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Dr. Quadragon ❌

There's a lot of games and stories that tell us that we're fucked and the society is doomed.

DX is the only game that showed us *HOW EXACTLY* we're fucked and doomed.

Really, scrape off the deliberately thin science fiction veneer - and you pretty much have the today and all of our biggest problems made manifest.

Capital consolidation, centralization of communications and death of privacy, billionaires with ties to government, the global pandemic that started in China (Yikes!), corporate neocolonialism, state-sanctioned terrorism, radicalization, unemployment, the real economy turning to shit all the while demonstrating great numbers that bosses like, poor people being marginalized and taxed up to their throats while the rich get off the hook, and, to quote Ross Scott, as many homeless people as there are pigeons.

The game literally predicted all of this. Down to two towers disappearing (it was a texture size limitation thing, and is a coincidence - but still!)

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Owl!🦉

@drq
In our world, corporations and billionaires are cute little kittens compared to governments.
After all, cyberpunk as a genre is retrofuturism, we have other opportunities and other problems, although there are certainly similarities.

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