This is an insult to 13-year-old boys.
Relevant microblog meme:
I get a 404 error for that non-paywall link. So here’s a mirror: https://archive.ph/MgTmM
Also I’m vaguely pissed that Musk considers Iain Banks his favourite author while managing to completely misunderstand the Culture’s values. He even named his droneships after characters from the books 🤢
Initializing them to make yourself feel better is surely the way forward…
If that’s true, their fantasies suck.
Then again, I really like cyberpunk and always wished I was in Blade Runner and shit like that. Maybe mine suck too. 😳
Yeah because its always borderline or already is a dystopian but, cool technology is the most interesting to a 14 year old kid not the dystopian issues.
It does bum me out that the only thing from cyberpunk fiction we actually have are smartphones, evil AI, and the dystopia. I wanna be a fuckin’ cyborg damn it. 😬
Still, I feel like I have to make this choice daily.
I choose Nomad because nothing is walkable so at least I’ll have a car.
Not evil yet just incompetent and the dystopia started with the aristocrats helping transition to capitalism like decades ago.
