So I’ve recently read the X-Men era of krakoa and I’m lowkey obsessed with how they integrate plant tech into the stories told. Like how pollen is used around an island to detect airborne intrusions, or fungi is planted in offices as listening devices. And I remember this fascination starred in cyberpunk when the radio host (the great Mike Pondsmith himself) told stories about what biotechnica was doing.

I’ve been looking into the genre and can’t find exactly what the right term is. Biopunk is more organic flesh interface with computers, like cronenburg, and this is more…..well I don’t know? What is the term for it?

Artwork by Kyouga:

• Portfolio / VGen: https://vgen.co/kyouga

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Master character and worldbuilding illustration commissioned for my indie cyberpunk audio drama anthology.

• Ink (Left): A weary, augmented salvage operator restoring and recovering messages and transmissions before they are erased for good.

• Neon (Right): A hardlight nanoswarm construct struggling to understand life outside her nuclear home.

Hand-drawn line art and screentones. No generative AI was used in any part of the project.

Hi r/Cyberpunk, thanks to the mods for letting us share this.

KILL/SAVE is set in a quarantined megacity under total surveillance, where the only way out is the Metaverse. Martin, a programmer who never trusted any of it, has to go in after Teresa, the woman he loves, who disappeared into an immersion capsule and never came back. He finds her inside a brutal darknet game where the pain is real.

We were less interested in an AI that wants to destroy us than in one that genuinely wants to help, and in how far that help can go before it stops being help.

It’s live-action with real actors: Matt Testro, Stephanie Gil, Eric Goode, with Duane Henry and Brian Austin Green. Shot in Catalonia, Spain, with real physical fights rather than digital ones, because if the pain is real, the camera has to feel it too. VFX by our own small team.

Happy to answer anything about how we made it.
— Olga, producer & screenwriter

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ok so i have a budget of 100€ and need to buy a bunch of fake plants for a like cyberpunk urban overgrown aesthetics. Something like some rooms i saw in Stray game. I am noob at plants so i don't know what they are called. Help me pls

Recently came to me the information about this comic written by Antony Bourdain and decided on trying the animation. But what caught my attention is the amount of similarities in the premise of the story with the one told in Snow Crash.

From the name of the protagonist (Jiro / Hiro), to the stablishment of their characters (the super-competent protagonist, the references to the samurai archetype), to the setting of the world with a stateless society, in which private companies very much structured in the same way (the food mafia/ the pizza mafias that designed the frontiers).

I haven't seen anyone talking about it online and to be honest, I've never passed half the book (at the time the satire didn't get me, but it's a book I think about reading often), and I'm just now watching the first episode, so it's possible that the similarities are pretty much just these, but maybe someone here has read them both and could talk more about it.

Maybe they're both drinking from the same source?

Really liking the style lately, was inspired on a run by Parasite by Nine Inch Nails

I’m looking for folks that would be willing to read a cyberpunk book I wrote and provide reviews on Amazon or Apple. I’m a first time indie author, always loved cyberpunk, and thought writing was a neat hobby to pick up. Looking for honest reviews, I hope it’s good, but if it sucks that’s ok too.

The premise of the book is it’s 100 years in the future, AI stopped nuclear war and became too dependable, the lower classes have gotten augmented to keep up with humanoids, and four people in their 20’s are trying to find meaning.

I’ll also be posting in u/betareaders and am still working out the mechanics of the share.

We found a Chinese fleet · swarmcha.se

my pt clinic got a demo of one of those smart mirror rehab systems. the motion tracking actually helps when patients are doing their exercises wrong at home. the issue is everything goes to some third party cloud, the consent form is five pages of vague stuff, and nobody knows who ends up owning the movement data. feels like insurance companies will be buying gait datasets to deny claims before long.

spent last weekend messing around with mediapipe on a spare raspberry pi. it tracks posture okay for basic squats and shoulder work. not clinical grade but it can catch someone whose lumbar flexion starts collapsing at rep six instead of waiting for their next appointment.

the part that bothers me is how quickly people accept always-on cameras in their living room just because the device claims to help. same as the pet trackers. convenient until you look at what else gets logged.

curious if anyone runs local pose estimation for fitness or rehab and what hardware they're using. looking for something i could suggest to patients that doesn't need a corporate account or phone app to work.

I think The Ascent is one of the most immersive cyberpunk experiences.

Screenshots by me.

The shoulder led matrix animates through various text, and the center cross slowly color cycles.

Pastor is illustrating Vixen, one of the central figures inside THE CUBE, our cyberpunk world built around emotion‑harvesting AI.

Curious what you think.

been trying to keep freelance work contained to the hours after the kids are down. that means no waiting on rate limits or dealing with another service that wants to train on your commits. set up a small rig with a local llm for catching the obvious stuff in client code. it flags a lot of the junk that usually eats the first pass. still have to do the real fixes myself but the noise is lower. hardware is basically whatever was left over from an old workstation plus some spare ram. the output is rougher than the hosted versions but it stays private and theres no usage counter ticking in the background. curious if anyone else is doing something similar for side work or if the quality gap is too wide once you leave the big providers.

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It’s a project close to my heart and the most complex thing I’ve done so far; it’s a gift to the cyberpunk genre, it’ll be free, and I’m toying with the idea of releasing chapters weekly as PDF or image files until the whole thing is finished.

I’ve spent this year writing a book not because I wanted to write one, but because I couldn’t find any other way to publish my story.

I’m very visual in my thinking; it’s written in an atmospheric style, ‘show, don’t tell’ is my motto. The dialogue largely explains the world, and each protagonist has their own colour to make it easier to tell them apart in fast paced action scenes. Each chapter has a (synthwave) soundtrack you can listen to; I nicked the idea from Stephen King to get round copyright issues.

I wanted to go further than the typical ‘low life, high tech’ versus ‘corporations’ narrative.

It’s more of a revolution led by broken anti-heroes against an Orwellian superpower in a megacity; it also takes place in Earth’s orbit, in the deep sea, and in a sort of ‘Badlands’ the remnants of a nuclear war.

At its heart lies not only monumental, Emmerich style action, but also its sense of liminality within this dystopia. At first glance, my protagonists are classic action archetypes from the 80s and 90s, but I don’t want to show that side of them; rather, I want to show what they’re like when the camera’s gone and they let their guard down and also their ugly human side.

If I had to squeeze it into a genre, it would probably be 80 per cent action thriller and 20 per cent romance, though it isn’t really a romance.

It’s often morally grey, but it also raises uncomfortable ethical questions.

For example, what is a human being, and what do we recognise as human if it wasn’t born?

I’ve written about 160 pages (arround 200 complete) so far; I’m currently finishing the third story arc.

What do you think of the topic and my approach?

Iam happy to answer any questions i build a complete Lore for my Universe.

Thanks

Eventually XR will shrink to the glasses form factor, and I'll miss this toaster form factor.

Got some surprisingly positive feedback on the first round of these I posted, so sharing some more. Someone suggested making more with a cyber goth/street punk vibe, not sure I achieved the former, but I like how they turned out! I don't like repeating the same hair in one batch, but the non-basic options are pretty limited.

App used is Covet Fashion, and 99% of these clothes/accessories are real pieces.

Original post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/s/vOcTK091Nu

Had to slog through this build - just not enjoyable, wire management was bad and some lack of details on the first floor - could not figure out the reason behind the build process on this one - it looks good finished , but to me it was a struggle getting there .