I played this game forever ago (well early-mid 2000s from some kind of emulator) and my younger self was so bad at it. I should give it another go some time, I did once try playing it again a year or so ago but for some reason I was convinced it was the SNES game and wondered why it looked nothing like I remember.

I completely forgot about Psycho-Pass. That had some neat ideas in it and I loved the story (of S1 at least never watched the others).

To be fair to Blade Runner here, I don't think it was really made to be "Cyberpunk". It has some of the themes and inspired a lot of future Cyberpunk work (at the very least aesthetic wise), but the book "Cyberpunk" wasn't published until a year later and "Neuromancer" didn't come out until two years later, so a lot of the themes that we consider Cyberpunk weren't fully realised yet. I guess you could argue it's more proto-Cyberpunk (and a number of other sci-fi from before then), but it's pretty firmly entrenched as Cyberpunk now, and to be honest, I don't really disagree either. Strict definitions for genres are pretty tricky, even more so for foundational work like I'd say Blade Runner was.

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Seems like some proper lane control now too. Sounds like it'll be easier to use, especially bridges/tunnels which were sometimes a little awkward to place. I think I had a mod that did some of this stuff (the roundabout definitely) but they weren't a perfect solution, and they themselves could be a bit broken or fiddly, so it's nice to see them in vanilla.

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I love how detailed they are despite their size

Ever since I first saw augmentations stuff in cyberpunk media or likewise I've always wanted to get it. Get cool new arms, get eyes that can zoom in or whatever, maybe lungs to help with stamina, etc. But when I actually think about doing it, I dunno if I could go through with it. Like eyes would probably be an obvious choice for me, but thinking about actually having that done freaks me out a little.
It'd be a different matter if it needed replacing I think, rather than replacing them purely to be better. If I was gonna be blind, I think I'd take augmentated eyes in a heartbeat, same for any other part of my body. Though perhaps if we ever do get there, seeing other people do it might make the prospect less scary for me to replace healthy parts.

Oh and also hope we don't need any anti-rejections drugs like the Deus Ex prequels..

Yea I've heard that about the gameplay, but as long as the story is good enough I don't think I'll mind too much. I'll put it next on my list I think. Also just noticed its on sale on steam atm for anyone else reading.

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I should really get around to playing Cloudpunk sometime. I was following the game for ages before it came out and bought it on release, then just never played it for some reason. It seems right up my alley too.

I'm not entirely sure which community it is, but I can make an educated guess, and wonder why he didn't do the same since it looks like there was already a bigger community for said topic.

But yea I don't see an issue with having multiples of one topic across an instance, especially when some instances have smaller groups or are more focused on a certain type of person, I mean federation means anyone can participate of course, but it's more likely the ones on the instance are going to if it's a smaller group.

I just finished listening to Sandevistan, it definitely has the feel of Cyberpunk to me. I mean admittedly based on my other comment I'm not entirely sure what that feel is, but I liked it a lot and it definitely fits for me.

Well my first experiences into Cyberpunk were through videogames, which is what set up my expectations of what "Cyberpunk" is pretty much (though I didn't even know the term at the time!) so I'll nerd out about them a bit. Most of my other Cyberpunk media has been through reading books so I don't have much music to associate with them then to change those expectations either. Video game music tends to be a bit different since it normally focuses more on being ambient the majority of the time, but it's pretty much what's in my mind now.

Deus Ex was my first I think and the music is quite engrained into my mind. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgIE6Pb_MFE I think it blends a sorta ambient feeling before going into a more aggressive tone later into the song.

Another game's whose music comes to mind right away is Uplink. I'm not sure if Uplink is actually "Cyberpunk" but it comes very close at the least if not. Hacker working outside of the law, with the possibility of working with a techno-anarchist group to destroy the internet set in the future (2010!!). But yea the music is what comes to mind when I think Cyberpunk hacker for me.

Of course if I talk about Cyberpunk music in games I have to talk about VA-11 Hall-A (I'll find any excuse to). The soundtrack here is a bit different, since the bar is more of a safe space from how messed up the world is for its patrons and I think that plays into the music Welcome to VA-11 Hall-A is a pretty "cozy" song, still has that futuristic vibe to it, but there's nothing really aggressive about it. Though it does also mix it up a bit in other songs Digital Drive has the more aggressive side and feels more "classic cyberpunk" to me but also still blends back into that "coziness" at parts.

Might as well finish off by talking about Cyberpunk 2077 a little since I loved that soundtrack too. Rebel Path was a great song which I think has the rage and aggressive you mention a bit. Then you have Outside No More which does pretty much the opposite and might not be as fitting, but I like the song so I'm putting it here anyway!

Hopefully the debuffs are big enough to have impact. Deux Ex: Mankind Divided had the overclock penalty for activating too many experimental augs, but the penalties were basically just annoyances, screen glitches and the like, plus there was a quest to just make overclocking not affect you negatively.. But yeah, I didn't expect full cyberpyschosis, but I did see some suggestions before, like occasionally having enemies that don't actually exist in the middle of a fight, or civilians looking hostile to bring out the NCPD against you. But we'll see, from what I'm seeing of the expansion from news/videos, it's looking great so far.

Cyberpunk (as a genre) is a bit older than the game (though not by much) but I believe this was the first time it was used.

Well it's been pretty hot here this week, and luckily I booked this week off way in advance, so I didn't have to suffer through so much. Also nice that my week off tied in with the exodus of people from the other site, I dunno if I'd have been as motivated to learn about the fediverse and stuff if I was doing after getting home from work. Spent most of the week resting and catching up on things, also looked up various stuff and tinkered with my stack of Raspberry PI (that currently do very little) to see if I could use them for fediverse stuff. I have one working as a file server already and played around with Yggdrasil network on it, but the others are kinda sitting there just running nothing atm. I discovered this place at least! And a fair amount of other communities, hopefully the ball keeps rolling on these, the start seems promising. I'll try to keep contributing to various ones too.

The origin of the Lemmy instance comes from our CORTEX IMPLANT community which is cyberpunk-themed (all kinds of cyberpunk - also friends of technology).

I've been taking the time to look at that (and nightcity.bar) to get a bit more of a feel of the place, and I like what I see. I'm still not fully grasped with the fediverse yet, but we'll get there in the end.

Welcome to DATATERM, I saw a little bit about VA-11-Hall-A floating around lemmy, I think it was from you

Yea was most likely me on my other instance account. Didn't see anyone else mention it anywhere so I thought I might as well even if doesn't go anywhere!

The fediverse can be a bit mind bending at first and it comes with it’s own quirks that’s for sure.

I think I'm slowly getting around it, just looking at other fediverse sites on the side. nightcity.bar looked interesting at least. Not fully sure the difference between Calckey and Mastodon. Calckey looks like it has more features from what I can tell whilst still having the same-ish feel. Also being able to post from there to here seems neat, which I think I've seen a few people do here.

Small hint: Even if it’s very cyberpunk’ish here, you are of course allowed to create communities or share posts that have nothing to do with cyberpunk :)

To be honest I originally wasn't sure what exactly was allowed here. Most of the posts seemed to be about Cyberpunk TPRG/2077 (which I don't mind! I loved 2077 and spent a long time waiting for it after the 2013 trailer..) and I wasn't quite sure if it was meant to be general Cyberpunk or games. I guess that's the slight downside of the game sharing the name with a genre. I was originally thinking about starting a VA-11 Hall-A community here since it's a Cyberpunk game that I love too, but I ended up putting on another instance instead. Sounds dumb but with it being a small community here I felt like I would have been "intruding" too. I have made an account here now though at least, dunno if I'll use it as my "main" one yet.

Sorry that turned into a kind of ramble, I tend to that sometimes, to actually answer your question, I think other than the rules things as you mentioned (until you said they were in legal I had no idea where they were..), it's mostly alright as is I think. I'm still getting my head around the fediverse a bit though. You all seem pretty nice at least!

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