"there's something wrong with the world" is the heart of punk when punk goes curdled it arrives at "it's the Jews" when cyberpunk goes curdled it arrives at "it's the technology"
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Cyberpunk/CP2020 and Shadowrun's Humanity and Essence were RPG-character-balance driven mechanics that couldn't hope to escape the gravitational pull of culturally ingrained "what if phones but too much" technology panic and were enormous genre-polluting mistakes
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Granted that I know your biases already. Don't you think it's still interesting to explore the spectrum of possible reactions to transhumanism? Especially in interactive fiction we should see multiple perspectives on core themes.
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exploring the spectrum sounds nice? exploring "GROG NO MAKE FIRE GROG PLAY GOD" one more time sounds tedious as shit
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i guess Dick never pisses me off the same way because he never seems to be lamenting a fall from a lost state of grace, if anything he comes across as saying that the mood organ is an intensification of things we've been doing all along
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his whole schtick being upending every convention of science fiction by suggesting that humans in the future will continue to act like humans in the present and the past
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Wow but that’s literally the point of.. oh never mind
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is it though
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yeah saving the unfortunates, very noble, maybe she can be dropped off at the nearest Cyber Magdalene Laundry
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losing yourself is integral, looking down your nose at people losing themselves from a sacralist-primitivist standpoint not so much
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