It is a reactionary genre, posited by our generation as a means of reclamation in the wake of the hyper-capitalist dystopia that has been creeping forth steadily for centuries. The tenets and mainstays of the hacker ethos represent a different kind of power fantasy than the one seen in so many other genres cyberpunk tends to prize tenacity and intellectual aplomb above physical strength or military might. It was born out of an expression of a social and political power struggle. Cyberpunk is more than a radical future-tech aesthetic. The more prominent cyber-intrusion has become in blockbuster games, the further it has drifted away from the political undertones that guided the genre through the 80s and 90s. The explosion of hacker-chic videogames could be refreshing, but in its current form, it’s disingenuous.
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Even BioShock, set in a steampunk dystopian future-past version of the early ‘60s, enabled players to hack machines by manipulating a (literal) series of tubes. Many contemporary games either center themselves around the idea of the hacker protagonist, or at least highlight a hacking feature or mini-game, especially mainstream blockbuster titles. With glowing tattoos, neon signage and cryptic omnicode, the cyberpunk aesthetic has become a mainstay of the videogame consciousness. The political milieu of “cyberpunk” (if you insist on genre classifications) has re-emerged and expanded into greater relevance in recent years so too has the prominence of the “hacker” in popular media, especially videogames. These hacker heroes represented everything we wanted but could never attain: a single entity striking out against the established power structure using tools native to our generation. We millennials and digital natives grew up idolizing these anti-heroes, bastions of individuality and counterculture in a world shaped by Reagan and Thatcher, the Star Wars Program and Bank of America. But it wasn’t until the 80s, when William Gibson teased our brains with promises of cyberspace and console cowboys, that the term gained any sort of major traction in entertainment media. The nebulous term “computer hacking” has been around in some incarnation almost as long as computers have. It does not seek to transcend the masters, but to make them slaves as well. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Slave morality does not aim at exerting one’s will by strength but by careful subversion. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.
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