Somebody should make a CP77 homeless mod where you’re trying not to get run over or shot by upper middle class trust fund kids playing gangster in the street.
This is a problem a few “dystopian” Sci Fi publications have, they’re often better than what we have now.
Yeah it literally wouldn’t be sci fi without the sci, with the edge case of post-apocalypse scenarios aside, it would be kind of hard to do a sci fi without better tech. In fact aside from post-apocalypse or older outdated sci fi, I literally cannot think of any property we would call sci fi that doesn’t have better tech.
You mean like Cassette Futurism?
There’s always the ones where AI are always omnicidal and all digital tech is taboo, or the ones that predate the information age where you have very manual but powerful tech… Like sure, FTL is definitely sci-fi, but without automation (even human guided automation like ripperdocs) you end up with very unequal societies where magic tech exists, but only for the rich or large organizations
The first is a newer genre so I can’t think of anything well known, the second includes things like the time machine where the time machine is sci-fi, but technology regresses, and the last one could be things like dune. Or 1984, where we’ve surpassed the “futuristic” tech (and unfortunately was mostly used like a how-to guide in recent years)
Did anon just mentally blank out every homeless person, cyber psycho victim, crime victim, police victim, corp victim?
Anon would sign an Arasaka human testing contract without reading it
Illness, no such thing
So the guy just isn’t familiar with the property then, gotcha
I, for one, think we SHOULD create the Torment Nexus from the hit sci-fi novel “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus”