I played this game forever ago (well early-mid 2000s from some kind of emulator) and my younger self was so bad at it. I should give it another go some time, I did once try playing it again a year or so ago but for some reason I was convinced it was the SNES game and wondered why it looked nothing like I remember.

I completely forgot about Psycho-Pass. That had some neat ideas in it and I loved the story (of S1 at least never watched the others).

To be fair to Blade Runner here, I don't think it was really made to be "Cyberpunk". It has some of the themes and inspired a lot of future Cyberpunk work (at the very least aesthetic wise), but the book "Cyberpunk" wasn't published until a year later and "Neuromancer" didn't come out until two years later, so a lot of the themes that we consider Cyberpunk weren't fully realised yet. I guess you could argue it's more proto-Cyberpunk (and a number of other sci-fi from before then), but it's pretty firmly entrenched as Cyberpunk now, and to be honest, I don't really disagree either. Strict definitions for genres are pretty tricky, even more so for foundational work like I'd say Blade Runner was.

Looks like he's taken notice

Hi and welcome!

I should really get around to playing Cloudpunk sometime. I was following the game for ages before it came out and bought it on release, then just never played it for some reason. It seems right up my alley too.

Cyberpunk (as a genre) is a bit older than the game (though not by much) but I believe this was the first time it was used.

Well it's been pretty hot here this week, and luckily I booked this week off way in advance, so I didn't have to suffer through so much. Also nice that my week off tied in with the exodus of people from the other site, I dunno if I'd have been as motivated to learn about the fediverse and stuff if I was doing after getting home from work. Spent most of the week resting and catching up on things, also looked up various stuff and tinkered with my stack of Raspberry PI (that currently do very little) to see if I could use them for fediverse stuff. I have one working as a file server already and played around with Yggdrasil network on it, but the others are kinda sitting there just running nothing atm. I discovered this place at least! And a fair amount of other communities, hopefully the ball keeps rolling on these, the start seems promising. I'll try to keep contributing to various ones too.

I had no idea Cyberpunk was inspired by this book. I once listened to it on audiobook when I was on a big binge of Cyberpunk stories a few years back. I'll be honest I don't remember a super amount of it, it sorta merges with the others I listened to then a little bit, but I do remember enjoying it at least. I did like the idea of the orbitals (well I don't if that was reality but you get what I mean..), powerful corporations that live in space rather than bother with Earth, which does feel like a path we could go down.. The "rock war" too intrigued me because I remember I had only just read about tungsten rods possibly being used in space in that way a little while before listening to the book.
I never ended up getting the sequels though, I don't remember even seeing them until now, I think the book ended pretty well from what I remember.

The origin of the Lemmy instance comes from our CORTEX IMPLANT community which is cyberpunk-themed (all kinds of cyberpunk - also friends of technology).

I've been taking the time to look at that (and nightcity.bar) to get a bit more of a feel of the place, and I like what I see. I'm still not fully grasped with the fediverse yet, but we'll get there in the end.

Welcome to DATATERM, I saw a little bit about VA-11-Hall-A floating around lemmy, I think it was from you

Yea was most likely me on my other instance account. Didn't see anyone else mention it anywhere so I thought I might as well even if doesn't go anywhere!

The fediverse can be a bit mind bending at first and it comes with it’s own quirks that’s for sure.

I think I'm slowly getting around it, just looking at other fediverse sites on the side. nightcity.bar looked interesting at least. Not fully sure the difference between Calckey and Mastodon. Calckey looks like it has more features from what I can tell whilst still having the same-ish feel. Also being able to post from there to here seems neat, which I think I've seen a few people do here.

Small hint: Even if it’s very cyberpunk’ish here, you are of course allowed to create communities or share posts that have nothing to do with cyberpunk :)

To be honest I originally wasn't sure what exactly was allowed here. Most of the posts seemed to be about Cyberpunk TPRG/2077 (which I don't mind! I loved 2077 and spent a long time waiting for it after the 2013 trailer..) and I wasn't quite sure if it was meant to be general Cyberpunk or games. I guess that's the slight downside of the game sharing the name with a genre. I was originally thinking about starting a VA-11 Hall-A community here since it's a Cyberpunk game that I love too, but I ended up putting on another instance instead. Sounds dumb but with it being a small community here I felt like I would have been "intruding" too. I have made an account here now though at least, dunno if I'll use it as my "main" one yet.

Sorry that turned into a kind of ramble, I tend to that sometimes, to actually answer your question, I think other than the rules things as you mentioned (until you said they were in legal I had no idea where they were..), it's mostly alright as is I think. I'm still getting my head around the fediverse a bit though. You all seem pretty nice at least!