I'm excited for this game, but seriously what the fuck is supposed to be happening in that video? It's like an animated still image of a scene that doesn't make any sense.
Also, kneeling in front of a dude's gun in the filthy street, wearing a bathing suit, covered in bodily fluids and getting shot in the face is totes empowering guis.
I'm excited for this game, but seriously what the fuck is supposed to be happening in that video? It's like an animated still image of a scene that doesn't make any sense.
Basically, she's a "Psycho" - someone who has had so many implants that their mechanical parts start rejecting the biological, and this has driven them crazy, so they weaponize themselves and start killing a ton of people. They're essentially no longer human, nor do they think of themselves as such. The guy that shoots her in the head is one of the Psycho Squad, a group of cops who are specialized for taking down Psychos. The other dudes are regular cops, who failed at doing so.
Also, kneeling in front of a dude's gun in the filthy street, wearing a bathing suit, covered in bodily fluids and getting shot in the face is totes empowering guis.
Her sensible shoes and Armani business suit were in the wash, and she had this big rip in that lovely sundress made of hemp she got from that ethically responsible second hand store, what can you do? Shit happens, you know.
I'm excited for this game, but seriously what the fuck is supposed to be happening in that video? It's like an animated still image of a scene that doesn't make any sense.
Basically, she's a "Psycho" - someone who has had so many implants that their mechanical parts start rejecting the biological, and this has driven them crazy, so they weaponize themselves and start killing a ton of people. They're essentially no longer human, nor do they think of themselves as such. The guy that shoots her in the head is one of the Psycho Squad, a group of cops who are specialized for taking down Psychos. The other dudes are regular cops, who failed at doing so.
I put that much together, but the way that scene is staged is bizarre.
Psycho Squad guy is standing there like he's nice and settled in for his hard as fuck one-liner before he plugs her, but the cops in the background are unloading like the fight is still happening.
Maybe it's a nod to the kind of early 90's cover art where the artist would seemingly forget what picture he starting painting by the time he's finished.
I was more confused by how bulletproof her negligee is.
Magic. Cyberpunk. Also, those rounds are SUPER frangible. Bullets don't tend to explode into glittering powder when they hit something harder than they are.
Man, I wanna see a transhumanist setting where it's not upgrading that is the problem for once.
Yeah, that'd be cool. Or rather, upgrading is seen to have a problem, but it's actually just misunderstanding things, and it's more of a trade-off situation, but those without the augs can't understand the benefit side of the equation, as it's something you have to experience to understand, much like the "What is it to be alive?" sort of philosophical questions.
It'd also be nice to have a few settings where it just isn't that big a deal, either. Like, hey, look, technology advances, it has it's detractors and it's supporters, people pine for the good old days, the tech makes life that much easier, people sweep the drawbacks under the rug, that's just the way it is, like any other technology.
I think part of the problem is that "cyberpunk" is sort of seen as an all-encompassing subject matter, to the point where any story you have that is cyberpunk has to be exclusively about exploration of those themes. Which is dumb, because in the Sprawl Trilogy, the transhumanistic stuff was just in the background, just an accepted fact of life, and the story was really about the internet gaining sentience and the abuse of corporate power and the lone anti-heroic figure against the uncaring world and stuff.
I guess it's one of those "Write what you want to see" sort of things. Like, in Hardboiled, nobody really cares that much because it's just humans finally getting around to what robots have been doing for ages, and because the capabilities aren't that much more extreme than human norms anyway. The consequences are felt much more in society's reaction to injury and disability than in any kind of existential bullshit.
Man, I wanna see a transhumanist setting where it's not upgrading that is the problem for once.
Not an expert on the subject, but if my memory serves me right in Shadowrun cyberware only causes loss of the magical side of things, so for the great majority of people who don't know anything about spells or other magical shit, it's irrelevant.
I think part of the problem is that "cyberpunk" is sort of seen as an all-encompassing subject matter, to the point where any story you have that is cyberpunk has to be exclusively about exploration of those themes. Which is dumb, because in the Sprawl Trilogy, the transhumanistic stuff was just in the background, just an accepted fact of life, and the story was really about the internet gaining sentience and the abuse of corporate power and the lone anti-heroic figure against the uncaring world and stuff.
Aren't those, especially corporate power and anti-hero against uncaring world, pretty basic and common cyberpunk themes?
From what I remember, each piece of tech you bolted onto yourself in shadowrun cost a certain amount of "essence", which is basically your special snowflake human-ness. So if you had a lot of augs then you were supposed to roleplay as an inhuman machine without emotions, but almost nobody actually did that.
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Dear Science, Make this happen one day.
Also, kneeling in front of a dude's gun in the filthy street, wearing a bathing suit, covered in bodily fluids and getting shot in the face is totes empowering guis.
It'd actually be pretty sweet to have a sort of crossover setting where only the transhumans are resistant to the zombie plague or something.
Psycho Squad guy is standing there like he's nice and settled in for his hard as fuck one-liner before he plugs her, but the cops in the background are unloading like the fight is still happening.
Maybe it's a nod to the kind of early 90's cover art where the artist would seemingly forget what picture he starting painting by the time he's finished.
EDIT: ninja'd by DevilUKnow. @sketch.
I think part of the problem is that "cyberpunk" is sort of seen as an all-encompassing subject matter, to the point where any story you have that is cyberpunk has to be exclusively about exploration of those themes. Which is dumb, because in the Sprawl Trilogy, the transhumanistic stuff was just in the background, just an accepted fact of life, and the story was really about the internet gaining sentience and the abuse of corporate power and the lone anti-heroic figure against the uncaring world and stuff.
I guess it's one of those "Write what you want to see" sort of things. Like, in Hardboiled, nobody really cares that much because it's just humans finally getting around to what robots have been doing for ages, and because the capabilities aren't that much more extreme than human norms anyway. The consequences are felt much more in society's reaction to injury and disability than in any kind of existential bullshit.
Also, w/r/t the whale mecha:
Where were all of the things a long time ago? Can we find out by looking at things now?