Except our dystopia is even more violent and 100 times dumber than anything media ever painted.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2025
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it sucks shit too
where the fuck is my robot arm and sick ass cyberdeck?
Only rich people get the high tech. We proles just get the low life stuff
High-tech lowlife was the whole premise of the genre. I'll admit that my sick-ass cyberdeck is a ThinkPad X230.
this whole dam cyberwworld is run by gonks...
Gleek this cyberjockeys, we're heading for a total system crash
I'm talking Zero_Cool levels of shred if you can cog it
We got to hack into the Gibson maaaan.
I keep saying all the unemployed techies here should become sword wielding pizza delivery drivers
huh.... not a bad idea at all now that i think of it...
This is America. [...] There's only four things we do better than anyone else
music
movies
microcode (software)
high-speed pizza delivery
Of course, that was written in the 90s. Can probably scratch music and software off the list now.
change a single letter here and we're well on track
The interesting times we've all been promised are here.
the jokes are funnier than in fiction, I'll take what I can get
I guess this is almost like revolutionary optimism
at least in fiction there is cool lighting and awesome jackets lmao
Well, we used to have that with the Germans
I also get reminded more and more of the Provisional Government's buffoonery in Ten Days That Shook The World
I should post more memes yes