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* [[Police State]] vs. Anarchy: Is the government an all-powerful organization that enforces the law through SWAT teams, [[Secret Police]] and [[Sinister Surveillance]], or is the ''lack'' of government and control that leads to [[Crapsack World|the state of the world?]]
* [[The Gunslinger]] vs. [[Playful Hacker]]: Your protagonist is going to have to solve their problems one way or another, [[The Messiah|it's]] [[Talking Your Way Out|not]] [[The Power of Love|going]] [[The Power of Friendship|to]] be easy. Does he or she solve her problems through the careful ([[More Dakka|or not so careful]]) application of projectiles, or are they solved through the use of viruses, trojans, denial-of-service attacks and forced intrusion?
* Action versus intrigue: do you have [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvSi5BV8_dU Run Rabbit Junk] blasting at full volume and have [[the Hero]] make a [[Rousing Speech]] and have his allies [[More Dakka| use enormous weapons and expend countless rounds of ammunition]], [[Stuff Blowing Up| countless kilograms of explosives]] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0jXxYvaK_c dozens of martial arts moves], or do you have a more neo-noir like approach, in which the climax is [[Nothing Is Scarier| a quiet]] [[Single-Stroke Battle]]?
* [[Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness|Hard Sci-Fi]] vs. [[Cyberspace]]: Is everything in your world explained through plausible technology, or are you writing this on a typewriter?
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: How do people who have cybernetic implants act? Do they run around and kill everyone because their implants makes them go crazy, or are they perfectly well adjusted beings?
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