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  • To be fair to Blade Runner here, I don’t think it was really made to be “Cyberpunk”. It has some of the themes and inspired a lot of future Cyberpunk work (at the very least aesthetic wise), but the book “Cyberpunk” wasn’t published until a year later and “Neuromancer” didn’t come out until two years later, so a lot of the themes that we consider Cyberpunk weren’t fully realised yet. I guess you could argue it’s more proto-Cyberpunk (and a number of other sci-fi from before then), but it’s pretty firmly entrenched as Cyberpunk now, and to be honest, I don’t really disagree either. Strict definitions for genres are pretty tricky, even more so for foundational work like I’d say Blade Runner was.





  • Small hint: Even if it’s very cyberpunk’ish here, you are of course allowed to create communities or share posts that have nothing to do with cyberpunk :)

    To be honest I originally wasn’t sure what exactly was allowed here. Most of the posts seemed to be about Cyberpunk TPRG/2077 (which I don’t mind! I loved 2077 and spent a long time waiting for it after the 2013 trailer…) and I wasn’t quite sure if it was meant to be general Cyberpunk or games. I guess that’s the slight downside of the game sharing the name with a genre. I was originally thinking about starting a VA-11 Hall-A community here since it’s a Cyberpunk game that I love too, but I ended up putting on another instance instead. Sounds dumb but with it being a small community here I felt like I would have been “intruding” too. I have made an account here now though at least, dunno if I’ll use it as my “main” one yet.

    Sorry that turned into a kind of ramble, I tend to that sometimes, to actually answer your question, I think other than the rules things as you mentioned (until you said they were in legal I had no idea where they were…), it’s mostly alright as is I think. I’m still getting my head around the fediverse a bit though. You all seem pretty nice at least!