Cyberpunx

[BRICK_FLAIR]

So I'm in the middle of going back through Ghost in the Shell and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and realized that generally, a lot of the fiction I've gravitated towards would be considered cyberpunk, and that reading this stuff again 10-15 years later, it's crazy how much less "out there" or futuristic this stuff seems now that everyone has a Dick Tracy watch and shit. Long sentence. Anyway, what do y'all fuck with?

Also, I've never seen Blade Runner because I don't know which of the five million versions to watch.

[BRICK_FLAIR]

Oh and fuck the Matrix 2 animatrix is tight tho

[almosthome]

Seeing Akira when I was like 13 had a huge impact me. Still haven't watched Ghost in the Shell, the only anime I've really got into seriously was Evangelion.

I don't know if it counts as cyberpunk, but Hard Boiled by Frank Miller and Geof Darrow is like my art bible. Made me want to become a comic book artist.

[BRICK_FLAIR]

Ghost in the Shell is like 90 minutes and not a bad adaptation of the comic. Very streamlined, but I feel like it loses a lot of the cooler deep shit. Still very rad. I think it's on Starz right now. It's usually streaming somewhere.

Hard Boiled def counts I'd think. I first encountered it when I was like 8 and couldn't believe what I was looking at. Darrow is the man.

[BRICK_FLAIR]

The whole high tech-low life aspect of this shit is wild to me tho because that's the world a lot of people live in now. Obviously not to the extremes explored in most of this stuff, but we're really not far from it.

[guttertech]

never got into the manga or series but the first Ghost in the Shell film is pretty much perfect.

also pretty obvious but Neuromancer is great.

[BRICK_FLAIR]

The movie is based on a self contained volume that actually just got re-released in a new edition with original right to left reading presentation and Shirow's sound effects.

Unfortunately is also cuts the sex scene but what can you do

[Stoner Witch]

This is my shit. Snow Crash will be reality soon enough.

Blade Runner is decent, but doesn't do the book much justice. I kinda view BR is like a comic one-shot of the much more immersive and interesting world/story of the book.

We now openly fetishize tech in ways that were considered ludicrous 10-20 years ago. Motherfuckers are killing each other over iPhones and we treat tech CEOs like they are a new species of superhuman. It's only a matter of time until people have digital storage in their body and theirs black markets for smuggling data in your spinal SD card etc. Humans are weak and lazy and we will always use tech to make a quick buck or derive some cheap pleasure instead of using it to advance "society."

[IThinkItsIndecision]

I'm just waiting on corporate extraterritoriality. That when it's gunna be real lit.

[keep_it_real]

hell yeah, I was a huge William Gibson fan as a teen.

Also loved Snow Crash.

[Czarsy]

Neuromancer is really cool.

[othernewest1]

not the same genre exactly but i was thinking the same thing about fahrenheit 451, about " how much less "out there" or futuristic this stuff seems". and with all the talk and rocketing sales of 1984, it does feel pretty dystopian out chea

[reddfused]

Have you read Infomocracy? It's not high tech low lifes but it's got a bunch of five-minutes-into-the-future tech shit that's real interesting, besides the fact that it's backdrop is an interesting musing on a google run global micro/macro democracy. I'm translating it to my first language and even though it could be better written it's still a really damn good book.

I wish I knew more but I've read a few books outside of the classics I could recommend.

[reddfused]

Also, if you liked GiTS, GiTS Stand Alone Complex and SAC 2nd Gig are awesome. Innocence, Arise Alternative Architechture e New Movie not so much.

[BRICK_FLAIR]

Have you read Infomocracy? It's not high tech low lifes but it's got a bunch of five-minutes-into-the-future tech shit that's real interesting, besides the fact that it's backdrop is an interesting musing on a google run global micro/macro democracy. I'm translating it to my first language and even though it could be better written it's still a really damn good book

This looks really interesting. Thanks for the heads up

[BeatOffTheBrat]

Transmetropolitan is my fave shitty future comic, I like how it depicted body mod cultures and the concept of body integrity (and things such as advertising then violating it)

[Bomb Bomb Diddy!!!]

Neuromancer is really cool.

Ghost in the Shell is great but I think the show is even better.

Idk if its considered cyberpunk but Serial Experiments Lain is my favorite anime ever and if you havent seen it you should, its super heady and trippy late 90s anime.

[shanks]

Neuromancer is really cool.

Ghost in the Shell is great but I think the show is even better.

Idk if its considered cyberpunk but Serial Experiments Lain is my favorite anime ever and if you havent seen it you should, its super heady and trippy late 90s anime.

Was just about to recommend SEL. It totally counts. The soundtrack is wild too

[Bomb Bomb Diddy!!!]

Neuromancer is really cool.

Ghost in the Shell is great but I think the show is even better.

Idk if its considered cyberpunk but Serial Experiments Lain is my favorite anime ever and if you havent seen it you should, its super heady and trippy late 90s anime.

Was just about to recommend SEL. It totally counts. The soundtrack is wild too

First time I saw it was late af in one sitting and it totally blew my mind. Its just so ambient and strange but such a mystery at first.

[HOTDOGS_COMINURWAY]

SIN was pretty cool

[fuck lambgoat]

I dont know what cyberpunk is, but usually the fiction that moves us most is for a reason. Like film noir throughout WWII. If you're super into it, there's probably a good reason it's worth analyzing.

[BRICK_FLAIR]

I dont know what cyberpunk is

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting that tends to focus on society as "high tech low life" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as information technology and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

Cyberpunk plots often center on conflict among artificial intelligences, hackers, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth

[lifejuice]

Love this stuff

[dyna-soar]

my uncle gave me a badly dubbed VHS copy of akira when i was 13 (i'm almost 30 now). it probably had a bigger influence on my life than any other medium.

[Marcabre back from dead]

I just started getting into cyberpunk probably about two weeks ago. I have always been into dystopians but never really delved into the genre until recently. Besides Akria what are everyones favorites (things outside of movies especially)? I have been toying with the idea of writing some cyberpunk short stories and putting them into podcasts and would like to get more reference material to get a voice.

[fuck lambgoat]

I dont know what cyberpunk is

Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting that tends to focus on society as "high tech low life" featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as information technology and cybernetics, juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

Cyberpunk plots often center on conflict among artificial intelligences, hackers, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth

that sounds cool as hell. posting.

[lifejuice]

I just started getting into cyberpunk probably about two weeks ago. I have always been into dystopians but never really delved into the genre until recently. Besides Akria what are everyones favorites (things outside of movies especially)? I have been toying with the idea of writing some cyberpunk short stories and putting them into podcasts and would like to get more reference material to get a voice.

Transmetropolitan
Ghost in the Shell
Neuromancer
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Blade Runner
Johnny Mnemonic (the movie is hilarious)

[Party Foul]

Ghost in the Shell the movie is incredible
Ghost in the Shell the Manga is incredible
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex was hard for me to get into after being a devotee of the movie but i finally watched in last year and i was really really pleased with it

Akira was the first Anime i ever saw and i credit it with exposing me to a life changing level of cool

Along with Philip K Dick, William Gibson may be THE one to thank for all of the cyberpunk shit out there ( unfortunatly also Steampunk), that sprawl trilogy starting with Neuromancer is going to be a treat to anyone who has not read it yet and if you are not a "reader" that may be the book to begin it all with.

Blade Runner is a film masterwork and though it is not based on Gibsons work it pulls off the world that Gibson describes in the Sprawl trilogy near perfectly

The Matrix is essentially Ghost in the Shell and Neuromancer

Do Andriods Dream of Elecric Sheep is very rad but people should read 'A Scanner Darkly' and 'Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said'
if they want to take a good bite into Philip K Dick

also the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Frank Miller's Ronin, Dark Night Returns and Hardboiled are obviously all incredible too

Johnny Mnemonic is Gibson as well

[Party Foul]

forgot about Robocop, Marshal Law and Judge Dredd

as well as the artwork of Moebius

[Party Foul]

and here is Timothy Leary talking about Neuromancer

[BRICK_FLAIR]

Moebius pen game so strong. Almost overwhelming to look at. Incredible stuff.

[Waste of Space]

Neuromancer is really cool.

Ghost in the Shell is great but I think the show is even better.

Idk if its considered cyberpunk but Serial Experiments Lain is my favorite anime ever and if you havent seen it you should, its super heady and trippy late 90s anime.

Was just about to recommend SEL. It totally counts. The soundtrack is wild too

First time I saw it was late af in one sitting and it totally blew my mind. Its just so ambient and strange but such a mystery at first.

I watched SEL when I was about 14 and it made a huge impression on me. These posts have tempted me to rewatch it since I haven't seen it in around 15 years. Next to Evangelion, that was the only other anime series I ever cared for.

[Party Foul]

this is the unedited version, sex scenes included lol

http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/ghost_in_the_shell/an/ghost-in-the-shell-chapter-1.html/

[BRICK_FLAIR]

I'm only half way through this but it's good. Old City Blues

https://issuu.com/juntaro/docs/ocb_vol1

[matthewxdanger]

Decoder
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoder_(film)

[Frozendirt]

Shozin Fukui movies

[lifejuice]

The tetsuo movies are great too

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[Pottymouth]

Cyberpunk is great. I recommend watching Hardware.

[Bomb Bomb Diddy!!!]

Ive only read Neuromancer and Coint Zero but been meaning to dip into other Gibson

[Latenightloser]

Posting, I'm super into cyberpunk literature. I'll post a bunch of stuff beyond the normal Gibson stuff when I have time.

[Party Foul]

Ive only read Neuromancer and Coint Zero but been meaning to dip into other Gibson

Mona Lisa Overdrive is the 3rd in that trilogy

Bubblegum Crisis and Appleseed are other rad manga/anime in that sphere

[Roofies Pizza]

This is my shit. Snow Crash will be reality soon enough.
"

In a sense, snow crash is already reality. Such a sick book.

[Thieves Dont]

For Blade Runner, I would check out the Final Cut or the international version.

The team behind The Witcher are coming out with an open world Cyber Punk game.

[Latenightloser]

For Blade Runner, I would check out the Final Cut or the international version.

The team behind The Witcher are coming out with an open world Cyber Punk game.

This would be awesome. Anyone play the Shadowrun RPG that came out a while back?

[Latenightloser]

Semi related, anyone remember Billy Idol's album "Cyberpunk"?

https://youtu.be/lx2fZU5USus?list=PLqV5 ... XXd0R-aerv

[IThinkItsIndecision]

For Blade Runner, I would check out the Final Cut or the international version.

The team behind The Witcher are coming out with an open world Cyber Punk game.

This would be awesome. Anyone play the Shadowrun RPG that came out a while back?

I've mentioned it.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=912237&hilit=+dragons&p=3633683#p3633683

we'd need 5 to 7 people.

[Latenightloser]

For Blade Runner, I would check out the Final Cut or the international version.

The team behind The Witcher are coming out with an open world Cyber Punk game.

This would be awesome. Anyone play the Shadowrun RPG that came out a while back?

I've mentioned it.

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=912237&hilit=+dragons&p=3633683#p3633683

we'd need 5 to 7 people.

I was specifically talking about a video game version of Shadowrun. I used to play the paper (?) version a bunch when I was a teenager along with a lot of GURPS shit. With video conferencing and stuff like that, is there a platform that lends itself well to RPG's? I still have all of my Shadowrun/AD&D/Battletech/Other misc. stuff somewhere packed up at my Mom's place. I'd for sure be into playing if there were some people serious about it.

[Bomb Bomb Diddy!!!]

Ive only read Neuromancer and Coint Zero but been meaning to dip into other Gibson

Mona Lisa Overdrive is the 3rd in that trilogy

Bubblegum Crisis and Appleseed are other rad manga/anime in that sphere

Yeah I have Mona Lisa Overdrive just havent read it

[Latenightloser]

Bruce Sterling wrote a really good non-fiction book called "The Hacker Crackdown" that anyone who's interested in Cyberpunk should check out. Really good look back at how things were and how they became to be now. I'm also super surprised no one mentioned him yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Crackdown

[on knives]

i fucking love serial experiments lain soooooooooo much