Random thoughts on the bus ride home...
How to become a cyberpunk in 10 E-Z steps:
1) Don't get a job. Working is not conducive to the "punk" lifestyle. It's prett tough to keep that edgy, fuck-your-mother attitude when you're bowing down to the man 40 hours a week. However it is equally difficult to eat attitude. It's just not a complete meal - no matter how you prepare it.
2) Always be on your computer. This is key. A cyberpunk without computer skilz is just a puk. And no one likes a punk.
3) When you aren't on your computer, be out on the town. This could be any number of things including, but not limited to: after-hours dance clubs, shady hardware shops, strip clubs, and the street.
4) You should live as off the grid as humanly possible. Don't have a bank account. Don't own a credit card. Don't carry a car-loan. Don't buy a house. If possible, don't even have a SIN number. Live in a major metropolis, either on the street or in a month-by-month rental unit. Never sign a lease.
5) Develop your look but don't be a poser. Ripped clothes should be ripped because of your hard life and not because you bought them that way. Your hardware is as much a part of your look as your hair or your clothes. It is more important in fact. It doesn't have to be pretty though. It just makes you gay. It's always preferable to assemble your own hardware by tearing out the best parts of every piece of hardware you "acquire". In this way, you will have one single piece of hardware that is superb and that is unique.
6) Understand that there are no "white-hat" cyberpunks. You need to throw any sense of morality that you may have cultivated in your early years out the window. You'll have to steal, cheat, and extort to eek out a living. That's really what it's all about isn't it? This means identity theft, corporate extortion, blackmail, B&E, and whatever else gets you through and puts food in your stomach for another day.
7) Music is important. Have an iPod (stolen) or some other MP3 player loaded with gobs of music. Goa trance, hard house, drum & bass, Gernam techno are all good listening material.
8) Keep extremely odd hours. Sometimes you should go months without having seen the sun in the sky.
9) You need a telephone. Get a pay as you go registered to a fake name. You should have a bunch of fake names ready to use and they should all be clever in some way.
10) Wireless internet is easy to crack and is almost ubiquitous these days. You should always use it. You should not even have your own internet service.
1) Don't get a job. Working is not conducive to the "punk" lifestyle. It's prett tough to keep that edgy, fuck-your-mother attitude when you're bowing down to the man 40 hours a week. However it is equally difficult to eat attitude. It's just not a complete meal - no matter how you prepare it.
2) Always be on your computer. This is key. A cyberpunk without computer skilz is just a puk. And no one likes a punk.
3) When you aren't on your computer, be out on the town. This could be any number of things including, but not limited to: after-hours dance clubs, shady hardware shops, strip clubs, and the street.
4) You should live as off the grid as humanly possible. Don't have a bank account. Don't own a credit card. Don't carry a car-loan. Don't buy a house. If possible, don't even have a SIN number. Live in a major metropolis, either on the street or in a month-by-month rental unit. Never sign a lease.
5) Develop your look but don't be a poser. Ripped clothes should be ripped because of your hard life and not because you bought them that way. Your hardware is as much a part of your look as your hair or your clothes. It is more important in fact. It doesn't have to be pretty though. It just makes you gay. It's always preferable to assemble your own hardware by tearing out the best parts of every piece of hardware you "acquire". In this way, you will have one single piece of hardware that is superb and that is unique.
6) Understand that there are no "white-hat" cyberpunks. You need to throw any sense of morality that you may have cultivated in your early years out the window. You'll have to steal, cheat, and extort to eek out a living. That's really what it's all about isn't it? This means identity theft, corporate extortion, blackmail, B&E, and whatever else gets you through and puts food in your stomach for another day.
7) Music is important. Have an iPod (stolen) or some other MP3 player loaded with gobs of music. Goa trance, hard house, drum & bass, Gernam techno are all good listening material.
8) Keep extremely odd hours. Sometimes you should go months without having seen the sun in the sky.
9) You need a telephone. Get a pay as you go registered to a fake name. You should have a bunch of fake names ready to use and they should all be clever in some way.
10) Wireless internet is easy to crack and is almost ubiquitous these days. You should always use it. You should not even have your own internet service.