we're living in the cyberpunk future

Fandyien

so i woke up this morning and looked out my window and saw


cyber pirates had taken over the meatspace!

and so i put on my news reading outfit and jacked into the net



found this story about a girl throwing a sweet 16 party in the netherlands to which 30,000 people showed up because she forgot to make the facebook invitation private. riot police all showed up and drunken people basically took over some shitty little town for a night
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19684708

that is snow crash as fuck

what evidence do you guys have that we're living in a whacky future out of a 1990's scifi novel

Metalbourne

I don't use paper money, my only phone fits in the palm of my hand, and I'm posting this on a glorified sheet of paper while sitting on the toilet.

Butler For Life #1

I'm talking to people on the Internets

Beam me up Scotty

Uriel

I imagine Dub steb is basically the music Neal Stephenson described in Snow Crash.

ChicoBlue

I jack in things at least once a day.

Clint Eastwood

skrillex

Sweeney Tom

I had a conversation on Skype with my friends

Said friends were in NY

I was on the toilet

Immediately after the conversation ended, I realized: the future is here.

Clint Eastwood

ChicoBlue

I had a dream about trying to find a copy of Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis last night.

Metalbourne

Sweeney Tom wrote: »

Sweeney Tom wrote: »

I had a conversation on Skype with my friends

Said friends were in NY

I was on the toilet

Immediately after the conversation ended, I realized: the future is here.

Yup. Toilet Internet is basically the pinnacle of the information age.

crwth

Clint Eastwood wrote: »

the skrill man looks a bit like you

Fandyien

look at these dudes

they aren't about to tolerate your shit

Uriel

ChicoBlue wrote: »

ChicoBlue wrote: »

I had a dream about trying to find a copy of Shadowrun for the Sega Genesis last night.

It wasn't a dream.

It was an advertisement on the brain net.

Buttlord

i store public domain books in The Cloud and download them while pooping at work

welcome to the future~

Metalbourne

I would totally fuck skrillex

TankHammer

I played Saints Row the Third, a 3D, open-world crime game, with EdCrab who was living in another country on another continent in a completely different time-zone. In the game we were driving in the same car and shooting evil gangsters side-by-side and speaking over voice-chat while dubstep played.

Druhim

Yes, this is your cyberpunk reality.

Unfortunately, it's even dumber than the fiction.

Metalbourne

Fun fact: for months I thought skrillex was a Pokemon.

Joolander

Druhim wrote: »

Yes, this is your cyberpunk reality.

Unfortunately, it's even dumber than the fiction.

what does this bike helmet do?

Metalbourne

Fandyien wrote: »

Fandyien wrote: »

look at these dudes

they aren't about to tolerate your shit

Why does that one dude in the middle have a totally different style of gas mask?

crwth

so if you click the activity tab up at the top of the page you can see which people have changed their avatars recently

and if you scroll down a bit you'll find that forum user @Angry

for a split second

changed his avatar to a (possibly cum-covered) woman holding a dick

Fandyien

how does that even happen

Druhim

Joolander wrote: »

Druhim wrote: »

Yes, this is your cyberpunk reality.

Unfortunately, it's even dumber than the fiction.

what does this bike helmet do?

do?

Druhim

crwth wrote: »

so if you click the activity tab up at the top of the page you can see which people have changed their avatars recently

and if you scroll down a bit you'll find that forum user @Angry

for a split second

changed his avatar to a (possibly cum-covered) woman holding a dick

jesus

crwth

i wish to live in a future where we can all proudly display our love for semen drenched ladies

where is that future

Druhim

See, I prefer my semen in the ladies not on them.

Fandyien

in my game of medieval II right now i have a diplomat named Semen Al-Buryz

crwth

Druhim wrote: »

See, I prefer my semen in the ladies not on them.

no one wants a future with bunch of babies running around in five fingers dru

Angry

ah christ.

i wish i could blame the alcohol but i can't, it was just a straight misclick.

i live with my shame.

Metalbourne

Angry wrote: »

ah christ.

i wish i could blame the alcohol but i can't, it was just a straight misclick.

i live with my shame.

If you click the x next to that, you can remove it.

Fandyien

sometimes i read 4chan's /int/ because it's cyberpunk as hell and here is someone who claims to have been at that party i was talking about

also:

tynic

That's an amazing photo.

Fandyien

thedutch.jpg

Edcrab

TankHammer wrote: »

I played Saints Row the Third, a 3D, open-world crime game, with EdCrab who was living in another country on another continent in a completely different time-zone. In the game we were driving in the same car and shooting evil gangsters side-by-side and speaking over voice-chat while dubstep played.

It was a lot of fun! And then a giant dude beat me up and put through a shop window

DouglasDanger

the weird possibly one-sided passive aggressive unfriendship between warren ellis and bruce sterling really amuses me for some reason i can't really explain

crwth

are those shields made outta wicker

Edcrab

Corporatism, wireless worldwide communication and data transfer, killer robots

Granted I haven't seen anyone with pop-out built in knives in their hands but that doesn't sound remotely infeasible to me. Future

Ledneh

I just can't call it the future until we have consumer-grade flying cars or teleporters or both

Metalbourne

Ledneh wrote: »

I just can't call it the future until we have consumer-grade flying cars or teleporters or both

After seeing the way people drive, I constantly wonder why people don't cross their fingers and hope fervently that the flying car is never invented.

interrobang

night city is not a place one returns to, artiste.

Mortal Sky

Uriel wrote: »

I imagine Dub steb is basically the music Neal Stephenson described in Snow Crash.

Nuclear fuzz-grunge is really more analogous to, like, Quebecois post rock.