no dense urban dwellings either, that's also an escapist part because the US has actual dystopian infrastructure (sprawl designed to force you to use a car). Even here in Seattle everything feels to sparse. Too wide of roads, too many roads, nothing is actually "dense" in any way, and the businesses are always in a different spot than most of the housing (whereas other cities might have housing with more interspersed businesses).
Man why does real cyberpunk have to be so lame? We get the techno-dystopianism without the radical punk culture.
Because all the resistance and "you have agency in the dystopia" stuff is the escapist part of cyberpunk as a genre.
no dense urban dwellings either, that's also an escapist part because the US has actual dystopian infrastructure (sprawl designed to force you to use a car). Even here in Seattle everything feels to sparse. Too wide of roads, too many roads, nothing is actually "dense" in any way, and the businesses are always in a different spot than most of the housing (whereas other cities might have housing with more interspersed businesses).
No Awakening, no Goblinization, no magic, no AmerInd takeover of half the United States. This drek's not wiz, chummer.
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