it kinda rules, actually. punks get it, and fake bitches think it was Jaden Smith's pet project as opposed to him being just someone who auditioned for a role and got it the show isn't even subtle about the way it references Gibson and apes Stephenson's sardonic concept of an alternate America. the show was created by frontman Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend. you know, a punk band . the most common... » Continue Reading
i just wish anyone in my family actually believed in me or respected me i don't comprehend how you can "care" about someone without respect that's not empathy, that's pity i don't want a family that pities me because a family that simply pities me does not know me on any meaningful level » Continue Reading
and the first game is hilariously transparent about how the game is about corporations continuing to ruin the world. almost to a Neal Stephenson degree of satire. spoilers for an ancient game follow: it's like ah Chrome is really evil huh, just totalitarian as can be. good thing we have the Murakumo Millennium corp to oppose them. hmm? what's that? Murakumo is scooping up pilots wit » Continue Reading
I feel like Shadowrun has a ton of metaphors and symbology that pretentious cyberpunk fans deliberately ignore and well-meaning but oblivious folks completely miss. Dragons in Shadowrun represent the idea that rich capitalists, the people hoarding gross wealth and paying the working class as little as they can get away with, are inhuman and cannot be trusted. From William Gibson's Count Zero , Cha... » Continue Reading