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ranma-official:

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averyterrible:

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guy is sitting at home, when he is suddenly arrested by drones because an algorithm predicted he was at risk for killing his wife, and he is automatically sentenced by an electronic judge to life in prison for premurder.

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tv tropes reader: well, his apartment is really nice, so i\u2019ll call this one post-cyberpunk.

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cyberpunk is specifically high tech low life

if people have all their material needs met, but get arrested for shit, then it\u2019s by definition not cyberpunk, anti-utopias are a thing

you fucking owned them i guess

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cyberpunk is people being like “I understand the future” and megacorps that made their name on volume seeing the promise of future and being “but that future ::smash, smash:: doesn’t scale”

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