There are a lot of posts in this subreddit with people's pictures of their made or purchased helmets/masks. I've been reading/watching cyberpunk stuff for more than 30 years, and I've never equated cyberpunk with that type of thing until I was on here, so why are these a thing? I sorta get the cybergoth respirator thing, but not the pseudo-motorcycle helmets. Some piece of media I've missed?

• IF SO, pls respond with the premise and mention how was the detail? Did you have a handler giving you hints of heads-up details? ? Did you have new skills, and truthfully, think for a moment, were you actually in control of yourself?

As in could you have actually did what you did IRL, or was it like you had new muscle memory? Many times we are on rails.. .

• for instance I can't wall run like in eastern europe or mirrors edge but.. .

I experienced this in a hyper futuristic medical building, while hunting, seeking and stealthing androids that had tremendous detail,

• when I light walked up close in behind it matching it's slow heavy gait to slide my arm around it's neck and torso, interpreting all the crunching, ripping synthetic muscles and snapping polysynthetics of sinews and cords, hydraulics and metamaterials unzipping, just crackling underneath and hidden ripping inside, it's live up close and personal as a brutal new machine killer. Then Dead. it was very human-like dead. But now limp unzipped dispatched away, heavy. Must have been freerunning right, no alarms? aint gonna fuck it, I let it fall slowly and silently away close to me as we both match the floor. to rest.

• i easily pop an eye shell out of the deadened braincage like a falcon, to peel off the outer membrane fiber-optical cloth from it that i'm told by the handler voice in my head, to hold up in front of my eye. then it suddenly recognizes and casually comes in and initiates a HUD.

i pretty much break connection over the excitement of having what we've all been missing, a FUCKNG HUD.

• i then proceed to the cafeteria to catch a virus at mcdonalds, so I can sneak into another man's life somewhere laying in a hospital room for the same sickness.

years later i experience another but in a much deeper area trying to run faster than a deskbots peripheral sensors

pls respond

We all know that cybermasks are made from a lot of parts like tactile buckles, motorcycle helmet fins and RC helicopter blades, but does anybody know what this specific piece is?

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Just looking for anyone's opinions on elements from a film or series that felt right, even if the overall product didn't really come together.

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For example, by chance I played the 'Ghost In The Shell' soundtrack that starred Scarlett Johansson and the music seems pretty cool, I remember at the time of seeing the film that I also thought that the Art Design was great, but because the film itself just never matched up to the original, I guess I was just disappointed and moved on and have never felt the need to return to it, even though some things I believe they done alright.

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So I guess it's almost a quest for good soundtracks, good designs or even a good plot, that just got lost in a mediocre film or series.

Hey everyone! I'm in the middle of making a cyberpunk world and I'm trying to avoid the worldbuilding trap of every area and group being the same across the universe's world. So, I'm trying to make different regions of my cyberpunk United States have their own flavors. For instance, New England and California are standard big city cyberpunk fare wheel other regions are different.

For clarity: MPS: Federalized police force for the US. Federally employed, corporately equipped

Great Shift: period of time where the world had to deal with the loss of oil

Refig: implant and cybernetics editor.

Here is what I have for the Bayou/swampland of Florida and Louisiana:

Louisiana and florida: Some parts are severely flooded due to climate change, like New Orleans and southern Florida. As a result, These places are abandoned or are used for ferry routes. There are often divers that go around the sunken ruins and search for trinkets, bits of old tech and other valuables. These people violently defend their findings from thieves with guns, often gotten illegally.

Some shantytowns exist outside of major metropolitan limits, using discarded tech from major cities illegally scavenged from city waste sites, similar to that of places in the interior. Ferries are more common than trains and subways in cities or Metropolitan areas because of the swampy underground in these areas. The Louisiana-Florida region is colloquially known as “Ferryland” to outsiders because of this overabundance and hyper reliance on a ferry system.

Crocodiles and Alligators as well as other native species are hunted to near extinction in these areas as a source of food. What remain are bred in captivity. Said specimens, because of their rarity, are said to cost a fortune to buy from breeders and are a popular exotic pet for locals as well as those that come from out of state. Alligator eggs are a very lucrative export both for food and for pets alongside the already born ones. Because of their rarity and high price tag, some breeders act as smugglers and stage sellings and dealings with local old-money plantation families whose prominence stretches back to before the Great Shift.

These families are the major power holders in this region, often controlling things via force, intimidation and violence as well as economic holds. Its sort of like little fiefdoms due to the government not having much of a presence here. Theyre the kingpins/local authorities without the feds or the MPS breathing down their necks. Augments and implants are considerably more rare for the average person in this region compared to others, with most taken up by the plantation families and those that serve them. Some alligators are kept as pets and guard “dogs” alongside what robots they can fix up or salvage from city wasteyards. Some have even cybernetically augmented their pet crocs through their own homebrew refig operations (as if more city-oriented refig operations werent homebrew enough).

This region is extremely poor compared to more major hubs like New York and California and is largely left to its own devices compared to the rest of the nation. Some areas outside of corporate and government control are under the control of whoever is in charge or who can take power for themselves, especially after the Great Shift. These families took power in these deep southern regions away from cities, supplying these communities with order, food, and other things. Basically setting up local fiefdoms and mafia-like protectorates in the deep south of the 'Ferryland' region. The local contingents of the MPS have close ties with some of these families and often make deals to have them look the other way and ignore their southern reaches.

What are your thoughts? I'd love to hear what you think!

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What are some of the lesser known cyberpunk movies/TV series/short films with female protagonist that you love? Why?

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I'm working on an open world cyberpunk game with elements of Japanese folklore. I won't include much more info here since I'm only looking for ideas and don't want to come across as self promoting my project.

I'm in the process of creating fake adverts to make the game world feel more immersive, think billboards, screens, television, PA systems, etc. So for example cyberpunk themed food, weapons, services, celebrities, etc

I could easily use ChatGPT for this but I figure people here into cyberpunk might have some cool ideas? I'm mostly just after cool sounding name and maybe a brief description / sales pitch for the product.

Obviously I'll probably include any ideas shared here i my game too.