No.52812
http://rantmedia.ca/afternow/
I share this because In the early 2000's rantmedia was doing internet content creation before the normies stormed the web.
Tales of the afternow had a weird way of being somewhat accurate and gave the listener an eyes on the ground view of what was in our future. It was formative to introducing me to the ideas and concepts of cyberpunk. It lead me on a great journey to reading PKD and Gibson and convincing my friends to play Shadowrun.
So Anon, what introduced you to Cyberpunk?
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No.52815
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No.53185
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No.53186
Ghost in the Shell was my first exposure, same as that anon above.
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No.53199
AMD drivers and Deus Ex. There was a advert in those drivers for Deus Ex: Human Revolution way back in 2011, and after I played through HR and the original DX I was hooked on the /cyber/ genre.
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No.53201
>>53186
One of my favorite movies. Some of the TV series are alright.
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No.53202
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
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No.53205
I discovered it here in 2014ish
But watched akira and gits and listened to year zero and deltron 3030 well before i discovered cyberpunk
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No.53223
Always found technology cool, there wasn't anything in particular that blew my mind and got me into the genre, just a slow increase in interest and knowledge of it
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No.53230
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>>52812
I first encountered the term 'cyberpunk' after watching the movie 'Doomsday (2008)'then checking out its wikipedia page. I was young(er than I should have been to watch that lmao) and didn't quite understand what it meant besides 'dystopian sci-fi'.
My earliest actual exposure to the genre/sub-culture would have been an anime of some sort, either Gundam Wing or Astroboy.
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No.53281
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No.53291
Hotline Miami and the synthwave craze it caused in me to this day (listening to it rn, actually). I've always liked cyberpunk and its stylistic relatives, but it was just lumped in with the "sci-fi" generalization and not seen as an individual style until I played HM.
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No.53292
>>53291
HM's not even /cyber/.
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No.53298
>nobody mentions Bruce Sterling or William Gibson
poseur board
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No.53299
I read Neuromancer in highschool and never looked back.
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No.53304
>>53292
I think they mean stylistically. Pixels & synthwave. You know,
> A E S T H E T I C S
>>53298
Gibson is mentioned in the OP, open your eyes anon.
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No.53342
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No.53358
My first bits of /cyber/ media were GitS, Lain and Akira, which I was drawn to after watching the Matrix sometime in the 00s and wanting more of the same aesthetic.
I don't think I knew it was its own genre until I heard someone say it around 09 on cuckchan
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No.53483
>>53304
Open your eyes you, anon the aesthetics don't are cyberpunk in the most of cases
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No.53486
The original DX, sci-fi in general, wikipedia articles on cyberpunk.
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No.53660
Not entirely sure, I was introduced to the lifestyle somewhere on the late 90s internet, probably totse. As far as fiction, the usual anime suspects, Perfect Dark, Megaman Battle Network, and the first batch of .hack games.
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No.53730
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No.53748
Music from GITS SAC, then the anime.
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No.53755
Johnny Mnemonic
I'm so embarassed
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No.53757
>>53755
I still need to watch that. Love Keanu Reeves.
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No.53846
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No.53853
>>53846
Cyberpunk has a lot of corporate facist understones which I've always appreciated.
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No.53857
>>53846
In all honesty, I never thought self-proclaimed communists would team up with major corporations. Reality is certainly stranger than fiction at times, and I guess I never realized things like that were a standard part of subversion tactics and one of most prized methods of authoritarians besides taking control of the government itself. And I suppose a certain degree of accelerationism is also to blame here, even if the people behind it have realized the have the power they want without even reaching the final stage of their plans.
>>53853
It's not quite wholly corporate or fascist- more a smattering of every potential vector for the boot to crush the face of humanity forever, with a touch of high technology here and there.
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No.53885
>>53857
>It's not quite wholly corporate or fascist- more a smattering of every potential vector for the boot to crush the face of humanity forever, with a touch of high technology here and there.
This. It's applying the fuck authority attitude to the megacorps and governments that seek to control your thoughts and acceptable subjects with a high-tech flare.
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No.53887
>>53885
I know that, I'm just saying I also appreciate the oppressive nature of the megacorps and their power in the genre. I like the "bad guy" in the stories too, that's all.
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No.53890
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No.54160
Years ago. Maybe 2014 or 2015. I found this board. Been into the culture ever since.
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No.54185
>>53755
Terrible movie, great soundtrack.
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No.54230
That's a good question, I can't remember what it was specifically. I have had an interest in "high tech, low life" since I was a teenager though.
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No.54232
The thing that kills me the most about this thread is all the zoomerposting. It seems like most posts are mentioning things like the newer Deus Ex games.
A word of advice to all the kiddos on here: cyberpunk fiction from the past 10-15 years simply does not hold a candle to the masterpieces that were coming out when the scene was hot 25-30 years ago.
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No.54266
I always had kind of a thing for transhumanism and posthuman philosophy. As a kid I thought robots were pretty much the coolest thing ever, and my own personal fascination for the merging of the natural and the technological drove me towards science fiction and trying to stuff my brain with information on neuroscience, cybernetics, philosophy, biotechnology, etc.
My interest in cyberpunk was a thing before i had ever heard the term. As a teen I found myself enjoying the concepts of cyber-enhanced humans in Halo, Deus Ex, and other contemporary media at the time, but before that were characters like Geordi LaForge in Star Trek TNG, Luke skywalker and Darth Vader in Star Wars, and in my mid teens I discovered the novels of William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, Isaac Asimov, etc.
it's kind of hard honestly to nail down where my interest in cyberpunk began, because at various points in my life I have had an interest in the various concepts contained within cyberpunk without knowing what cyberpunk was.
Am I making sense to anyone?
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No.54453
>>52812
80s and 90s action and sci fi movies i watched as a kid. It was a cool idea at for me at the time ,but it fermented into a alcoholic like obssession for a genre that people already live through
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No.54473
>>54232
Everybody here is aware of that. This is about the first hit, not what you moved on to afterward. I remember my first alcoholic beverage, but I sure as shit don't remember the entire year I was 21.
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No.54475
I used to be a part of the local 2600 group and someone gave me a copy of Neuromancer. Was also a big fan of GITS and Bebop years before.
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No.55099
my dad was (actually still is) a web 1.0 developer type and my mom was into those shitty dragonlance books and similar D&D-esque fiction. but they're also both left-wing political shit-stirrers. I also learned to sew and do light repairs on stuff pretty early in life and kept that faux-diy a e s t t h e t i c with me since I'd only repair my clothes and rarely get new ones, stack or otherwise kludge together furniture instead of asking for a real desk/shelf/whatever, etc. but having been introduced to computers and electronics early and electronics being fucking expensive, I liked repairing or kludging electronics instead of keeping up with the new shit.
not so much cyberpunk as just both cyber and punk i guess
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No.55987
shadowrun SNES, greatest game of all time. i liked the atmosphere the most, and the music. very moody, like a noir from the future. i was maybe 11yo at the time
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No.55994
>>53201
Stand Alone Complex is arguably better than the film
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No.55995
>>53298
also this. reading neuromancer as a kid did it for me
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