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> I'm pretty excited that something from the universe of Ghost in the Shell would become reality Pretty excited? Cyberpunk was always intended as a dire warni
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> I'm pretty excited that something from the universe of Ghost in the Shell would become reality
Pretty excited?
Cyberpunk was always intended as a dire warning of the looming dystopian future.
And urge people to rebel to it. It literally has "punk" in its name.
It's a bit sad to see how it's been flipped on its head.
- A_Parr 7y agoGITS is largely post-cyberpunk, but dips into cyberpunk for ideas. Mostly for it's antagonists. The cyberpunk driver of the post-cyberpunk tank being an interesting take on things, at least. Clarification for those who don't know. Cyberpunk spun off of a bunch of genres that call themselves $name-punk but ironically ignore the -punk aspect and just replace $name for the name of the technology they replaced magic with in what's otherwise a fantasy story. (Including literally magic as technology.) Because cyberpunk was taken, the cyber version of $name-punk ended up being called post-cyberpunk instead of cyber-steampunk for whatever reason.
- eeZah7Ux 7y ago> GITS is largely post-cyberpunk, but dips into cyberpunk for ideas This does not negate the dire warnings of cyberpunk both as a genre and GITS itself. This thread is about robot tanks built by the military-industral complex. Everything else is besides the point. > Mostly for it's antagonists *its
- tjchear 7y agoExcited in the way that the big robots we read so much about in stories become real, but I don't wish for the world in which those death machines become a necessity turn into reality.