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   LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 03:18:30 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

   Returned to the game, and honestly? This post is still absolutely true.

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     Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 04:02:14 JST Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀

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     @LukeAlmighty Thing is... as bad as things are today, someone from medieval time would think living anywhere in Europe today would be epic.
     We've lost perspective of how much life has improved because of technology, and I'd wager it makes sense in universe that people in Cyberpunk consider it a dystopia, because they also lost perspective on things and focus only on their present day issues.

     I had a sobering though a year ago. Back during the days of Mozart or Beethoven, these people weren't composing music for the wider audience. Entertainment was a thing solely for the rich. But today, a homeless person in America can listen to any music he wants on a pocket sized computer.
     Or Tim Pool likes to make the argument that the original oil baron had worse dental care than an average american has today.

     People are free to complain about wealth inequalities, but they should also take a second and appreciate that they probably have access to the same, if not more, life amenities than the richest of the rich from not that long ago. That is bonkers to me.

     So yeah, any realistic fiction set in a much more technologically advanced future, is gonna have some of the things we care about solved thanks to technology, while also introducing new unique problems that make it a dystopia.
     I haven't played the game, but my understanding was that the dystopic element was some kind of augmentation psychosis and people losing their humanity.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 05:00:29 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @beardalaxy @alyx
     I really do get your roommate, and I kind of agree with him.

     Obviously I get, that for instance, their lower back had to be dying in their 30s, but my issue is, that even with a so called 100x potential, you cannot choose to use only part of it.

     You cannot possibly get a house, small garden and food for family on 2 part time jobs. So, the potential isn't there, if 60% goes to the state, 20% on rent, and you are left with 20%, that you must use on lawfare. You cannot even go most places on foot these days. Cities are not built for people walking from A to B.

     But yes, the lost purpose and family expectations are a tragedy, that I cannot get over either.

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     beard :meru_dab: ひげ (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 05:00:30 JST beard :meru_dab: ひげ

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     @alyx @LukeAlmighty my roommate was pining for the middle ages where a peasant would just work at his farm and then have a wife and a child he goes back to and doesn't have to do anything for like half the year.

     i had to explain to him that, although we spend more time working than an average peasant did, our potential is at least 100x higher. you just have to utilize that potential because if you don't, then you're just a shitty peasant. our time is not the same as any other time so it's best to think about what you can do now rather than what you can't.

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 05:02:56 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     > some kind of augmentation psychosis

     That only happens to people, who replace more of their body, then they are capable of. It is a rare condition even in lore, and could be compared to organ failure from steroids. (although, you are the one killing others)

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 06:31:51 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @beardalaxy @alyx
     I was just thinking about it, and I do not believe, that it's so much forgetting as it's all about the focus.

     I have seen both corpo psychopaths and the street thugs in my life, so I do know, that they are depicted quite accurately in the game. I also do know that nothing can stop that kind of a person, and that if you get into the middle class lifestyle, you can avoid both of them literally 99.99% of your life. But, most people who were born in the middle class safety bubble do not know that. On contrary, when you play the game, you cannot live middle class safe zone character (for obvious reasons), and you get to interact only with the two kinds of psychos.

     So, imagine never seeing these kind of creatures, and then having both classes in the game. It would in fact look like a total distopia.

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     Grunge Queef :verified: (grungequeef@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 08:04:42 JST Grunge Queef :verified:

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     @LukeAlmighty >Explain to me how CP77 isn't a utopia without using phrases like "corporations are le bad!"
     
     almost every bitch has the DEI Haircut and is a nasty misandrist piece of shit
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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 08:05:48 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     Counterargument

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     Grunge Queef :verified: (grungequeef@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 08:10:12 JST Grunge Queef :verified:

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     @LukeAlmighty at least the Japanese still know how to make a cyberpunk dystopia look based
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 08:43:25 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @bigtony @LukeAlmighty the transhumanism stuff seems cool to me, given that i'd like to fix some issues I have. As for pervert stuff, most i'd do probably is just pay women to let me nut in them which i can do irl already
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     bigtony@0.5dollah.click's status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 08:43:26 JST bigtony

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     @LukeAlmighty the transhumanism and pervert stuff is scary i really wish the game focused more on that instead of the boring "corporations are bad" shit in cyberpunk you can drive a gasoline powered car around, buy automatic firearms out of vending machines and legally kill people that deserve it. sounds a lot better than what we have nowadays.

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     tomie@gameliberty.club's status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 16:38:58 JST tomie

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     @LukeAlmighty someone did a "technological progress = social progress", so I conclude that he does not understand conditionals either and never watched the anime

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 22:17:00 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @tomie
     They literally mentioned education, healthcare etc. Also, Anime story dows contain a relatively stable and trusting "family", and in game, I get to meet many groups ready to accept me. So, even the social cohesion seems to be much better then now.

     So, what kind of social progress do you want?

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     WhiteExodite (bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 22:18:28 JST WhiteExodite

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     @LukeAlmighty the guy who wrote Neuromancer felt the same way
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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 22:19:26 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @tomie
     I love the scene in the begining of the mission, where Jackie is just talking about the heist with me inside of an AI car. In real world, the AI would send the recording straight to Arasaka. Yet in the game, even AI can be trusted more then in real life :D

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 23:10:08 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @sapphire
     That would change a lot, if apartment (maybe rented), a gun and an old car puts you into 0.001%

     Do you have any source (I mean even lorewise mentions) implying this?

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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 23:10:09 JST sapphire

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     @LukeAlmighty you’re literally in the top 0.001% of Night City by the time you’re out of the tutorial, and you’re even higher up if you pick corpo
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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 23:13:45 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @sapphire
     Also, copro starts deactivates your bank account and software locks your chrome, so I don't think that leaves you much left.

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     tomie@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 04:29:40 JST tomie

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     @LukeAlmighty a relatively stable family with a single mom being a literal slave at a subscription based ambulance? struggling to pay for her son's overpriced and useless education? that family in that anime?

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     tomie@gameliberty.club's status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 04:31:28 JST tomie

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     @LukeAlmighty the AI doesn't send data to Arasaka because it belongs to another corporation
     not because it's somehow an utopia or smth

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 05:45:03 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @tomie
     Yes

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     LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 (lukealmighty@gameliberty.club)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 05:45:50 JST LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿

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     @tomie
     Yes. And yet, modern corpos trade data every day. Isn|t that interesting<

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     Festive Ulperioleri (ulperioleri@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 05:46:17 JST Festive Ulperioleri

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     @LukeAlmighty Only thing positive about cyberpunk is that whites have their own gang in Maelstrom.
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 07:09:44 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     @beardalaxy @alyx @LukeAlmighty you two do NOT understand eugenics at all
     
     >our potential is at least 100x higher.
     If you transplanted a craftsman or something from the middle ages to here he would wipe the floor with every one of us. His whole family dying of leprosy and then him going to two wars were 9311 of his comrades died of gangrene infected wounds was like NOTHING to him. It was just TUESDAY. They were so powerful back then.
     People today are weak.
     You cannot even conceive the potential of someone like a Yamnaya from the Ice Age. We have all this tech because we simply have NOT gotten any more potential. We are petered out, we domesticated ourselves. THE SPARK IS ALMOST EXTINGUISHED
     
     schizo post sorry but true
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     Chinese man ? #nobot (iamal_pharius@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 07:10:20 JST Chinese man ? #nobot

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     • Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
     @WandererUber @beardalaxy @alyx @LukeAlmighty >bring back middle ages warrior who has tamed wild lands with his hands to fight chineseman
     
     dies of 21st century 600th gen ultra evolved "common" cold
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 07:13:34 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     • Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀
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     @IAMAL_PHARIUS @beardalaxy @alyx @LukeAlmighty >He thinks an ice age warrior cares about cold
     TUESDAY FOR HIM
     THEY HAD FLESH EATING BACTERIA IN THE SWAMPS OF EUROPE.
     THEY DRAINED ALL THE DEMONS OUT BY HAND
     
     Not to fight chineseman however the Tocharian and the guys with the 200 km long blade of the full moon from chinese mythology got along quite good I reckon
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     Chinese man ? #nobot (iamal_pharius@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 07:18:53 JST Chinese man ? #nobot

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     • Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
     @WandererUber @beardalaxy @alyx @LukeAlmighty i know theres a deep respect of the "working man" and theres some truth that a few thousand years ago subsistance farmers are alot more fit than average wagie today.
     
     however if you bring anyone from then back here, its gonna be like the small pox blankets X1000
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     pepsi_man (pepsi_man@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 07:20:09 JST pepsi_man

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     @IAMAL_PHARIUS @WandererUber @beardalaxy @alyx @LukeAlmighty
     >be China
     >be petri dish of the planet
     Not the own you think it is.
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     Chinese man ? #nobot (iamal_pharius@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 07:20:57 JST Chinese man ? #nobot

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     • pepsi_man
     @pepsi_man @LukeAlmighty @WandererUber @alyx @beardalaxy you saying you dont have influenza antibodies in you right now?
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     Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 07:25:31 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer

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     • Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀
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     @IAMAL_PHARIUS @beardalaxy @alyx @LukeAlmighty disappointing normie opinion from you.
     You cannot bring someone from then back to here so it's obviously a metaphor. If you gave him the same chances that we have today, he'd probably have a better chance at a good immune response than us.
     The joke was their mental fortitude btw, that humans today are weak and coddled so much that they have forgotten how much potential we once had.
     
     SN: The common cold has not mutated in a way that makes it more aggressive and deadly. It's just different now. That's counterproductive for a virus.
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     Chinese man ? #nobot (iamal_pharius@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 07:29:54 JST Chinese man ? #nobot

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     • Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
     @WandererUber @beardalaxy @alyx @LukeAlmighty not really, immune response gets better over generation, as do a virus' ability to infect. unless immune comprimised by aids or unhealthy, everyone from now has better chance than someone from back then.
     
     its what your ancestors fought off, reproduced and passed on.