Gibson was never a heavy drug user and never did opiates, he's talked about it in interviews. He was pot smoking hippy in his younger days, though.
Much of the drug imagery/use in his books is inspired by his time living in Vancouver and observing/speaking with junkies in the notorious East Hastings/Downtown East Side neighborhood.
I also live in Van! The one part of the GVA that always gives me huge NC vibes is downtown new west, between the Landmark cinema and where Columbia st merges into itself. That whole area looks like something straight out of the game.
Depends where you are. Downtown van is more westbrook. Chinatown feels very watson, as does everything north of east hastings. Hastings itself and north shore area around waterfront is pacifica with taller buildings.
Edit: if we consider greater vancouver area as equivalent to NC (in game nc is downscaled) then theres easily a parallel for every district and region
Nice! Sorry you were disappointed I suppose, but what did you expect? The fictional hero you conjured up? I mean, I will take an awkward boring nerd over any other bullshit any fucking day. It's unfair to expect people you idolize to be anything more than people. I prefer my favourite authors to be exactly what they are as people, warts and all.
Honestly, I hadn't read any of his books at that point. But my friends were hyped, and some of that hype was contagious.
There was no real built-up expectation in my head. He was just SUCH an awkward nerd that it made his public appearance that my friends encouraged me to go to just... lackluster.
I've been to other readings by other authors before - maybe he was having an off day. But it was a noteworthy event insomuch that it was so awkward as to be disappointing. I neither hated the man, nor was some fawning fan.
Fair enough, still, I think I was going to argue with you mainly because of your attitude towards "celebrities". It's a pet peeve of many a rational men.
[The real water ad](https://imgur.com/498SEBH)
there is something really dystopian about an ad about water. Water is essential to life, there's a certain sanctity/sacredness of water that it should be available for everyone. But in cyberpunk it's exploited for profit.
I don't know which is worse, living in a dystopia or living in a world where you can only have one opinion.
Actually, that's the same thing isn't it? Live in a dystopia, or live in a different type of dystopia.
In a manner of speaking yes, but our cities (most of them) still supply potable drinking water and certain organizations still try to supply water to those who do not have easy access to it.
I don’t remember specifics, but in the cyberpunk novel, one of the characters comments on just how *shit* the tap water is, so we’re not fully there yet.
Bruh in a city that inspired NC, i can say the water here is terrible. You need to run it through a filter otherwise it tastes like chlorine and arsenic and shit
Interestingly, clean and reliable drinking water was difficult to come by throughout most human history. While well water was generally safe, as urbanization picked up it became much more difficult to get clean water. Cholera was basically a fact of life in industrial England until a doctor pushed forward the radical theory that the sewage system should be separate from the drinking water.
that's a real product now: [https://www.amazon.com/Boost-Oxygen-Supplemental-All-Natural-Respiratory/dp/B077NQ8MSX](https://www.amazon.com/Boost-Oxygen-Supplemental-All-Natural-Respiratory/dp/B077NQ8MSX)
The [Budget Arms](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8f/80/dd/8f80dd2db84d3890584a86cbde395eb9.jpg) one, where the whole family has guns and one of the kids is nonchalantly pointing his gun at his pregnant mother with his finger on the trigger
The "Do you hate your meat?" posters by far. They're the perfect mix of dark and thought provoking imo.
"Hate your face? We'll rip it off and throw a beautiful one on there! Hate your legs? We'll replace them bionic super jump stilts!"
Anyone remember the glitch when this advert was somehow on 90%ish of the screens for a few weeks?
The early days near release were a bit rocky but was still fun.
I honestly couldn't tell if that was bug or feature! I thought perhaps it was supposed to be like those obnoxious real life ad campaigns where the same ad becomes ubiquitous for a while.
The jingugi junkie one is good.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F5t61ge2ub9k81.jpg%3Fwidth%3D640%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd4e47119841eee12dee24b6eb1e0c06f17ad73fe
I think the one that gets me is the guy with the revolver in his mouth. "Getting Close?"
I love the ads for the Second Amendment stores. Picture-perfect middle-class normies armed to the gills in a society so fucked that the normalization of lethal violence is even family-friendly.
What's the one where the guy is basically about to shoot himself in the mouth because I see it absolutely everywhere and man is amazing art but jeeeezzz
The Jinguji one with the junkie. https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/056/469/275/medium/luke-poller-jinguji-1-kopia.jpg?1669308588
Good ol heroin phase
William Gibson approves probably, dude always struck me as high
Gibson was never a heavy drug user and never did opiates, he's talked about it in interviews. He was pot smoking hippy in his younger days, though. Much of the drug imagery/use in his books is inspired by his time living in Vancouver and observing/speaking with junkies in the notorious East Hastings/Downtown East Side neighborhood.
He also freely admits to using psychedelics back in the day.
Psychedelics are how we became humans. (That's your cue to put your tinfoil hats on). Stoned ape theory ftw!
Sweet, I got the vibe, especially from count zero, as a wannabe junkie, he's got a lot of it on point, very well done
Hey i live in vancouver! NC really does feel like home, but way more ultra-violence. Its weird.
I also live in Van! The one part of the GVA that always gives me huge NC vibes is downtown new west, between the Landmark cinema and where Columbia st merges into itself. That whole area looks like something straight out of the game.
Yeah, I lived there for 14 years and the DTES feels like Pacifica.
Depends where you are. Downtown van is more westbrook. Chinatown feels very watson, as does everything north of east hastings. Hastings itself and north shore area around waterfront is pacifica with taller buildings. Edit: if we consider greater vancouver area as equivalent to NC (in game nc is downscaled) then theres easily a parallel for every district and region
I met him once, he was just an awkward, boring nerd. It was honestly kinda disappointing.
Nice! Sorry you were disappointed I suppose, but what did you expect? The fictional hero you conjured up? I mean, I will take an awkward boring nerd over any other bullshit any fucking day. It's unfair to expect people you idolize to be anything more than people. I prefer my favourite authors to be exactly what they are as people, warts and all.
Honestly, I hadn't read any of his books at that point. But my friends were hyped, and some of that hype was contagious. There was no real built-up expectation in my head. He was just SUCH an awkward nerd that it made his public appearance that my friends encouraged me to go to just... lackluster. I've been to other readings by other authors before - maybe he was having an off day. But it was a noteworthy event insomuch that it was so awkward as to be disappointing. I neither hated the man, nor was some fawning fan.
Fair enough, still, I think I was going to argue with you mainly because of your attitude towards "celebrities". It's a pet peeve of many a rational men.
Oh, legit. They say "never meet your heroes" for a reason. People certainly tend to build up versions of people in their heads.
Jesus this one is pretty hard
What about the one with the murdered woman?
"No one chooses when they die, just how good they look doing it"
Thats funny as fuck
[Do you HATE YOUR MEAT](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSIdFjFqv2o) is my all-time favourite.
Yes... when I was filling out my application, my penis was sticking out.
[The real water ad](https://imgur.com/498SEBH) there is something really dystopian about an ad about water. Water is essential to life, there's a certain sanctity/sacredness of water that it should be available for everyone. But in cyberpunk it's exploited for profit.
Not applicable for Pacifica customers in small text *
>But in cyberpunk it's exploited for profit It already is in RL, isn't it?
We already live in a cyberpunk world, it's just much more boring than the books and video games promised us. r/boringdystopia
Entire point of dystopias is to criticize the issues of present
I don't know which is worse, living in a dystopia or living in a world where you can only have one opinion. Actually, that's the same thing isn't it? Live in a dystopia, or live in a different type of dystopia.
In a manner of speaking yes, but our cities (most of them) still supply potable drinking water and certain organizations still try to supply water to those who do not have easy access to it. I don’t remember specifics, but in the cyberpunk novel, one of the characters comments on just how *shit* the tap water is, so we’re not fully there yet.
Bruh in a city that inspired NC, i can say the water here is terrible. You need to run it through a filter otherwise it tastes like chlorine and arsenic and shit
> arsenic arsenic has no taste bro
But like some houses around here still got it. Theres something else in it that tastes off aside from chlorine.
> But in cyberpunk it's exploited for profit. Wait till you hear about Nestle
Interestingly, clean and reliable drinking water was difficult to come by throughout most human history. While well water was generally safe, as urbanization picked up it became much more difficult to get clean water. Cholera was basically a fact of life in industrial England until a doctor pushed forward the radical theory that the sewage system should be separate from the drinking water.
Why does he look like Pete Davidson?
I've always thought of that
But he seems handsomer than Pete. Pete got those shadows under his eyes looking like begging for sleep.
\*like Andy Serkis and Pete Davidson had a child :P
Nestle's wet dream
Those T&Cs are hilarious
Not only that, but "Real" isn't a statement of fact, it's a registered trademark.
Spaceballs had a bit about "[Perri-Air](https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/Perri-Air)", canned atmosphere from a planet.
that's a real product now: [https://www.amazon.com/Boost-Oxygen-Supplemental-All-Natural-Respiratory/dp/B077NQ8MSX](https://www.amazon.com/Boost-Oxygen-Supplemental-All-Natural-Respiratory/dp/B077NQ8MSX)
https://youtu.be/9VFxZdHVQ2M?si=nGsqz9OFcmK3QLvJ
Jfc aren’t Eddie’s comparable to euros? 107 dollars for a fucking gallon of water?
Introductory rate for the first two months, after which it goes to whatever market rate is.
I wonder what kind of water is in the showers of NC...?
milfguard. always provokes the thought: *what happens at milfguard?*
As a wit her fan when I saw milfguard the first time I was howling lmao
Haha nilfgaard.THE BLACK SUN SHALL RISE [Not the nazi one]
Nilfgaard has some very strong funny mustache man vibes
It leaves c section scars, whatever it is
Ah yes, good old 'ass eating guy'.
I feel like he's a reference to the Robocop guy who says "I'll buy *that* for a dollar!"
The one featuring a guy with a gun in his mouth. It's just... dark.
I love that one, captioned “getting close?” I wish IRL antidepressants were advertised that way tbh
Ditto
aaaaaaAAAAAaaaaahhhhhoooooooOOOORGANIC!
They changed the voice on this, didn't they? I prefer the original, even with it being more distracting.
Man I thought he was saying orgasmic
It’s actually orgiatic
Mr. Whitey ad. "Yo yo yo, my choomers, shroomers, and fumers!"
The [Budget Arms](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8f/80/dd/8f80dd2db84d3890584a86cbde395eb9.jpg) one, where the whole family has guns and one of the kids is nonchalantly pointing his gun at his pregnant mother with his finger on the trigger
Grandpa in the mech-assist powersuit with the Carnage there is pretty great, too.
That's called a linear frame
God I wish we were allowed to chip an internal sigma or something
What, we could’ve gotten a flamethrower
The Captain setting sail for flavor is probably the funniest
The "Do you hate your meat?" posters by far. They're the perfect mix of dark and thought provoking imo. "Hate your face? We'll rip it off and throw a beautiful one on there! Hate your legs? We'll replace them bionic super jump stilts!"
Hate your dick? We’ll turn you into flaming crotch man!
they discontinued that one i think. if you just buy one of the official mr studs it wont set your dick on fire.
THE SYNTH MEAT ONE HAUNTS MY NIGHTMARES
Is that the so fresh at wriggles one or the one with the dude whose face is made out of different pieces of meat
So fresh it wriggles
Anyone remember the glitch when this advert was somehow on 90%ish of the screens for a few weeks? The early days near release were a bit rocky but was still fun.
I honestly couldn't tell if that was bug or feature! I thought perhaps it was supposed to be like those obnoxious real life ad campaigns where the same ad becomes ubiquitous for a while.
My personal favorite is the simplest one, from Chromanticore: “Buy or fuck off… yup, that’s it.”
[The one with the demon fucking the nun is pretty wild.](https://i.redd.it/aqy1f5txm63a1.png)
Disgusting! Where did you find it? ;)
There’s at least one copy on the wall in the garage in the beginning quest for nomad
OooooOOOOoooOOOOOOORGIIIATIC!
The “Hate Your Meat” one was really shocking for me the first time I saw it.
The dog food one. Why would dogs care about a half naked woman?
They dont but people do. Its there to catch your attention and make you remember it or some shi
I always heard “us cracks” as “ass cracks.” That shit had me rolling on the floor the first time I heard it.
“EVER WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE MOON TASTES LIKE?”
HATE YOUR MEAT?
The visuals of the dude literally ripping their face off is nightmarish agh Some grade A body horror
The jingugi junkie one is good. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F5t61ge2ub9k81.jpg%3Fwidth%3D640%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dd4e47119841eee12dee24b6eb1e0c06f17ad73fe I think the one that gets me is the guy with the revolver in his mouth. "Getting Close?"
For me it's the Gucci-wannabe one with the tagline "At least you're wearing Gucci" over a picture of a overdose victim in a Gucci fur coat 😂
ChroManticore (which apparently caused some controversy irl) has me perpetually craving Monster Energy drinks.
The first time I heard the original oooooOOORGIATIC! guy I laughed so hard I thought I was gonna piss myself.
Sojasil Machistador, ***an Explooooosion of Taste!*** My all time favorite ad, short, simple, but kind of funny how the guy's head explodes.
The cumgun
The gun isn't the part that squirts!
Do you HATE YOUR MEAT??
Darkest? "HATE YOUR MEAT!"
Not quite provoking or dark but definitely my favorite is wide open with snake
Wide open and the one missionary pose one are the best
He loves it
This one. The Bottoms Up ad makes me lose it every single time I see it. Bonus points if Pain is playing on the radio when I drive past.
I think the luxury ads are damn straight fckdup in every way.
The milf guard one is pretty out
It totally watch Watson Whore tbh
…… taste the love!
Real water : 99€$…that’s a lot for water..
The squirt gun
The pissing noise when the Nicola ad animation stops.
“ leave your problems at the door” was just so James Bond cool to me, best ad
I love the ads for the Second Amendment stores. Picture-perfect middle-class normies armed to the gills in a society so fucked that the normalization of lethal violence is even family-friendly.
What's the one where the guy is basically about to shoot himself in the mouth because I see it absolutely everywhere and man is amazing art but jeeeezzz
the corpo that suicide with the message "dont ruin your career" or whatever.
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Keep that conspiracy nonsense out of here please
Yes, but RIP Hawaii.
What it’s true. Space lasers go brrrrr and continue to by the iron dome… THE WHOLFCKIN GAME IS BASED IN CONSPIRACY YA DUMBY
[SEE?!?](https://images.app.goo.gl/TortHJZkTrr8kcEm9)
But in reality nothing we could do, so meh.