whoa! this had my brain screaming "cyberpunk" in a loop. loved it, the music fits perfectly.

... i want new good cyberpunk novels

inception also reminded me of avalon;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0FVxXGt9xM
cyberpunk dealing with virtual worlds but still much of the same ideas

>> ^Jaace:

Looks cool...but why can't game companies stop copying each other with the freakin' location/storylines? This game sounds exactly like Fallout (1,2 or 3) and Borderlands combined. I'm getting tired of tromping through "post-apocalyptic wastelands" and would rather play in a different locale for once this decade.


The gaming industry is a gargantuan bandwagon train, almost to the same extent as the movie industry. A while ago the fad was WWII shooters, then it was sandbox games, particularly GTA-style (think Saints Row, Just Cause, Prototype, Infamous ...), now you could say it's arcadey modern day shooters (MW2, Medal of Honor), and post-apocalyptic games (Fallout, Borderlands, Rage). Here's hoping after Deus Ex 3 comes out, it will be cyberpunk.

I dunno about that. The whole cyberpunk theme started in the US some thirty years ago.

And of course, we could probably go back further and further from country to country looking for who invented what and who was influenced by whom.

>> ^kir_mokum:

ghost in the shell called, they want their concepts back.

srsly, american sci fi has been blatantly ripping of masamune shirow for almost 15 years.

Cyberpunk is dead. Long live cyberpunk.

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Like fusion reactors - A.I. breakthroughs always seem to be about 20 years out. I watched the whole thing, and it sounds really promising, but I wonder if it's just another model that will get us a little way there- and then come up against a fundamental roadblock. Marvin Minsky has sure been at this stuff a long time - and would probably be a bit skeptical.

I love the idea of having a financial market as a "sense" to feed to the A.I. It all sounds very cyberpunk-rock.

Very enjoyable to watch. Reminded me of when I used to play Neocron a lot, got that futuristic cyberpunk atmosphere.

In the last minute, as the sky grew darker, the city lit up. With the clouds over head dashing across the sky, the city had a very futuristic cyberpunk feel to it.

OK, so I'll make a list now, and then read everybody elses and see if it reminds me of other books that really stick with me

1 Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
2 1984 - George Orwell
3 A Deepness In The Sky - Vernor Vinge
4 Interview With A Vampire - Ann Rice
5 Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Katie Hafner and John Markoff
6 The Tuning of The World - R. Murray Schafer
7 The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
8 National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe - Roy A. Gallant and Margaret Sedeen
9 The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine - Rudolph Chelminski
10 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan

OK, read others' and realize that I should have put Dune, for sure. I'm glad to see I'm not the only Hofstadter fan, and thrilled to see another Vinge on the list.

I feel kind of weird to have 1984 and Interview with a Vampire on my list. 1984, just because it really did stick and resonate, and well... I've probably read IwaV a few dozen times. Back in junior high I read it almost monthly.

I actually was considering putting The Star Wars Sourcebook by Bill Slavicsek & Curtis Smith on my list. That book blew my mind when I was young, and it definitely will always have a special place in my heart. Now that I look at a picture of the cover on Amazon, I wish that I had. Such an awesome book.

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>> ^gorillaman:
If you want a MMO that isn't like all the others, play Ultima Online ten years ago. That's the entire list, because everything after Ultima Online ten years ago was EverQuest or an EverQuest clone.


I would say World of Warcraft made substantial improvements over Everquest, because WoW doesn't feel like a second job. Unfortunately WoW was the last real evolution of the MMO and everything else is just been a copy (or a copy of a previous evolution, which really means they are working in reverse.) Granted other games have come up with improvements to WoW's systems, but even those get adopted by WoW and all its clones in their next content patches. Really the only difference is genre, and unfortunately everyone is obsessed with fantasy MMOs.

Now if we could only get a good cyberpunk WoW I'd be sold. I hear FASA has the Shadowrun prooperty back...

I'm all for the message but wtf? Its like they are trying to live out a bad 90's cyberpunk movie.

No upvote but only due to the ad at the beginning. But check it- the video that they show clips from is on Youtube- I'm sift it up!

Check it: http://www.videosift.com/video/Electronic-Tattoo-Ambient-Music-Cyberpunk-Top-Score

And as far as manga goes, my favorite ever is, of course, Battle Angel Alita... cyberpunk social commentary at its best!

*asia *animation *parody *CYBERPUNK