Cayce in Pattern Recognition was written as completely steeped in but physically sickened by consumerism. I think she works as a metaphor for a lot of people I know.
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I totally love the aesthetics and manufactured goods fetishization aspects of the writing style. I appreciate the idea that the material reality of a place and its people are in a feedback loop with the story and culture unfolding around you. I donāt like it called āconsumerismā though that is part of it. Personally I obsess all over wear patterns on objects in public spaces so hearing about wear in a Gibson novel is kind of comforting.
Im an obsessive repair person but mainly because I need an excuse to take everything apart and feel like Im beating the system. Clothes are an extension of that though I havenāt ever been able to get good at sewing.
Do we even have a fashion thread?
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the only true cyberpunk option
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itās cool, because literally all of the bullshit will be a footnote in every eventual review of the game, as if a bunch of racism and transphobia both on and off screen is no different than a framerate hiccup, and gog will do another shitty tweet like āactually, itās about ethics in good game discounts,ā and weāll deal with another solid year of harassment, shitty right winger articles and monetized youtube videos acting as though weāre literally on a crusade to end video games forever and how weāre the real snowflakes, and one or more games writers will call anyone taking cdpr to task for this shit ātediousā like they did when all the rockstar shit was coming out, and itāll still end up at #6 or #7 on a bunch of giant bomb goty lists and 
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A crusade to end videogames forever would be immensely cyberpunk
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end videogames forever
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this entire ordeal is going to be more cyberpunk than the game so im excited to give a swirlie to the first moron who writes about how āmetaā cdpr being terrible is
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cayce having a literal, physical aversion to consumerism and marketing is the most william gibson shit in the world and i love it so much. as an adult i honestly like pattern recognition more than neuromancer. its certainly more relevant
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We were robbed of that Peter Weir adaptation.
They should get Assayas.
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Whoa, Peter Weir was supposed to do Pattern Recognition!?
Iām not usually one to clamor for book to film adaptations, but I would have loved to have seen whatever Earl Mac Rauch had planned for Neuromancer in the late 80s. I would have been all in on a weird Buckaroo Banzai-style comedy adaption.
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At least we got Johhny Mnemonicā¦?
(bringing this back to Keanu)
And Iām just going to throw out that I like William Gibson. Heās a good writer and Iām not about to criticize someone I donāt know, who isnāt overtly political, for what I perceive as their politics. Life and people are more complicated than that.
(I donāt have a problem with critique of his work)
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Oh, if you follow his twitter you find out that he IS overtly political
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william gibson is very open about being a whiny hillaryman
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Oh, I just read some of his booksā¦
There are probably conclusions that can be drawn from a personās social media posts, but even then I hesitate. But still, point taken.
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most of his writing is fine, honestly. trump being elected really broke his brain; hes writing a book about an alternate 2017 where hillary clinton won now. its very embarrassing and he should log off. maybe go outside a little
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tbh I wish we had a better word than āneoliberalā for this (I am very grateful whenever virgil on chapo interjects to clarify that its effective meaning is āwhatever you donāt likeā) because thereās a difference between being a broken third way apologist crank like gibson or whedon (70 is kind of old for this, mind; itās extremely common among people who were born in the 60s) and being like an actual corporatist and I feel like the nuance is lost when itās the same word we use to describe political missteps in the wolfenstein franchise
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i mean regardless of what he believes in practice hes supporting neoliberal policies which is why i used it. i agree its largely meaningless now even though the posting-as-warfare pundit class would have you believe its a slur. wolfenstein is just typical centrist liberal bullshit, stop misusing words you gamer swine!!
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I mean of course there is a difference, but as long as Maoists and anarcho-syndicalists are both āleftā, which I think is not incoherent, then yeah both William Gibson and the CEO of Monsanto are neoliberal
well see the thing is
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