Season 2 Episode 15 Is Cyberpunk 2077 really problematic - a podcast by Jeffery W. Ingram

from 2021-02-01T17:00

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Podcast Show Flow

Disclaimer about qualifications and knowledge on the subject
Disclaimer this is not about gameplay or bugs
The Cyberpunk 2077 complaints sounds familiar
- Transphobic
- Poor Haitian Star
- Poor treatment
- Cultural appropriation
- Toxic Fan-base
- Causing Seizures
- … I will miss many and for that I apologize
The Genre is mean to show a punk backlash vs a corporate world where everyone is marginalized… taking the way we marginalized people and expanding it.
Cyberpunk vs our world
- Algorithms not implants
- Influencer vs Followers
- Marinizing individuals
- Too much white noise
- THE TRAFFIC
- Large corporations us information to try and segment people to buying their products. Smaller corporation try the same to start carving out a niche
Conclusions
- NOT CLOSE TO PERFECT
- It is more than okay to be offended by a cyberpunk setting… dystopian fiction must do this
- More time is needed to see if genre was used as cover to generate buzz
- Should we want fiction devoid of images that are offensive and is that even possible?
  - Even being offended can be offensive
- Where is the line been fasciation and appropriation
- Is a corporation that point to problematic behavior to get attention committing the same problematic behavior?