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[chaotic skies]

What exactly is Cyberpunk? Is it essentially an environment with very developed systems for stuff like hologram, AI, VR, and tons of virtual stuffs?

A good example of a cyberpunk game that's free (don't own any paid-for cyberpunk games) is Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. While a lot of the lore's centered around the zombies and other things infesting the world, the few glimpses of the rest of the world paint a disturbingly realistic picture of what could be, if we ever get that technology.

To actually answer the question though, there's a lot of ways to go about it. There's the fun, fuck-everything variant that I've seen in a few places, which is basically a less sci-fi, slighty less serious version of Border Lands. There's an actual guess at what could be, where the rich are rich for reasons possibly tied to being able to afford cybernetics and keeping them from the poor, and is much more dystopian and serious. There's an intentionally beyond-reality dystopian version of the world, where the general public can get cybernetics, but the government/other equivalent is corrupt/generally malevolent. And so much more, I could go on all day. Generally though, they all tend to be more dystopian than anything, cybernetics tends to play a big part of the plot, and there's some part of society that generally needs to be fought.

[Tiruin]

I'm in 4th year college and I'm learning to be waterproof during the rainy seasons! :v Hooray ASIA!

Spoiler: In internetspeak (click to show/hide)

Translation:
> Sir, is there class?
> There is.

In other news, I wish my phone could use Pokemon Go (yay OLD PHONES \o/) because ALL THESE WATER POKEMON must be EVERYWHERE. :I
And I live on a mountain range. Woooo mountain city. We lack water resources other than our local swimming pool and park!

[Sirus]

Send some of your rain across the Pacific, we need it :<

[EnigmaticHat]

What exactly is Cyberpunk? Is it essentially an environment with very developed systems for stuff like hologram, AI, VR, and tons of virtual stuffs?

A good example of a cyberpunk game that's free (don't own any paid-for cyberpunk games) is Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. While a lot of the lore's centered around the zombies and other things infesting the world, the few glimpses of the rest of the world paint a disturbingly realistic picture of what could be, if we ever get that technology.

To actually answer the question though, there's a lot of ways to go about it. There's the fun, fuck-everything variant that I've seen in a few places, which is basically a less sci-fi, slighty less serious version of Border Lands. There's an actual guess at what could be, where the rich are rich for reasons possibly tied to being able to afford cybernetics and keeping them from the poor, and is much more dystopian and serious. There's an intentionally beyond-reality dystopian version of the world, where the general public can get cybernetics, but the government/other equivalent is corrupt/generally malevolent. And so much more, I could go on all day. Generally though, they all tend to be more dystopian than anything, cybernetics tends to play a big part of the plot, and there's some part of society that generally needs to be fought.

I don't really see Cataclysm: DDA as cyberpunk.  Maybe the backstory is, but in general I'd describe it more as an apocalypse with mad scientists.

[KingofstarrySkies]

It is definitely not cyberpunk, but it has some very gentle nudgings towards it-Namely, the cybernetics and mutations. Its like cyberpunk, but... Fairly reasonable, actually.

[Descan]

cyberpunk is dirty streets and neon lights and flying cars and murder in the brothels of light and sound and sweaty men in their basement in a wife beater jacked into the Virtual Reality internet and skintight leather outfits and glowing pistols and jackboot thugs wearing black motorcycle helmets in the pay of corporations in control of everything and human life being cheap

[Rose]

There's nothing more adorable than a 1.4 year old lazing around in her bed in the morning.

[Gunner-Chan]

Remembering how I accidentally got myself muted, I felt nostiagic for the game Wrath of Earth again.

Turns out I've gotten way better at setting up good dosbox configs.

[scriver]

Cataclysm mainly takes place in suburbia, small towns, and the nearby countryside, so the key cyberpunk elements of Towering Concrete Walls and Deep Running Gutters is absent.

[Tiruin]

I just finished the Wheel of Time series. That was the wildest ride I've read in a long time. During the last few books I couldn't stop muttering "holy shit holy crap holy fuck" over and over. 10/10.

Now to prepare for the post-book depression.

Nah, now you can start your first re-read since you'll have forgotten most of the first few volumes by now.

After that, you can start your second re-read since you'll have forgotten most of the first few volumes by then.

There are neither beginnings nor endings to rereading the Wheel of Time.

GAHH ;~; Reminds me of how we ran out of stock for the next books (since I was reading it waaaay back when they were just churning out) and it stopped at Dagger of..something, and now I recall how much fun I loved poking the changing (and totally misleading) costumes on the book cover. Rand al'Thor!
mayhap I shall get back into it one day :< But that shall be a day too soon and too far apart from now.

Send some of your rain across the Pacific, we need it :<

eep ._. I meant that in jest! Really hope you're doing ok there halfway around the world. I love how technology is able to bridge these kinds of things now.

[Eric Blank]

California's just being California. Covered in desert and dry scrub, quite a bit of it. Super bad drought in recent years though.

The weather up here around Spokane, the eastern Washington/Idaho panhandle border, has been ridiculously moist this year. Constant rain all through June and into July. As a matter of fact, a funnel cloud reportedly formed somewhere around the Spokane valley recently. Wed give the rain back but its too late. Now that all this vegetation has grown we'll all burn to death in the firestorms next year.

[Amperzand]

It's been pretty damp down here in lovely gray coastal Oregon/Washington as well.

[TD1]

I just finished the Wheel of Time series. That was the wildest ride I've read in a long time. During the last few books I couldn't stop muttering "holy shit holy crap holy fuck" over and over. 10/10.

Now to prepare for the post-book depression.

Nah, now you can start your first re-read since you'll have forgotten most of the first few volumes by now.

After that, you can start your second re-read since you'll have forgotten most of the first few volumes by then.

There are neither beginnings nor endings to rereading the Wheel of Time.

Now you know my hell. And, Light help me, my heaven.

[Harry Baldman]

What exactly is Cyberpunk? Is it essentially an environment with very developed systems for stuff like hologram, AI, VR, and tons of virtual stuffs?

This reminds me of a discussion in Roller's Block about cyberpunk restaurant management, starting from about here.

[SalmonGod]

cyberpunk is dirty streets and neon lights and flying cars and murder in the brothels of light and sound and sweaty men in their basement in a wife beater jacked into the Virtual Reality internet and skintight leather outfits and glowing pistols and jackboot thugs wearing black motorcycle helmets in the pay of corporations in control of everything and human life being cheap

+1

This great description of cyberpunk made me happy today.

Although this is really just William Gibson's flavor of cyberpunk that pioneered the genre, and is most often immitated.  Usually described as "High Tech.  Low life."  Basically noir in a high-tech setting.