the first rule of cyberpunk is to be as cool as possible but the secret first rule is actually to be as cringe as possible becsuse this makes you infinitely cooler
now that i’ve played a bit of cyberpunk 2077 it's like. goddamn. polygon's cyberpunk red game was REALLY GOOD bc jenna GETS it, you know? because she just knows so much about cyberpunk, what it's supposed to be about. it's a dystopia, but it's a dystopia where people can still make decisions and do what they want to. and it makes perfect sense to introduce a character who runs a non-profit service helping people get clean! addiction is a major affliction built into the mechanics of most cyberpunk games; it's an ingenious way to acknowledge that while also acknowledging that at their core, a lot of people are good people and want to help. not to mention it's a great way to acknowledge that side of the cyberpunk genre while maintaining the more lighthearted tone that polygon goes for.
and the way she builds the whole thing is really ingenious. like, hypo's clinic is not entirely unproblematic! he keeps it running by blackmailing a guy who gets him stolen goods from trauma team! but even that is more multifaceted - because trauma team is so deeply problematic as an institution, and then you realize that mat pack is dead and actually a DIFFERENT warehouse worker has been purposefully stealing from trauma team because they feel that they owe hypo for his altruism even though he doesn't even have any idea; it's such a neat combination of morally grey wrongdoing and faith in the fundamental kindness of humanity. maybe this means i'm not a True Cyberpunk Fan but i like an interpretation of the genre that highlights the hope and kindness in a really messy and dangerous world.
Round 2 should be ready in about a week! But in the meantime... SUBMIT SOME NOMINATION NOTES FOR YOUR GUYS!! I decided since the people who submitted them were just my friends and also the ones with notes only have one nomination except for Kiwi/Bard (again, this shows what i got most of my friends from HGKJASFVGN)
SO IF YOU WANT YOUR NON-FANDOM FOLLOWERS AND MUTUALS TO VOTE FOR SOMEONE, THEN YOU BETTER CONVINCE EM !!
i miss polygon cyberpunk red i fixated on that for a good 2 months probably and just had it ready in the back of my head for the rest of time since then .
Actually I think the funniest part of this Vang0 Bang0 drawing’s time lapse is that i was gonna write ad nauseam on the shirt but when i couldn’t remember how to spell it i just went with hot grapes instead of looking it up lmao