Maybe we won't be killed by Skynet after all. We just need to improve our robot porn.
What makes you think Skynet is interested in robot porn? It wouldn't have used those nicely-muscled male bodies for Terminators for no reason!
Maybe we won't be killed by Skynet after all. We just need to improve our robot porn.
Are we Forgetting a Certain Female Terminator?What makes you think Skynet is interested in robot porn? It wouldn't have used those nicely-muscled male bodies for Terminators for no reason!
Are we Forgetting a Certain Female Terminator?
Maybe, just maybe. Or it could prove the entire point. One may never know.Of course not. That just the furthers the "not robot porn" argument
Cyberpunk deals with petentious. Sprawl Trilogy, Snowcrash, Robocop etc are not pretentious. Gibson, Sterling are not pretentious. 7hs long, badly shot, b/w movie that gets destroyed after being shown, never to be seen again. That is as pretentious as it gets. But everything's for people.Aahahah! Cyberpunk - many of the people in it, especially - -is- pretentious! Are you kidding? People buy tech-hair because a mere dye job isn't enough. They get their limbs replaced because it's more fashionable! They have visible logos on their prosthetic eyes so all their friends know Kiroshi Optics did them!
Cyberpunk, the part of it that is Style over Substance, is super pretentious. It's part of the fun!
At school we had books and periodicals from the 50s/60s and a lot of the covers showed how we'd be living on the moon by 1980. What the hell happened to that?This looks like a fantastic thread to spam some futuristic realism/slice of tomorrow nonsense.
Like this: You ever wonder what flying cars would look like from the ground? Why not let Chinese lanterns help you out?
Or what about an industrialized moon? If we're going to colonize Luna, we're gonna have to get used to such a sight.
At school we had books and periodicals from the 50s/60s and a lot of the covers showed how we'd be living on the moon by 1980. What the hell happened to that?
They vastly overestimated our potential technological capability, and the fact we had a sort of Antiquity of space exploration thanks to '69 thru '72 didn't help at all. I call that era "Space Antiquity" because it really was the era where we displayed the ability to do what we wanted to do, but we didn't realize how far we were from being able to capitalize on it. Just like how, in historical Antiquity, the ancient Greeks, Persians, and Chinese were able to build steam engines, construct and program analog computers, drill for oil, and even create death rays, but we had no concept of technological progression and the socioeconomic factors of the day meant there was no point of moving forward so we never built off of these things.At school we had books and periodicals from the 50s/60s and a lot of the covers showed how we'd be living on the moon by 1980. What the hell happened to that?
I dunno..it seems cool.. and it has an Edge to it..I think it does!
Not sure where you got your rules from either.
From the brilliant Warren Ellis' newsletter, to which I subscribe proving I am better than everyone who does not..
THE TRAILER IS SEVEN HOURS LONG.
Ambiancé is 720 hours long (30 days) and will be shown in its full length on a single occasion synchronised in all the continents of the world and then destroyed. Ambiancé will be the longest film made that doesn't exist.Yes, a 30 day, one showing only movie that is then destroyed. THAT is Cyberpunk.
So here are the 4 Main Rules, but there are extra, like The Future Is Disposable and The Street Finds It's Own Uses For Things.
1) Style over substance
2) Attitude is everything
3) Always take it to the edge
4) Break the rules
Anyone else have any real-world examples of Cyberpunk in life? Remember, avoid real world politics by specifics.
Cyberpunk 2020. That game that 2077 is based on. Surprised you didn't know that.
And High-tech, Low-life isn't a rule, it's a descriptor. It's also not the sole descriptor.
Not everything in CP is graffiti and guns and grit. High fashion and beautiful ridiculousness is a big part as well. Riviera in Neuromancer built his career on appealing to the ridiculousness of the beautiful rich.
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Cyberpunk 2020. That game that 2077 is based on. Surprised you didn't know that.
And High-tech, Low-life isn't a rule, it's a descriptor. It's also not the sole descriptor.
Not everything in CP is graffiti and guns and grit. High fashion and beautiful ridiculousness is a big part as well. Riviera in Neuromancer built his career on appealing to the ridiculousness of the beautiful rich.