• cassie 🐺@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    I like the word “burgerpunk” to describe our dystopia not as neon lights and cool sexy cyborgs but more the aesthetic of a DoorDash ad.

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      12 minutes ago

      Amazing. What’s more burgerpunk than making AI images about burgerpunk game concept art?

      Coming to buggy early access 2025 on EA games subscription app

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      5 hours ago

      Fuck, 2020 would have been so much more bearable if our food had been delivered by The Deliverator. You know, a highly qualified professional.

      …Instead, in this region at least, the app economy bros employed a bunch of befuddled immigrants and also screwed them over contract-wise. So it’s the sad kind of cyberpunk, not the funny kind of cyberpunk