I just realized that the word "cyberpunk" is gonna get fucking St Elsewhere'd.
St Elsewhere was an expression meaning "one of the more obscure, less good hospitals in the area" - ex. "Well, we can take him to St Gerome's, St Christie's, or, y'know, St... Elsewhere." But then, in 1982, there was a show with that name, as a play on the phrase, and it was so wildly popular everyone forgot the origin of the phrase and will now only use it to refer to the show.
I guarantee you that in two years, if you say something like "Wow, Facebook just did [threat to digital privacy and human decency], that's pretty cyberpunk.", there will be a 50% chance the person you're talking to will say "what does that have to do with the video game Cyberpunk, that didn't happen in the plot 🤔"
@V i am absolutely *dreading* this which is why i've been yelling about cyberpunk as a genre at everyone i know for the past week
i think it might be a losing battle tho
@cbrachyrhynchos @typhlosion @ebeth ive heard of this and love the idea, but like, i'll acknowledge that my consciousness has a meat component when i'm fucking dead.
@V @cbrachyrhynchos @typhlosion oh no you climb *into* the meat, it's a meat mech
also a very good game
@typhlosion @ebeth @V Time to go meatpunk
https://hthr.itch.io/meatpunk-manifesto