I wanted star trek but I got cyberpunk.
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there are plenty of cybernetic implants that do not work anymore because the company that makes them refuses to update them so that part is totally already a thing
We do have Elon Musk brain implants now. Any takers? Didn't think so. You do not want to go cyberpunk
Reality check: Life's more "flickering office bulb" than "cyberpunk neon dream." Guess we're stuck in Blade Runner: Budget Cut Edition.
That real "we have cyberpunk at home" aesthetic
I like the word "burgerpunk" to describe our dystopia not as neon lights and cool sexy cyborgs but more the aesthetic of a DoorDash ad.
Amazing. What's more burgerpunk than making AI images about burgerpunk game concept art?
Coming to buggy early access 2025 on EA games subscription app
Prompt:
!physical game cover for latest game called "burgerpunk" inspired by boring, mundane real world problems. Collage of run down strip malls, boring office spaces, high gas prices and sad people stuck in traffic. "Super boring, 10/10 - IGN" !<
I hate it, but it's perfect.
Fuck, 2020 would have been so much more bearable if our food had been delivered by The Deliverator. You know, a highly qualified professional.
...Instead, in this region at least, the app economy bros employed a bunch of befuddled immigrants and also screwed them over contract-wise. So it's the sad kind of cyberpunk, not the funny kind of cyberpunk
If you're going to make me live in a dystopia, then there better be a cool aesthetic at least.
I want to be a cyborg but after seeing how tech, especially software, has developed (like, I don't even really want to buy a new car because how tf am I gonna fix it), I don't think I can trust it. Imagine if your ears' firmware just stops being supported.
Any cybernetics would have to be built for me by a hobbyist with a workshop full of Raspberry Pis or something
Yeah, if everyone started turning into a cyborg, walking becomimg a subscription-based service would be just a question of time.
In a loose sense, any implant makes you a cyborg, in a more strict sense implants that control something in your body do. Heart rate control by a pacer, insulin level control by an implant, hearing aid, some more complicated implants all make you a cyborg but usually not the cyborg one imagines
Open source fitmware or nothing.
and strictly offline
Any cybernetics would have to be built for me by a hobbyist with a workshop full of Raspberry Pis or something
And by "or something," you probably mean 3d printers.
You didn’t pay your subscription for your enhanced eyes, so you woke up blind this morning.
Nah, you get downgraded to the essentials plan: 20/40 eyesight, dry eyeballs, ads on your peripheral vision and random eye twitching throughout the day
Jockey literally lost his exoskeleton due to end of life.
People with bionic eye implants are going blind again after the gadget expired inside their bodies. More than 350 people have a discontinued retinal implant in their eyeballs. The invention was once a cutting-edge option for restoring sight, but it has been replaced by newer technologies.
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Fuck neon, LEDs, all that bright shit spoiling the night. Razor-sharp splashes of light pollution is not an aesthetic, they are an eyestrain and an ad space. My homies enjoy old districts and wilderness where they can relax and see the stars for once.
That doesn't sound very dystopian
I have an artificial lens in one eye (like a contact lens that's been glued in place) that has built in uv protection. Not cybernetic as such, but I'd say it was adjacent.
Yeah that sounds cool af
Lol, And all it cost me the ability to focus on anything not exexactly 37 inches away.
Fun fact, many of the intra-ocular lenses and contact lenses that provide UV protection do so just by the properties of the material they are made of, not any special coating.
My grandpa's pacemaker has beef with being left out of the, "cool cybernetic implants," category.
We already have cool cybernetic implants. We also have even cooler corporate greed and a massive lack of right-to-repair laws so that you can get stuck with a deactivated implant!
Meanwhile IRL cool cybernetic implants: I'm sorry our company has been bought by Amazon and support for your eyes has been dropped. Please refer to a local surgeon to remove them at your expense.
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We're approaching a cool cyberpunk future but can't even get wet streets with reflective purple neon signs 😔
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definitely seems like weve been ripped off
there's zero punk in our current society
I honestly believe the closest thing to real world cyberpunk is the anti corporate / foss / selfhosted digital sovereignty "ideology" that lemmy coincidentally is a part of. For the rest, like cyberdecks and body augmentation we just have to wait a bit.
If you got a powerful tablet and installed Kali on it, isn't that effectively a cyberdeck?
Well, there's "low life" part for sure
Sweetie, we're all being punks right now using pirate reddit. What's more punk than undermining oligarch control of social platforms?
We are not even going to get dense cities like Night City. Imagine how much worse the cyberpunk dystopia is going to be with a 2.5 hour commute each way from the suburbs along a mega highway.
Look, us YIMBYs are trying our best, okay?
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70s, 80s and 90s were absolute peak Western world and we should go back there and live there forever.
inb4 life was worse because "insert irrelevant shit no one cares about here"
In Matrix the robots said that 1999 was the peak of human civilization, maybe they were into something.
We also have killer robot dogs and illicit cloning labs irl now.
All of the bad stuff, none of the cool stuff.
This is fair, if we had neon shit and cybernetics it would make the world a little cooler I guess.
Nah, they'd make it like repo.
Depending on where you live, you can also have the cool neon aesthetic.
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