Oh good… I felt bad that I couldn’t move the dumpster for Brendan in my latest playthrough.

Atari 2600 followed by NES

I just finished reading the audiobook. Overall I really liked it, but that’s partially colored by the fact that I’m a fan of the Cyberpunk universe.

A couple, non-spoiler comments regarding the book.

• It’s not clear when this takes place in the timeline. It could be before, after, or during the Cyberpunk 2077 game. I’m not sure that it matters.
• The way the book jumps between characters can be confusing. Cherami Leigh does do voices for the different characters but they are not very distinct. When the perspective jumps to a new character, it can take a moment to realize it.
• Since there is no single protagonist, you don’t really form a connection with any particular character. They each have their own reasons and motivations but none of them really stand out.
• There are references to some minor people and places in the game. While the fanservice is cool, it does make Night City feel a little small. What are the odds that the characters of the book are in the same places, talking to the same people as the game? Luckily it doesn’t happen all the time.
• I think the connection to one or more storylines in the game is possible but tenuous. There are similarities but nothing direct.

Yeah I loved the book and the movie is a guilty pleasure of mine.

I always liked having karma around as a personal metric, but I never actually looked at anyone else’s or went farming for it. So I think it should be added but not made a determining factor by default. If someone wants to look at someone else’s karma as an evaluation, that’s their choice.

Probably more important than Karma, Lemmy needs flair or tagging for posts to help with categorization and searching.

In addition to that, Lemmy (and Mastodon) eventually needs algorithmic choice. This is one place where the Fediverse falls short compared to BlueSky. A chronological feed of everything is a good place to start but let me decide what I want to view and how I want to view it. For example, if I am person that cares about karma, let me weight that so people with higher karma show up higher on my feed.