Anon romanticizes Night City

Did anon just mentally blank out every homeless person, cyber psycho victim, crime victim, police victim, corp victim?

Anon would sign an Arasaka human testing contract without reading it

Damn this dude played Cyberpunk and literally missed everything about the story and the city itself.

Somebody should make a CP77 homeless mod where you're trying not to get run over or shot by upper middle class trust fund kids playing gangster in the street.

I love the Cyberpunk 2077 universe. Ive played the TTRPG, the Game from CD Project Red, and loved the anime. But no way in hell would I want to actually live in Night City...

Cyberpunk 2077, the video game, is a great story partially because Night City is practically more a character than a setting. It consumes and shits out all who are bold or stupid enough to think they can make it there.

The person romanticizing their world has somehow missed every theme of the story. Immortality is only achievable by sacrificing every last bit of your humanity through either replacing every part of your body with chrome (Smasher), or through horrific body snatching tech (Soulkiller).

Illness does exist in Cyberpunk, many characters through the story refer to their sick relatives. V themself is portrayed as being sick after installing Soulkiller after the Arasaka heist with Jackie. Indeed, Soulkiller is portrayed like a high tech, fast acting cancer.

The world in Cyberpunk reflects a kind of criticism of capitalism in showing us how excessive the divides in economic and power dynamics can become if capitalism is left to rule unchecked by governmental power (i have not yet played phantom liberty, which I assume addresses in part the corrupted and futile attempts to restore governmental agency in a world that long has handed off the reigns to unfettered capitalists).

The characters generally live in squalor. Vs initial apartment is little more than a glorified closet in a bleak concrete monolith. Quality Health care is only available to those that can afford an ultra Premium plan, executed by a Military Style Medical Corporation. Otherwise, you're lucky if your loved ones' ashes are dispensed via a Vending Machine, as seen in the anime Edgerunners.

Again, love the game, love the anime and TTRPG. NEVER in a million years would I want to live in that universe... unless maybe it was a choice between there and literal Hell, cuz at that point the line of difference befween them starts to blur...and they end up looking the same.

I, for one, think we SHOULD create the Torment Nexus from the hit sci-fi novel "Don't Create the Torment Nexus"

anon chooses photo of someone who literally got crushed to death by a terminator in a gunfight

utopia

This is one of those posts that says way more about the person making it than anything else...

"Explain to me how night City isnt a utopia" "right to bear arms? Yep"

Sounds like he explained one big reason himself.

Easy!

They have all that AND life expectancy for the poor is mid 30's.

Illness, no such thing

So the guy just isn't familiar with the property then, gotcha

People who support free market and capitalism should support Night City in order to be consistent with their beliefs.

This selective ignorance is very common in actual political discussion

Explain to me how CP77 isn't a utopia

All the gangbangers?

I think the most accurate way to point out the most obvious flaw in the reasoning is:

You haven't heard about XYZ in fantasy world yyy, doesn't mean XYZ doesn't exist in that world. If you take star wars, before episode 1, we hadn't heard of jar jar Binks but he existed in that world and had (surprisingly) big influence. Proving that something doesn't exist is literally impossible. Thinking that something doesn't exist because you weren't exposed to any evidence for it, is flawed thinking. Especially in a fictional stories... especially in a fictional story that wants to talk about a specific issue.

Thats just a very long version of "corporations are le good."

corporations are le bad

Making money and a decent quality of life through extremely illegal activities? Apart from the respawn, it's exactly how it works in real life too.

This is a problem a few "dystopian" Sci Fi publications have, they're often better than what we have now.

i bet this guy had boots for breakfast.

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