WE WERE NEVER FRIENDS
RUINER Hacker girl artwork by Benedykt Szneider
don’t touch cyberpunk if you don’t get it.
don’t act like you’re on some holy crusade when you make a video game with neon and rain and the look of cyberpunk but then throw in stuff like how women’s rights and basic income are the backbone of a dystopia
don’t make a movie with scarlett johansson playing a poor send-up to motoko kusanagi and then lack the spine to even mention the socio-political points of why the character prefers a caucasian chassis in the first place (spoiler alert: it makes incredibly unkind point about western women). especially don’t call it feminist when the themes and narrative are stripped away in favor of a generic revenge tale. don’t retell akira and put it within and about the culture that dropped those nukes in the first place. the teenage edgelord connoisseurs can just go watch these anime and film in the first place
don’t copyright the word ‘cyberpunk’ no matter how noble your intentions are. you have no real way of guaranteeing that your successors at your place of work will share your sentiments.
don’t tell another faux-deep story that cosplays badly as Blade Runner about a hacker or a detective or an android and his manpain
don’t give me more cool-looking stuff that either lacks the teeth to get political or has the fundamental politics of the genre contorted and perverted so that spoiled Gen X dudes never have to challenge themselves or their way of life.
just…don’t, okay?
don’t touch cyberpunk if you don’t get it.
don’t act like you’re on some holy crusade when you make a video game with neon and rain and the look of cyberpunk but then throw in stuff like how women’s rights and basic income are the backbone of a dystopia
don’t make a movie with scarlett johansson playing a poor send-up to motoko kusanagi and then lack the spine to even mention the socio-political points of why the character prefers a caucasian chassis in the first place (spoiler alert: it makes incredibly unkind point about western women). especially don’t call it feminist when the themes and narrative are stripped away in favor of a generic revenge tale. don’t retell akira and put it within and about the culture that dropped those nukes in the first place. the teenage edgelord connoisseurs can just go watch these anime and film in the first place
don’t copyright the word ‘cyberpunk’ no matter how noble your intentions are. you have no real way of guaranteeing that your successors at your place of work will share your sentiments.
don’t tell another faux-deep story that cosplays badly as Blade Runner about a hacker or a detective or an android and his manpain
don’t give me more cool-looking stuff that either lacks the teeth to get political or has the fundamental politics of the genre contorted and perverted so that spoiled Gen X dudes never have to challenge themselves or their way of life.
just…don’t, okay?
Gay cinema is the absolute worst. I want gay fantasy and gay sci-fi. Is it too much to ask for guys slaying dragons and also each other’s butts?! What about space lesbians?! Transgender badass hackers taking down corrupt corporate-nations in a cyberpunk world?!
like we get one genre: ife is hard when youre gay and everyone is mean to you and one of the love interests dies at the end
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i keep hearing things about that game cyberpunk 2077 that was announced ages ago and at this point i feel like its probably actually going to be released in 2077 lmfao
CDPR: yeah it will take like forever to see something solid about Cyberpunk 2077, like its gonna take a looooong tiiiiime we wanna make sure everything is okay
Also CDPR: so here’s 48 minutes of gameplay also the game is playable from start to end
