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Cyberpunk
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What is Cyberpunk?
Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.
Cyberpunk characteristics include:
- Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
- Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
- Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
- Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
- Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.
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I feel like anyone would be pissed off if some hack 'journalists' spilled the beans that you were gay while you were physically inside a country which murders homosexuals.
I don't have the context to process this, but I'm very much for civil rights as a minimum standard. Thiel should be banished to a small island off the shores of Antarctica, but not because he's gay.
The first time I heard about the guy it was because some online journalists for a tabloidish publication posted a story exposing him as being gay while he was in Saudi Arabia for some meetings.
We'd probably be in a better timeline if Thiel hadn't survived his trips to Saudi Arabia, then. The man's a real scumbag.
Admittedly, yeah, but I'd rather see him go down for his anti-social agenda rather than some random immutable trait.