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[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Wait, corporate government, like in cyberpunk?

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 7 points 23 hours ago (5 children)
[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

The term cyberpunk was first used to describe settings such as Snowcrash, i.e. dystopian corporate sci-fi, before it was adopted as a name for the gaming franchise.

I'm not sure if the person you are replying to was using it as a noun or an adjective, I parsed it is an adjective because it's more inclusive.

Anyway.. using cyberpunk to refer to the game franchise, would be a disambiguation. This is the article referring to the original usage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk?wprov=sfla1

[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I was referring to cyberpunk as a genre and theme, I remembered some things after reading this post like shadowrun, cyberpunk ttrpg, Gibson's books, system shock, etc.

[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah, I just tend to think of that stuff as corporate feudalism. And I learned that concept from playing shadowrun as a kid and then getting into other cyberpunk stuff.

And yeah, it seems to be the direction we are headed. Elon musk is a fan of blade runner and I don't think he identifies with the poor people but the rich CEO.

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