Cross-posting from !CyberMoe@ani.social , just in case anyone wanted to subscribe to a Lemmy community full of cyber girl artwork. Usually the posts are more sexualized than this but it isn’t NSFW.

Good idea, I’ll do that!

It’s too bad the last post on there was 8 months ago. There’s no way I can prop-up another community in an attempt to keep it active. I should probably sub to that community just in case though…

EDIT: Oh, you’re the one already attempting to prop-up that community! Nice work, I’ll sub for sure!

They should have just turned Tron 2.0 into a movie.

I completely agree. I’m still annoyed at how Tron: Legacy rendered Tron 2.0 non-canon. I think it was the best entry in the Tron franchise. I loved how they visited the internet and a server being corrupted by a virus. Awesome ideas.

Mister Potato Head? Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!

The Phantom Phreak? The King of Nynex?

Ha! I’ve had The Last Night on my steam wishlist since 2018 (and it wasn’t new when I found it). There’s no way that game releases, but at the same time, I’ll never remove it from my wishlist.

I tried reading this one about a decade ago. It never really clicked with me and took years to even finish it. I’ve always wondered if I gave it another try (and didn’t get distracted with other books) if I’d understand it better or enjoy it more. But yeah, my memory of it kinda matches your experience. Wasn’t a fan.

Nice! Let me know what you think!

Oooo, this is a really tough question for me. I don’t tend to re-visit cyberpunk works, partially because there’s so much new content to consume and partially because I don’t want to get burnt out on those works. For example, when I was younger I watched Hackers and The Matrix so often that I have them both memorized, down to the inflection each line is delivered. Now if I try watching either of those movies I’m really just comparing them to my memory, not really watching them.

To answer your question though, I’ve definitely re-visited Tron 2.0 multiple times. That’s one of the few “cozy” games for me where just the act of playing is fun to me; just the basic core gameplay loop. It doesn’t matter what level I play, I enjoy it. I feel like any other video game I revisit always has “that one part” I really don’t want to replay, but Tron 2.0 has so many great visuals I just love being in that world.

Other than that… hmm… maybe Blade Runner 2049 or Elysium. Those are new enough to me that they aren’t stale but I’m also not obsessive about re-watching them. And I find both of them interesting.

I’ve listened to the Neuromancer BBC Audio Drama multiple times since it’s short enough that I can just listen to it randomly. I don’t tend to re-read books or re-watch anime since it takes so long to get through those and like I said, there’s other (newer) content I could be disappointed by instead!

This is a very good point.

I really wasn’t trying to make a “let’s all shit on Matrix Resurrections” post here. I was hoping for more of a discussion about at what point something stops being cyberpunk. I guess I misjudged things…

Now that’s an interesting question… would the movie have been better if the Wachowskis weren’t involved at all? I’d argue the movie would’ve been better if none of the previous cast came back. The story should’ve been some new incarnation of The One (not Keanu Reeves) as the cycle repeats (the Architect talks about it being the 6th iteration). Or they could’ve even moved the world forward by having humans and machines working together but “oh no! the matrix is breaking/failing for some reason and we have to fix it!”

Unfortunately, we all know it was just WB saying “we need a cash cow… Wachowskis! Make us another!” and they had to scramble to come up with a story.

I’d love for you to add a link to this community, thanks!

As for a description, I don’t know what to say. My goal is to make this a place to discuss cyberpunk as a sci-fi genre and not complaining about the current world turning into a cyberpunk dystopia. So the only news items I’ll post will be about upcoming movies/games, not whatever stupid thing Amazon did recently. But that’s just me, it’s not like I enforce it or anything. Lemmy as a whole is so small that any new content at all is preferable to a dead community.

How do you decide what to add? Is it automated or do you just add things anytime you stumble upon something new?

On the homepage, is the “latest watch”, “latest play”, “latest read” the latest thing you’ve actually watched, played, read or just the latest items added to the website?

I agree, I think the story will be the weakest part. Visuals look amazing, soundtrack will be awesome, but I don’t like how they’re just dropping the Sam Flynn/Quorra storyline.

Also, I know this is a nit-pick not worth worrying about but I find it weird having Recognizers (the two-legged floating transports) in the real world. In The Grid, things can float because it’s all inside a computer anyway, gravity is just a function of programming. But you can’t just teleport a Recognizer into the real world and have it float. It’s not like the people within The Grid invented anti-grav technology or something, it’s just a program. For some reason I’m fine with having lightcycles in the real world and yet having Recognizers just breaks my suspension of disbelief. And I’m sure the movie won’t even try explaining things like that; it’ll just be a dumb, fun, action movie.

Not to my knowledge… Does it?

I would say Daybreakers is definitely a sci-fi vampire movie (of which there also aren’t many) but I personally wouldn’t call it cyberpunk. Maybe there’s a twist I don’t remember, but I thought the corporation was simply trying to keep up with demand, not that they were doing anything outright evil to increase profits.

Well, The Breed is an interesting movie. Definitely not cyberpunk at all but it is a noir vampire movie, which I’ve never seen done before.

It was weird how the movie starts by saying “the near future” and yet all clothes, cars, and sets looked like they were from the 1940s. It definitely helped create a “film noir” feel, I just wish they hadn’t mentioned the near future as if this was supposed to be our world when it’s more of an alternate history. Overall, it’s not exactly an award-winner, but like you said, I don’t feel like I wasted my time watching it.