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"punk" in the "cyberpunk" sense is a reclaimed slur. It originally meant "prostitute", and became a term for any untouchable poor person. This is why Capitalism is the villain in nearly all cyberpunk stories, it's the system of oppression that creates and then demonizes prostitutes and other impoverished people. Class struggle and the essentially physical consumption of the bodies of the underclasses at the core of the genre. If a setting is about "feminism took over the world and now you can't be politically incorrect", that's a completely different thing.
For a comparison using 90s action movies, which might be more approachable than book references, look at Robocop vs Demolition Man. In Robocop, Megacorps are buying up the entire city of Detroit, including the police force, and are fueling the conflict of the plot in order to further expand their control. Robocop is cyberpunk. Demolition Man is set in an overly politically correct future where you get fined for swearing and toilet paper is illegal. The conflict is driven by a future liberalized society's inability to deal with a 90s era terrorist. Demolition Man? Not cyberpunk. (it's still a pretty good movie though)

Christs, no haven't heard anything of that. That's tragic. And scary.

"punk" in the "cyberpunk" sense is a reclaimed slur. It originally meant "prostitute", and became a term for any untouchable poor person. This is why Capitalism is the villain in nearly all cyberpunk stories, it's the system of oppression that creates and then demonizes prostitutes and other impoverished people. Class struggle and the essentially physical consumption of the bodies of the underclasses at the core of the genre. If a setting is about "feminism took over the world and now you can't be politically incorrect", that's a completely different thing.
For a comparison using 90s action movies, which might be more approachable than book references, look at Robocop vs Demolition Man. In Robocop, Megacorps are buying up the entire city of Detroit, including the police force, and are fueling the conflict of the plot in order to further expand their control. Robocop is cyberpunk. Demolition Man is set in an overly politically correct future where you get fined for swearing and toilet paper is illegal. The conflict is driven by a future liberalized society's inability to deal with a 90s era terrorist. Demolition Man? Not cyberpunk. (it's still a pretty good movie though)

"punk" in the "cyberpunk" sense is a reclaimed slur. It originally meant "prostitute", and became a term for any untouchable poor person. This is why Capitalism is the villain in nearly all cyberpunk stories, it's the system of oppression that creates and then demonizes prostitutes and other impoverished people. Class struggle and the essentially physical consumption of the bodies of the underclasses at the core of the genre. If a setting is about "feminism took over the world and now you can't be politically incorrect", that's a completely different thing.
For a comparison using 90s action movies, which might be more approachable than book references, look at Robocop vs Demolition Man. In Robocop, Megacorps are buying up the entire city of Detroit, including the police force, and are fueling the conflict of the plot in order to further expand their control. Robocop is cyberpunk. Demolition Man is set in an overly politically correct future where you get fined for swearing and toilet paper is illegal. The conflict is driven by a future liberalized society's inability to deal with a 90s era terrorist. Demolition Man? Not cyberpunk. (it's still a pretty good movie though)

Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about this because it is interesting to me.  I'm just pedantic about the whole -punk part of cyberpunk since I'm a fan of the genre.  I just see too much cyberpunk that misses the attitude of punk (and my god, we need more punk in games in this post-THPS world ).
imo there should be a different genre for not-quite-cyberpunk.  Lots of stuff is falling into it recently.  
I don't mean to say the game shouldn't exist, I'm worried about it not being good!  Again, I've seen way too much weak cyberpunk recently.
If the dev has really changed, that's cool (being a jerk isn't cool), but as it stands I'm wary of what it's going to be.  

Maybe it just wasn't as huge over there as it was in the US then?  Sorry if that's the case!  It was so massive here that I am surprised to see confusion about it, lol.
Not to get too far completely unrelated politics here... 
What did Anita Sarkeesian lie about?  She simply said there's a tendency to portray women in video games as negative stereotypes, and showed examples of such stereotypes.  The wage gap exists, here's some statistics http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Gender_pay_gap_statistics.  Feminists portraying straight white men as the enemy is a stereotype that you've been sold.  Women (and LGBTQ+ people, people of color, etc) just want more positive portrayals of themselves in games, that's all.
Of course Gamergate was portrayed as negative, it was started over a non-existent review of a video game.  The big buzzword was "Objective reviews," a concept that does not, and is impossible to exist.
Okay, if you're going to use the "in my country" card to be against a whole religion, let me tell you about what's going on here: A year ago, a black man was shot and killed after being pulled over by police.  There's a trial about it going on right now.  That was one of many police shootings that happened that summer.  But yeah BLM blocked a freeway so they're the REAL racists.  (Really you don't want to say this shit to me, please learn the historical context behind this stuff)
Yes, terrorism is a problem, but not one that is solved by returning hatred with hatred (we've been trying to do that for decades now!).  Why do you think this is happening?  Anyone can be radicalized.  That's enough on that because I'm really not interested in talking about this shit here.  
Point is, cyberpunk has always been on the left, that's what punk has always been, it doesn't work if it isn't about progressive politics.  It's no coincidence that one of the most notable examples of cyberpunk is The Matrix, directed by two trans women, and often used as an allegory for being transgender.  I'm worried that this game (as well as practically every big cyberpunk game as of late) doesn't understand that.  

Look at his channel, his videos are about video games, right wing politics, and enforcing stereotypes of feminists, black people, muslims, and so on.  Maybe don't say literal racism is good??
So we can't trust what a game developer actually, literally, says their game is about?  It's a smart marketing move to associate yourself with a harassment campaign literally started by someone's abusive ex-boyfriend??

are we about to fucking say "gamergate wasn't so bad" are we really posting fucking mundanematt videos?  christ

It's been more than that, he's kinda been a piece of shit to a lot of people.  
Besides that even, how do you even make a cyberpunk story where "the FEMINAZIS have taken over!!"?  To do that is to ignore what cyberpunk even is.  Cyberpunk is specifically about the exact things Gamergate fought against, which is to say it's about systemic oppression, the issues of late capitalism, so on and so forth.  It's like making a Deus Ex game that goes "Actually, the NSF were the bad guys", like what is it going to say?  Equality is bad?

Saw gameplay of this at e3. 
Environments look good, I like how colorful it is.
Shooting feels ok'ish, it misses the humph that great games offered us in the past year, Doom, Destiny, even Dishonored shooting feels better. There's a weird jankiness to the game that I can't describe, but hey its still WIP so we'll see, but from what I've seen it didn't impress me much. 
Lighting looks really good though, interiors look amazing considering its a real time lighting solution, seems like they're doing some GI and AO. 
The setting seems a bit weird, seems like they're trying to push for some sort of social criticism while still trying their best to be politically correct?

Wow, okay. So, far from the original implications of the cover and first trailer, rather than addressing the real growing fascism in America, this is using those aesthetics for a Christian cult that also has black members? They even show the white protag siccing his dog on the black guy in the trailer??? Could Ubi be any more fucking cowardly with this production?
Goddamn. How is Wolfenstein 2, a sci-fi game made in Sweden, a more realistic assessment of America than this modern 'realistic' game made just across the border in Toronto?

Fucking driving around in a wheelchair shooting Nazis. Sign me the fuck up fam

Wow, okay. So, far from the original implications of the cover and first trailer, rather than addressing the real growing fascism in America, this is using those aesthetics for a Christian cult that also has black members? They even show the white protag siccing his dog on the black guy in the trailer??? Could Ubi be any more fucking cowardly with this production?
Goddamn. How is Wolfenstein 2, a sci-fi game made in Sweden, a more realistic assessment of America than this modern 'realistic' game made just across the border in Toronto?

maining zenny right now and being surprisingly succesful playing him aggresivelly, completely shreds everyone if you take your time to actually aim and not spam your orbs, he's also a very good sniper with his burst. It's not unusual to have the most eliminations with him. love it.

Playing more and more recently. Been trying to expand my hero pool and I find that Reinhardt is awesome. I had a hard time with him before but now I feel that I "get him".
I was a bit bummed out that this wasn't POTG though. Solo-defense.
 

This is exactly what I want to avoid, low settings should not give an advantage over others. Needs fix.

Nice!!! It felt like we would visit the moon eventually. Awesome style!
Also, when you get that perfect pharah flank...

Yeah, the real alt-right doesn't say "miscegenation", they say "cuck" now

No pc logo at the bottom of that site :x will console plebians be beta testing this for a year this time as well?

Those skins look pretty cool. Funny that you like the Bastion and Soldier ones the most, bc I really love those Pharah and Zarya skins, especially the Pharah skin.

That Bastion and Soldier skin! I got 6200 coins saved up. Bye bye!

The space part honestly felt so stunning the first time, it made me realize that was something I'd always wanted to do in a game but never knew