The original Syndicate is what scares me, its actually more grounded in reality. That said this really shouldn't surprise you, just like espionage in the Industrial Military Complex is improving so is "civilian" Corporate/Industrial espionage. Deus Ex also has some truths in it, like the banks trying to unify the world under one state. But now we're going into /foil/ so I'll stop there.

What's a rivethead? Those kids with overstyled hair and gas masks?

http://fuckyeahurbantribes.tumblr.com/tagged/rivethead

There's overlap to be sure, but rivetheads tend more towards military fashions, "stompiness", etc.

By the style of cyberpunk do you mean the weird cybergoth thing, or the actual cyberpunk aesthetic?

Yes, and it's wonderful.

SpaceX is really kicking arse at the moment. Within a decade, the cost of transfer of payload into LEO should plummet. There's no particular reason why you can't launch a few payloads of fuel into orbit and then grab any old space module and fuel up and set off to anywhere in the Solar System to harvest resources. Exciting times. If SpaceX wasn't a load of old hot air as I'd feared, then why should Planetary Resources or any of the other new space firms succeed?

That was pretty entertaining. At first I really didn't like how ridiculous it was, but after they launched themselves out of that cannon I was laughing pretty much the rest of the show (also Emperor Zombie's "mine now" line had me rolling). The way Screw-On Head talked kind of reminded me of Dr. Orpheus from the Venture Bros.

I could see this on a late night slot on adult swim or something like that. Sucks that it won't happen though.

>>428

well... it is.

short story > movie

I watched it, twice, two worst mistakes of my life. The last third of the film is Willem DaFoe in a room flashing back to the first two thirds of the film. I was excited to see it initially because of the two big names, Christopher Walken and DaFoe, and the fact that it was based on a short story by William Gibson.

The poor editing makes the film difficult to follow, the DoP must have had his head up his ass because the shots were incoherent, and the director somehow managed to get a shitty performance out of two award winning actors.

If I didn't know it was based on a cyber punk short story I never would assume that this was cyber punk.

Not to go into details: shit. Story was not the best work of Gibson either.

Does anyone know what Gibson thought of the movie?

ahh, lucky you, i went through the audiobook version, and at the end Orson Card talks about this very topic

iunno go look through some torrents and hope you get lucky

I liked the book, the rest of the series is much better. I'm always happy to see good science fiction books made into movies, but I'm fairly pessimistic about this one.

I'm not the type to get all super excited and hyped about any movie adaptation of books I like. I'll see it and if it's good I'll be thrilled and if it's not good then I won't be bummed. It's not like the quality of the movie affects the quality of the book, so whatever.

I know what you mean about child actors though. They can be really hit and miss and are almost always miss. They might luck out though and get some awesome child actors, which happens every so often...

>>482
The only other book in the series I really liked was Speaker. Xenocide was alright but nothing great. Children of the Mind I didn't even bother finishing. I've read Ender's Game like 5 or 6 times in the last 10 years and Speaker maybe 4 times and I've gotta say Ender's Game holds up the best. I was really moved by Speaker the first time I read it 8 or 9 years ago, but every time I reread Speaker I just feel more and more that the philosophical aspects of it are too goddamn heavy handed.

Ender's Game has a story that is simple and direct and doesn't get bogged down in philosophical noodling. It's just an engaging story, not a thought experiment or "vehicle" for intellectual noodling, and for that reason its message is the most clear, concise, and powerful. Speaker is certainly an engaging story, but has too much of a top-heavy "thought experiment" vibe for my liking... it most certainly is a vehicle for intellectual noodling and for that reason is less tight and feels like Card tried too hard to turn what could have been a solid mystery/suspense story with some interesting relationships between the characters into an allegory.

Xenocide had that problem in fucking spades...

I don't know why I went off on this tirade, I just feel the exact opposite of you: I felt like the Ender series just gets weaker as it goes. Ender's Game is super tight and engaging and that makes it the most effective to me. Everything after that gets a bit forced and more about Card pushing shoveling an allegory at the reader rather than just telling a compelling story and letting the story speak for itself and letting the reader draw their own conclusions.

>>491
The definition of "trolling" isn't "having a different opinion than yours".

>>520
You miss a lot of social cues don't you?

>How do you feel

Apathetic.

>>520
Nah, I was in fact "trolling" as twitch accused, but thanks anyway. It was more of a joke really, but these days internet jokes have been made synonymous with trolling.

SAGE has been used.

>>523
Pretty much

SAGE has been used.

Downloaded. I'm actually kind of excited for this. What am I getting myself into OP?

>>488
If you're not familiar with 18th century literature, a very slow read.

>>489
This times ten. The longest fucking dedication/tribute to the king I've ever read.

It's finally happening!

AW HELL NAW CHUMMAH

This quadrant has been judged acceptable by The Star Chamber in accordance with Brit-Cit legislation.

>>2
I'm all in. Putting everything on cyberguy, no question. One shot to the steamtank or even the piping pretty much anywhere and BAM! Done.

SAGE has been used.

>>385
I dunno, at that range, it's just going to take one punch to take him out, probably before Cy-guy can whip off a shot.

>>453
You kidding? With his wired reflexes, that street samurai could eat the steampunk's children and stack the bones in the shower before he could throw the first punch.

pic related ofc.

sage

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Posting, saying nothing but "sage". What a fucking idiot. Also fuckyeah. GG

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Thanks so much for this thread OP! Amazing images that fill me with nostalgic yearning for my childhood when I would read my dad's old pulp scifi books and magazines from the 60s and 70s.

Can't beat the space age idealism!

Reminds me of Star Control II, thus, my childhood. Or rather, teenagehood.