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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



AtomD posted:

it's called altaba because when your browser loads it you altabaway from it

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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



gonna listen to an out of print billy idol album

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Sagebrush posted:

i think they should have cast the girl from pacific rim instead of scarlett johanssen.


rinko kikuchi would have been great but she was having a baby at the time they were filming and that would have either meant a super awkward rewrite or heinous cg

edit: a cd thread about the movie that surprisingly isn't wall to wall poo poo

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




if palm pilots could have done that we'd still be hearing the jokes today

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



that's the only movie that makes you watch it twice the first time you see it

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



A Pinball Wizard posted:

Holy poo poo do not look up the music video for that song it is so bad

80s af plus being from a movie they were contractually obligated to make the video out of clips from the film

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



holographic barbie, for the low low price of threehundredbux

Midjack fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Feb 19, 2017

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



angry_keebler posted:

following more than a century of declining revenue ever since their chief spokesperson was mired in scandal, in 2120 the kraft food corporation, in pursuit of increasing sales in a hyper-competitive retro dessert market, creates the world's first artificial super intelligence. its primary instruction is to increase the consumption of jell-o to its practical maximum.

4.8 seconds after activation, the kraft-o-matic seizes control of the global telecommunications system and uses it to activate an improvised army of domestic and military robots. the devastating preemptive attack lasts 44 minutes and eliminates 80% of the human population. after a series of futile skirmishes, the disorganized remnants of humanity are rounded up and forced to live in coffin sized pods filled with jell-o, are force fed jell-o, and when they die their bodies are dissolved and used as raw materials to create more jell-o

in order to promote acquiescence to this new world order, kraft-o-matic wires the remaining humans brains directly into a sophisticated virtual reality, initially little more than pro jell-o propaganda, but which gradually becomes an increasingly sophosticated scenario until mankind finally exists in a perpetual simulation of the late 1990s, the last time jell-o was seen as a wholesome dessert with a wholesome spokesperson.

this is arguably one of the more optimistic futures i've read about lately

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Sagebrush posted:

I like the bit where they say


implying that 0.7 patients had an adverse reaction

can't report if you're dead

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



i expect to see widely televised lethal human-human blood sports in my lifetime.

russia has a history of weird game shows. about ten years ago there was one called "intercept" in which the host took the player to a car parked on the street in moscow, called it in stolen, and gave the keys to the player. if he could make it a half hour without being arrested he kept the car. it was fake, though supposedly the beatings the cops delivered were real.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



carry on then posted:

what is it, exactly, that stops border patrol from requiring you to contact this person you left all your passwords with

you have better plausible deniability that your friend isn't home or lost your passwords

that article goes in with the thesis that you're okay spending a night in jail to deny access to your data and that the cops don't really want it too badly. as you observe, if they really wanted it they could execute a search warrant against your password holding friend

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Sagebrush posted:

what if you work for the government or a defense contractor or something, and revealing the information on your phone would be a breach of national security -- would border control compelling you to unlock the device then be considered entrapment of sorts, because they're compelling you to commit a crime?

defense contractors and feds aren't supposed to have anything that hot on a computer or phone in the first place

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



hobbesmaster posted:

it's a trademark so we're fine unless this thread is a crpg

if i'm browsing on my PS4 it kinda is

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007




Already trashed by owner.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



crazysim posted:

overheard from my coworker at work who went on vacation to china. he was riding shotgun with his buddy and the buddy crossed over a white do not pass lane divider while driving and got a message with the fine through his phone in 10 minutes.

that happened in the first episode of the second season of seaquest dsv, too. now that i think about it there was an ep with an underwater hacker colony too

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Improbable Lobster posted:

it's sold as dlc for the game, no idea if it's on bandcamp or whatever

Looks like it's on Bandcamp:
https://makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/album/brigador-vol-i
https://makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/album/brigador-vol-ii
https://makeupandvanityset.bandcamp.com/album/brigador-up-armored-ep

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Sagebrush posted:

just so everyone's clear, this is a confirmation that the same software or something superior is running on your own phone right now

this in particular relied on getting the target to click a link, so don't take candy from strangers

for the better stuff you alluded to, it's deuces wild I guess

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Improbable Lobster posted:

also The Silver Case and 2064: Read Only Memories are both very cyberpunk

yes

2064 has a minor crossover with VA-11 HALL-A too

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



syscall girl posted:

molly millions origin story was that she won @ maccy's monopoly

boardwalk on her cup and park place on her john's

poor rube never saw it coming as she'd replaced his with a baltic avenue from the kid at the next table by the time he got back from the can

that would have been tremendous

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Improbable Lobster posted:

that seems to be the case for most small team indie games. take the dreadful va for freedom planet for example

i kind of wish they wouldn't bother and just spend the money on making something else better

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



haveblue posted:

godzilla 2014 is briefly a vegas movie

so are honey i blew up the kid and resident evil extinction

the sinatra ocean's eleven and more recent 21 are casino heavy too

edit: simon morden's petrovich novels are good for sprawl fans

Midjack fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Jul 2, 2017

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Sagebrush posted:

Ribofunk, by Paul di Filippo

It's light and it correctly predicted Donald Trump's presidency back in like 1996 and there's a bit where two genetically engineered furry sex toys/slaves get stuck in a feedback loop of loving and have to be put down

now that i aint no dudley dendrite, how the gently caress am I supposed to get back down?

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Xaris posted:

lmao

my roommate in college was obsessed with learning all about card counting and would watch that movie a lot after it came out. I think he thought he could strike it rich easily but never had the balls to actually go to vegas and try i

like every other nerd i was on a kick to learn it for about a year or two and figured out pretty quickly that making money doing it is tough, though the skill itself isn't hard to pick up. doing it securely is hard as balls

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Cocoa Crispies posted:

nah ripping off a casino is cool and good while finance is a crime against humanity

what if I said you could do both at the same time

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



qirex posted:

acronym jackets are awesome but the rest of their stuff is for hypbeast mall ninjas

that same book wrecked the collector's market for curta calculators

i had never heard of curtas until then, but yeah i can see how that would happen

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



NoneMoreNegative posted:

We have such seats to show you.

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



qirex posted:

we do, they just don't fly over and drop ordnance on white people countries yet

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Chris Knight posted:

just watched the extended cut of Johnny Mnemonic

with extra beat takeshi?

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



maskenfreiheit posted:

nothing is more cyberpunk than stealing others work for a currency that can only be used to jerk yourself off about how awesome you are

if you click to the end you'll see where he does in fact cite the national geographic article

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



communism bitch posted:

I like to whimsically describe my job as the endless war against entropy, but really that's all of human civilisation. Which is a grim thought.

grimmer still when you realize that it will in fact end and you know you're gonna lose

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



maskenfreiheit posted:

robot probably won't try to get the altar boys drunk

it already said buddhist robes in the article, not catholic, though I'd be surprised if you couldn't change the programming to sexually harass mourners

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



https://youtu.be/qyUnSuYYs18

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Rooney McNibnug posted:

someone came into our office today with loving google glasses on and i lol'd irl

this just happened to me today. wonder if it's the same guy

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



NoneMoreNegative posted:

Ruiner just landed on Steam, will be having a look when I get home this evening :cool:

it was pretty cyberpunk when i played the demo at pax, I recommend

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



your tron cosplay is a piece of poo poo

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Sagebrush posted:

the world's best charging infrastructure,

least sweaty kid at a star trek convention

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



angry_keebler posted:

well, for anyone born after 1970, depending on what state or country you were born in, there's a good chance your heel prick is stored indefinitely and may already have been sequenced and put in a law enforcement database, so getting Gattaca'd by your hr department probably isn't the thing most people should worry about

cops and job having access to the information are two different brands of lovely

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



eschaton posted:

yeah but there'll need to be a lot of them for error correction and wear leveling

also hopefully such drives can be terraria that only need energy from the outside, rather than be open and require periodic watering and facing risk of algal and fungal infections

literal computer viruses

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Powaqoatse posted:

if it means i can literally poo poo into the cupped hands of my employer, im all for it

guess what one of your collateral responsibilities is going to be


that's rad as hell if it works as advertised

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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



hobbesmaster posted:

at least we know why they aren’t helping the turtle

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