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I don't think we'd be compatible at all!!!
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Skwirl posted:I hate this poo poo. Like, just make a game where you don't have to do this poo poo. Make it the harder path if you like bragging about "branching paths." I also make sure to strictly follow my own real-life morals when playing in video game worlds. (The people who made Crazy Taxi never responded to my bug report that there wasn't time to finish any of the missions, assuming of course that you always drive your taxi safely and responsibly.)
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Powered Descent posted:I also make sure to strictly follow my own real-life morals when playing in video game worlds. (The people who made Crazy Taxi never responded to my bug report that there wasn't time to finish any of the missions, assuming of course that you always drive your taxi safely and responsibly.) Don't have the word "punk" in your game's title if part of the game is working with cops.
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Dec 21, 2020 21:57
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Skwirl posted:Don't have the word "punk" in your game's title if part of the game is working with cops.  There is nothing that cannot be commodified beyond recognition.
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Dec 21, 2020 21:59
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Powered Descent posted:I also make sure to strictly follow my own real-life morals when playing in video game worlds. (The people who made Crazy Taxi never responded to my bug report that there wasn't time to finish any of the missions, assuming of course that you always drive your taxi safely and responsibly.) this is a bad post and you should feel bad
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Dec 21, 2020 22:05
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The Cyberpunk angle was a big selling point of the game. People being unhappy it doesn’t really exist seems fair.
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Dec 21, 2020 22:13
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Yeah, it's not like Crazy Taxi was titled "Safe and Sensible Taxi" There's an ambulance driving game where if you don't drive safely the guy you're bringing to the hospital dies, if that's the type of game you want.
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Dec 21, 2020 22:19
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CharlestheHammer posted:The Cyberpunk angle was a big selling point of the game. People being unhappy it doesn’t really exist seems fair. I just want a game where I can be a cyber gandalf and also NCPD jobs should take away from street cred btw
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Dec 21, 2020 22:20
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orange juche posted:I just want a game where I can be a cyber gandalf and also NCPD jobs should take away from street cred btw Why? They're just another gang.
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Dec 21, 2020 22:35
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Skwirl posted:Don't have the word "punk" in your game's title if part of the game is working with cops. I admit I haven't played the game, but I don't see why that has to be contradictory. In a cyberpunk techno-crapsack world, the cops are probably just another faction, so a mercenary like the player character might well end up working for them for a while, if the pay is good.
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Dec 21, 2020 22:56
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Powered Descent posted:I also make sure to strictly follow my own real-life morals when playing in video game worlds. (The people who made Crazy Taxi never responded to my bug report that there wasn't time to finish any of the missions, assuming of course that you always drive your taxi safely and responsibly.) It’s an RPG with a blank slate protagonist, this is absolutely what a lot of people do.
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Dec 21, 2020 23:01
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boot licking is very punk yes
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Data Graham posted:I could have had a compatible AND knowledgeable friend? The knowledge is all about the intricacies of the feet he was jackin it to.
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Glad every thread is now the "talk about video game" thread https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1340346038297628672?s=19 If you have to make this distinction, your rule is dumb
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Dec 21, 2020 23:13
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christmas boots posted:Why? They're just another gang. Then I should be able to innately hack them into committing suicide like I do any other gang. And they probably shouldn't magically spawn out of nowhere directly in front of me.
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Dec 21, 2020 23:30
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Good thing there's never been any big cyberpunk genre films or books with a cop as the protagonist.
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I’m going to guess those books aren’t him just doing his job like some 9-5
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CharlestheHammer posted:I’m going to guess those books aren’t him just doing his job like some 9-5 But if that that were true, it would make Mega Comrade look really foolish!
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Dec 21, 2020 23:36
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Mega Comrade posted:Good thing there's never been any big cyberpunk genre films or books with a cop as the protagonist. Do those characters enjoy their job? And how many of them are still cops at the end?
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Dec 21, 2020 23:40
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How much Street Cred did Deckard earn from murdering all those replicants
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Dec 21, 2020 23:41
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Cernunnos posted:Then I should be able to innately hack them into committing suicide like I do any other gang. And they probably shouldn't magically spawn out of nowhere directly in front of me. These are fair criticisms and I hope that future patches address these shortcomings.
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Dec 21, 2020 23:41
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Mega Comrade posted:Good thing there's never been any big cyberpunk genre films or books with a cop as the protagonist. you would be surprised at how many people think Blade Runner is a cyberpunk film
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Dec 21, 2020 23:57
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boar guy posted:you would be surprised at how many people think Blade Runner is a cyberpunk film A friend of mine recently described Blade Runner as 'a cyberpunk story from the perspective of the one guy it isn't a cyberpunk story for'.
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Dec 22, 2020 00:03
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Someone make a structure/ingredient alignment chart for cyberpunk Bottom right: Harry Potter is cyberpunk
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Cleretic posted:A friend of mine recently described Blade Runner as 'a cyberpunk story from the perspective of the one guy it isn't a cyberpunk story for'. its a cyberpunk setting but the protagonist being a cop is antithetical to the premise there's no hacking/illicit information access/cyberspace component to it either
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Dec 22, 2020 00:23
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I mean you can argue Decker isn’t really the protagonist. Kind of like Max in Mad Max
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boar guy posted:you would be surprised at how many people think Blade Runner is a cyberpunk film I tend to put it in that category mentally because of the setting even though you're right that the plot doesn't really adhere to that
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Dec 22, 2020 00:34
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boar guy posted:its a cyberpunk setting but the protagonist being a cop is antithetical to the premise Deckard isn't reeeeally a cop, he's exploited/blackmailed by the cops and used as a tool to do their dirty work.
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Dec 22, 2020 00:36
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https://twitter.com/_jadeisabelle/status/1340400210304925699 In between picking scraps of cloth out of dumpsters to make crude smocks I'll be making lattes! I am very intelligent!
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Necrothatcher posted:Deckard isn't reeeeally a cop, he's exploited/blackmailed by the cops and used as a tool to do their dirty work. eh, he acts with a cop's authority and in the sequel his partner pretty much confirms that he was A Cop and then joe, in the sequel, is even more explictly A Cop cyberpunk is about bucking the system. even gibson's stuff that includes ex cops or ex military as protagonists has them pretty explicitly become criminals as plots unfold but blade runner's are both working to maintain the status quo
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Cleretic posted:A friend of mine recently described Blade Runner as 'a cyberpunk story from the perspective of the one guy it isn't a cyberpunk story for'. That's the description I like for Ghost in the Shell. Cyberpunk, but you're watching the cops' side of it (for part of it, until they inevitably go rogue).
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Never trust a cop, especially if you are the cop.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:That's the description I like for Ghost in the Shell. Cyberpunk, but you're watching the cops' side of it (for part of it, until they inevitably go rogue). ghost in the shell is pretty fucken fash, for as out there conceptually as the transhuman parts of it are
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There's a genre for Bladerunner, basically technological dystopia with post human elements and old film shorthand that is specifically not about underclass uprisings or breakdowns in the social order, Technoir. Stuff like Terminator and Brazil fit there too.
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boar guy posted:eh, he acts with a cop's authority and in the sequel his partner pretty much confirms that he was A Cop I don't necessarily think that Blade Runner is cyberpunk, but like the whole premise of the movie is Deckard realising that the system is a exploitative nightmare, that he's murdering people and eventually that he needs to escape it.
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Necrothatcher posted:I don't necessarily think that Blade Runner is cyberpunk, but like the whole premise of the movie is Deckard realising that the system is a exploitative nightmare, that he's murdering people and eventually that he needs to escape it. that's...not my reading of the film at all. you're welcome to it, though 
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boar guy posted:that's...not my reading of the film at all. you're welcome to it, though That's like the explicit text of the movie? What is your reading on Blade Runner?
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Skwirl posted:That's like the explicit text of the movie? pretty much what the author said about it: "The purpose of this story as I saw it was that in his job of hunting and killing these replicants, Deckard becomes progressively dehumanized. At the same time, the replicants are being perceived as becoming more human. Finally, Deckard must question what he is doing, and really what is the essential difference between him and them? And, to take it one step further, who is he if there is no real difference?" or any of the themes listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Blade_Runner. the movie is about what being human means it's not really about deckard coming to realize that his place in the system isn't good or that the system is broken. he knows that in the beginning, when his partner has to bring heavies with him to get him to come in to talk to his boss
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:https://twitter.com/_jadeisabelle/status/1340400210304925699 Reading the replies that commune is going to have a heck of a lot of tarot readers and counsellors. At least this lady has one materially useful job among the fluff.
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