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#cyberpunk

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Ramsipamsi ​:cv_purple: :revengeday:

Hey chooms, it's Bandcamp Friday in this net-grid!

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Here’s a little fun fact from this neo-dystopia: even with this preem-discount, the payout's juicier than if you gave my tunes a spin on Spotify just once.

Stay cyber!

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Greg Leunig

#WritersCoffeeClub 28 How important is class or caste in your writing?

Going back in time a day to talk about this one, because it's a great prompt for a #cyberpunk author.

Class is a fundamental element of writing cyberpunk. I know the genre means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but one of the thematic cores of the genre is rebelling against out of control capitalism and the ruling class of wealthy corporate oligarchs.

Cyberpunk predicted this future decades ago, but I think it came on in reality much faster than we expected, and so it's really a duty of cyberpunk authors to depict this class division honestly, and a big part of the catharsis of these stories is watching someone resist and probably fuck up a part of that oligarchy.

Tessier-Ashpool, L Bob Rife/his Raft, and Arasaka to name a few class-based antagonists.

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Spooky Panda 🇺🇦

#PennedPossibilities 657 — Continuing with last night’s questioning, tell us if your SC is one to be forgiving as well.

Dante (m): Yes. Unfortunately, he's too forgiving at times. It comes with the territory of a being a doc, though. Your friends wins up injured and need your help, even if you've spent the last few months fighting. "Forgive and forget."

Junk (m): He is, but only for his chooms in Destiny's Maelström. Everyone else can go f*ck themselves.

Cosmia (f): She's a tough nut to crack. She's a bar owner. It doesn't take much to piss her off. But if you genuinely deserve her forgiveness, it's all yours.

Noona (f): Hell no. She isn't very forgiving at all. She's a gang leader for a reason. There's only one exception. He's a certain tall, dark, and handsome doc with a compassionate heart. (Every member of the Glitch Mob is similar.)

(For the first time, I just gave away a MAJOR spoiler for a future couple here in the series. I've never done that. I've answered years of #WordWeavers and PennedPossibilities prompts and yet I've only hinted at these two. I figured my friends and readers like @strangeseawolf, @Firlefanz, and @paul deserved to know.)

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Spooky Panda 🇺🇦

#PennedPossibilities 656 — How forgiving is your MC?

It depends on who Alexios would be trying to forgive. If it's a friend, well—he can be rather lenient. To friends, he's compassionate and understanding. He's able to "forgive and forget" rather easily for those he cares deeply about. If it's about rival gang members or the leaders, that's an interesting one to ponder. He might, he might not. It all depends on what was done to either him or his friends. Now if it's someone like Dr. Death, the answer is simply /no/. Just no. He would never be forgiving that piece of trash, not under any circumstances. He will take that seething hatred to the grave with him. It's eaten him alive for two hundred years at this point. Some deeds (and the pure evil behind them) just can't be forgiven.

Context: Dr. Death destroyed Alexios' home planet (named New Glasgow), enslaved his people, and used the majority of them for experiments. Ninety-nine percent of them died by that bastard's hands.

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