“New Text Document” really pulls this meme together.
Everything is made better with just a lil shitposting.
Without, for anyone interested.
Not interested.
High tech, low life.
Cybernetically enhanced gang members = High-tech low-lifes.
This isn’t cyberpunk, just a dystopia!
North Korea funds its nuclear missile program with stolen cryptocurrency
Cox Media is listening to conversations through smart devices to sell targeted ads
Neuralink killed a bunch of test animals but still got approval for human trials
The WGA was recently on strike for, among other reasons, keeping AI from stealing their jobs
It’s not exactly Neuromancer yet, but the news sounds more cyberpunk dystopia every day.
Yeah, where’s my micro-CDs? Where’s my cyberdeck? Where’s my cool robotic arm?
We didn’t say it would be a cool or fun dystopia.
You have to make it yourself if you’re not rich.
If you can’t, it’s because you’re not a main character.
Sorry babe, them’s the breaks.
Just try living in any east Asian country
The world started feeling all the bad bits of cyberpunky in the aughts. By the 2010s friends acknowledged it, had a now that I think about it moment or refused to accept a future without Spinners. ( Relevant XKCD )
These days, we know that only rich people and police would get flying cars, but for reasons we can’t quite fathom, the surveillance sector of the US and Five Eyes really screwed over the information security sector, so that it’s a black-hats paradise right now.
But in the 2020s so much of the scary horror shit written about in 1980s+ Cyberpunk has come true, and those we haven’t seen may just be hiding in labs and undeveloped countries somewhere.
If time travel were possible, I’d be suspicious someone was mucking with the timeline since 2000, if not before.
What is this guy from? He looks real familiar under the rave puke gitup.
Pirates of the Carribean maybe?
Yup, hector barbossa. Villain from the first movie I believe
Pretty much the most piratey of all the pirates in the first movie as portrayed by Geoffrey Rush. Rush’s performance was so perfect Disney sought had to resurrect Barbosa and give him a prominent role in the third movie. He appears in all five of the Caribbean films.
This is actually a recurring phenomenon in pirate cinema starting with Long John Silver (1954) because Robert Newton nailed the character so hard in Treasure Island (1950) that Disney decided he was worthy of an encore. Newton’s performance informs the common pirate dialect as we know it today the way modern depictions of Dracula (and sometimes vampires in general) take cues from Bela Lugosi’s performance. Rush, in preparation for POTC1 studied Newton’s performance, to grand effect.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day, celebrated every year worldwide, rose from silly parody holiday to global celebration with pirate parades, drinking festivals and carousing competitions, with much thanks to the Reformed Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster it its ongoing efforts to reduce global warming. In the mid 2010s the ITLPD Commission adopted the Silver Standard establishing Newton’s depiction of Silver as the codefied ideal by which piratey dialog is to be conducted.
i hate disney so much but holy shit do i love pirates of the caribbean so much
I believe this, more or less, is the universal Disney experience.
Oh that’s it! I knew he was a pirate from something.
It’s not gettin’ to the Land of the Cyberpunk that’s the problem. It’s gettin’ back.
“Rake the leaves, Samaria”
Free yourself from the machine and shitpost, or whatever broken Latin is on my Lemmy profile
we are just starting to walk into one mark my words
