They should remove the word "punk". There's no punk here. It's just a cyber bathroom. They could get someone to egg the joint, and then they would have a cyber bathroom punk, but still not cyberpunk.
It’s “cyberpunk” in that it would fit in a world of cyberpunk fiction.
Maybe some punk can hack them as a practical joke.
I hear the dusty modem connect to the Authority's servers, where it sends my data and calculates the price of my piss. It seems it's a good one today - it's given me enough credits to buy a shot of orange juice. Must be Chloe's cooking.
The goons take the guy in the cubicle next to me. Too much nicotine.
Seems I pissed slower than usual today as I'm seeing the prostate transplant advert. I remind myself to drink more water.
Neon aesthetics were appropriate in these because of technological context in which these were created. Neon signage was not yet an anachronism in the 80s. I don't blame sci-fi writers of the past for failing to predict future technology, but at the same time I find it hard to take deliberately anachronistic sci-fi seriously.
It's analogous to the difference between genuine Victorian science fiction (e.g. Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, etc) and modern steampunk media set in the Victorian era. Modern steampunk emulates the style and feel of Victorian science fiction, but I think that makes it a different genre. Victorian science fiction wasn't written to be anachronistic but steampunk is, so they're different genres.
> Cyberpunk 2077
I haven't played it so I can't really judge it, but I can say that what little I've seen hasn't gotten me excited.
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I guess I knew that already, but this made me realize it in a new way :)