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
definitely seems like weve been ripped off
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”
Define “Western world”.
EU (including UK) + US + AUS + NZ.
In Matrix the robots said that 1999 was the peak of human civilization, maybe they were into something.
Left is advertising, right is actual result
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.
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
I hate it, but it’s perfect.
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
Not boring enough IMO.
True- not enough beige
those cool cybernetic implants aren’t that cool imo
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
All of the bad stuff, none of the cool stuff.
If you’re going to make me live in a dystopia, then there better be a cool aesthetic at least.
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!
We do have Elon Musk brain implants now. Any takers? Didn’t think so. You do not want to go cyberpunk
Depending on where you live, you can also have the cool neon aesthetic.
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
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.
Do NYC, Seattle, SF, London, Tokyo, and all of the other dense cities not exist anymore?
None of those are even close to the density of Night City. Tokyo has a density of 6,363 persons/km^2, compared to Night City’s density of 65,000 people/km^2.
Also those are ‘old’ cities. They have historical reasons for increasing density. Night City is a city founded and built by mega corps, represents the ‘new’ world that the mega corps want to build. My point is that in our world, the type of cities that are being built and our mega corps want, are all suburban spawl.
Look, us YIMBYs are trying our best, okay?
