ITT: Best cyberpunk anything
>>52603677
Ghost in the Shell (all series amd movies), Psycho Pass
Is my iPhone 6s plus cyber punk
>>52604737
No it's gay
>>52604737
only if it vibrates in your rectum every time the doorbell rings
>>52605163
das breffy cyberflunk bru
>>52603677
lainchan /cyb/
>anime
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex s1&2. even better than the films.
>>52603677
>best cyberpunk novel
Snow Crash. Better written and more fun than Neuromancer, imo.
>>52609629
second
>>52609629
From what I hear that isn't exactly a high watermark.
>>52609629
Ready Player One is pretty cyberpunk too. Both it and Snow Crash are better written than Neuromancer imo. Plus Snow Crash's main character is called Hiro Protagonist. Made me chuckle.
>>52604198
>Psycho Pass
>Best anything
Pretty mediocre, to be honest.
>>52610439
>Ready Player One.
>>52610559
What's wrong with Ready Player One?
>>52604198
>including the pointless remake and the horrible series with the first one
>fucking every-character-is-a-walking-stereotype-but-in-a-minority-report-setting Pass
Watch GitS uno and play Shadowrun Dragonfall if you need a quick cyberpunk fix. Somehow, there aren't many good films with a nice cyberpunk setting, they're usually just "technology!" and include nothing of other themes.
>>52610758
Nothing. He's being needlessly autistic because >muh gayme references.
>>52610439
Snow Crash was interesting, and I'd say it fell just a few inches shy of being too descriptive in technical details. Being too specific is what the Blue Ant trilogy did to a fault, and thus aged rather horribly.
Neuromancer is timeless in a sense that it tries to describe the experience and implications of the technology, rather than the technology itself. Replace the almost-fantastical description of what it's like to dive into the net with any modern near-future equivalent (jacking in Matrix style, beaming in like in Tron, etc) and you still have a very vibrant work that isn't too ugly to glance at.
>>52611227
I found the prose in Neuromancer to be too disjointed. I get that it's because the narrator is a fucking junkie who's high on some kind of drug all the time, but it gets really annoying to read.
This fucking movie. In hindsight, I daresay it's pretty damn cyberpunk as hell.
It takes place in near-future with all of the present day moral conflicts intact. There's technology everywhere, from fully automated as-seen-on-brochures houses to full blown androids. But the world outside of the tiny, bubble is grimy and dark both physically and morally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_19pRsZRiz4
>>52607202
I came here to ask if anyone else has seen Serial Experiments Lain and now I know about Lainchan. I guess it's fairly popular.
>I am not a robot
If only
>>52603677
I wish there was more of that video
>>52611615
what is it?
>>52611328
Glad you brought that up, anon.
Forgot all about it. Cyberpunk as fuck. I 100% agrree.
What is human? Like tears in fucking rain.
>>52611763
filename:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgxcvmkPD-I
>>52611856
oh thanks, i was looking or the wrong song
http://www.apex-magazine.com/if-you-were-a-dinosaur-my-love/
Link related
best cyberpunk vidya
>>52610439
>ready player one
>not fucking nostalgiatripping without any real content as a book
Pick one.
The Nexus/Crux/Apex trilogy by Ramez Naam is pretty fucking awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O3cZ3M4hAo
Best music
>>52609629
Accelerando by Stross is pretty based, too. More on the sci-fi side, probably...
>>52610758
It's written like it's for 12 year olds but full of 80's references they wouldn't get. No real audience but very slow 30-40 year olds. At least that was my take on it when I was forced to read it for my freshman year of college
>>52613755
I like it mostly for the tech described in it. It all seems like stuff we could have for real in a couple of years. Most of it has already been shown at expos and trade shows.
>>52613492
y-you too
his smile and optimism: gone
Razr i
Zenfone 2
N9
Any chinese website
Backdors
Splatoon
google cardboard
Fucking lainchan
Facekike
bulie/teL hair
being drink
macbook airs
fuck
>>52613863
F8ckj, >>52613351
reminded me, cyberpunk waidu bartending
and a dpog fuggin your leg but neing rtoo froiml tp het uif off
>>52613872
Anf inflatable furniture
>>52613863
>macbook airs
What the fuck man. Its has to be x200/220 or T series thinkpad
This isn't bad
>>52614234
it's good but nobody's playing it and learning curve is a bitch
can't even jump on a server like on CSS, you're gonna suffer
highly recommended
>>52613351
>opens with that same fucking clip from Network that people keep jerking off about without knowing it's from a fucking comedy
>again
>>52614580
How is that film cyberpunk at all? I just watched it again and I don't really see it as being cyberpunk.
>>52614407
Kek
>>52614629
A retrofuturistic dystopian world - it doesn't get much cyberpunk than this.
>>52614629
I'm inclined to agree. Gritty, sure, but there's way too much daylight and laser guns for cyberpunk.
lain
isaac asimov
meshnets
free software
>>52614848
>Asimov
>cyberpunk
Nigga, don't be dumb on purpose.
>>52614861
asimov and gibson are not too different desu, i assume everyone here already read neuromancer so why not read foundation aswell?
>>52614949
>Foundation
>cyberpunk
What the fuck am I even reading right now. That shit is about a centuries-old galactic empires on some far-flung, made up planets. It is literally the exact opposite of everything that makes up the cyberpunk genre.
>>52615027
>It is literally the exact opposite of everything that makes up the cyberpunk genre.
sounds p cyberpunk to me
>>52615059
That is not how genres work, you stupid anus.
filming porn
>>52615027
the societies asimov describes are pretty cyberpunk.
>>52614679
That's the punk aspect. Where's the cyber part? The guy's just riding around on his gay looking motorcycle and trying desperately to get into that one girl's pants.
Also, every human has infinite potential inside them because of evolution (lol) and can become god and spawn a new universe.
>>52613351
I don't think so,
https://youtu.be/jt5tRaV3iY0
https://youtu.be/Be67Sb4S-ec
Brouzouf is cyberpunk as fuck.
Quick reminder that Blade Runner and Akira are not cyberpunk. They're both excellent and have a similar aesthetic to cyberpunk, but they are not cyberpunk. Blade Runner is tech-noir and Akira is dystopian science fiction.
>>52616183
Shit, this is fucking amazing.
>>52616235
>Blade Runner
>not cyberpunk
ok, kid
>>52616235
wats the difference and from whence do you get your definition of cyberpunk?
>>52617210
Buddy, Blade Runner is one of my favourite films but that doesn't make it cyberpunk. I'll explain why below.
>>52617233
Put simply, it doesn't have any "cyber." A very important element of cyberpunk is the oppressive society dominated by computer technology. Artificial intelligence, cybernetics, computers, the internet (cyberspace). The Replicants in Blade Runner are bioengineered, they are not androids and they do not posses artificial intelligence. All the artificial animals like Dr. Tyrell's owl are bioengineered "clones" as well.
It's near future tech-noir with a grimy low life setting. It's got "punk", but it doesn't have any "cyber." To say that Blade Runner wasn't a huge inspiration for the cyberpunk genre would be a flat out lie, but in and of itself Blade Runner is not cyberpunk.
Funnily enough though, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sleep is quintessential cyberpunk novel. Even if the genre didn't exist when it was written.
>>52617350
Pris literally short-circuits
>>52603677
Vaporwave
>>52617364
Yeah, it's actually a bit of a plothole. Maybe. The film explicitly defines the Replicants as "A genetically engineered creature composed entirely of organic substance." And Ridley Scott has gone on record and said they are entirely biological in nature.
Whereas the andys in Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep were more like cyborgs. Or Terminators. They have biological parts, but are also mechanical.
>"Roy Batty was an evolved... He wasn't an engine. If I cut him open, there wasn't metal, he was grown... and then within twenty years you get the first bill not passed in the Senate where they applied for replication of animals, sheep and goats and cattle and animals and they turned it down, but if you can do that, then you can do human beings. If you go deeper into it and say 'Yeah, but if you are going to grow a human being, does he start that big and I've got to see him through everything?' I don't want to answer the question, because of course he does... Ash in Alien had nothing to do with Roy Batty, because Roy Batty is more humanoid, whereas Ash was more metal."
Quote from Ridley Scott.
It's weird, but Blade Runner in and of itself does not contain the elements that make something like Neuromancer or Ghost in the Shell "cyberpunk", even if it's source material does.
It has the aesthetic, but that's about it. And even then that's largely because cyberpunk borrows a lot of it's aesthetic from Blade Runner.
>>52617510
I'll add that some people like to call Blade Runner "proto-cyberpunk". Among other things like Asimov's Robot series, Naked Lunch, and other Philip K. Dick novels.
The word "cyber", and the genre cyberpunk itself, was born from Gibson's Neuromancer. And the proto-cyberpunk is essentially works of science fiction that predate the genre, but served as influences and stepping stones towards it.
>>52617350
I believe you're mixing up cybernetics with the cybernetics of computer science. This is an easy mistake, due to the ambiguous 'cyber-' prefix that gets prefixed to many fields of studies within computer science. But mind you, cybernetics is much larger than computer science.
Cybernetics is the study of systems by means of technology. Systems, whether they be mechanical, biological, computerised, sociological, psychological, you name it. Systems, each within their own discipline, can all be studied by the use of technology. Sadly, the media tries to link it all to mainly computer science fields.
>>52617755
I wouldn't call windup girl cyberpunk, it's imo biopunk, granted blade runner is way more cyberpunk but I genuinely think that cyber perhaps refers more to a computer based technocratic dystopia, which I believe blade runner is.
>>52617755
>>52617745
>>52617510
You're not supposed to take the name literally. Cyberpunk does not mean "punks and cyberstuff". There's a guy who claims it comes from a title of a short story he wrote but no one ever cites him
Cyberpunk is not a genre as much as a cateogry of settings characterized by social wealth inequality, social degeneracy, and ubiquitous high-technology. You can call that the punk and the cyber if you want to, but cyberpunk does not necessarily imply a focus on criminal low-lives and computer-tech
>>52617755
I'll admit, my usage of the word is distorted by Ghost in the Shell using it to describe prosthetic and mechanical bodies.
Nevertheless, the mechanical-electrical part of cybernetics can't be ignored. It's a very important half of cybernetics. The Replicants in Blade Runner however have more to do with biology than cybernetics, they're grown not built. The film doesn't go in depth into the workings of a Replicant and their origins, so it's difficult to say what extend the "design process" is. Are they psycholigcally programmed from scratch, or are they imprinted/brain washed shortly after birth? Who knows.
The common misuse of cybernetics to refer only to computer science probably comes from Neuromancer popularizing the word and coining the term "cyberspace" in the early 80s which would later become a household term for the internet.
>>52617926
That's way too narrow compared to what cybernetics is, which is where the the 'cyber-' prefix stems from. However, this seems to be what most people seem to favour due to the media.
>>52617932
>>>52617755 (You)
I'm not claiming 'cyberpunk' equals 'punks and cyberstuff'. I'm discussing the etymology of cybernetics, which is much bigger.
>>52617942
>Nevertheless, the mechanical-electrical part of cybernetics can't be ignored. It's a very important half of cybernetics.
Of course it can't be ignored, but keep in mind cybernetics is larger than just mechanical and electrical engineering. But I think we already agree on this.
>The common misuse of cybernetics to refer only to computer science probably comes from Neuromancer popularizing the word and coining the term "cyberspace" in the early 80s which would later become a household term for the internet.
Yes, this is one such example the common misuse of cybernetics can be attributed to.
>>52618138
>etymology
Please read 'etymology' as 'definition' here. Now I mixed up two words. :-)
Is pic related considered cyberpunk? I think it's a really good portrayal of what our future might be like.
>>52613667
Accelerando is great, I should reread it sometime.
>no one mentions card games on motorcycles
>>52609629
Wire tetralogy is pretty good too.
>best cyberpunk snes game
shadowrun
>best cyberpunk audiobook
neuromancer
Turns out the guys who did the Quake3 soundtrack have done some pretty retro cyberpunk music in the past.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RWjBPIbJMzY
>>52604198
>Psycho Pass
Hello turbopleb
>>52619969
Psycho Piss had a really cool premise and world, but they fucked everything up.
Akane's retardation infuriates me to no end.
>Hurr I can change Sybil!
>Oh shit Subil has been orchestrating some nefarious plots in foreign countries so it can spread it's power
>Better do absolutely nothing useful and tell Kogami that he should turn himself in so he can be executed
Deus Ex..?
>>52609951
at the risk of derailing the thread,
whatever happened to all the rosebuds? I had a look the other day and the board has closed up,
>>52610439
Neuromancer is near western-canon tier.
RPO is genuinely, unironically written around the same level as typical YA
Mona Lisa Overdrive is my favourite individual cyberpunk book.
Hyperion cantos is partly cyberpunk and very good.
>>52603677
cyberpunk hahahahahahahahahahaha
I've forgotten that cyberpunk is the only thing that makes me happy these days
Why do I even like this shit. Its nearly the same stuff every time yet The music is always good the images/art are always appealing.
I don't understand anything anymore
>>52620937
It has the same very versatile appeal as fantasy and space opera
Great for telling all sorts of stories or accomodates so many different persons
>>52603677
Best cyberpunk book I read last year was The Peripheral (William Gibson).
Worst was Ready Player One, holy shit it's as if it was hyped up by eleventeen year olds. Literally elementary school-level fiction. Harry Potter was more complicated than that garbage.
>>52621360
>Literally elementary school-level fiction.
B-But anon, VIDEO GAMES!
>>52620129
Rose disappeared years ago, as the realization set in that she was never coming back all the remotely sane people were scared off by the obsessive maniacs.
The rest moved onto somebody new like Ashley, or just got bored.
/r9k/ still has Rose threads daily, and they're awful.
>>52620937
>>52621121
What makes cyberpunk special compared to other types of fantasy/science fiction, is how real it feels. Ghost in the Shell (1995) takes place 11 years from now. Where Lord of the Rings and Legend of the Galactic Heroes take place in a world I could never hope to see, Neuromancer feels like it's only a couple decades off.
Hell, in the 90s people thought cyberpunk was here already. Just look at Mondo 2000, that magazine was cyberpunk as fuck.
>>52621634
>Mondo 2000
https://archive.org/details/nc112_writers
Everyone watch this, it's fucking sweet.
https://archive.org/details/cyberpunk_201410
https://archive.org/details/WelcomeToCyberia
>>52611328
Good choice [spoiler]except the last part with the neon-aliens which low-tier Spielberg.[/spoiler]
>Relevant music from the appropriate timeframe.
The entire catalog from Audio Blueprint Recordings. It sounds pretty dated now, but it matches the timeframe of many other works. In particular the Voyager CD.
>Individual Artists from early 2000's
Black Sun Empire
Noisia
Matrix
Dom & Roland
Current Value
>Less aged
Kryptic Minds and their releases on Swamp 81
>>52617350
So what ?
"Neon-punk" ?
"Skycrapper-punk" ?
"Noir-punk" ?
That's bullshit:
In the years that this movie was created no-one would have say that Personnal-Computers would be so democratized like it is now.
BR is a Cyberpunk movie... of his time.
>Final fantasy VII
>>52622251
>In the years that this movie was created no-one would have say that Personnal-Computers would be so democratized like it is now.
Perhaps you should look at when Neuromancer was written, then? Or Burning Chrome? Or maybe just put any thought into what you're saying? If people didn't think computers were going anywhere in the fucking 80s, we wouldn't be where we were today. I mean Christ, computers weren't invented in the 90s.
Anyway, since you didn't actually read my post I'll reiterate. It's tech-noir, but more broadly Blade Runner is dystopian science-fiction.
Blade Runner helped shape cyberpunk's aesthetic, but it was not cyberpunk itself.
Pic related.
Keanu act like shit in it [spoiler]like as usual ?[/spoiler], BUT the other actors looks like they have fun, especially Dolph, Ice-T and waïfu-tier Dina Meyer.
>>52622329
I'm the guy who you quotted.
>Blade Runner helped shape cyberpunk's aesthetic, but it was not cyberpunk itself.
I'm ok with that.
>>52622376
The short story is better
It's a fun movie though, and second on Dina being waifu-tier
I happened, son
>>52622329
>muh cumpootahs
>reviewing security footage and suspects dossiers on a computer
>computers in the dashboards of cars
>using a computer to test for human responses
>one of the main characters is an autist who programs robots in his spare time
You know what other seminal cyberpunk work also didn't have a computer in every scene? Neuromancer
Does Blame count?
Strange Days 1995
(VR addicts, terrorism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RoOs-S_JVI
eXistenZ 1999
(VR, biological computers, disgusting bio thingies, radical-activism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxZJkjG5elY
>>52622376
Kodi +1.
>>52603677
the pc game "hard reset" is pretty damn cool.
>>52622897
That almost naked Juliette in every scenes she is in this movie...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKnlo7sLfa0
>>52622836
I love Blame and the rest of Nihei's works, but Blame is set a bit too far forward in my opinion. The book which he drew some of his inspiration from was also set too far forward (The Galactic Center Saga) to really be considered cyberpunk as well.
>>52611489
Is it possible to get a poster of this anywhere?
The "Immortals" saga from Bilal.
It's post-apo-cyber-pharaonic-god-punk...
The movie is pretty shit but the comics is a work of art.
![incalvolume-4[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/U93ItTo.jpg "incalvolume-4[1].jpg")
>>52623328
>post-apo-cyber-pharaonic-god-pun
Might as well recommend the The Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Moebius
![large_tRLOAiimxC3IOftUXzqhJ2L41FR[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0iodGYs.jpg "large_tRLOAiimxC3IOftUXzqhJ2L41FR[1].jpg")
What about Brazil?
>>52623479
The INCAL is god tier but nowhere near cyberpunk genre.
>>52623479
Incal is more space-opera (like Star-Wars) than Cyberpunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szhbnMGpnNs
It doesn't get much more /cyberpunk/
>>52623678
>>52623662
>>52623626
I know, I was saying if the other anon likes "post-apo-cyber-pharaonic-god-pun" then he might like Incal
What are some good cyberpunk websites to find new content and to just hangout? I never used any website, I just browse internet for movies,cartoons,books,etc.
>>52623741
This reminds me
Back a few years ago when cyberpunk general was a recurring thread on /g/ I found a link to a very interesting essay about something the author called "the matrix". When entities (governments, corporations, even NGOs and charities) stop existing for their original purpose but only exist because it is in their "programming" to exist simply for the sake of it.
Examples would be the way companies are legally bound to maximize shareholder profit at any cost after they become publically traded, or how Greenpeace isn't about rational environmental protection, bur rather making anything they can into an ideological enemy in an attempt to stay relevant. They become machines whose purpose is self-perpetuation rather than whatever the original purpose was
Another /g/-related example is Mozilla blatantly trying to out-Chrome Chrome for dem user numbers and fucking up everything FF was loved for
>>52607968
Man I used to love GITS:SAC, but after watching the original film it doesn't even come close for me! The world design, cinematography and art/animation is on another level. Modern shit doesn't come close
What do you think of this friends?
/biz/>>1060234
>>52623907
I think you need to learn to crossboard link
>>>biz/1060234
![polls_00shoot_me_5333_717003_poll_xlarge[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/huf727N.jpg "polls_00shoot_me_5333_717003_poll_xlarge[1].jpg")
>>52623943
>>>/biz/1060234
>>52614383
The dub is golden.
"You wouldn't recognize a goddamn vampire if one came up to you and bit your dick off"
>>52620129
>>52621509
Rose was found out to actually be a tranny. If you dig around you can find his real name and pics of him before he became rose.
>>52609629
>LE ONLY INDUSTRY LEFT IS LE PIZZA DELIVERY AND IF THEY DON'T GET IT TO U IN 30 MINUTES LE MAFIA KILLS THEM X----^DDD
>>52624111
Haven't read Snow Crash but that is exactly the kind of shit I imagine when people use the word "fun" to describe something that's not vidya or an action movie
/tg/ loves shit like that. For some reason they're unfiguratively Reddit
>>52624044
And yet you provide none of it.
>>52609629
Shit. You just reminded me that I bought Neuromancer a couple days ago and haven't started reading it yet.
>>52623162
Or rather, a non-holographic one that isn't 600 dollars?
>>52624705
Shes a trap. She even tells you she has a penis multiple times in different videos.
Pic related prior to hormones.
>>52624893
Old image, doesn't even look like her.
Anyways just because she says she has a penis doesn't mean she does, anon.
Cant have cyberpunk thread without this
https://youtu.be/gPbVRpRgHso
>>52623162
>>52624783
mate, I've been searching for a while and I've been unable to find any cheap ones
I recently bought 2 similar(ish) ones though, so they are out there
Stephenson is a hack. Necromancer is the only great novel by Gibson, although Idoru has the interesting computer idols thing but I never bothered to check if he came up with the idea himself.
Cyberpunk is dead. The personal computer revolution happened and the world didn't end. The net was tamed and filled with thirdworld shitskins. Nihilistic optimism for the future is non-existent.
>>52624945
holy fuck is that Düsseldorf?
I'm a Brit who worked there for a while.
I would go down to the river bank, along this path, and do cardio every day by kicking a football against the wall up one of these ramps under a bridge. it would come rolling back down, and i used to try to keep it going for as long as possible, deliberately kicking it to the side to make it harder to change. i used a specific ramp as it was the widest and cleanest, and the one in this video looks eerily similar.
>>52625065
>Cyberpunk is dead
You're living in it m8
Only our version is gay af
>>52624928
Whatever you wish to believe anon.
>>52625337
I wish she had a dick, but she don't.
>>52624928
She was born in 86 and is almost 30 if not already. So your accusing someone else of using an old image and then using an old image of her yourself.
She likely looks very different now. All her vids/photos were of her in her early 20s if not younger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CadsdLkiqUs
Who /FLA/ here?
>>52614580
What movie is that?
>>52625448
>>52625464
You will never have badass cyberpunk friends
>>52625543
I'm going to bring the fanny pack back. Help me /g/?
>>52625038
Well shit. I dont suppose emailing the artist and asking for a hi-res or if he'll have any non foil ones produced will be of any good.
Piss.
>>52625925
dont know who the artist is, unless you mean Masamune.
In other words, yeah, Piss
>>52625389
No, I mean his image is old as in "seen it before."
Mine was old as in, she didn't look anything like that picture when she was younger.
The dude in that picture looks like 2012 Rose though, yeah.
>>52626019
The artist for the posters is actually some guy named Martin Ansin.
I dont know a damn thing about him other than that he supposedly said he'd release non foil ones. But I read that on red its while googling and searching my heart out for a non-signed, non-foil variant.
May be worth a shot actually.
>>52625543
>>52626350
>that antenna on the guys hat
Well, there go my sides. Everyone in that picture is so... late 80s nerd stereotypical. Ugly sweaters, fannypacks and all.
>>52626603
Far left and far right are both Simon Pegg.
>>52626350
>Cyberpunk cosplayers
>Wizzard level 40 irl
Nobody mentioned Battle Angel Alita / Gunnm.
Pretty good.
>>52615250
does that make star wars cyber punk?
Bait?
>>52617350
So the replicants are biopunk. Whatever.
I've never seen blade runner, but does it not have other high technologies in the hands of lowlife individuals? I always assumed it did, and that's most of what makes something cyberpunk.
>>52617745
Naked Lunch is definitely misplaced on that list.
I don't even. How do you figure it could be?
>>52618138
Romantic novels also shouldn't mean books with kissy bits and turgid members, but it does.
Are you arguing that the genre misrepresents its etymology? Cause that's dumb and not how language works. A sophomore is a wise fool in the greek, but it really means that someone's in their second year of a four year schooling.
>>52618966
Yus.
>>52627502
William Gibson's Neuromancer takes very clear inspiration Naked Lunch. Proto-cyberpunk isn't a real genre, just a term to describe books that helped influence cyberpunk.
Without Naked Lunch there really wouldn't be a Neuromancer, and without Neuromancer there wouldn't be cyberpunk.
>>52623538
Maybe. The underbelly probably is, but the themes of the actual movie seem to fall more in line with more simple dystopian futures like 1984, brave new world, etc.
>>52623538
How would Brazil be cyberpunk? It's dystopian. The whole movie is about paper documents going missing. There's no cyber or even any punk to speak of.
>>52623854
Reminds me of the Feds in Snow Crash since I've been reading it lately.
The US government no longer exists in any form beyond the purpose of information brokerage, a-la nsa. They try so hard to keep up appearances and the illusion of integrity and service to the country despite the fact that they've downsized their facilities to a single office park and sold off washington into being a private tourist attraction.
>>52610439
Ready Player One is literally the essence of nostalgiafags condensed into a jar and ejaculated onto pages.
I honestly can't think of any other way of doing it. Its like someone tried to write a book but the only references they had were Scott Pilgrim vs the world and the original Mad Max.
>>52624111
The intro is utterly trash. Not even funny enough to be satire, really, but it gets better. He loses the job immediately due to the incompetence of fast food employees and their adherence to the all-holy three-ringed-binders of franchising.
Basically turns into cyberpunk dan brown after a while. Make of that what you will.
Still better than Gravity's Rainbow, aka Farts: The Novel.
>>52626976
Now that you mention it, I see the mustache.
>>52623538
Is that the movie where the MC was on a dentist torture chair and some guy with a mask came up with a Not!Dentist tool about to jam it in his mouth, and got headshotted?
I saw something like that as a child once and its scarred in my memory and I've got the feeling this might be the movie to relive the trauma.
Any recommendations on some good headphones with cyberpunk aesthetics?
>>52627759
Brazil?
>>52621634
>Just look at Mondo 2000, that magazine was cyberpunk as fuck.
so was wired, at the start.
>>52627836
stax earspeakers
If you can find a pair and dont value comfort
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0S-HOOp_VY
>>52627850
Yes
>>52624230
I'm the anon who said it was better and more fun. The 'more fun' is more about it being playful (the protagonist being named Hiro Protagonist, the rat-thing dog heaven allusions, etc). I enjoyed that stuff, but I say it's better because Gibson's language and pacing is clunky as all get at, not because Snow Crash is more fun. They are two separate thoughts.
Also, this has turned into a pretty damn good thread. Every now and then /g/ pleasantly surprises me.
>>52628489
PS: I agree with everyone calling Ready Player One shit. Now *that* book is 'fun' Reddit tier crap.
Genesis+Sega CD+Karaoke all together looks pretty damn cyberpunky to have around.
>>52605163
Cyberpunk asf senpai
Am I the only one who loves New Rose Motel? The other Sprawl short stories get more acclaim, being about hackers and low-life gangsters, but I love New Rose Motel for showing the mercenary/corporate side of Cyberpunk that is often overlooked
Vanu butt is your only salvation
>>52611351
lol I don't know how long you'll be able to stand Lainchan. The admin is 12 and it might as well be CommunistChan because that's seriously all they talk about.
>>52610540
First season was top notch, second season was pretty mediocre
![deus-ex[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/8O0bFbp.jpg "deus-ex[1].jpg")
>MJ12 was originally founded as a SIGINT agency serving the illuminati in the 20th century
>the illuminati itself was lead by powerful members of the elite of 20th century capitalist society. some were public politicians and businessmen. others were less public
>during the cyber bloom of the early 21st century, the old men had grown lazy and lost their edge. they didn't realize the importance of the internet and relating technologies
>this resulted in bob page, current leader of MJ12, to grow increasingly more powerful and increasingly more frustrated with the incompetence/inaction of his peers
>in the end he staged a coup. MJ12 ousted the illuminati and took over its assets
There you go, OP. Greatest cyberpunk backstory. Let us not get into how HR shat all over the universe, because HR is not cyberpunk
>>52622047
This. That was fucking stupid. Fucking jews always ruin otherwise great movies.
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>>52634430
Welcome to /b/.
