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This is a record of a twitter thread, originally posted in 2015

Thew
@AmazingThew

Good evening Twitter.
I have written you a Cyberpunk.

I shall recount it now:

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@AmazingThew

IT IS THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND AND FUTURE.

Twenty years ago, WeirdTech Corporation invented Weird Tech, revolutionizing human society

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@AmazingThew

Weird Tech is ubiquitous. Everyone in Future City uses Weird Tech; it drives the world's economy. WeirdTech Corporation is fabulously rich

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@AmazingThew

WeirdTech's branding, typography, and style of advertising are very similar to Apple's, because we don't think players understand subtlety.

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@AmazingThew

But there's a twist: WeirdTech Corporation is SECRETLY EVIL! They control the government, the media, maybe even some people's very minds!

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@AmazingThew

In fact, Future City is surrounded by slums for people whose lives were destroyed by Weird Tech. They wear inexplicably rad clothes.

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@AmazingThew

ENTER PROTAGONIST
Protagonist is the raddest of them all. He has the coolest and best Weird Tech, but uses it to fight WeirdTech Corporation

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@AmazingThew

Perhaps Protagonist used to work for WeirdTech Corporation, until he realized he was just way too rad for that.

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@AmazingThew

Anyway, NO ONE is as rad as Protagonist. He can snap people's necks just by contextually pressing X

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@AmazingThew

On his journey to take down WeirdTech Corporation, Protagonist will proceed through the following environments:

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- Repetitive Future Slums

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- Future Strip Club

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- Future Skyscraper Place where the environment artists finally get to stop using grunge brushes for a few minutes

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- Slums Again

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yes there are sex robots

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@AmazingThew

After each environment Protagonist will fight the following Bosses:

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@AmazingThew

- FUTURE HELICOPTER

It is clearly jet powered but also has tiny propellers that are kind of useless so you know it's a helicopter

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- FUTURE STEROIDS GUY

His muscles have tech lines on them so you know he's not just jacked, he's FUTURE JACKED

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@AmazingThew

Protagonist just punches him a lot though

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@AmazingThew

- SEXY ASSASSIN LADY

She has robot arms. In the event that Weird Tech is itself robot arms, hers are way cooler than Protagonist's.

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@AmazingThew

She has a lot of animations involving throwing Protagonist with her legs.

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- FINAL BOSS

Final Boss is the CEO of WeirdTech Corporation. His Weird Tech is stronger and more expensive-looking than Protagonist's

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@AmazingThew

Interestingly, CEOs of super-rich megacorps are INSANELY good at hand-to-hand combat. Protagonist gets punched a lot.

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@AmazingThew

Final Boss smashes some of Protagonist's Weird Tech in a cutscene but Protagonist throws him off a building or something dramatic

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@AmazingThew

Protagonist looks out over Future City. The consequences of your actions remain largely unexplored because videogames don't have denouements

Thew
@AmazingThew

Neither does this tweetstorm.

The end.