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 community 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.

I think the idea (stupid as it was) was to front-load all the "action heavy" episodes to air first to try and capture the audience. Then all the "boring" episodes could air once the audience was hooked. Except that doesn't work at all with a show that has a coherent plot. The execs must've thought it was just a police-procedural with random cases and never bothered to actually watch the show to see if that was true.

I like this person's form of protest: https://mastodon.social/@docpop/110787585288447222

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.

I enjoyed it. They did a good job setting up the world. Just expect some plot threads to not be resolved since it was cancelled before they could wrap anything up.

Is it a legitimately bad show? It's hard for me to judge because I don't like rom-coms in the first place. So while I wasn't a fan of the light-hearted tone, I just assumed everything they were doing was accurately hitting what their target demographic wanted to see.

I will admit though, I stuck with it and watched the whole series. I liked the technology they would use, like having the phone built into their hand. So a video phone would appear between finger and thumb and they could hang up by just making a fist.

Also, there was an episode where they went to a black market to buy illegal software. There were so many instances of clever ideas that I wished they would expand on, rather than the love triangle.

This is all second-hand knowledge (I'm not involved with nor personally know anyone involved) but I also had an account on dataterm.digital so I at least saw part of it. One thing I saw was the admin made a post on the local community saying he would be de-federating from one of the NSFW instances because dataterm.digital was hosted in Germany and he wasn't sure of the legality of the content under German laws. Seems like a perfectly fair thing to do in my opinion. But, for whatever reason, a bunch of people from totally unrelated instances started flooding that post with horrible content that he had to moderate away. I don't know why someone unrelated to dataterm.digital or that NSFW instance would have any stake in the issue, but there were a bunch of toxic comments.

I don't think this was the worst thing that happened to the instance, but I do believe it was the last straw. The admin was so irritated by the whole thing that he just outright deleted the entire dataterm.digital VM without any warning and is basically done with Lemmy now. I personally don't blame him in any way, but I would've at least liked a heads-up that he was doing this. I only know about it because I found his mastodon post shortly after he deleted the VM.

The people behind dataterm.digital also run the mastodon instance corteximplant.com and a couple other fediverse applications like pixelfed and misskey, but I don't think they're coming back to Lemmy.

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).

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.

The income doesn't prove its worth, but it does give me an idea of how well-known the movie is. So I figure most people probably haven't heard of this one.

Space Sweepers isn't like a western at all. Everything is dirty and broken and the space ports are more like cyberpunk cities while Firefly would visit frontier planets. There is a bit of a "found family" trope in both Space Sweepers and Firefly but that doesn't have anything to do with whether they're cyberpunk or not.

I wonder if that's more a fascination with the low-lifes of a cyberpunk future. The "street finds its own uses for things" crowd. I feel like tech minimalism would be seen as more "clean" and thus "high class" from that perspective. So having wires everywhere makes it look more custom and cobbled together.

Ok, yeah, that's fair.

In my defense, I just copied the table from here https://almost-human.fandom.com/...

Yeah, there are only ~100 users on this local instance so the ~300 subscribers are federation-wide. I've been tempted to post a message on !cyberpunk@lemmy.ml telling them about this community since the are almost 900 subscribers there but no one posts anything.

Yep, definitely wasn't Anthony Mackie's fault. The first season did a great job following the book up until the last 2 or 3 episodes where they went off on their own. Then the second season decided to completely ignore the source material and just make up a story in that world. It didn't work out.

But still, the Resleeved anime has nothing to do with the live action show and I think it's worth watching.

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?

Personally, I think so. Each book has a definitive ending to the problem presented but then the next book will have someone the main character pissed off in a previous book coming back for revenge. So the story does follow from one book to the next but it isn't so much an overarching story that takes 5 books to tell. I loved the ending to the 5th book which wrapped up the series though.

Thank you for treating this instance like a production server with a high-availability SLA and not just a hobby project we're all mooching off of. It's nice being able to rely on this little server while I read about larger instances having stability issues.

I heard this 0.18.3 release can reduce the server's disk usage by like 80%! I know you recently had to expand the disk size, hopefully you won't have to do that again after this upgrade.

"A lawless subculture of an oppressive society", that's an interesting distinction. The movie does take place in a lawless subculture but that's because New York City is basically a prison. Does a prison count as a lawless subculture?

Also, are there indications that the society is oppressive? The government people are kinda jerks to Snake, but he's also a bit of an ass so it isn't unwarranted. I don't remember if any regular citizens appear to be oppressed in the movie (not counting inmates within New York City).

I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just poking at this definition to see if it applies. 🤔

• Anno: Mutationem - perfect cyberpunk visuals/aesthetic but the gameplay is kinda janky. There are "explore the city and talk to NPCs to get side quests" parts of the game and then there are "combat" parts of the game. The two don't cross. So when you're in a "combat" section it's all platforming and fighting on a 2d-plane. When you're in "explore" sections, you can run around in three dimensions but I don't remember if you can even jump. The visuals are the reason to play this game.
• Observer: System Redux - A Walking Simulator. That is, first-person view but no shooting/combat. You play a detective investigating a crime after everything has happened and the bad guys have left. So you go from room to room exploring and accessing the memories of dead people. It's incredibly well done and you can take your time with it since it isn't possible to die in this game. I'm not sure if I'd call it a horror game since nothing is really out to get you, but the visuals are definitely cyberpunk/horror. If you're ok with a slower investigation-driven game, this one is really well-made.
• Gungrave G.O.R.E - One of the most mediocre games I've played. Solid 6/10. Very repetitive and generic but nothing is really "bad". The entire game is: enter room, shoot bad guys until everyone is dead, exit room, repeat. The shooting is fine I guess, they try to make it arcade-y where you build combos and gain points, but all the enemies are bullet-sponges so it takes a while to clear a room.
• Ghostrunner - A very fast-paced game. If you stand still, you die. If you get hit once, you die. But every enemy also dies in one hit. This is almost a puzzle game where you have to figure out the optimal route to kill every enemy in the room. So while the rules are basically the same as Gungrave (enter room, kill all enemies, exit room), this game makes you feel like a bad-ass cyber ninja. The game is very generous with checkpoints (basically, every room you enter is a new checkpoint) so you can trial and error each room until you have it memorized, but you never have to repeat a room once you get past it. This is a great game but you have to have quick reflexes to execute the path to complete a room.
• Severed Steel - Hey, look at that! A game I haven't played! Don't know anything about it. Kinda looks like Ghostrunner but with guns. I don't know.
• Cloudpunk - Really good, mellow game. You play a courier; so pick up packages, take them to your hovercar, drive to the destination, drop off the package where it needs to go. You can drive your hovercar or walk around anywhere you want. The voxel graphics take a bit of getting used to but it's an intentional design decision. While the game does have an ending if you just follow the missions, there's no rush to do so. The makers of this game are working on a loose sequel called Nivalis (the name of the city you explore in Cloudpunk) but this one will just be a life-sim. So even less pressure to complete objectives than in Cloudpunk.
• Voltage High Society - Another game I've never heard of and know nothing about. Looks like a boomer-shooter but claims to be a metroidvania. Still in Early Access though.