/lit/ - Literature

>entire story takes place at night in a light drizzle
>neon signs

>>15864557
Cyberpunk is fucking lame and only loser popculture enthusiasts enjoy reading it.

>>15864557
>Actual future throws a curveball and calls them bitcoin or cryptocurrency just to be different
“Credits” work fine. Get over it

>>15864573
cringe

The president's cabinet is renamed Board of Directors and congress is renamed The Shareholders.

>>15864557
>the ground-level of the megacity is effectively just anarchy

>>15864557
Characters have le quirky tech names like Code Smith, The Cypher, Cable Girl, etc.

>>15864586
shit opinion, as always. bravo.

>characters have le quirky tech names like Code Smith, The Cypher, Cable Girl, etc.

>they use now antiquated technology like VHS + some oh so randumb use like injecting VHS into their bloodstream

@15864741
0/10

>>15864755
>Ha ha. People of the footer all named anonymous ha ha

>>15864709
It’s a dystopia of “an-cap” ideals, so yeah. Liberal plutocracy would allow divided and powerless individualism spin its wheels in that brand of freedom. Not too far from the truth

>for some reason tons of people still work in manual jobs like delivery, food industry or sex work when literally everything can be automated and/or simulated

>>15864833
Just like now.
We’re required to work. Automation makes poverty under capitalist conditions, not freedom from work.

>>15864803
>>15864866
you are my drunk aunt turning every innocuous comment into a political debate. this was supposed to be a comfy thread where everyone could poke fun at silly tropes. take off the trip when you want to blow off some steam.

>>15864866
>Just like now.
What can be automated right now is being automated, for reasons that should be obvious, as opposed to the squandered capacity for it.

>We’re required to work.
not really
Automation makes poverty under capitalist conditions,
yes

>not freedom from work.
Cool word salad, take your meds. Almost every post of yours so far contains disjointed nonsequiturs.

>>15864803
fuck off tranny.

>>15864866
Assuming that automation is cheaper than human labor, what would be the reason for megacorporations in a cyberpunk setting to keep employing people?
Nowadays civil discontent which leads to political change still has some amount of power over massive corporations, but in the dystopian ancap future of cyberpunk these things wouldn't be threats to the corporate hegemony anymore.
Why would they keep using subpar, unreliable humans instead of just automating it?

>>15864557
DAH CORPORATION

>>15864557
>ugly trannies ruin a perfectly good thread
every time

>80's synths
>Always raining
>Air is extremely hazy with pollution
>Latino-Asian HIV positive transgender hookers with cinematic 9mms
>"things are gonna get worse before they get better.."
>100 year old filthy crack den apartment building complexes

>>15864932
It is an inherently political sub-genre. Sorry

>>15864940
A wild post of disjointed non-sequiturs appear
What are you smoking?

>>15864977
Sure. Fiction vs reality. I certainly don’t want it like this.

>>15864573
>has not read gibson

>give a slick cyber name to drugs rather than calling them drugs such as chems, stims, dorphs or amps

>Literal fucking retard subhumans are being produced by society to work menial jobs instead of using automation
>Shitty holograms that only produce a 3D model, but don't use the right colours
>Computers look like IBMs and run on shit like floppy discs and CDs
>Despite androids being indistinguishable from humans, everyone still knows one based on sight or reputation and acts like a racist
>The police only have like 5 officers for an entire city and investigations, and everything else is security firms
>The buildings have modern art deco aesthetics on the inside, but are all windowless brutalism.
>People don't eat or drink; and the "food" is a hologram or onions green shit
>Entertainment is just advertisements, with no actual programs
>No children, at all

Its supposed to be a dystopia but it seems like a step up anyway

>>15865219
>>The buildings have modern art deco aesthetics on the inside, but are all windowless brutalism.
sounds A E S T H E T I C as fuck

>>15865392
Uncle Ted would beat you to death with a goats jaw for that.

>>15865219
>>Literal fucking retard subhumans are being produced by society to work menial jobs instead of using automation
You whine about this but it's similar to what happens in modern society. Society needs people to do menial works. Not everyone can be middle management in some corporation. Menial and informal laborers exist and eventually, through economic crisis, fall off and develop their own "economy". It's like the cashier of a shitty grocer in a shitty part of town, or the guys building a wall for Paco's house.

>>15864573

>>15865012
>dumb tech glasses that display code infront if the users eyes.

>>15864557
I read necromancer recently, is it considered YA lmao

>>15865651
>implying google glasses aren't already a thing
>implying the revolution will not be coded
learn to code

>>15864557
airships
there's always fucking airships

>>15864755
luke smith is a pretty cyberpunk name

>>15865023
Fuck Gibson. Read Neal Stephenson