Idk if this is the right place but I'm posting anyways. Idk what I'm posting, but I'm posting it anyways.

So someone on The Bad Website came up with the brilliant idea of updating the Orientalist racism underpinning the cyberpunk genre (yes, Aliens is cyberpunk, don't @ me, or do, happy to discuss) for the 21st century and I thought the idea of a Musk-Xinping partnership was funny. After all, Musk is a socialist /s

Also wanted to ask if there's any other Alien fans on here. Trying to set up a Discord RP.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Prove that Blade Runner and Alien aren’t part of the same sprawling universe.

    The main difference is the Replicants are more human on the inside than the Androids in Alien.

    Didn’t the crew of the Nostromo have to take a multiple year detour to check on the Alien stuff and they weren’t trained for it and they wouldn’t be compensated? That’s cyberpunk.

    • jszirm [she/her,xe/xem]
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      4 years ago

      One of the extras from one of the movies places them in the same universe. Alien is very much "high tech low life." Shitty working conditions aboard a space ship ship that is run down and kept in barely functioning order? Yeah that's cyberpunk.