What's the most cyberpunk-esk thing we actually have in modern society? (hexbear.net)

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I'm drinking boxed wine tonight but I accidentally set the box in a puddle of water on my kitchen counter and the bottom of the box fell apart, so I had to just take the bag out and realized boxed wine is really just bagged wine. So now there's just a plastic bag of wine sitting on my table and for some reason that felt a bit cyberpunk to me, you just buy a big bag of booze when you want to get fucked up in Mega-City 1.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Obviously there's more serious stuff but I rented a moving truck recently that was ancient with a big touch screen mounted rather ad hoc to the dashboard, it was slow AF and I remember a very clean white Tesla tailgating me along a one lane either side road before silently overtaking me near a solar farm almost having a collision with a truck going the other way.

All felt cyberpunk to me

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah that's a vibe, for sure. Could make a fun short film, though I'd give it a slightly different ending. sicko-blur

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