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The Republican Party’s plan to rule the state of Wisconsin forever, explained
  • Maybe it’s different if your nearest city is some car hell hole instead of New York.

    So, basically every city not on the eastern seaboard, lol.

  • Our !cyberpunk community is at 1k subscribers!
  • Thank you for your service. I'm one of those mostly-passive-consumer types, I rarely ever run across anything worth posting, so you folk that actually generate content for me are the real heroes of the internets.

  • Do you think Serial Experiments Lain is worth watching in 2023?
  • This is one of the ones I always wanted to get around to watching, but never did.

    I immediately went to Crunchyroll to add it to my watch list.

    Then I came back, dejected, and saw you already pointed it out. Salt in the wound.

  • The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
  • Yup. I got nothing against Wayland, but been waiting on this particular use case to get tooling for years now.

  • The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
  • Client machine is a Windows box, and I can't change that, unfortunately.

  • The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
  • I haven't tried it yet because it appears to be a client, and my Linux machine is the synergy server in my setup (work windows laptop is the client).

  • I can't believe Dredd (2012) is over ten years old
  • It's just a really solid action movie with some creative fight choreography, and honestly, that's enough. It doesn't need to be more; that whole school of "do one thing, and do it well".

  • The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
  • There a synergy/barrier replacement working on Wayland yet?

    No?

    Then I guess Wayland isn't ready yet.

  • Akudama Drive is an anime with a cyberpunk city but I don't think it has cyberpunk themes
  • Heh, fair 'nuff. I'm pretty agnostic most of the time, unless a particular show has a known "better" version. For example, IMO, Cowboy Bebop (of course), Trigun, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners are all fantastic English dubs, but as counter examples I can't stand the English dubs of Naruto or FLCL, off the top of my head.

  • Akudama Drive is an anime with a cyberpunk city but I don't think it has cyberpunk themes
  • But which is better for this show (in your opinion)?

    Added to my watchlist, which is getting very long, lol.

  • Warframe: 1999 - Official Reveal Trailer
  • Veeeeeeery interesting! I haven't kept up on Warframe, but this looks to me like a big nod to Dark Sector, the studio's first attempt at a "Warframe" style game that ended up getting scoped down into a weird single-player game. But, most of the design language and ideas of Warframe came from Dark Sector first. I wonder if this is them finally making some explicit in-universe connections to the two games, as opposed to spiritual nods and references?

    Oh, and anyone who hasn't seen it, NoClip's documentary series on Warframe is a great watch, even if you have no interest in the game itself: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-THgg8QnvU7Weo1mCM9H2AXljC7UrDm8

  • BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts
  • Yup, 3 is amazing until the last 10-15min. So many satisfying conclusions to story threads started in 1 or 2.

  • Upload Season 3: Get Release Date, First Photos and Scoop for Sci-Fi Comedy
  • That’s right, they cancelled The Peripheral but we’re getting more Upload.

    Pretty sure Upload filmed quite some time ago, it was probably better calculus to just finish editing and SFX work and release it, vs Peripheral being to early in production and delayed indefinitely by the strikes.

    I mean, I'd rather have both, but I can see the potential logic.

  • Freejack checks all the boxes of a cyberpunk movie... but I still find it boring
  • Per Wikipedia:

    According to reports at the time of the production and interviews with some members of the cast and crew, the original version of the movie had a disastrous test screening, so producer Ronald Shusett was brought in to re-shoot around 40% of the movie and add more character scenes and humor. Emilio Estevez also mentioned how director Geoff Murphy let them down by focusing too much on action in his original cut of the film. Geoff Murphy claims that there was interference from production company Morgan Creek and that he asked for his possessory credit to be removed.[2]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freejack#Production

    I always liked it as a kid, but yeah, it's clearly a movie that had a lot of trouble and the results speak for themselves. It's a neat idea, at least.

  • ‘The Peripheral’ Canceled at Amazon Despite Season 2 Renewal
  • My thoughts exactly. What am I supposed to do now, read the books?

    (I may, tv's just so much easier than finding time to read, lol)

  • Anon is a good movie but only cyberpunk-adjacent
  • You know, I'm pretty sure that I watched this movie, forgot all about it, watched it a second time, turned to my wife halfway through and asked, "Have we seen this before?", and we eventually decided we had, but finished watching it again anyway.

    And right now, I can't tell you a GD thing about it other than Clive Owen was in it.

  • Almost Human was a solid show. I wish they had aired the episodes in the correct order.
  • Huh. I was watching that one when it aired, and I didn't even notice, due to the mostly episodic nature of it. Not surprised, given Fox's history (Browncoats will never forgive and never forget), but somehow it snuck by me.

    Way more upset it didn't get renewed. I'm a bit of an Urban fanboy and was really enjoying the show.

    ...guess I'll go watch Doom again.

  • which linux distro do you NOT like, and why?
  • I ran Gentoo for years. I run Arch now.

    You're not wrong, lol.

    'Course, I was running Gentoo when hardware was slow enough that you could see the real-time performance improvement from tailored compiles. Now shit's so fast that any gains are imperceptible by a human for day-to-day desktop usage. Arch can also be a bit of a time sink, I get it, especially setting it up takes time and thought. That's also why I like it, and always come back to it: I can set it up exactly how I want it, and it's really good at that. There's always weird shit that seems to happen to me when I try to remove Gnome in Ubuntu or other crazy shit that, yeah, everyone would tell you not to do, but Arch doesn't care. If I want combination of things, I can hunt for a distro that has it, or I can likely just set it up on Arch.

    After setup, though, it's not any more effort to maintain than any other distro. shrug

  • Do you consider Tron to be cyberpunk?
  • I have nothing to add buy my upvote. It's not the traditional cyberpunk aesthetic, but it's absolutely cyberpunk themes.

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  • This comment contains positive vibes.

    No, you can't see them, they're already on the server by the time you read it.