Kaltovar

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have not, but my robot has!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Then dig his corpse up too and give it cybernetic augmentations with which to kill its enemies

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I literally swapped to Librewolf before the Rossman video was done. I was on Brave Browser before, but it's based on Chromium. Fuck Chromium and fuck Google. Fuck this shitty amoeba that tries to spread into and control everything.

I will post stupid shit on my federated forum and you will fucking live with it Google. Fuck you. Burn. It's time to break up the internet monopolies and do some trust busting. Someone pull FDR's rotten corpse out of the grave and put it back to work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I actually just read this book for the first time recently.

I find myself very interested in the character of Wintermute, more so than Neuromancer.

spoilerI'm curious to see what the Wintermute part of the AI fusion will do next, assuming we get to see in the coming books.

I haven't read count zero yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That intro with the androids half taken apart on the assembly lines is gold!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Those are some very intricate and dangerous looking hindclaws!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nobody is going to say it here? I really, really like Syndicate. The original one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Man I wish we gave NASA 2% of the budget permanently so they could afford to do a lot more shit.

In other words I support a 416% increase in the NASA budget.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad it didn't, because the bulky 80s tech looks cool as hell and I'm glad it's a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This definitely looks interesting!

It's a shame it doesn't seem to indicate any sort of RPG elements or incorporate a living city, instead basically being Doom with a cyberpunk paint scheme.

Still, it looks exciting! Hope it continues to get developed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My understanding from the Forgotten Firearms video is that so far the system looks pretty mechanically secure. No silly magnet tricks or RFID stealing here. As for electronic security, neither him or me are an expert in that domain so the jury's still out, but it's encouraging to know that all biometric data (print, face scan) is encrypted and stored locally! In fact, it's stored directly on the gun. How's that for data security? You have to steal my gun out of my hand and then decrypt it to get my deets :3

Fuck, decrypting a gun to steal biometric data is so cyberpunk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They have two methods right now, finger print and face scan. If either method verifies, then the gun authenticates. It's designed for indoor use rather than daily carry. The face scan camera uses an infra red light projector to illuminate your face in dark conditions and rain (if you have to go outside for some reason, not recommended)

So, in the specific circumstances of being a gun you leave on the night stand and don't carry around everywhere it seems pretty good. I wish it had a third verification method though.

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Coruscant is cyberpunk (lemmy.villa-straylight.social)
 

It’s got the low life high tech thing, the unfuckwithable slums the enforcers stay out of, glowing neon bullshit everywhere, an oppressive tyrannical regime with intense social stratification, and tons of different factions competing for influence in all the different SW eras. It’s also a megacity and there’s drugs and guns all over the place.

Star Wars itself isn’t cyberpunk overall (being a space opera and all), but Coruscant feels like it to me.

I’ve always been curious bout the possibilities of a live action series focused on the city. There’s so many different environments to play with and so many different groups of people to ally with or betray each other.

I mean, not that I’d want to see Disney do it, because it would be fucking awful. Just, you know, conceptually I think Coruscant is one of the coolest places in the franchise and always wanted to see more stuff set there outside the boring senate chambers and top level landing platforms we usually see.

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