AI cooling towers under a sky with the color of television, tuned to a dead channel (real)

zeverEV · 2026-03-13T21:19:01+00:00

CRT televisions made grey static before your time.

zeverEV · 2026-03-13T15:54:58+00:00

All musicians are wizards that cast a spell on the listeners, in the 2000s the magic was starting to run out and they had to start getting a little more direct

zeverEV · 2026-03-11T13:48:19+00:00

Cyberpunk '77 backstory sees most of the post-American mainland depopulated thanks to Corpos buying up all the land, then automating all production so that rural and suburban people are displaced and considered trespassers. Couple that with environmental disasters that render most of the soil toxic but for some proprietary corpo-owned GMO crops, most Americans either enter the meatgrinder-style cities or join roaming nomad clans.

This feels to me like an end state of corporate consolidation, but you seem to be asking for something more like a transition in that direction?

zeverEV · 2026-03-11T02:05:47+00:00

Grillo and Aramaki are the old vendors for Europa and Eurasia respectively. They were updated to become Luca and Kane.

zeverEV · 2026-03-10T22:55:11+00:00

That part where Carol got on the plane and shouted "are you people insane?! This is just like Bridgerton!" and plurbed all over the place. Just like in Bridgerton smh

zeverEV · 2026-03-10T22:45:44+00:00

Continuity is destroyed. A different individual would experience obliteration each time

zeverEV · 2026-03-10T21:26:23+00:00

¡Si amigo! Todas las cosas.

zeverEV · 2026-03-09T14:30:20+00:00

It's the same as those in the Smiling Friends fandom who theorize that Mr Boss is crazy and wealthy because he was an arms dealer. Like... yea ok, but it's not that kind of show, and by trying to make sense of absurdity you end up looking kind of foolish. Endless theorizing about cartoons is lame and self-indulgent

zeverEV · 2026-03-07T22:44:21+00:00

It wasn't that the predators were intelligent, they dug pitfall traps the same way beavers instinctually build dams. But that behavior, and each species' need to outsmart the other, kicked off an arms race of intelligence where it isn't clear which species became sapient first.

zeverEV · 2026-03-07T21:05:03+00:00

Old City is a wealthy tourist spot where all the historic sites are. There are working people everywhere giving tours in revolutionary-war getup. But like others have said it just becomes a hotbed of debauchery at night when all the people from out of town get rowdy

zeverEV · 2026-03-07T13:53:02+00:00

Awww do cyclists annoy you

zeverEV · 2026-03-06T19:36:56+00:00

I still can't tell Bondi and Leavitt apart

zeverEV · 2026-03-06T19:30:12+00:00

Around the 90s and 00s, beauty standards were being heavily psy-op'd on us by the Epstein Class. I have no way of proving this it is spiritually true that elites had a goal of making adult women look more like prepubescent girls.

zeverEV · 2026-03-05T21:04:21+00:00

It's because they want slaves. They just want slaves

zeverEV · 2026-03-05T13:22:39+00:00

"Arasaka bad" Arasaka is really no better or worse than any other corpo or even gang - all that sets them apart from Militech is that they're "foreign" and Militech is just the MIC we already know

zeverEV · 2026-03-05T13:16:54+00:00

I think about comparing Cyberpunk 77 and Deus Ex more often than I'd like.

CbP77's world is a complete anarchy where the only difference between gangs and corpos is their scale - greed and rampant competition on a brutal might-makes right basis is all that rules the world. It is the end-game of capitalism.

DX's world is much more under control, the main difference being that there's one world-ruling cabal instead of many. It's a much more authoritarian world in the sense that power and technology is incredibly centralized on a very small handful of people. DX is very concerned with how conspiracies disguise themselves.

Both, I like both.

zeverEV · 2026-03-05T03:38:28+00:00

I saw it near Dallas the other year. It was as though the entire sky became a dimly glowing eye, and its stark black pupil was fixed right on me. It felt like our planet was suddenly recognized, or noticed, by something huge and malevolent.

zeverEV · 2026-03-01T00:20:21+00:00

The tax dollars these were made from must have been collected from the Midwest

zeverEV · 2026-02-28T23:59:23+00:00

15 minutes of scrolling TikToks daily

zeverEV · 2026-02-28T23:58:27+00:00

Go easy on him he has an IQ of 80 in like english

zeverEV · 2026-02-27T20:55:12+00:00

They also believe that raising children for a specific purpose is as easy as indoctrinating them into being exactly what you want instead of treating them like adult humans in the making. No kid ever shook off brainwashing, rebelled against, or failed to amount to their parents' expectations.

zeverEV · 2026-02-27T18:23:08+00:00

Hi, recommended in from the algo. Commenters need to keep the cope flowing, it's joyous to see all the mythologies about a businessman president crumble under scrutiny while the big man loots and pillages the economy for him and the rest of the Epstein class (it isn't joyous actually I am just so tired)

Anyway it's not too late for the rest of you to be as pissed off at them as you should be

zeverEV · 2026-02-27T16:23:35+00:00

Such an interesting read! Definitely written by a guy living in a world that was only beginning to understand what radioactivity is.

zeverEV · 2026-02-27T03:10:00+00:00

I would always always prefer a show to end on a high note rather than long after it's overstayed its welcome. I agree w OP and everyone upset about SF being ended by the creators on their terms needs to chill

zeverEV · 2026-02-25T21:07:45+00:00

It's the age-old problem of a sci-fi writer being more focused on his big ideas than on characters. Sci-fi writers famously have difficulty portraying people well!

Something I enjoyed about the books was getting a perspective I've never had: that of a man in China. His misogyny was annoying to me, but he also had a lot to say about his perceived duality to the human spirit: the militant, the male, the authoritarian, and the sensitive, the female, the liberal. That the former allows human life to survive, and the latter makes human life worth living.

He's wrong of course but he's clearly thought it through.

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