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submitted 1 year ago by macabrett@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

This is a universe with faster than light travel and near infinite resources. There's a homeless shelter in one of the major cities. I helped them out. Why the fuck is there a homeless shelter in a universe with FTL and near infinite resources?

I'm starting to think Fallout under Bethesda isn't a satire and their writers are just incapable of imagining anything beyond capitalism.

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[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

I always thought of Post Cyberpunknas things like The Diamond Age or Mirrors Edge or Glasshouse, which critique the individualistic response of a Cyberpunk protagonist vs social responses.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I am familiar with Mirror's Edge, and if that's post-cyberpunk, the setting has promise.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Much with cyberpunk libs took all the shiny white singularity dyson sphere bullshit and none of the "they made capitalism sentient and it ate the humanity of everyone who took part in it , then itself, then promptly collapsed into a post apocalytic economy made entirely of grifts."

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