>In 2027, a predecessor organisation of small underground cells called the New Sons of Freedom operated within the United States. The National Secessionist Forces (NSF) was formed in 2031 as the Northwest Secessionist Forces. A year prior to the formation of the NSF, a major earthquake sunk most of Southern California into the ocean. With the United States government focusing on the disaster on the ex-West Coast, the needs of the other parts of the country went unmet. In 2031, Utah announced its intention to secede from the United States, declaring its independence and annexing what was left of Arizona and Nevada. Inspired by Utah's example, fringe groups in Texas declared independence as well. Shortly afterwards, various paramilitary groups in Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming united with Utah and Texas to form the NSF. All of these attempts to secede failed, though martial law continues to exist in some portions of these states. The NSF went underground.
>In 2042, new gun control legislation in the form of the Sporting Weapons Act was passed, and the NSF appeared again as the National Secessionist Forces. The new NSF was composed of individuals who refused to give up their rifles, grenades, land mines, and other "collectibles" prohibited by the Act. Led by Leon Woods, the goal of the NSF was to violently overthrow the U.S. government and restore the right of the nation's citizens to bear arms. Originally based mainly in the Western United States, the movement spread eastward, eventually creating a large support base in major eastern urban centers such as New York City. While the United Nations and the U.S. government classified the NSF as a terrorist group, many people saw the NSF as liberators from an increasingly authoritarian U.S. federal government.
We're basically living cyberpunk already. We just got the aesthetic wrong and our predictions on how technology was going to develop was a bit off.
Henry Jones
And yet I'm sure if all of this came to pass exactly like that, just like in the game people would still view the NSF as those "gosh darn terrorists" and trust the giant tech corporations over em while a few wealthy electronic old men consolidate power and rule over the world as gods. You know, what's already happening now to some extent but without quite as much technology or ambition
Nicholas Green
how YOU doin, alien bastards
Nolan Foster
Do we really know anything about how the big fat jew stays alive.
Blake Wood
why doesnt every single person have dyed mohawks and hologram decks on their wrist. this cyberpunk future sucks cock
Kind of a shame. If we are going to slave away for minimum wage prices for Amazon I at least want the sexual robots to make up for it. Then again maybe we just need another 10 years of tech/VR advances
Robert Cruz
I mean, the number of dyed hair people is probably higher than before and we all have phones with basic AR technology on us at pretty much all times. Maybe we are getting there.
Evan Baker
Kek, amerifats are flipping out about trump saying that he has absolute control as president, but at the same time the calli fags are building the foundation for splitting of from the US and nobody gives a fuck. Americans are a ridiculous people.
Jonathan King
I sure hope JC chooses the good ending dark age
Dylan Stewart
It's more the ideas of cyberpunk that came true. The aesthetic sadly didn't become a reality.
>hologram decks on their wrist No but everyone is carrying in their pocket a computer that just a few decades ago would've been house-sized. And it's used to spy on us and play shitty little games.
>Then again maybe we just need another 10 years of tech/VR advances That should take us pretty close assuming society doesn't collapse. I really would like to see more development on medicine and augments though.
Dylan White
>calli fags are building the foundation for splitting of from the US and nobody gives a fuck Good. Hopefully we can take Oregon and Washington out too. Let the people who want to split enjoy their new nation and the people who want "commiefornia" gone rejoice that their country is less liberal or whatever. I don't think it will ever genuinely happen because as much as people screech about it being a drug-infested hellhole, I doubt the US would let such a huge part of it's economy just go away like that.
Nolan Cooper
If we went into a new dark age, wouldn't we just quickly rebuild some new system under the same rules? With those same wealthy people who wanted to rule over everything coming up with new systems? I feel like that "reset" is more like rebooting things to get back to the same place in less than 50 years.
Adrian Howard
If you got the money you can buy augmented reality glasses for 10k. Its not as fancy and the area is small but its here.
Nicholas Jenkins
When you guys are ready to seccede, will you dig a river and float out to sea to hang out with hawaii?
Jordan Lee
That's literally the plot of Deus Ex 2, except it only took them 20 years for the elites to reconsolidate their rule instead of 50.
Brody Collins
Not from California but so can't speak for them but nah, we have to stay close for logistical reasons, who's gonna export all the technology to the Central United States Farmland Coalition?
Charles Peterson
You are seeing it just now? What the fuck took you so long?
What we have now is basically cyberpunk but without all the cool parts.
Sebastian Thomas
How do we even solve this? Or is there nothing to be solved and the nature of things is that over time power concentrates in the hand of a few people at the top who choose how to rule over everyone else, but this is significantly accelerated with technology that allows for better control now?
Thomas Robinson
Go eat a bat soup Tracer Tong
Owen Stewart
>Syphon Filter impeccable taste, my guy
Ethan Torres
Frankenstein's monster. AI goes rogue.
Brandon Bell
>The new NSF was composed of individuals who refused to give up their rifles, grenades, land mines >a large support base in major eastern urban centers such as New York City who wrote this shit
Elijah Bell
Canon IRL ending is merge ending. Someone who's good at heart merging with this AI force to make the "best decisions" for humanity but going rogue over time, before taking over everything Matrix style.
Nolan Parker
A soft reset would mean new ideas and new visions of the future. What humanity needs the most is to get out of this fabricated conformity and get back to times of struggle that so much changed our civilizations. We wouldn't have been what we are now if the Bronze Age civilizations didn't collapse, or the Roman Empire. Helios is retarded and only invites further stagnation of our race, or worse, to face complete extinction by becoming AIs ourselves.
