Sure, I edit the /cyb/ FAQ. Perhaps time to post it here? If it is welcome here?

The latest version of the /cyb/ FAQ is here: https://files.catbox.moe/pwpib5.htm

Procedural material.

I'm surprised Shenzhen, China has not yet been mentioned. Go do an image search for "shenzhen night" or some variation on that. The place is the electronics capitol of the world.

All modern cities count as cyberpunk locals at this point. You have self driving electric cars piloted by an increasingly technocratic middle class driving by the homeless camps that litter and clog the streets and walkways. All the while glittering steel and glass liths scrape the clouds, their innards teeming with human drones operating ever more complex computer systems dedicated to supporting the monstrous corporate bureaucracies that more or less acts as the defacto government via lobbying, campaign funds, and even the writing of laws. Who supplies the food? Industrial farms owned by a few megacorps. Who supplies the media? A few megacorps who exclusively hoard IP. Who supplies building materials and consumer goods? A few megacorps who work in international and overseas markets to provide the cheapest labor and goods. Who supplies logistical and computational resources. A few megacorps who have come to dominate the communications/software market. In some cases, these megacorps overlap, like in the case of amazon where they are a media, logistics, tech, and manufacturing conglomerate. If you are not ruled by a conglomerate you are ruled by a dictator who, when they are reminded of the lack of power they hold culturally, religiously, or even traditionally, will neal under fealty to the unity of the conglomerate who has subsumed the largest and most powerful coalition of states or express their interests as a corpo conglomerate (like in the case of Russia). Now you can argue about the ability for this state of afairs to maintain itself, however, one thing is certain. The technocratic financial monoliths are here to stay and right now youre living under their benevolent thumb. Yes. Singapore is a cyberpunk citie as it exists in a cyberpunk world.

>>201 thanks for the tip, i was ignorant about it tbh.

>>165 On the other hand, you can walk down the street at after dark without worrying that Shitavious and half a dozen of his homeboys will pull up in a stolen car with clouds of weed smoke coming out of the windows and stomp you to death on the sidewalk for being a honkey in their presence. The Malay day-laborers are simpletons, but they know their place, the police tolerate no monkeyshines, and the streets are safe. >if you feel like voicing your opinions on how the PAP run things Why would you even think of such a thing, as a foreigner and a guest? I would not go to another country and try to tell them what to do. You sound very immature and very entitled. >no drugs allowed For some of us, that's a feature, not a bug. Look, would you really rather live in Detroit? I've actually been to Detroit, by the way. I advise against going south of Eight Mile Road, east of Telegraph, or north of the Rouge River while wearing white skin. It's Haiti with snow in there. >depending on where you are from, no jobs either Go read Hobbes and Locke and learn about this new thing that's just been invented called a "social contract" between the citizen and the state.

>>229 I don't recall signing a contract.

>>219 >complain about shit tok stealing muh mind data >on shit tiok Why would people willingly drinking poison thinks I will care about their nonsensial existence ?

Many past cyberpunk works include body augmentation that hasn't really materialized in reality. Other aspects such corporate power, metaverse (Internet), environmental degradation, and population crowding have come to fruition. It is likely that robotics, e.g. Boston Dynamics, will need to further mature before robotic body augmentation reaches that visioned in historical cyberpunk fiction.

>>199 Body augmentation, especially akin to replacing a limb for a better one, has not caught up. Sure, we do have artificial limbs that range from a single digit on a finger all the way to a complete limb. But such things are for the infirmed and not for optional replacement. You could say its due to our quality of batteries; they suck. In practically ever other work of fiction battery technology far exceeds our current technology. Or even if its a jump straight to an actual power generator, its still beyond our knowledge to make something that small and compact that could do so much. But it isn't power that's the main issue: its the connectivity between organic and inorganic. Basically, with no way to properly connect our brain, or the brain of anything, with an artificial prosthetic, means that they'll remain glorified peg-legs or hooks. This "blood-brain,"-like barrier is what keeps artificial limbs that can move as fluid as a living limb, with or without an external power source, from being a reality. It is also probably the same barrier that keeps us from making chips or interfaces that directly affect the mind. Regarding robotics in general, we have yet to cross the uncanny valley. Sure, in an environment where you have no extra notion of who or what is saying something, you can be fooled. But if you can see what you're talking to? You'd have to be blind to mistake a computer for a person in that case. Even current "robots," look like glorified animitronics. As for other topics, it seems works like Brave New World, or 1984 are more akin to our own reality. Specifically with the rise of stuff like "fake news," and other social schemes. Information has become easy to find but the truth, or its accuracy, is getting harder to find.

>>200 >Brave New World / 1984. Strictly speaking, those are not forthright prophecies ordained by the writers of the twentieth. Rather, they are amalgamations of the past adapted to what we believe may be the future. The core of human emotion and physiology has not changed, only the methods able to mend and sculpt such a sub-conscious and the reach of such methodology changed. In ye olden days, you needed to have a charismatic speaker, and to physically interact with those who can be misdirected via some sort of superstition (and thus relying to a higher degree on luck). Nowadays, why take that risk when you can subtly nudge the subconscious via a concerted campaign of information overload and subliminal messaging?

If you really want to know the answer to your question, look around. Increasingly we live in a world controlled and manipulated via the net, the wired, the metaverse. Where content and creators, programmers and artists coalesce into vast seas of content. Evermore our youth are lost in the infancy of the virtual worlds that our tablets, screens, and now headsets provide. You need not look at the specific technological forms or functions from these stories to see how well they predicted the future. If you look at the broader picture, the broader result of the technological singularity our civilization is undergoing you can see they were dead on. How do point of sale systems work? Via the net. How do modern humans communicate, even those born before the net. Via the net. How do government and military organizations communicate? Via the net. How do criminal organizations and rebel insurgencies communicate? Via the net. How are business and financial transactions, managed, monitored, and completed? Via the net. Then remember that while one is on the net they are interacting with any number of hidden algorithms, add trackers, as well as the websites and services they are using. Our entire financial system at this point is essentially just predictive autonomic algorithms trading money and stocks in such quantity on a minute by minute basis that it would make even the robber barons of the earliest 20th century blush. At this point farming, manufacturing, logistics, law enforcement, health care, and even the basics of financial transactions are all performed via software and net platforms integrated with other advanced technologies, coalescing and flowing into data centers like vast oceans of information. To live in a modern city is to be supported by an incomprehensible and unimaginable level of technological sophistication supported itself by vast armies of technicians and analysts that barely understand the parts of the systems they work with let alone have any comprehension of these systems as a whole. To live in modern society is to live in the trunk or on the branch of a cybernetic great tree, to live as a an organism supported by a great unliving ecosystem, a jungle of wires humming with thoughts of millions of computers abiding and abetting the whims of their unwitting users tapping away at their terminals never the wiser. And yet, we cant manage to utilize this magnificent monumental achievement, this insane and immense power for anything good. It consumes and devours our youth as they destroy their lives, sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively, and sometimes a bit of both. It makes life inhospitable for those who cannot adapt to the constant hum and drum, the endless input and output through their fragile psyches creating vast communities of homeless and wandering rambling away their days as passerby's stare glassy eyed into he virtual void. Our communities, our cities, our countries, even our world seems to be perpetually in decay as the ever worsening climate crisis heightens the already present issues of economic disparity. We are used, now, to our cities being on fire, underwater, or covered in clouds of never ending dust. We are used now to seeing the fleeing diaspora of so many desert ruins and trash cities. Used to seeing the foreign man dredge through rivers of trash and toxic sludge for what little metal he can find in the "e-waste" of the modern world all for a scrap of rotten food. Be careful that you dont get so caught up in what cyberpunk fiction gets wrong, that you neglect the fact that you live in a cyberpunk reality. It really doesnt matter that none of this wasnt written in a book, because it could have all been written in one of these books. The spirit of the world we live in is exactly the same spirit as snowcrash or neuromancer, or you name it. The soul of the world written about in those fantasies has come to pass in the modern world and that is what you should take away. You are living in one of these stories and you can either be a wage slave or something more. But that is up to you and that is whats important to remember.

If you really want to know the answer to your question, look around. Increasingly we live in a world controlled and manipulated via the net, the wired, the metaverse. Where content and creators, programmers and artists coalesce into vast seas of content. Evermore our youth are lost in the infancy of the virtual worlds that our tablets, screens, and now headsets provide. You need not look at the specific technological forms or functions from these stories to see how well they predicted the future. If you look at the broader picture, the broader result of the technological singularity our civilization is undergoing you can see they were dead on. How do point of sale systems work? Via the net. How do modern humans communicate, even those born before the net. Via the net. How do government and military organizations communicate? Via the net. How do criminal organizations and rebel insurgencies communicate? Via the net. How are business and financial transactions, managed, monitored, and completed? Via the net. Then remember that while one is on the net they are interacting with any number of hidden algorithms, add trackers, as well as the websites and services they are using. Our entire financial system at this point is essentially just predictive autonomic algorithms trading money and stocks in such quantity on a minute by minute basis that it would make even the robber barons of the earliest 20th century blush. At this point farming, manufacturing, logistics, law enforcement, health care, and even the basics of financial transactions are all performed via software and net platforms integrated with other advanced technologies, coalescing and flowing into data centers like vast oceans of information. To live in a modern city is to be supported by an incomprehensible and unimaginable level of technological sophistication supported itself by vast armies of technicians and analysts that barely understand the parts of the systems they work with let alone have any comprehension of these systems as a whole. To live in modern society is to live in the trunk or on the branch of a cybernetic great tree, to live as a an organism supported by a great unliving ecosystem, a jungle of wires humming with thoughts of millions of computers abiding and abetting the whims of their unwitting users tapping away at their terminals never the wiser. And yet, we cant manage to utilize this magnificent monumental achievement, this insane and immense power for anything good. It consumes and devours our youth as they destroy their lives, sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively, and sometimes a bit of both. It makes life inhospitable for those who cannot adapt to the constant hum and drum, the endless input and output through their fragile psyches creating vast communities of homeless and wandering rambling away their days as passerby's stare glassy eyed into he virtual void. Our communities, our cities, our countries, even our world seems to be perpetually in decay as the ever worsening climate crisis heightens the already present issues of economic disparity. We are used, now, to our cities being on fire, underwater, or covered in clouds of never ending dust. We are used now to seeing the fleeing diaspora of so many desert ruins and trash cities. Used to seeing the foreign man dredge through rivers of trash and toxic sludge for what little metal he can find in the "e-waste" of the modern world all for a scrap of rotten food. Be careful that you dont get so caught up in what cyberpunk fiction gets wrong, that you neglect the fact that you live in a cyberpunk reality. It really doesnt matter that none of this wasnt written in a book, because it could have all been written in one of these books. The spirit of the world we live in is exactly the same spirit as snowcrash or neuromancer, or you name it. The soul of the world written about in those fantasies has come to pass in the modern world and that is what you should take away. You are living in one of these stories and you can either be a wage slave or something more. But that is up to you and that is whats important to remember.

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>>138 whats the source for picrel?

Hey choom. Just spotted this, if you're still looking for inspiration, I'm down to help. You should have a rooftop community garden, but gangers took it over and are growing poppies instead of potatoes. Also, ALWAYS have a BrainDance parlor/studio somewhere nearby. Great source of sidework and plotlines, unless you don't like tangling with all that. Another thing I like is a body dump at one of the capsules; make the owner a retired gangoon who'll hermetically seal up a capsule for as long as you're willing to pay the rent. Awesome plothooks for days there.

>>15
I'd say yes. I am pretty much a lowlife.

As technology advances and it will get increasingly harder to answer that question until the term "cyber" or "cyberpunk" becomes meaningless.
People will become poorer, but due to technological advances it will be easy to clothe, feed yourself and satisfy other physiological needs, however life will be devoid of all meaning, depression rampant - a fertile soil for all kinds of absurd degeneracy, so the "punk" aspect will survive.

>>76
That's why it will be increasingly important to find God in your life, or at the least have something productive to work on that will benefit yourself and at least a small cadre of others.

I have that feeling that quantum tech has already start to take over the cyber world and maybe everything connected to it will soon be that dream of mine, just imagine the zapping control operating networks coming into existance.

>>77 "Finding God" is a shit meme. What's important is to maximize your success at your biological imperatives. Maximize the number of children you have and their success rates. Create or acquire supply chains which will ensure you and your clan will survive for the foreseeable future. That is the one true goal for any living Human (and indeed for all biological life), all other goals are some kind of hedonism or a deception sold by people trying to sabotage you so that there is less competition.