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If your cyberpunk "dystopia" has the central conceit that the average guy can easily get a shotgun arm implant that puts them on par in firepower with the cops, that's an utopia
Cyberpunk tries to get away with making this horrifying by asking if you're still "human", which doesn't mean anything whatsoever. Meatpunk - in the vein of Cruelty Squad - offers the same trappings (what if you had Shotgun Arm) but asks a scarier question: what if that made your flesh company property? (The horror offered, specifically, by Cruelty Squad, is that the answer is "Yes", and there's no rolling it back)
@agonist The company scrip was You all along
@agonist That is...an excellent point.
Would you rather live in a world rife with poverty, violence, structural oppression and Laser Eye Implants, or the same world without Laser Eye Implants? Cuz we already live in the latter.