keepcarrot [she/her]

I think the windows default is to treat them as something else rather than opening them in notepad or something

I usually store thoughts relevant to the conversation until they are no longer relevant because everyone in the conversation is interrupting each other and not leaving breathing room for anyone else

I’m currently here

I want to assess coders by lines written! The more the better!

Damn, that’s a tiny tax

I made dinner last week, this is a solved problem. I have to make dinner again???

It’s me! I’m terrible at coding!

Catia

CAD software is very overpriced and deserves to be pirated, more so than other digital stuff

This is an indicator of severe dopamine deficit. Maybe try with a few more games

Cyberpunk is a description of the 80s through a techno-futurism lens. It is a warning about now

I am earnestly surprised such a thing even got proposed in texas

I have a vague memory of some 2D ones early on

There should be one that’s what the sales guy promised to the client. >.>

Yeah, welfare here is mostly app/phone based. You can technically get around it, but it requires visiting a dwindling number of centres very regularly and waiting in long queues.

My highest share ratio is 278 for a 1 GB rip of death bed lol

TSA sounds nightmarish to me

So, this definition encompasses a lot of sci-fi, I think. For instance, the triviality of tech in Star Wars and the low life is definitely present, but it would be a struggle to vibe Star Wars with cyberpunk. You can make an argument that the stories in Star Wars is not about the tech, but as you do that you have away from the original definition.

I think this applies with a lot of “sci-fantasy” settings. Basic workers in 40k can acquire (or involuntarily be gifted) cybernetic implants and this does not change their social position. 40k is not cyberpunk. The stories largely do not focus on a critique of society through the expression of tech that would solve our particular problems. 40k mostly focuses on what would be cool for sword guy to do, and is largely viewed through the auspices of the top of society (players and great heroes).

An experience of a different setting that is definitely cyberpunk despite also being “sci-fantasy” is Shadowrun. People run around hacking mega-corporations computers by fighting their cyber-dragon firewall. But that also doesn’t fit with my above experimental positions of cyberpunk, its much more an aesthetic choice for a heist game. Nothing wrong with that, but I think it hints towards cyberpunk being at least partly an aesthetic definition of cyberpunk.

That’s not the say the thought is without merit. The focus of cyberpunk could be reflected in our own experience of, say, “having a device in our pocket that can trivially access all of human knowledge but I cannot use this to change my position in society”. This is heavily reflected in Black Mirror. The plot that our protagonists have what would be a life changing device if you were the only one to have it, but are just coasting by (if that) is very cyberpunk and very Black Mirror.

I think one could play around with this concept quite a lot with TV shows, which tend to have a wider variety of focus, vibe, etc with the same initial concept. One could imagine a Doctor Who episode that fills a number of cyberpunk definitions, but Doctor Who does not vibe with cyberpunk generally.

I think there’s also a tonal thing. It’s hard to imagine cyberpunk comedy, at least structurally. The cynicism does disclude the matrix and ready player one.

Maybe a list of concepts and if you tick 7 out of 9 boxes it’s cyberpunk. Things like:

• walking around the internet
• sapient robots
• two pistols
• cynicism
• Seattle
• mega-corporations

I think this winds up being “is a hot dog a sandwich” conversation, trying to cram fluffy social concepts into rigid categories, but even more so with art. Two cyberpunk movies will be a lot further apart conceptually than two separate kilograms of steel.

But also at some point you have to sort your vhs tapes and whether a movie goes in “Action” or “Sci-fi” is a pragmatic decision and not a deep philosophical one

Cube and The Purge are really pushing the limits here. I’m also running out of hard drive space