Question of the Week #119 · 2:57am Aug 23rd, 2023
Hello everyone and welcome back to the question of the week.
What frustrates me is that I will have some great ideas for some bloody questions... And then I bloody forget them and sit for over a half hour trying to figure out a blood question. 
Maybe this is just me brain being fried from working overtime. 
Oh, well... 
I guess here's the question, if you have a cyberpunk setting, but it has other punk genre elements, is it still cyberpunk?
For example, if you have a world with cybernetics and cyberspace, but the main energy source is solar energy and maybe there are some who form symbiotic relationships with biological weapons/limbs, would it still be cyberpunk? 
I look forward to reading your answers. 
I hope you all have a wonderful day. 
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It depends on which has more focus. But if all have equal focus, I would say cyberpunk would be more dominant since I believe it is the basis of just about all punk genre, aside from steampunk. It is pretty much the first that comes to mind to the general populace if it doesn't have lots of gears and steam.
You can't exactly look at Cyberpunk 2077 as solarpunk if it has a lot of clean energy everywhere when cybernetics are also in every other people.
I think cyberpunk is more exploring the dystopia part. You can have clean power that corporations still charge far too much for, and symbiotic relationships that repo men are too willing to sever after one missed payment. If anything, that would make a great cyberpunk story, with someone who does have a symbiotic relationship with something and then missed the payment so now the corporation wants it back (can’t resell it, just can’t let them have it) and then they go on the run from there.