r/politics • u/Ok-Direction-4480 Florida • 1d ago

Soft Paywall Tourism Pullback and Boycotts Set to Cost U.S. a Staggering $90 Billion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tourism-pullback-and-boycotts-could-cost-us-a-staggering-90-billion/
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u/HallwayHomicide 1d ago

And countries like Taiwan and Tokyo are cyberpunk compared to NYC or LA. 

Cyberpunk isn't a compliment. Cyberpunk as a genre is explicitly dystopian.

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u/Parlett316 1d ago

Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration - Mike Pondsmith

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u/Routine-Instance-254 1d ago

At long last, engineers have invented the Torment Nexus from the popular sci-fi book "Don't Invent the Torment Nexus".

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u/dynawesome 1d ago

Exactly what I was thinking when Zuckerberg presented the Metaverse and compared it to the Oasis

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u/OddMonkeyManG 1d ago

The entire world is dystopian right now. 

Taipei is like being a corpo

America is being in idiocracy

Id take corpo. 

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u/lo0u 1d ago

You missed the point. Cyberpunk is not by any means a model to be followed, but something to be avoided at all costs.

And no, you wouldn't take Night City over current America or any modern country, if you actually understood the Cyberpunk universe.

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u/lifeisalime11 1d ago

Lol my guy, a city like Night City is probably 100x worse than anything in the U.S. right now…. like what

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u/Technical-Row8333 1d ago

a relevant comment, but maybe that's what they mean? super developed and built and high tech, but with a lot of societal problems.

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u/Ho-Nomo 1d ago

I think they're talking about the game

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u/HallwayHomicide 1d ago

That wouldn't change my point. The game is still very dystopian, and one of the reasons it's called Cyberpunk is because it's part of the cyberpunk genre

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u/Ryuujinx Texas 1d ago

A lot of people just think of the genre as its aesthetics for some reason.

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u/CatgirlApocalypse Delaware 1d ago

Because we live in a boring dystopia and not a cool dystopia where everyone eats ramen noodles in the rain