Iro

I'm not dead yet.

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Consumer, sometimes creator.
Inattentive.

Asks are on. Go wild.


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noahchan.carrd.co/

Watched one episode a week - as God intended - so it's finally over. Hell of a ride. I expect much was said on this three months ago, but I enjoyed it a lot!

The records show that I was pretty apprehensive about Trigger doing work for hire (still am about Dungeon Meshi, a manga I love), and I was even more apprehensive considering how shallow and fundamentally uncreative the 2077 game ended up being. The common refrain pre-release was, "well, at least it'll look good". And it does look good, but it also has a beating heart within that I didn't necessarily expect would be there.

Edgerunners gets cyberpunk (the genre); understands that under capitalism, cruelty and apathy means it's working as intended. If you're that deep in the system, the only way to claw your way up is to either step on people below you or destroy yourself. Throughout the show, there are scenes where characters who seem like they're in positions of power report to their bosses... and always get shat on. Often they get put in situations that directly lead to their death. It's not as if all of these gonks are sympathetic or anything, but they're trapped like anyone else. And like a lot of crime fiction, everybody in show and out knows how things are gonna end ages before it gets there.

Stick with Trigger and you'll make it, I guess.


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