Cyberpunk

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What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.

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This is a community focused on cyberpunk as a genre of fiction. Please post any news articles about our real world slipping into a dystopian nightmare at: !aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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I changed the icon for this community (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago by Hammerjack@lemmy.zip to c/cyberpunk@lemmy.zip

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About two years ago I held a vote to choose the icon for this community. I had used my own minimal photoshop (well, GIMP) skills and made the type of icon I was envisioning. All of the other submissions were AI generated. In the end, my icon lost by one vote and we went with the winner. Lately though, I've been thinking about that icon I made. To me, cyberpunk is more punk and not just a pile of skyscrapers.

Anyway, we recently made a !steampunk@lemmy.zip community and BrikoX had created another genAI image for the icon just so the icon wasn't blank. And we got a lot of complaints about using a genAI image. A random user even submitted their own icon just because he was so annoyed at that genAI image (and we're now using that icon).

To some extent, I think genAI images are "cyberpunk" so I think it fits the community. However, there's definitely more push-back on genAI images now than there were 2 years ago. So being a mod (and being drunk on my own power), I'm forcing you all to live with the cheap icon I threw together in GIMP two years ago. 😈

I'm open to using a different icon if someone with more skills than me wants to take a crack at it. But I think I'm going to avoid using a genAI icon for this community now. Also, I don't have any strong feelings about the banner image so we can leave it or someone can submit an alternative.

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

I like it.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

I mean what is more cyberpunk:

Using the corporate machine that destroys the Earth to generate a beautiful simulacra of the real thing

Use the limited amount of technology you have to create something small, but personal and human expression of the real thing.

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago

notice my avatar

That's some cool ware you got there 👊

[–] Staden_@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

I never liked the old one because it was too cluttered with details to be an icon

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a very Star Trek coded logo

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Breen ( aka Princess Leia in disguise )

That's all star trek related i could find.