
A cyberpunk dystopia is… Cyberpunk. That’s it.
Nice choice of illustration though, tales from the loop isn’t cyberpunk but it’s awesome
Edit: maybe your illustration comes from the electric state and not tales from the loop, I just recognised the style
Let’s see… I think it’d look like… massive wealth inequality, with just a couple hundred extremely wealthy people owning basically the whole world, and leveraging that wealth to keep the population constantly on the verge of homelessness and death, literal slavery still going on but rebranded as something else like “prison labor” to put a vaguely respectable veneer on it, constant warfare to keep weapons manufacturers in business, maybe some killer robots initially marketed to the public as something cute like dogs, before having machineguns and bombs strapped to them so they can be used to blow up starving children…
Food companies patenting existing plants so that anybody who grows, say, a stalk of corn has to pay them or lose their home (if they can afford one, which most can’t because businesses are buying them all up for investment purposes)
decades of rampant pollution by manufacturers poisoning the water, air, soil, flora, and fauna to such an extent that every living thing now contains plastic and industrial chemicals, typically from birth… manufactured famines to artificially generate demand for food products by rendering the soil incapable of supporting plantlife, cybernetic implants of some kind being available only to the extremely wealthy, but tested on the poor…
For good measure, maybe throw in some kind of evil moron who inherited more money than he could spend in 100 lifetimes, and have him do something crazy like try to put microchips in people’s heads because he saw it in a 2011 videogame where people could be piloted via brain-chip like an RC car and used to do assassinations, and he thought it’d be cool if he could do that.
Where is that from? That would be an incredible boss in a game! Love it!
don’t know exactly how to call it, but it seems like a concept from the “tales from the loop” artworks
edit: oh I saw your comment saying that the artwork was made by Simon stalenhag, so its *literally* a tales from the loop artwork loool
You are living in one, mate. Corporations have more power than some goverments and tech is being used to control and manipulate the population instead of rising the quality of life, the same problems that 80’s writters warned us about.
Cyberpunk is inherently dystopian. If it’s not dystopian, it’s not Cyberpunk.