"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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Replying to @chaosprime
DOCTOR: The aircar accident took both your legs, sorry. We did replace them with safe, flawless cyber-prostheses. ME: Oh my god, that's amazing, but I'm just so happy to be alive! DOCTOR: I doubt it. At best, you're, oh... 70% as capable of love and warmth as you were before.
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Replying to @woke8yearold @scottlynch78
sure, and as you know i love me some conflict over what it means to be human, but man do we really gotta come at that from the standpoint of kneejerk primitivist sacralism one more damn time
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Replying to @woke8yearold @scottlynch78
surely *somebody* can come up with a better mode of being mad about that than "what if phones but too much"
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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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