Is our disappointment with the cyberpunk dystopia we live in due to the fact that we are not, in fact, the protagonist?

@izaya Not at all. The protagonist is *always* disappointed with the world. That's what draws them into the Net and drives their Search. The mark of the NPCs is that they're static - they accept their shit world as-is or repeat the same cycles ad infinitum.

@2ck The best stories have background characters doing their own thing for their own reasons, much like real life.
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@izaya oh, I don't say background characters are uninteresting. Formally, the defining trait of a protagonist is that they end up some place different (emotionally/mentally) at the end of the story, right? I guess the difference is just what span of time you look at and where you focus.

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