>>4994
Yeah, it's slow. And there has been some discussion on the topic, actually, I seem to recall.

>>4994
It's slow enough that people can really digest and post long discussions without them dropping off the page. It could maybe be a little bit faster, but I'm not complaining that much tbh. (Plus what's active tends to change from week to week, the /sff/ has recently been getting a lot more use than it had for months...)

As for drugs, I swear we had a recent thread, or at least a thread deviated in that direction? (Ah, here we go; http://www.megachan.net/cy/res/4537.html) As always, the rule would be 'if there's not a thread for it, start one!' (And of course, if there are fifty threads for it, fucking stop making same thread so I can sleep at night...)

>>4996
Fucking fuck, what this fuck said.

The tone reminds me of some Douglas Adams level shit actually.

The first comment is very apt. "don't worry, the singularity will be pirated too".

>>4581
So long as there's not a million of such threads I'm fine with it, since it does come with the territory like you say, but I do feel like I wish I'd used a more obvious image or put a title back on that old sticky. Limitations of imageboard software - post editing and thread merging would be brilliant.

>>3142
Find two photos of girls with hair respectively dyed white and blue, and cut short.
"New cyberpunk girls have hair dyed white or blue and cut short."
Yeah. Okay.

Anyone trying to maintain white hair better be fucking rich, too. You'd be better with a wig... :/

>>4967
er, that last isn't true. That's how musicians made money at the START of the record industry. now, they don't make MUCH on any given sale. A dollar or so, but they get something.

Myself, I'll buy self published works, and the like...but I really don't like the idea of putting money into an antiquated and non-functional recording industry that is actively trying to suppress other forms of music and video transfer. Fuck giving those assholes money.

Most of the time, I buy my music from the artist (if they have a bandcamp) or the label (most of the stuff I like is on indie labels, who don't screw you on postage, and often bundle an mp3 download w/ the rest of CDs/LPs/merch.) Talking of indie record labels and good distro routes, some ex-Kill Rock Stars employees are making CashMusic, a platform designed by-and-for musicians to make it easier to sell mp3s yourself, and offer fair prices. They raised money on Kickstarter (the only one I ever contributed to...) and got nearly double their requested amount. I'd rather trust stuff like that, where you know the money is going straight to the band.

As for the whole 'musicians make most of their money through touring and merch,' that's one of those things that is only partly true. You'll note that a lot of big-name artists seem to be constantly on tour, with a weird staggered release schedule of collaborative singles (I'm talking Minaj, Rihanna here) - those are the people making money from touring and merch. Smaller acts, a lot of the time it's selling merch to break even. Not that buying their CDs is brilliant because they make a tiny fraction on every dollar - but the whole merch thing... it's used as an excuse too often, when it doesn't really apply across the board.

>>4968
>>4969
It was an exaggeration I suppose and true, it depends on which artists we're talking about. I do know that my friends who are in bands would scoff at the idea of selling mp3's, they'd rather give them away. Maybe they're shutting out a possible source of revenue there, but old ideas and habits die slowly for some.

> Myself, I'll buy self published works, and the like...but I really don't like the idea of putting money into an antiquated and non-functional recording industry that is actively trying to suppress other forms of music and video transfer.
Oh certainly. I haven't bought a CD or anything that wasn't a DIY product straight off a band's merch table at a show in a very long time.

>>4963
Still 404. Looking around the internet, though, it's interesting.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/28/epson-moverio-bt-100-3d-goggles-now-shipping/

>>4963
Yea I think it's bumping me off for a UK IP. Looked it up elsewhere though. It's not quite as unobtrusive as Glass...

>>4965
not just you. Epson's site just SUCKS.

>>4858
Truncated sentence fragments. Words.

>>4856
All kidding aside, the Bigend trilogy stands on equal footing as the Sprawl trilogy in terms of the quality of the writing. But the big ideas aren't as explicit. Gibson always said that he wanted to see dirt rendered in the cracks of VR environments; hence the loving descriptions of varnish on the furniture, the carpets in hallway, the breakfasts, the already-obsolete smartphone, etc, in his new work. We have what seems like a completely mundane environment with these nuggets of high technology scattered around that enable the plot to credibly include events that previously required the existence of still-fantastic elements to justify them, like cybernetics, VR, space travel, etc. The point is not about what the characters do, but the how the easily-overlooked strangeness of the environment enables them do it.

>>4960
I really wouldn't say it was as good as the Sprawl. While technically proficient, it just feels a bit dead and lacks the immediacy of his earlier stuff. That said; the Sprawl trilogy comes off as a bit too ambitious at points, the Bigend books he finally has the technical skills to say it... in between, however, the Bridge trilogy is where it all comes together the best.

While the Bigend stories have snippets of brilliant description in them, without a really interesting unifying story or a character you care all that much about, it's just so many pithy phrases.

>>4961
Yeah, I agree. Sprawl was definitely the most imaginative but I feel as though the Bridge trilogy was his best work overall, and the one I enjoyed the most.

Bigend does have the occasional strong diction ("The world outside the restaurant's windows ... was the colour of a silver coin, misplaced for decades in a drawer" comes to mind) but there is so much time spent on mundane actions, facts and details that the stories suffer overall.

how about octavia butler?
the patternists books (1976?)
kind of blew my mind. not classic cyberpunk but still hits many of the main themes plus race, gender and sexuality.

>>4870
I wouldn't call Ocatavia Butler's work Cyberpunk by any stretch*, but she's a fantastic science fiction author nonetheless. And nevermind 'beyond the boys' club' (which this thread has covered pretty well) - Butler is worth reading to get 'beyond the white club.' Her writing reminds me of Le Guin, with less anthropological knowledge and more heart.

*not to say that she didn't have an influence. In the history of sci fi there's been something of a conspiracy towards pretending that cyberpunk came out of nowhere and was a total break from the sci fi traditions that went before it. Really though, looking at it now it's not difficult to see the influence Dick, Ballard, Piercy, Le Guin, and the rest of the New Wave/Feminist authors had on individuals within the movement.

Haiku Soru (Viz's Japanese sci fi imprint) have published an edition of The Future Is Japanese for those that are interested in Japanese cyberpunk beyond Ghost in the Shell. It's a collection of stories, not all of which are Cyberpunk, but well worth checking out. I've got a few of the HS books now, and they tend to be good quality, with nice Constructivist-style covers.

Chapter 1 of Book 2 is up! enjoy >=)
http://www.purgcomic.com
Book 1 is there for .cbr download
plz donate to help me finish this book and to print book 1!

I'm Canadian so i can't use kickstarter, only ppl with U.S. addresses can use it thus far, ty for the suggestion though

>>4942
So use indiegogo

ty for the tip, checking indiegogo now

>>4920
I'm sure there's ways to wriggle around it (aren't there Linux distros that charge? Red Hat was on the stock exchange, or one of them was at least...) But yea, it's not very much in the spirit of things.

>>4923
You can CHARGE for it. But you still have to release the source code.

Another interesting project you should look at is subtext:

There is a demo video here:
http://subtextual.org/subtext2.html