Technically it's voxelart, but Cloudpunk
Edit: and Beneath a Steel Sky
Haven't played it yet, but Norco
Finally, CrossCode isn't cyberpunk, it's just really good.
nyahlathotep
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It does like a little annoying, but since I'm not a roofer or solar panel installer I feel like there's probably a reason for this that I don't know.
But the "What it means to be human" is only a problem because of the corps, and their destruction of everything they touch. If the corps hadn't ruined society, the environment, and designed replicants to be slaves and have short lives, then none of the events of the film would have happened. The entire film is a condemnation of that capitalist mindset of milking everything you can for the most amount of money possible. Why did the corps ruin the environment? Because doing so made money. Why do they use replicants for slave labor? Because doing so is cheaper than having well-compensated or even poorly-compensated workers. Why do replicants die young? Because it prevents them from properly organizing a revolt against their masters.
What do they care if they only live 4 years? Once it's been r&d'd it's cheap to just plop out a new one. The corps' inherent cruelty is the reason the replicants are hiding amongst the populace. It's the reason they lash out against humans. It's the reason that Blade Runners are "necessary" to hunt them down and kill them. IMO it's a very punk movie.
I was going to say. All the cyberpunk stuff exists in Blade Runner, but because the pov characters are a Cop hunting replicants and the Replicants themselves we only see it in the periphery.
Patlabor is a near future mecha anime, where the Patlabors are like the model t of mechs. The tv series is really light-hearted, but the ova/movie series is more serious. It's light on the whole dystopia part of cyberpunk, it's more like the Japanese society of the 80s and 90s transplanted a bit into the future.
Serial Experiments Lain... is really hard to describe. It's kind of like a digital drug trip, but not a good one. A trip that's unsettling.
Edit: Not to imply that Lain is bad, it's great.
If I had to pick one, I'd probably say Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex. Everything GitS is great, of course, but that first season of SAC is my fav of all the iterations.
Other Great Stuff:
- Blade Runner's the OG, and I think the sequel's just as good. The anime series for it, Black Lotus, is more pulpy than cerebral but I enjoyed it as well.
- I don't know if it counts, but I'll mention Patlabor here. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. Use this watch order
- Dredd 2012 is great, but again more pulpy. Haven't read the comics but I plan to get the "essential" TPBs
- Again, I don't know for sure it counts, but Cowboy Bebop is what I would call a masterpiece. I think everyone should watch it before they die.
- More subdued is A Scanner Darkly. I really enjoyed that movie as a teenager, but I haven't seen it in the last 15 or so years so not sure how it holds up.
- Biggest mindfuck would be Serial Experiments Lain. I couldn't wrap my head around it when I first saw it around 13, then I rewatched in my 20s and think I got the gist. If you like weird stuff that you have to think about to understand, it's great.
This was the impetus for one of Detective Conan's infinite cases
Whose strong emotional response? If it were a rule that users should be civil to each other, or that we need to stay on topic for the post, I'd agree since those are I think more easy to delineate. But if I just use a word you don't like, and it's not a slur or targetting hate at you or anyone else, I don't think it should be against the rules.
Where do we draw the line for "overly obscene"? And is this even a problem? Can I see a link to an example?
I disagree. Is your point that it's "uncivilized"? Personally, I don't mind whatever language anyone uses in this community, unless they're verbally attacking another user which I think should be handled by mods like any other forum.
Edit: calls to violence and bigotry should be handled by mods too
Edit2: Also, the word shit, one most would consider "vulgar", is in the instance name, so it's kinda ridiculous to want to ban such words from this community
Aye.
I haven't looked into how it works, but I feel like we should be open to reviewing it's findings if an instance wants to dispute our defederation. Maybe it's got a surefire method of determining bot-heavy lemmys (bottys?), but I'm worried about false positives.