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  • I catch myself replaying Cyberpunk2077 alot lately. WHen it comes to movies tv and anime:

    • Ghost in the Shell: Easilly wins, i even have a full on Neck Tattoo of the neural ports.
    • Johhny Mnemonic: I never get used to the dolphin
    • The Ascent
    • DeusEx I could go on for days because i have a deep love for cyberpunk and transhumanism
  • The Detroit Free Zone series by Rachel Aaron. A magitech cyberpunk story wound up being far more interesting that I thought it would.

  • Oooo, this is a really tough question for me. I don't tend to re-visit cyberpunk works, partially because there's so much new content to consume and partially because I don't want to get burnt out on those works. For example, when I was younger I watched Hackers and The Matrix so often that I have them both memorized, down to the inflection each line is delivered. Now if I try watching either of those movies I'm really just comparing them to my memory, not really watching them.

    To answer your question though, I've definitely re-visited Tron 2.0 multiple times. That's one of the few "cozy" games for me where just the act of playing is fun to me; just the basic core gameplay loop. It doesn't matter what level I play, I enjoy it. I feel like any other video game I revisit always has "that one part" I really don't want to replay, but Tron 2.0 has so many great visuals I just love being in that world.

    Other than that... hmm... maybe Blade Runner 2049 or Elysium. Those are new enough to me that they aren't stale but I'm also not obsessive about re-watching them. And I find both of them interesting.

    I've listened to the Neuromancer BBC Audio Drama multiple times since it's short enough that I can just listen to it randomly. I don't tend to re-read books or re-watch anime since it takes so long to get through those and like I said, there's other (newer) content I could be disappointed by instead!

  • I think Gibson stories are my main reread, partly because I think they work a little better when you already half remember what's going on.

    I also reread the Murderbot books quite often, they're kind of comfort food stories for me.

    I rewatch Cowboy Bebop sometimes for the same reason.

    I reread the webcomic Black & Blue fairly often but that's mostly because the person making it has been absolutely hammering out pages for years now and I almost always need to reread before I can catch up.

    • I'd call murderbot more sci-fi but I can also see all the cyberpunk characteristics of it. Also I love that series.

      • It's definitely getting harder and harder to draw genre boundaries - cyberpunk quietly infiltrated mainstream scifi to the point where you can find cyberpunk elements in almost any modern scifi. Not bad for a subgenre the corporations and marketers misused and overused until it crashed. I remember people talking about it like a joke in the 2000s so I'm very pleased it won in the end (though I wish people treated it more like a warning than a roadmap).

        I can definitely see the inclination not to include Murderbot (I thought twice about including it on the list) mostly because it doesn't feel cyberpunk. It's very clean, there's no sense of decline or collapse the corps are ruling over, and the locations by and large don't fit the usual. Heck one area is lowkey solarpunk. I think it has a ton of cyberpunk elements, story beats, etc, but it's almost fridge cyberpunk, you have to walk away and think about it before enough of them line up. And feel is a big part of the genre, I think.

  • The original System Shock is one of my all-time favorite games, and the remake really did it justice.

    On that note, a bit of a deep cut - Osman/Cannon-Dancer is a beautiful fever dream of a game I wish got more recognition. It's a beat 'em up involving a martial artist tasked with killing a manmade god, thrust into a borderline incomprehensible web of betrayal as his former comrades all turn on him. The english release is kind of rough, which makes it actually incomprehensible at times. It's also a sort-of sequel to Capcom's Strider. I'd recommend it to any fan of EYE: Divine Cybermancy for the vibes alone.

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