All works of fiction are based off of something like 7 basic narrative frameworks.

Everything in cyberpunk borrows heavily from prior work

It's sort of like the Lovecraft mythos except they exist in different universes

I meant there was lady who sued for copyright infringment

Did she win?

but I can't tell if she won or not

Snopes says "false" but that's Snopes

Tbh I dont really care about copyright infringement

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There are dozens of "a computer controls everything" stories

For years there have been

And "youre stuck inside the computer" shit

There was a lot of debate in how the Matrix is a retelling of biblical stories

Yeah a lot of narratives are also just biblical, or have biblical applicability

Same with classical literature. Once heard the Warriors explained as a modern Odyssey

I mean... it is

like, intentionally so

I heard fight club explained as a story written by a gay man about male toxicity. And matrix as a story directed by two trans as a trans/coming out story.

like oh brother, where art thou

Fight Club is definitely not about male toxicity

fight club is stupid, massively over hyped

Maybe female toxicity in some parts

Fight Club is about a search for meaning

^isn't palahniuk a massive shitlord?

The author was on JRE

Yeah

tf does shitlord mean

He seems like a cool dude

He's a shit disturber

asplain

I'm using it here as short hand for "not-pc"

He enjoys coming up with awful and uncomfortable scenarios in his work

"likes to dick around"

^also that

Which makes me want to read all of it :P

regardless of his online personality, FC was dumb

But yeah fight club is about people escaping ennui via anarchy

Overhyped sure but I enjoyed the break from the conventional

Kind of like what's happening now 🤔

I suppose it's been overhyped, though considering just how highly regarded it tends to be, that's... not hard to do

it was overhyped when it came out by all my pot-smoking anarchist psuedo-friends