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- The Blind Spot is a rare cyberpunk novel that touches on data privacylemmy.villa-straylight.social ↗Submitted 1 year ago to cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social | 0 comments
- Comment on Do you consider Alien to be cyberpunk? 1 year ago:
Totally agree. That’s also why I dislike any cyberpunk story that has a revolution/rebellion in it. Any attempt to actually change/fix the system goes against the cyberpunk themes of how futile that is. Cyberpunk stories are about trying to survive with the hand you’ve been dealt, not enacting societal change.
- Comment on Do you consider Alien to be cyberpunk? 1 year ago:
I guess I’m willing to accept space in cyberpunk as long as it’s dirty and broken down and not military-based. For example, I think the belters in The Expanse series could be the basis for a cyberpunk story. The Expanse isn’t cyberpunk, but I think you could easily tell a cyberpunk story in that world.
- Comment on Do you consider Alien to be cyberpunk? 1 year ago:
Interesting, I would’ve said Aliens was less cyberpunk due to the military being the main characters. The first Alien is the only one that centers around a group of nobodies, which I think makes it more of a candidate to be cyberpunk.
- Comment on Do you consider Alien to be cyberpunk? 1 year ago:
So even though they don’t particularly like or trust the corporation, the fact that they’re employees of a major corporation is enough for you to say no? That’s an interesting distinction. So if they owned their own ship and were hired as mercs by the corporation to pick up some unknown artifact would you consider it cyberpunk?
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- Official Japanese poster for The Last Human, recap movie of GitS: SAC_2045 season 2lemmy.villa-straylight.social ↗Submitted 1 year ago to cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social | 1 comment
- Comment on Do you think Serial Experiments Lain is worth watching in 2023? 1 year ago:
Ha, thanks! You definitely remember more of Lain than I do. 😁
- Comment on Do you think Serial Experiments Lain is worth watching in 2023? 1 year ago:
I’m not disagreeing with you, this is simply me probing for more details.
Why do you think social media makes Lain more relevant? I thought Lain focused more on the wonder and magic of what The Internet could mean for humanity, rather than the social problems that can arise from actual internet usage. They definitely touch on someone portraying a different personality online compared to the real world (which is absolutely relevant regarding social media) but I thought that was more a function of Lain’s deteriorating mental state than a cautionary aspect of The Wired. Granted, it’s been a while since I’ve watched Lain, so I could be misremembering.
- Comment on Do you think Serial Experiments Lain is worth watching in 2023? 1 year ago:
Totally agree. Texhnolyze isn’t as slow as Lain, but it is extremely depressing. I thought it was going to be about how sweet cybernetic limbs could be but instead it was more about the trauma of having limbs amputated. Definitely a good anime, but it wasn’t what I was expecting (or what I wanted it to be).
- Submitted 1 year ago to cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social | 11 comments
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- Akudama Drive is one of those "neon lights in the city" type of animelemmy.villa-straylight.social ↗Submitted 1 year ago to cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social | 0 comments
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- Comment on Cyberpunk novels with trans characters 1 year ago:
On a related issue, have you got any good book recommendations for cyberpunk that features other members of the Alphabet Mafia?
Off the top of my head, I can’t think of many. The best recommendation I can give would probably be the classic cyberpunk novel Trouble and Her Friends by Melissa Scott. It was written in 1994 and being lesbian in the 90s is a major theme. But I haven’t actually read it myself, I’m just aware of it.
I can’t think of any other specific novels where being gay is actually a theme or a major plot-point and not just something mentioned in passing. I mean, in Necrotech, the main character is trying to find her girlfriend but since the whole story is about the shenanigans she gets caught up in on that journey, you could replace the word “girlfriend” with “best friend” and it wouldn’t change a single thing in the story. In fact, I think that character may actually be bi; that’s how little it impacts the plot, I don’t even remember.
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- The Gene Generation is one of those "style over substance" cyberpunk movieslemmy.villa-straylight.social ↗Submitted 1 year ago to cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social | 1 comment
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- Comment on No Guns Life is a cyberpunk anime about a hard-boiled detective with a gun for a head 1 year ago:
That’s fair, and I agree. But I still wonder what type of person subscribes to this Lemmy community. Are they deep cyberpunk nerds who are here for the philosophical explorations on humanity’s relationship with technology, or do they just like to see cyborg parts on scantily clad women? The r/cyberpunk community on reddit definitely preferred the latter but I suspect anyone who finds this cyberpunk on Lemmy is probably the former.
Either way is fine, I’m not going to gatekeep our subscribers, but that’s why I wanted to clarify that this is more of a “what does it mean to be human” anime than a “check out these neon lights” anime.
- No Guns Life is a cyberpunk anime about a hard-boiled detective with a gun for a headlemmy.villa-straylight.social ↗Submitted 1 year ago to cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social | 5 comments
- Automata is a cyberpunk movie where Antonio Banderas plays an insurance agent for a robotics companylemmy.villa-straylight.social ↗Submitted 1 year ago to cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social | 2 comments
- Comment on Scandroid - Empty Streets 1 year ago:
I really liked how cyberpunk the songs were when he first started out (Datastream, Salvation Code) but then I feel like his songs skewed a little too far into the outrun/80s sound and just became love songs so I stopped paying attention. Definitely let me know which newer songs are worth paying attention to.
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- Comment on Salad Mug - DYNAMO DREAM, Episode 1 (20min cyberpunk short film) 1 year ago:
Also, it’s crazy to see how much of the film was actually green-screen and cgi:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFJ_THGj72U&t=38s - Submitted 1 year ago to cyberpunk@lemmy.villa-straylight.social | 3 comments
