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[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 179 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Great, so we can cross off brazen public corpo-assassinations on the cyberpunk hellscape bingo card, eh?

[–] kemsat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it good or bad that we don’t have the cyborg stuff?

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LeLachs@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why bot? Looks authentic to me

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's a cyberpunk joke

[–] weew 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Cyborg stuff is cool, but unfortunately we have subscription models, anti-repairability DRM, unblockable ads, and "we'll fix it with the DLC" software model, and for-profit health care well established before those become a reality

You can then literally charge people an arm and a leg

*Corporate salivating ensues

[–] nxdefiant@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

We do have it, it's just crappy unless you're fabulously wealthy. Oh, wait...