Pretty horrifying. Good point about cloud computing; putting all your eggs in someone else's basket is a recipe for disaster. There are already millions of rich Chinese who look down on poor westerners, but that ignores about 600 million poor Chinese who they look down on even more and who have it much worse.

Then again, there's currently a real estate bubble in China of such massive proportions it'll make the American bubble look like a minor hiccup. China could go down the tubes much faster than the USA if things go wrong.

Creepy, yet amusing... there's no info or links to follow on the page though. The page info just reads:

> A lo-fi sci-fi no-budget feature, starting to crawl onto the web in October.

Also, check out their previous film. Looks like a tongue-in-cheek nanopunk thriller about a bot pandemic:

http://infestwisely.com/

>>3376
we live in an age of disposable cellphones buy-able over the counter with at MOST a fake id for less than $30. Low end burner phones are very /cy/.

>>3376
I think your perception of what counts as a cool gadget may be a bit off. It's not the gadget itself you should think of as cool or not, but what you do with it.

>>3365
> Some places/things don't even feel cyberpunk, but still adhere to the basic premise.
What I recall from the great cyberpunk novels includes some resourceful and creative people pirating or recycling high tech gear but also some very poor people using much older tech just to get by. Diversity of class, access and privilege is a big part of that future.

Personally, everything I have is salvage or a hand-me-down. The only computer parts I've actually paid money for are a cable or two and some external memory.

Build a time machine, go to 2015, and buy a pair.

>>3364
yep, they're pretty much the shoe equivalent of a silver spandex jumpsuit with shoulder fins. but still, fanboyism makes me want.

thinking about it they have 1500 pairs of these to sell, gotta wonder if there are that many BttF fans with absurd amounts of cash to spend on novelty shoes. maybe the price will end up slightly more sane by the end.

I presume the Texan retrofit cars were fairly popular then. Although as far as I remember they were only making about 15 a year or something.

Not sure who I'd get for Molly, but for Armitage, definitely Daniel Craig, and for Case, HEAR ME OUT, Keanu Reeves. Think about it. Case, as a character, doesn't act at all. He's emotionally dead until the book is nearly over, where he suddenly gets pissed off, which Keanu demonstrated he can do in Johnny Mnemonic.

>>3036
I don't think there's a chance in Hell that Reeves would be allowed near the project purely for the fact that it would make people think of Mnemonic. It's not a bad movie, but it was toxic cash-wise so...
I think Case is a pretty difficult character to cast though, so I think I'll probably judge it on the performance more than anything. Hayden Shittyson, though, I can't have confidence in.

>>3038
>>3036
He was also Neo in the Matrix, and that worked out.

I think it would be a really cool thing to cast Keanu in all these cyberpunk movies as a sort of Hollywood joke.

Many more people would read it if you do inline(non-mime) ASCII text wrapped to 72 columns distributed via NNTP and SMTP.

Whether you PGP(inline) sign it or not is up to you.

Sounds interesting, but I'm a little tired and the thread is tl;dr so I'll just cut to the chase

I have experience managing a semi-decent online zine (theaprilreader.org), and would be willing to lend a hand to this project if needed. I'm not intending to usurp whatever organizational structure is already in place, but if you need an extra set of eyes I can assist for some things.

My email is tardhere@gmail.com

>>3281
LOL. And remove all the ctrl-brks.

>>3290
I would half-accept that argument, as there were some episodes where it did work like that. But there were too many other instances where it was played straight for the cute factor, which I don't think worked very well.

Of course, it's hard to imagine them with a different voice. Gruff military man? Would make it feel like a cheap action show. Toneless chip voice? Lacking in interest. Really, I think it's the Tachikomatic Days thing that really pissed me off. Although, like Batou, my heart does warm to them over time, and I nearly shed a tear at the end of 1st Gig.

I'll admit it, I cried when they... well you know what they did. Which is the precise reason it's not realistic to give them cute voices. One of the arguments people used to keep women out of combat roles in the military (after they'd cleared up that a woman can point and aim a damn rifle perfectly well) was that it was more demoralizing to see a woman wounded or killed. Sorry to admit it but their is some truth to this. Seeing a 10 year old child die in the same way? Far, FAR worse. That's why the Tachikomas wouldn't sound like children in the real world. They were designed to be weapons, not pets. Would you hesitate to make the right tactical decisions if you felt love for the ones you were sending into dangerous areas? Who wouldn't. If they need to be sentient, fine. Only give them a self-preservation instinct to the extent that they need to survive and finish the mission and not end up a very expensive loss on an incident report. There's no moral issue with treating them as potentially disposable if they don't mind being disposed of, if it will save human lives.

Think of the cow in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

>>3292
In light of the realism in SAC as well, this is a vital point. I was reading TVtropes last night, which highlighted the generally solid grounding that SAC maintains in regards to operating procedure and firearms (the deagle appears once, in the hands of some idiot who probably doesn't know how to use a gun, rather than as a standard firearm as in so many other shows).

>>1182
oh, for the luvva mike! just get an outdoor electrical tap with the spring-loaded covers and make it fit... EZ/amirite?

>>1203
CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet

(Simpsons FTW)

Just got back from playing a festival in Bradford, did some urban exploration whilst I was there and made a few dead drops. You can tell mine by the half-1337 occult tags. Oh, and as a special goodie, if you find 4Z47H07H, it's a bootable Puredyne system. B)

Done

>>3280
I'd argue that with a strong director that verging away from the subject matter will produce a better movie (GitS, Blade Runner support this in cyberpunk, Stalker and a thousand others outside it). Keep the core idea, but change the story, perhaps works best. Let's face it, if Oshii had made the GitS movie follow the manga... well it would have been *ok* in the way that Appleseed is *ok*, but lacks something.

>>3280
I never said it was a bad thing, on the contrary; not only do I agree with what you're saying I'm taking it one step further in supposing that it might even be necessary in order to make good literary works known to those who aren't so literary inclined.

>>3282
That's definitely possible but EXTREMELY rare. I'll jump out on a limb here and admit that I enjoyed the Watchmen movie way more than the comic. But those kinds of examples are few and far between. So many movies just out right miss the original point of their source material.

>>3282
I see that from time to time. Usually when it's a movie based on a existing print media that is massive. Comic book movies are a great example.

Those movies are called "shit". But if you want to expand on that, "shitty comic book movies that would have been great if it wasn't packaged as a comic book movie" More often than not, it's a ok to good movie...that would be great if they didn't try to shove hundreds of thousands of words of plot history and a new/twisted old idea that is unrecognizable from the source material idea into an hour an a half. It doesn't work. It makes movies that people like I rage at...because they go "well, we can't really make a authentic movie because we don't have enough time, so we're just going to do this short random clip and slap the franchise name on it".

The further you go away from source material, the worse the movie is. Wither the source material is a comic book, manga, video game, or something else.

>>3267

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc

I'll reserve my opinion until after I see Prometheus

>>3271