For Cyberpunk TTRPG fans,

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• Every week, we post a new GM narration introducing a challenge or situation.
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• We follow up each post based on the top comment, so your choices directly impact the adventure.

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I mean, it kinda looks like asset flip of Cyberpunk 2077, but damn, if its at least half as good Id actually buy it. What do you think?

Currently worldbuilding, and I would like to know which scenario is preferred for a cyberpunk setting when describing corporate influence in government.

Would corporations seek to be enumerated into the government, as in their power is concrete and a part of the law of a country, not to be considered criminal, or on the other hand, corporations influence government through corruption: buying out politicians, getting company agents into positions of power and manipulating the workings of the government through shady tactics?

The first makes the dread of corporate control clear in government, and there's not much people can do to stop it, and the second one positions such corporations as evil entities willing to do anything for control.

Which do you like more/think would be better for a setting?

So many cool things happening in the story. The whole idea of thinking you're invincible because you're not living in your own body, but then there's somebody out there trying to remind everyone what it means to be human....even if he has to do it by force.

Personally I with "cybernetic" enhancements were more possible. I feel we're getting closer to it. Implanted rfid chips are a big step in the right direction. They're reprogrammable so anyone with a proxmark could rewrite it, and you can get a low freq and high freq one.

Hi there,

I know there are already a lot of threads like this.

I'm specifically looking for cyberpunk books that are set in a megacity and the protagonist lives through the city. Do you have any recommendations? Gladly also more current ones. Neuromancer, for example, comes pretty close, but I've already read that and the age is very noticeable in the book.

I don't like it when it suddenly spills over from the megacity into outer space, other planets and spaceships.

Hope you have ideas! :) Thank you

When the first generation of cyborg body were released on the market, no matter how much the advertisements touted them, most people were certainly full of doubts and concerns. they were first-generation products, and when people spend a lot of money to install their brain into these machine body, no one knew what strange problems would occur. users of the first generation of cyborg bodies had to take huge and unpredictable risks.

so the people who buy the first generation of cyborg body and install their brains into them must be very brave, or desperate,or fanatical: terminally ill patients, dying old people, overoptimistic idiots, and————women.

why women?because of beauty needs.

Women love to wear makeup. today, countless women are willing to spend a lot of money to let plastic surgeons cut their faces and bodies like steaks, and are willing to take the risk of becoming ugly and deformed monsters (even many originally beautiful women believe that they will be more beautiful if they turn themselves into Kardashians or turn their lips into sausages).

If they become cyborgs, they don't need to inject hyaluronic acid and silicone all the days, and they don't need makeup every day. they will even design their face and scalp to be a plug-and-play structure, so that they can change different faces and hairstyles every day, just by changing a bionic headgear.

When they find that cyborg body can be extremely convenient for makeup and plastic surgery, I believe that countless women will enthusiastically take out loans or force their husbands to pay for them to buy expensive and risky first generation cyborg body and even more than one.

I'm trying to create a comprehensive list of media shot in or inspired by the walled city. Movies, video games, or documentaries etc.

Movies shot in the walled city:

• Back street (1973, couldn't find a copy, cannot confirm it's shot inside the walled city. Anyone with access to priv tracker should check on this one and pm me)
• Jumping Ash (1976, found crappy copy. Can confirm it's shot inside the walled city. Anyone with access to priv tracker should check on this one and see if they can find a better dvdrip and pm me)
• The Rascal Billionaire (1978, couldn't find a copy, cannot confirm it's shot inside the walled city. Anyone with access to priv tracker should check on this one and pm me)
• Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978, one shot EXT with plane passing by overhead)
• Man on the Brink (1981, one short scene outside a triad den. Cannot definitely confirm it's Kowloon tho, although it looked like it)
• Brothers from the Walled City (1982, Shaw Bros no remaster sadly)
• Long Arm of the Law (1984)
• Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star (1985, one shot EXT of airport landing strip. Similar to pink panther)
• Bloodsport (1988)
• Bloodfight (1989, Japanese/American bloodsport ripoff staring Simon Yam. Cannot confirm if it was definitely filmed inside the walled city but it looks like it)
• Casino Raiders II (1991, All EXT footage. One scene with characters talking on the outside of the walled city)
• To be Number One (1991, Scene about 30 mins in where reporter tries to turn in his card for heroin in the upper park of walled city in daylight)
• Under the Rose (1992, Kinda similar to a mondo documentary. Features alleyways and erotic movie theatre and its patrons.)
• Baraka (1992, few shots)
• Crime Story (1993)

Documentaries shot in Kowloon:

• Kowloon Walled City "and the walls came tumbling down" (1984)
• Hong Kong's Secret City (1988, German)
• Kowloon Walled City (1980 Christian Cascio and Marc Boulet)
• Kowloon Walled City (1980 BBC Alan Wicker the twat)
• Suenn Ho's Walled City research (produced during 1989-1992, hours of "meandering and voyeuristic" footage and first hand accounts from residents. Capturing everything from dripping water to dingy alleyways. Cassettes are currently in possession of M+ museum. although not currently available online, here is a snippet.
• New Report on demolition
• The Story of Jackie Pullinger
• City of Imagination
• Hong Kong Connection episodes1975
• RTHK TV inside the walled city 1970s
• Chika Asamoto in HK (1988)
• Chinese New Report 1990s
• Stock Footage
• Home Movie (1990)
• Japanese source unknown?
• Rob Frost Home Movies (1990)
• Chasing the dragon: Jackie pullinger part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, English

Movies Inspired by or with Kowloon walled city type imagery:

• Blade Runner (1982)
• Law with Two Phases (1984, Depicts dingier side of HK similar to long arm of the law series)
• Brazil (1985)
• As Tears Go By (1988, lesser know Wong Kar Wai Mean Streets ripoff defiantly worth checking out)
• Chungking Express (1994, shot in Chungking mansions)
• Fallen Angels (1995, spiritual sequel to Chungking express)
• The H.K. Triad (1999)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Batman Begins (2005)
• The Raid (2011)
• Judge Dredd (2012)
• The Raid 2 (2014)
• Ready Player One (2018)
• Alita Battle Angel (2019)
• Twilight of the Warriors: Walled in (2024)

Video games inspired by the walled city:

• Kowloon's Gate (1997)
• Blade Runner (1997)
• Shenmue 2 (2001)
• Stranglehold (2007)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Golem City)
• Mr. Pumpkin 2: Walls of Kowloon (2019)
• Stray (2022)

Anime inspired by or with walled city-type imagery:

• City Hunter OVA (1987-1991)
• Akira (1988)
• Battle Angel Alita OVA (1993)
• Genocyber OVA (1994)
• Ghost in the Shell (1995)
• Serial Experiments Lain (1998, doesn't really have Kowloon type imagery other then Lain's room, but I'm adding anyway cuz it's a dope show)
• Kowloon Generic Romance (2025)

Manga :

• Kowloon Generic Romance (2019-)

Informational Books/Picture Books:

• City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City (1999, out of print)
• City of Darkness: Revisited (2014)

Narrative Books that have taken inspiration from the Walled City:

• Idoru (1996, 2nd book in Gibsons "Bridge" trilogy)

Feel free to make suggestions if you have any that aren't already in the list.

hey reddit! Looking for tips on how to make a setting more “cyberpunk-y”. I’m in the middle of writing a story cyberpunk action/adventure novel. I recently finished the first draft, and im preparing to start draft 2 in february. titled THE MIDNIGHT ZONE, in which an officer worker for The Viceroy Corporation, driven by a debt to repay, gets wrapped up with a group of delinquent socialites in order to find her missing boss. the story takes place on the O-Z Rig, an off-shore mining rig in the atlantic ocean owned by the previously mentioned Viceroy Corporation. The rig is split between the labyrinthine apartment undercity of Skewbold, the middle city of Liskov, and the upper cities of Toynbee Square and Kubrick. Any ideas on how to make this setting feel more cyberpunk? Or is this enough?