When poorly written or complex, maybe. I don't know how often I've had to focus on a headline.
Headlines are also written to be attention grabbing. I'd rather headline-specific grammar over clickbait. Maybe there's a different attention grabbing technique, but for now I'll gladly settle for headlines if given a choice.
Thanks for this. As a native speaker, it never occurred to me that headlines had separate rules that would be hard to parse as a non-native speaker.
Valve doesn't have a management team.
Maybe they could transition to being a worker-owned collective when Gabe wants to retire. I'm not sure what else keeps Valve as we know it alive post Gabe.
I don't know that I mind a doomed revolution, as long as it avoids or subverts themes like heroism.
I could also see a revolution inconveniencing the protagonist.
But yes, being hopeful for things to change at the societal level is probably too much.
It's also worth noting that execution trumps most other factors. A Scanner Darkly reads as cyberpunk to me, despite missing a lot of the aesthetics of the genre. Infinite Jest also reads as cyberpunk, even though most of the sci-fi elements are hiding most of the time. That last one might be a hot take, I haven't been able to find anyone else talking about it as cyberpunk.
I was thinking of the Expanse as I wrote that. The Belt maybe feels closer to cyberpunk because the Belters are trapped. They can move around in space, but can never go planetside.
I think that's maybe the crux of it: Characters in cyberpunk are trapped. By circumstance, definitely, but I think there's a physical element as well. Sure you can go anywhere you want in the Sprawl, you can even leave and go to Chiba City. But they're not meaningfully different. You can trade one urban hellscape for another, but you can't escape. The life you lead is very close to the life you will always lead. Interplanetary travel removes that limitation. Being a space trucker might not be better, but it's different. That's too fancy for a cyberpunk protagonist.
The Churn, one of the Expanse novellas, is cyberpunk. It's Amos' backstory in Baltimore. Of course then he makes it off-planet and it's no longer cyberpunk.
It's certainly related, and Alien is richer for the connections, but no.
Cyberpunk for me has always been primarily terrestrial, or at least planetside. Off-world can exist, but it should probably remain somewhere off to stage left (i.e. the protagonist should remain grounded).
I know Neuromancer has a space scene, but it feels jarring and doesn't fit well with the rest of the book. I love space, but for whatever reason, it doesn't mix with cyberpunk for me.
Also, if you've got that kind of money surely you can find someone to bring a crate or take the dog elsewhere.
It took me like half the movie to understand the pidgin for New Hawaii.
The book doesn't jump around. Each story is like a book opened to the halfway point, with another book inserted. They're all nested like this down to New Hawaii, which plays through straight, before finishing each story in turn.
I love ambitious (if somewhat failed) movies like this, and I'm not really sure if the Wachowskis could have done a better job.