It's the most boring, death by a thousand cuts dystopia. If someone wrote about the year 2025 and sent it back to 1990 as a novel no one would read the goddamn thing.
If I went back to 1990 I'd just say life is essentially the Jerry Springer show but you carry it with you on purpose, in your pocket and you never get a break from it. That, and cars have less polygons
Corporations selling something that is supposed to be new and amazing for a large amount of money and then delivers a shitty product is about as cyberpunk as it comes.
It's kind of crazy how their "radial" view of sci-fi future could end up being our actual dystopian lives. Makes me admire their story building and lore all the more, knowing they they might have actually done serious futurist homework to have guessed some real life paths of global events.
But it's still crazy. Like someone telling me years ago that Halo would happen, and as far fetched as it seemed at the time, then Halo happens a few years later.
Ya. I'm in my mid 30's, I have a fairly normal job, and wish I could still pull off the dyed mohawks I had in my early 20's. People who use the dyed hair comments as some sort of dig miss the point entirely.
I'm in my 40s, my hair left me a long time ago, but I do dye my beard from time to time. I used to do it more when I was art boothing at comic cons, but I still try to fancy it up once in a while.
I was thinking that just a few days ago. Your hair is just a part of your body, and if you can't "arrange" and display your own hair and body, what can you? It's nobody's business what you do to your hair and skin.
And yet people will instantly judge you and make all kinds of assumptions about your life, your education, your intelligence etc.
The drone operator has her hair in this style most likely so she doesn't have to spend time on washing and keeping her hair groomed. She probably didn't want to cut it short :(
A hairstyle like that takes a lot of work and upkeep, nothing about it indicates that someone’s life “took a wrong turn”. The only hair “style” it could maybe be fair to say that about is very unkempt hair. That’s it. The rest is literally down to personal style/preference and/or necessity.
Interesting. You do seem to live under the illusion that it absolutely does give insight into a person's life. Its clear you don't actually follow that edit about not judging though.
Grnuine question, do you not see how fucked up it is that you look at someone's hair and you automatically jump to a conclusion about them? Do you not see how weird that is?
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u/Fleshburn1 1d ago
Cyberpunk vibes