Pixel 6 w GrapheneOS is what I use, its lovely
It's very, very high on my list, especially since I adore story heavt isometric cRPGs. I've just spent collectively two out of the last three years dealing with PPCS, so I haven't gotten around to it lol
is such an incredible list!
Incidentally, I'm currently working (very slowly due to my issues) on a sprawling gothic hyper-transhumanist cyberpunk interactive fiction game focused on creating a rich, novel-quality story, a fractally-detailed and heavily atmospheric world inspired both by regular cyberpunk and works like The Crow and Dark City, and naturalistic story-focused gameplay.
The gameplay will be focused around your dialogue choices with other characters and solving various obsticles designed to enhance your immersion in the world instead of pulling you out, realistic problems like figuring out who and how to talk to the right people at a night market to get illegal weapons, or how to get into your apartment to get your stuff back after you've been evicted. The problem solving gameplay (with usually more than one solution to every obsticle) is inspired by immersive sims like Deus Ex.
It'll deal with themes of positive transhumanism (so, modifying yourself, being an expression of your own identity ans values, makes you more yourself, even if it makes you less "human" — the opposite of the message cyberpsychosis is meant to carry) and questions of anarchist insurrectionism and nihilism.
Ghost in the Shell is a good one. I do like the less western/techno flairs. Actually, that's something I really like about Akira's soundtrack as well, now that I think about it. And yeah, I agree, having music to suit the mood and setting is always important!
CP2077's music for me honestly comes the closest across the board to being what I want, while still having a ton of variety. But it isn't music I can typically enjoy listening to out of game for some reason.
By far the most punk (cyber and otherwise) thing I have done in my life is become a public school teacher working in a low-income urban school district.
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That sounds excellent! I actually just finished reading an essay that made industrial music sound like the natural cyberpunk successor to punk rock, so this is perfect timing!
Their writing style tends to be too rambling and short on clarity and punch for me (compare my explanation of Cyberpunk in the sidebar with the essay of theirs I shared), but there's still a lot of interesting stuff on their site. Wish I could get their RSS feed to work.
Using GraphineOS on a Pixel 6. It's very nice! I haven't had any problems with it.
I personally prefer a self - hosted Revolt instance. It's not federated or anything, but it's fast and nearly identical to Discord with some extra nice features, and it has a first party docker container so it's extremely easy to set up. I didn't go with Matrix or anything like that because it's harder to set up a natural system where you have a server, but then that server has many channels, and that's very important to how my friend group communicates and hangs out.
I use Decentraleyes and Privacy Badger on top of uBlock
This community is about the ethos of cyberpunk as a subculture as much as it is about the literal genre, and transhumanism is very much a part of that, so for now you could post about that here. You could also create a transhumanism community yourself!