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Cyberpunk is a genre that revolves around big-ass cities that look nice from the outside, but like 80% of it is ghettos and run-down industrial sectors. The characters in a cyberpunk are always at least 20% metal and cybernetics/bionics. The most common themes in cyberpunk are small gangs of "wired" thugs who use their built in advantages to mug people, vigilante hackers who stumble across engineered viruses made by authoritarian governments to wipe out people they don't like, and there's at least one scene with a fat guy wearing a VR set having sex with a robot or something. | Cyberpunk is a [[Grimdark]] genre that revolves around big-ass futuristic cities that look nice from the outside, but like 80% of it is ghettos and run-down industrial sectors. The characters in a cyberpunk are always at least 20% metal and cybernetics/bionics. The most common themes in cyberpunk are monopolistic megacorporations, small gangs of "wired" thugs who use their built in advantages to mug people, vigilante hackers who stumble across engineered viruses made by authoritarian governments to wipe out people they don't like, and there's at least one scene with a fat guy wearing a VR set having sex with a robot or something. | ||
Revision as of 17:02, 27 February 2012
Cyberpunk is a Grimdark genre that revolves around big-ass futuristic cities that look nice from the outside, but like 80% of it is ghettos and run-down industrial sectors. The characters in a cyberpunk are always at least 20% metal and cybernetics/bionics. The most common themes in cyberpunk are monopolistic megacorporations, small gangs of "wired" thugs who use their built in advantages to mug people, vigilante hackers who stumble across engineered viruses made by authoritarian governments to wipe out people they don't like, and there's at least one scene with a fat guy wearing a VR set having sex with a robot or something.