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It's downright bleak to me that 99% of video games with space civilizations are focused on mercantilism in space or exploited truckers in space or some kind of predatory capitalist dystopia in space.
I just want me some fully automated luxury gay space communism, not fucking blade runner with spaceships.
They really saw the cyberpunk dystopias of the 80s and went: woah thats so cool, we should have that in everything now unironically
I used to be a massive cyberpunk genre enjoyer but I am getting really sick and tired of the horny-but-ideologically-vapid version of it that drops the punk and inflates the cyber and is loaded with enlightened centrist bullshit.
Because the ruling class likes that version, it's the dominant version.
I've never bothered with The Expanse because it's just people being shitty to each other the same way they are now, but even more horrific because now they can bombard cities with asteroids.
Same.
I tried watching the show, and as soon as it went to its first standard issue dae le very mature prestige tv torture scene, I noped out.
Where's my Culture VNs?