>dense cities >gritty slums >high pollution >population

maybe some cyberpunk tech will help them TAKE THE POO TO THE LOO

>>55032155
No do Pakistan instead.

>>55032155
Beyond Good and Evil 2 is doing just that, anon.

>>55033159
>Kyber Pass knockoff Battle robots and Smartguns.
I can dig it.

>>55032155
india already had cyberpunk 100 years ago

>>55033186
It's about the only interesting thing it is doing

No one likes india though, the only asthetic they have is shitting in the streets while taking a hands free heads up display call, or people begging on the streets for pictures of "vegine"

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>>55033872
I like India...

>>55034219
do you shit on the streets?

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Aside from poo in the loo and designated shitting streets, India has some real good cyberpunk potential (pollution, filth, overcrowded cities, disgusting slums, technology hubs, corrupt and ineffective administration, high crime rate, exotic and weird culture...), but it's hampered by one thing: naming. I have no problem improvising Western, Japanese, and Chinese names, but Indian names, I absolutely cannot come up with Indian names. Also, there's the naive silliness of Bollywood that makes cyberpunk unlikely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HViHSZL8s8I

>>55033872
>t. never been to India
Only the southern parts are shitholes. The north, especially the Punjab region bordering on Pakistan, is really nice. I went to Amritsar a few years back and I loved it.

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>>55032155
India makes for pretty good cyberpunk, yeah - I'm about half way through Ian McDonald's River of Gods, which has cyberpunk India, and he's done some short stories in that setting as well.

FFG's Android setting has Mumbad (Mumbai-Ahmedabad) as one of the world's largest megacities, so they've got quite a few people and pics that do cyberpunk there

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>>55035675
>Also, there's the naive silliness of Bollywood that makes cyberpunk unlikely
Nah, bollywood can be cyberpunk, that's just a straight-up pisstaking inversion of white switched with low-class indians, with the beggars and doing service jobs - in a country with over a billion people and a very ingrained class system there's a "wallah" for everything (kinda translates as "boy", but always with a noun, so like rickshaw-wallah or tea-wallah), and servants haven't really gone out of fashion.

There's a bollywood and mob boss in >>55036158, he's just like the mob in hollywood, except when he beats someone up he uses a cricket bat, rather than a baseball bat

>>55035915
I disagree. Banglore and places like that are quite lovely.

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The odd political assassination, not exactly unheard of.
Even got the flag, so it's definitely indian

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India's also good for very striking contrast between rich and poor, modern and ancient - pic related, Dharavi, is the third-largest slum in the world, home to up to a million people; it's in the same city as Antilia, a billion-dollar skyscraper that's the most expensive private residence in the world, which is used by a single family and manned by a staff of 600 (again, servants aren't unfashionable, and you have a guy for everything)

>>55036256
This is a good idea. Perhaps you could also portray the villages which lack most modern tech due to dogmatic attitudes and plain poverty and illiteracy as places which willingly shun tech, like in that comic Tokyo Ghost. An industrialist has set up a village that focuses on renewable, green tech and organic living here. Perhaps something like that could be used too.
T.indian
>Inb4 DESIGNATED MAYMAY XDXD

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>>55032155
It will be a superpower setting by 2030.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0b2LGf9jM

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>>55033186
Does look pretty rad

>>55036256
There's no connection between Bollywood movie and River of Gods. Of course that River of Gods is probably to our taste since it was written by a Westerner. It doesn't change the fact that for Western tastes Bollywood movies are all fucking stupid.

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>>55036648
Ah, sorry, that was meant at the second bit, FFG's Android universe, not River of Gods

>>55032155
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I think India would have a machine god in a cyberpunk setting

Only 2 years until utopian Star-Treklike society tho

>>55032155
Wouldn't it be a cyberpoo setting?

>>55035675
>but Indian names, I absolutely cannot come up with Indian names
so just give everyone English names

>>55037703
Isn't authentic enough for me. Same problem ruined Bangkok for me. It would be the perfect cyberpunk city - a huge overpopulated and chaotic sprawl. But again, Thai names are impossible.

>>55037911
generate a random list of like 30, and pull one of the good sounding ones when you need one.

>>55037911
I've known at least a couple of Indians, or people of Indian descent, who prefer to sound more English - possibly because it just makes it easier, especially when they were younger.

One guy from school especially preferred to be called Roger... so of course we all called him by his actual name, Raghav, because kids are harsh.

>>55032155
Wise choice to use best girl for your pic, OP.

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>>55035675
Well how did you get to doing it with Chinese and Japanese names and get them sounding "right"?
Just apply the same techniques, correct for anything specific, like Singh and Kaur (Sikh middle/surname, male/female respectively, pretty common, but almost only with Sikhs) and you should be fine.

>>55032155
>Japanese aesthetic fetishism
>abandoning the Japanese aesthetic
what are you, gay?

>>55032155
>Hindu aesthetics
What would that be?
Multiple robo-limbs and heads?

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>>55032155
bin dun

>>55038715
Doesn't she even work for a shady megacorp in the lore?

>>55032155
India and China are some of the worst places to do any of the cyberpunk stuff. Both of them have problems with anyone describing their countries and important people like shit.

CyberPOOnk*

>>55039035
Dancing elephants, obviously.

>>55038931
Keep gays away from this, that guy is just a faggot.

>>55039082
Indeed.

>>55032155

Hell, they even have transhuman (transcanine?) blue dogs right now.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/blue-dye-dogs-india-mumbai-video-spd/

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>>55032155
India is the perfect setting for a nuclear conflict that balkanizes the country.

>>55036158
>FFG's Android setting
Not cyberpunk

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>>55032155
How does the street-shitting factor into it?
Would you make it part of the game mechanics?
Like, characters getting a debuff if they poo-in-loo because they are now haunted by the toilet witch?

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>>55040762
U wot m8?

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>>55041828
The Android setting is decidedly not cyberpunk.

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>>55041867
Why is that?
I'm genuinely curious.

Everything about it seems right on the money for cyberpunk to my eye, but clearly you have some rant or checklist prepared. I'd like to hear it.

>>55042546
The easiest way to put it is that Android is very clearly written after the cold war ended, and after the 1992-1995 post cold war buffer that sort of allowed the Cyberpunk genre to continue.

>>55041867
>Punks, criminals, and hacktivists fight against megacorporations in the not-so-distant dystopian future.
>Not cyberpunk

Oh okay

>>55042665
>He thinks cyberpunk is about fighting the man
Confirmed for never having read any cyberpunk literature written pre-1995.

Also Android is hardly dystopian when taken in the context of the cyberpunk genre.

>>55032155
>India would be a natural fit for a cyberpunk setting.

Sure, but it's pretty moot. Everywhere with civilization has dense cities. Denver is dense as fuck even though it's surrounded by a ton of nearly-empty space. Both the mountains and the scrubland in the east.

It's not the endless sprawl, and you can get out if you travel enough, but it's there.

EVERYWHERE has bad neighborhoods and poor people.

Pollution can happen in a day or a single regulation change.
I mean, cyberpunk is near-future, and we're not going to get billions of people living in Ethiopia in 5 years. But for all the things to fudge a little, population numbers are the least of the things to suspend disbelief over. I mean... people move.

Anywhere with people and tech is a natural cyberpunk setting.

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>>55041867
Bullshit is it not.
The corps are bad, the criminals are bad, you hack Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics with programs that look like swords, surveillance is everywhere, cybernetics are commonplace, the oceans are risen and polluted, punks fight the man, AI exist - free-thinking but shackled, corps are everywhere and take over governments, life itself is a commodity, bought and sold by executives who can command assassins and entire economies.

What more do you need, is the Soviet Union, WWIII and Japanese economic dominance 100% necessary for cyberpunk for you?

>>55042830
>corps are everywhere and take over governments
No
>punks fight the man
No
>surveillance is everywhere
No

You're eating out of the Neo-Cyberpunk trashcan.

>>55042647
So a half dozen bad cyberpunk movies and Ghost in the Shell come out in 1995 and it becomes impossible to write or conceive of any stories within the genre/artform from that point forwards? Sounds like something an old rose-colored glasses wearing nerd who remains staunchly convinced no video game will ever be better than Ocarina of Time would say.

>>55042716
In stories exploring the place of the human soul in an increasingly universalized, globalized, and dehumanized industrial world, yeah, 'Fighting the man' does manifest itself as the end-consequence of the central themes of a great deal of cyberpunk stories. No it's not what they're 'about' but it's often what they're 'around'.

>>55040729
You, again!

>>55042830

It's like the faggot who insisted Blade Runner wasn't cyberpunk because Deckard had a large apartment instead of a tiny cubicle.

>>55042946
No, it's because 1995 was the turning point where Cyberpunk as a genre no longer was relevant. It is a product of its time, expressing the fears and themes of the late cold war. Neocyberpunk attempts to "reboot" the genre but doesn't remain faithful to it at all, thus why it's an entirely new genre expressing the fears and themes of the 2010s.

>>55042998
Blade Runner isn't cyberpunk in itself. It has visuals that inspired the cyberpunk genre, but the story isn't cyberpunk at all. It's the story of an ex-cop who gets hired back for a last job by his former PD. The dystopian part is limited to a polluted world without real animals (who cares about animals when a police detective can afford an Art Deco apartment with a grand piano). We see no evil corporation, no ruthless gangs, no hackers and no cyberware. Heck, even the violence is kept to a minimum. In the end it's more speculative science-fiction with a cyberpunk touch than true cyberpunk à la Neuromancer.

>>55032155
Would there be a designated shutting street?

>>55044661
>We see no evil corporation, no ruthless gangs, no hackers and no cyberware.
None of those things are strictly needed for cyberpunk. They're common, sure, but to say that they are necessary reduces the genre to its aesthetics. And once you do that, things will rapidly turn to shit. (see: steampunk)

>>55044661
Does Tyrell the creepy slave-makers not count?

>>55044688
No, all streets will be open for use as bathrooms just like in Japanese-inspired cyberpunk.

>>55042992
What?

>castes system
>hindu/buddhist/islam themed regions
>will be the highest populated country in the world soon if it already isnt idk
>the rest of stuff OP listed

Why hasnt an indian company made this yet what the hell it would be perfect. If i knew more about india i would make something myself.

>>55047839
They're too busy trying to figure out how to use a toilet

>>55036267
PASS INTO THE IRIS

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>>55032155

That's why Pic related is the best cyberpunk novel and probably one of the greatest sf novels ever

>>55036158
What is Sombra doing on Kaladesh

>>55036648
>Bollywood movies are all fucking stupid.

Dum Maaro Dum is unironically my favorite crime thriller ever made and is shot in a way that is leagues above most western crime thrillers that came out around the same time.

I aint Indian, the closest I ever came to India was my Indian ex gf I almost married and miss a great deal why oh why did I cheat on her with that arab bitch what the fuck

>>55039082
>>55039393
Under the utopian aesthetic of OW, it's actually pretty cyberpunk.
>social violence and upheaval
>robots being denied human rights
>corrupt and greedy corporations
>the prevalence of cybernetics
>Sombra in general

>>55035675
>2030
>British Airways still exists
>Britain still exists

This sci-fantasy is too implausible for me.

>>55050096
>it's actually pretty cyberpunk.
No

>>55050165
>Implying Great Britain won't just be renamed Al-Britain.
>Implying British Airways won't outlast the English.

>>55045454
No, not more than Cuisinart, Kenwood or Moulinex.

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>>55047752
He's an anon whos been pitching his Cyberpunk hack of TL2k in every cyberounk thread he's found, starting in one I made about cyberpunk in the backcountry.
The setting hes building is pretty good, just incomplete.
I'll prolly end up running my standard Snow Crash ripoff campaign in it at some point.

>>55051793
Damn, thanks anon. I'm the one who's writing it, and yeah I know there's still a lot of stuff to write up, but I'm planning on getting a lot of worldbuilding done through actually running the game itself.

And I've only been posting it because I like getting some feedback on stuff, and hopefully at least one anon will think it's kind of neat.

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>>55051793
>standard Snow Crash ripoff campaign
Kinda want to know how that works.

>>55051761
Call me when your coffee maker can give an impassioned speech on a rooftop

>>55052128
I have the party I GM for have to deal with a neuro-linguistic virus, the details of which vary from setting to setting. Usually its a reverse-babel like in the book, but i like to sprinkle in some zesty Watts-esque themes of whether or not consciousness is necessary.

>>55051981
Oh, I didnt mean to offend, Its fucking great, and is damn sure better than what i was cooking up.
And i meant hack in that its based off of TL2k's setting and ruleset. Guess thats what i get for using PbtA terminology.

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>>55052358
I'm not offended, I'm genuinely thanking you for thinking it's cool.

Anyways, I tried to write up a synopsis for what the player character's generation is like. Just to give a general idea of what the VERY VERY basic semi-worldwide attitude is like.

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I'm so disappointed. A thread about India and cyberpunk and no mention of goa trance or psytrance. It's like you guys were all too young to party for days in a esoteric music and drug induced frenzy.

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>>55052315
Huh, I'd have thought that would be one of the harder parts to translate.

>>55052829
Certainly for goa trance, but a quick read shows some cool shit (even though most of it's not in India, but w/e)

>>55038064
Fuck you, John! You ruined my childhood!

>>55036453
>and so many white servants!
kek

>>55058264
>business Sikh
>doesn't have Kirpan

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>>55058310
Given who he works for, he almost certainly does somewhere - Mr Business Sikh is going to be all business.

The problem of running cyberpunk in India is that India is full of Indian people

>>55059326
And?
Just means your tech guru can be an actual guru

>>55032155
No. All the shit in the streets would jam up the cyberware. At least with the Japanese obsession with cleanliness it can make sense. Horrible air, soil, and water quality, through out the entire country, don't give the dirty alley low class versus clean stark high class living dichotomy either.

All together the idea is a fail.

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>>55059442
But there's Indian people

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>>55059497
I say again, And?

Indians are fine.
Some are even sikh bros, I swear /tg/ always thinks they're cool in those "real life PC" threads.
You saying you don't like curry or something? Stomach too weak for it?

Yeah, muh poo memes, well done, you're as unoriginal as the 500 millionth Indian shitposter.
Or streetposter, if that's what gets your giggles

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>>55059639
Anon I don't think you understand it's full of Indians

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>>55059639
Gee, I wonder who's behind this post?

>>55032155
>population stereotyped as technologically literate
You meant illiterate, right ? Also, derelict infrastructures everywhere doesn't make for a good cyberpunk setting, that shit (pun intended) is for the slums only.

>>55052829
Vishnu flies over the mega city every day taking 60 ton diarrhea shits all over entire streets of people

>>55035675
2000-names.com
rip the Kailasa namelists from dom4

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>>55038762
To be fair since Japanese is easy enough to fake considering most kana are just vowel or consonant and vowel combos and no one bsing it is going to bother with anything slightly intricate like the small silent characters. Plus Japanese pop culture is common enough that your average Joe could fudge something like "Sakura Mitsubishi" without even trying.

>>55039393
Vishkar Corporation would fit right in with the other Megacorps in Shadowrun.

>>55060387
Too bad Shadowrun is shit

>>55035675
>t's hampered by one thing: naming. I have no problem improvising Western, Japanese, and Chinese names, but Indian names, I absolutely cannot come up with Indian names.

Look through wiki particles about Indian public figures like politicians and celebrities until you find names you like? Look up lists of common Indian given names and surnames? You should do this with Asian names too. Don't just slap Asian-sounding syllables together and hope it sounds authentic, just take 10 minutes to research what names would sound authentic, so you don't end up with shit like this >>55060092

>>55060092
Just watch a couple of anime, read some manga and you're set for Japan.

>>55032155
I don't have anything against Indian culture, it's just that the general aesthetic grates on me.

I think the turbans and flowing clothing in shitholes right next to a sultan's palace resort reminds me too much of Arabs.

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>>55061146
I can see why that would be grating a bit, though in some cases as people ITT have said it's desired for the class contrast and showing the power of corps

>>55061234
That's fair, but I was just giving my reason.

>>55032155
>>55032155
>>population stereotyped as technologically literate
>population stereotyped as technologically literate

You never worked with an Indian in IT have you? They are considered highly illiterate in general, both devs and QA. Incompetent at best. And those are the educated ones.

Japan fits that far, far better, India is less of a cyberpunk setting, more of a pre-apocalyptic one in the Mega cities.

>>55059497
Which means Microsoft tech support is just around the corner.

Just install Teamviewer.

>>55061273
The point of OP's post was "cyberpunk". This is no place for your facts, Anon, this is genre that runs on mood and rule of cool.

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>>55059326

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>>55061266
It's reasonable, but you can see people liking the dichotomy?

>>55032155
I prefer Lagos, Johannesburg, and other cities with a strong, developed corporate presence in the nice side of town, where all the foreigners congregate, while the city's surrounded by sheet metal shanty towns, crank operated lighting, and a thousand Windows ME machines thrown away by people 15 years ago networked together into a supercomputer cluster in what used to be a garden shed.

Don't get me wrong, Cyber-India is a truly patrician taste.

But Cyber-Africa is even better.

>>55036648
>for Western tastes Bollywood movies are all fucking stupid.

Some of the more over-the-top Bollywood action scenes are absolute perfection though. They combine quality special effects with good humor and a completely shameless lack of regard for laws of physics. Kinda like live action versions of Popeye fights.

>>55047932
>They're too busy selling cheap tech labor to the west
FTFY

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>People saying cyberpunk India wouldn't work because of the slums and filth.
>When Hong Kong is literally one of the most popular cyberpunk locations after Tokyo.

I get not liking the idea on aesthetic grounds, I'm not a huge fan either, but the excuse of "it's too dirty" seems odd considering how grimy cyberpunk is supposed to be. Pic related, what basically every single cyberpunk Hong Kong is based on.

>>55068487
India doesn't work because it doesn't have the traditional American-Japanese trappings cyberpunk as a genre has. India typically only serves as a backdrop to any given setting for either being in a nuclear conflict, or being a dirt poor low tech shithole. The real focuses of the genre lie in North America, East Asia, and possibly Western Europe.

>>55068487
To be fair, they did get *rid* of the Walled City.

>>55035915

Found the sanghi bhakt

>>55067649
The only people who might like Bollywood movies in the West, are kids up to 9yo. Bollywood needs more "serious" movies like Psycho Raman.

>>55061273
Japan is very low-tech on some aspects. On one side they were the first ones with high-tech videocall handies and pay-by-phone system, on the other hand their businesses are still run on archaic structures centered around the fax.

>>55070763
Where India is 'we read off the script and will start again at the beginning if it didn't work', Japan is 'we have a system that works and we are not going to touch it unless we absolutely have to'.

>>55035675
Gygax's Big Book of Names is really nice to have on-hand for stuff like this

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>>55050000
c-checked
Now I have to read it.

>>55050000
I keep meaning to read this but I always forget to

>>55033872
>no one could possibly have a different opinion than me, I'm the greatest genius in the world who knows everything and has the only valid viewpoints!
Pretty sure inability to understand that people have differing views is literally one of the attributes and signs of autism.

>>55073483
Don't reply to trolls, retard.

>>55070763
>archaic structures centered around the fax.
The horror of literally having a physical paper trail for everything. Its fucking amazing how well fax works, compared to email.
Japan seem to have a boner for functionality, which explains their willing desire to avoid shiny new shit if their shit already works.

>>55050000
SUPERPOWER BY 2050

>>55042770
>Everywhere with civilization has dense cities
"Dense" Is relative.
Not everywhere has dense slum sprawls like india.
Everywhere has bad neighborhoods and poor people, they don't all have whole groups of people that make a living picking through the garbage hills.

It really seems like either you don't know what you're talking about or you're just disregarding all the differences between places that don't serve your argument that everything is the same.
Sure you could imagine a cyber-punk society developing just about anywhere but some places and cultures certainly lend themselves more easily to the theme. I mean dense japanese style cities with bright signs didn't become a cyberpunk norm because japan was chosen at random but because those very attributes in the modern world informed and shaped the cyberpunk genre.

>>55073515
I'm just trying to help a mentally ill person who might not have even known they needed help.
Autism is a serious condition but is highly manageable as long as you start treatment as soon as possible.

>Somebody makes thread asking about cyberpunk India
>Somebody else says it will be about contrasts between rich and poor, like all cyberpunk.
>Others point out that vedic religions have always been cyberpunk AF
>Poo in loo shitposters show up as expected
>Others post cool art of hologram mandalas and qt brown girls with cyber implants on their chakras allowing them to connect with cyberconciousness
>Everything happens exactly as predicted
>Only Idiots fail to see what's going on right in front of them, and prefer to wallow in shit

It's like poetry, it rhymes.

>>55076048
>qt brown girls
Those don't exist. Down with brown.

>>55076181
Enjoy being outnumbered.

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>>55076048
>Others point out that vedic religions have always been cyberpunk AF

>>55076048
I don't understand. Are you saying we've experienced all this before in a past life?

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>>55032155
I'll take african cyberpunk instead

>>55079297
>Ooga booga where the cyberware at?

>>55079340
>nigerian warlords with heavy weaponry and vehicles
>crazy fuckers on drugs self-augmenting themselves like Orks
>south african arcologies walled off from savanna sprawls with robotic guards
>escaped bio-engineered animals becoming top of the food chain
>nigger thugs gutting robots and androids like Animatrix just to pawn parts for drug money
>implying none of this is cyberpunk dystopia as fuck

>>55079439
Black people are never a good idea

>>55076181
>He doesn't like brown girls with beautiful smooth skin and stunningly white teeth who smell gently of spices and subtle flowers
What a fag

>>55033147
I thought that was funny Anon

>>55079511
>He doesn't like brown girls with greasy unwashed skin and stunningly yellow teeth who smell gently of feces and curry
Yeah I'll pass

>>55079535
t. Never met an Indian person

>>55080956
I live in Vancouver, I've met hundreds.

>>55032155
Too stinky, and no megacorp would set up base there.

>>55080956
One time I had chicken tikka masala at a restaurant and was really disappointed when there was no spice to it at all

>>55082217
That's because it's a dish that was invented to appeal to british tastes.

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>>55073648
>or you're just disregarding all the differences between places that don't serve your argument that everything is the same.
Yeah, that one.

Because of:
>Sure you could imagine a cyber-punk society developing just about anywhere

My suspension of disbelief is already engaged when dealing with cyberpunk. The idea that society goes to shit and the poor rabble suffer for any given location is.... the least questionable thing as far as the setting goes.

But sure, India is already a lot closer to that status. But as anywhere could easy fit the bill, it's pretty moot.

> dense japanese style cities with bright signs didn't become a cyberpunk norm because japan was chosen at random but because

Because Japan has a cultural surge built upon an economic bubble in the 80's. Nintendo came over, businessmen were buying up everything, and America had spent enough time forgetting all that WWII propaganda about "the japs". Ninjas and samurai were cool. And William Gibson wanked himself to some Tokyo highrises.

It was just timing.

>>55042938
Bitch neuromancer is from the 80's

>>55059639
>streetposter
i chuckled

>>55084362
Literally none of those things are from Neuromancer.

>>55084518
>None of those things
>None
Maybe you should re-read the book before going on rants about how all of this isn't "tru3 cyberpunk" because it was made after what you consider cyberpunk.
It's like saying everything apart from Tolkien isn't fantasy, and as you may have noticed, it is completely stupid.

>>55050056
Gotta catch em all

>>55060092
Reminds me of the ridiculous aristocratic names people have in. I always wonder how they manage to come up with them.

>>55073532
They barely use credit cards. It's weird.

>>55042716

Ahhh kids these days. Never heard of cheap trick OR cheap truth.

Cyberpunk was political in its origins. If you think that started in 1995 then you're insane and/or terminally misinformed.

>>55059326

Desi waifus are best waifus. I'm not even Indian and I know that. Have you ever seen those girls DANCE? Holy fucking shit watch their eyes.

The poo-in-loo nonsense is defensiveness from /pol/tards whose overweight trailer trash landwhales can't compete. Living in double-wides, fucking (occasionally) their twerking fat fuck double-wide chicks, raising their wife's kids. No wonder they're jealous.

>>55051415
>Fucking Normans, soon there won't even be a real England anymore

And before that...

>>Fucking Saxons, soon there won't even be a real Angle-land anymore.

>>55059928

IMO Indian names are tough but doable if you have name lists. Long names like Viswanathan Varadarajan are a problem for westerners to wrap their tongues around but at least all the Indians in America seem to love nicknames. Which is VERY cyberpunk.

>>55066925

GURPS player detected.

Also India skipped the industrial revolution, they literally went from farming society to service society.

I mean they are famous for having call centres and """computer engineers""".

>>55073483
I'm literally professionally diagnosed autistic and understand that other people have differing viewpoints.
It took a while, but 4chan didn't even exist before that point

>>55042716
>>55043044
wromg

India will never be a superpower due to fundamental inability to mobilize its resources and lack of strong institutional organization that would fight to keep the country on par with others.

Their mindset is not like the West's and to expect them to play the field in the next 20-30 years is ridiculous.

>>55037425
>Star-Trek

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>>55087197
One only needs to look at their service rifle
>jams often
>magazine cracks in the cold
>goes into automatic mode when set for three-round bursts
>sprays oil into the eye of the operator

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>>55079439
>escaped bio-engineered animals becoming top of the food chain
Ever read Elephantmen?

>>55086565
Indian girls are fine until 30 then they go to shit. Maybe even faster than white girls do. They gain 100 pounds and a moustache overnight.

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>>55087197
>>55087318
>India is so shit they can't even occupy Pakistan
What the fug?

>>55079297
African cyberpunk will probably just be an exotic location for Chinese Cyberpunk to visit.

>>55088345
>China surviving in to the cyberpunk future

>>55082217
A good restaurant will ask you how spicy you want it, but yeah, it was invented for the British. Curry as westerners and the Japanese understand it is probably the best example of Colonial Cuisine. It was invented for the British empire, and they spread it around Asia, where it continued to gain local variations. The Curry you see in anime was brought to Japan by the British.

>>55087318
India is the only country in the world that couldn't make a decent AK clone. The Romanian, Bulgarian, Poles, Hungarians, Finns, Egyptians, Sudanese, South Africans, Israeli, Iraqi, Iranians, Pakistani, and Chinese, they all could make AK clones/copies, but India failed absolutely miserably.

>>55089101
>Romanian, Bulgarian, Poles, Hungarians
That's probably because they had the bolsheviks directly helping them with it.

>>55082217
It's your own fault for not being able to read a menu