Like the people who used to argue that they can make the Internet as fancy as they want but it will still always just be a hobby for nerds *Normal* people would never, say, look for sex partners online, they'd have no need to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ashleylynch and
right. it's just weird to see it in the cyberpunk subgenera since it's been more adventurous about this virtually since its inception. Delany was writing about this in the 70s, which is 50 years ago now.
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Replying to @nberlat @arthur_affect and
Also, I think at this point there's something that's inherently retro about cyberpunk. It's still looking towards a future imperfect full of tech that doesn't yet exist, but it's also beholden to speculative fiction from the 70s as a baseline.
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Replying to @ashleylynch @nberlat and
Yeah the idea of "cyberpunk" as an aesthetic nowadays isn't that different from "steampunk" It's the future of the past, it's what people in the past thought "high tech" would look like, which feels more reassuring than the real high tech all around us
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Replying to @arthur_affect @nberlat and
And reimagined cyberpunk that doesn't rely on past works but just looks forward doesn't resemble cyberpunk to audiences.
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Replying to @ashleylynch @arthur_affect and
It's really just going to to an audacious and fresh vision of cyberpunk that captures people's imaginations to redefine what the genre is to audiences of a new generation, but it ain't Snow Crash.
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Replying to @MaxieZeusGod @arthur_affect and
I wonder what a post-capitalist cyperpunk would look like.
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Replying to @MaxieZeusGod @ashleylynch and
I think "prep" as a slur is kind of ridiculous and always reminds me of My Immortal But "cyberprep" as a name for one failure mode of cyberpunk is on point I think
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Like it literally is that Like the culture of elite prep schools, the "cyberprep" aesthetic is about preparing people to be the privileged elite of a new high tech economy
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