• Aux@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Well, the author of the Cyberpunk universe is Mike Pondsmith, who’s American and the game setting is in the US.

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      4 months ago

      So be authentic to the universe. Be authentic to the lore. Nobody knows what ‘authentically American’ will look like in fifty plus years. And it’s still a fictitious city. There is no need for details to conform with any particular city of today, American or not.

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        4 months ago

        I get that but it’s also a genre about social commentary and I think that is best when someone for whom the setting is their home can inject their perspective