Cyberpunk - random articles & clips

[67ec5d145df2fIvan The Insect]

Posting any song by Juno Reactor in a cyberpunk thread is basically cheating since the band is pretty much in its core cyber and punk 

However... This album is often overlooked even by JR's fans which is both puzzling and outrageous to me! This is by far the most traditional cyberpunk album they have released so far.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTDt01_mb3g

[67ec5d145e1ccKolya]

Anomaly III by Seppuku_Doge. By his own account he did some of the art for Cloudpunk

[67ec5d145e4acicemann]

That is some damn fine art.

[67ec5d145e6a8fox]

Cyberpunk Documentary PART 3 | The Matrix, System Shock, Snow Crash, Hackers, VR & Simulation Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KczJNtexinY

[67ec5d145e7eafox]

Old but good. I feel like it should now be extended and updated with a few more paragraphs that include stuff like the pandemic and recession, the renewed cold war rethoric, the Trump era, including the Capitol attack and probably a few other things.

Kotaku: "How Deus Ex Predicted The Future"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izWxL2mhPvQ

Love this. There has been some good Cyberpunk 2077 videos done.

[67ec5d145ea62fox]

1e9.community: "Bionische Augen sind Realität: Aber was, wenn ein Anbieter den Service einstellt?"

hint: use DeepL.com for translation and/or read this English article on the same topic:

spectrum.ieee.org: "Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported - Second Sight left users of its retinal implants in the dark"

[67ec5d145ebbbicemann]

Originally by fox:

Neuromancer: The Origin of Cyberpunk | A Horrifying Dystopia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGW_7HTXuQo

[67ec5d145ed4ffox]

Who Really Wants This Linear City Megastructure?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFazjbOCv4

[67ec5d145ee9efox]

Cyberpunk 2077 and “Late Stage Capitalism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9_SNSuI5e0

[67ec5d145ef7bicemann]

Expansion due out shortly. Looking forward to it.

[67ec5d145f181fox]

Yes and with it, allegedly, the main game will also receive a substantial overhaul in the form of patch 2.0. I'm interested to see how much they have managed to fix since my one and only playthrough, right after release.

That first run went surprisingly smooth and bugfree but even if I factor out all the disastrous reports from others, broken promises and squashed expectations surrounding it, the experience was a mild disappointment. I had fun with it but the main story did not really impress and the side stuff started to feel samey after a while, not least due to bad balancing and the too superficial open world elements.

I didn't feel the urge to start another run until now but that combination of patch 2.0 with some really fresh content actually does make me look forward to a second one. Since I believe the expansion also ups the HW-requirements, this might still be a long way off for me until I have built a new PC. For now, my spare time goes to Baldur's Gate 3, which is fine.

[67ec5d145f2b1fox]

Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 and Phantom Liberty Night City Wire Full Presentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7rWS2zOpCI

[67ec5d145f3bafox]

"Slice of Life" - Award Winning Short SCI-FI film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDQ2SSsmEk

[67ec5d145f5f8fox]

Japan on 16mm Film | Shot on Bolex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQoI3DSrgQ

Cinematic Reality: Japan | Photography Journey from Tokyo to Osaka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R_LWN_Wic8

Collateral & the Death of Neon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y51VUsotZe4

Reminds me of the debate around Deus Ex - Human Revolution looking too golden brownish, with people showing photographs of real world city lighting and comparisons of screenshots with different kinds of color filters. And indeed, I was so much happier with the blue'ish look of the original and Mankind Divided.

I'm currently watching and very much enjoying "Tokyo Vice" in which Michael Mann is also envolved.

[67ec5d145f75ffox]

Pantheon - Season 1 Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTgYeETwgKQ

Season 1 is on Netflix, season 2 strangely shabbily not, although it's out there on Prime and YT. I'm on episode 5 of season 1 and finding it very good and recommendable so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3ShtFk40kk

[67ec5d145f88dfox]

The Diabolical Business of 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6OxlNDTk8

[67ec5d145f9b8fox]

Mars Express

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR_S9BOQplc

Also pretty good and recommended viewing although the story is a bit convoluted.

[67ec5d145fb69fox]

All vehicle telemetry was positive at the time of the explosion.

- Elon Musk (CEO of Tesla, X, SpaceX, xAI Corp. & Neuralink, wealthiest man alive, shadow president of the US, Deus Ex-fan)

I'm still hoping for a Dredd-sequel.

[67ec5d145fe4afox]

pcgamer.com: "Elon Musk demanded a cameo in Cyberpunk 2077 while wielding a 200-year-old gun"

Of course, the real question is, why did he have a 200 year old gun with him? I suspect it was the flintlock pistol that we've seen he keeps by his bed, next to a revolver from Deus Ex: Human Revolution and a frankly unhealthy collection of Coke cans.

RPS: "Editing Edward Snowden's "toothy little cockgoblin" Max Payne 2 review" [paywall]

washingtonpost.com: "How video games prepared Edward Snowden to leak NSA secrets"

For Greenwald, there's clearly a bit of a generational gap between Snowden's experiences with digital entertainment and his own. But he notes that while he would have "scoffed" at Snowden's description of the role of video games in his moral development years ago, he now realizes that video games "played no less serious a role in molding political consciousness, moral reasoning, and an understanding of one's place in the world that literature, television, and film" for the former contractor's generation.

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longpaleroad.com: "Cyberpunk: A Post-Mortem"

[67ec5d145ffa3fox]

Elon Musk Doesn't Understand Cyberpunk | 2025 and Sci-Fi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGhsEADnbOU