Hammerjack@lemmy.zipM to Cyberpunk@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 days agoI wouldn't say "hoping for" but which cyberpunk dystopia do you think is most likely to happen (of any franchise)?lemmy.zipexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down18
arrow-up1230arrow-down1external-linkI wouldn't say "hoping for" but which cyberpunk dystopia do you think is most likely to happen (of any franchise)?lemmy.zipHammerjack@lemmy.zipM to Cyberpunk@lemmy.zipEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squareSixty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoCyberpunk? Deus Ex, just the first game. The sequels have the depth of a puddle. Or if climate apocalypse then something like Mad Max, but way dumber perhaps. That’ll do.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days ago“This plague…the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.” “Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they’ll beg us to save them.” “You misunderstand. They’re rioting because we’re trying to save them with vaccines. They don’t think they need to be saved.” “God, people are so fucking stupid. Why do I even want to take over the world?”
minus-squareSixty@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoYeah we were too optimistic in our dystopia fiction. Idiocracy lacks the malice and bad faith.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoThe ones with fascist governments are the closest, like 1984.
Cyberpunk? Deus Ex, just the first game. The sequels have the depth of a puddle.
Or if climate apocalypse then something like Mad Max, but way dumber perhaps.
That’ll do.
“This plague…the rioting is intensifying to the point where we may not be able to contain it.”
“Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end they’ll beg us to save them.”
“You misunderstand. They’re rioting because we’re trying to save them with vaccines. They don’t think they need to be saved.”
“God, people are so fucking stupid. Why do I even want to take over the world?”
Yeah we were too optimistic in our dystopia fiction.
Idiocracy lacks the malice and bad faith.
The ones with fascist governments are the closest, like 1984.