So I will say that I think the videos posted so far seem to be an accurate representation of this game. It really is about 30% walking to the right, 30% platform-puzzles, and 30% combat. The game is visually gorgeous though so that isn’t a complaint; it’s an intentionally slow game.

I think I could get just as much enjoyment watching this game be played as I would playing it myself. Ultimately, whether I end up liking this game or not will depend on how the story goes. So far I’m intrigued, but they could take it in any number of different directions.

Sometimes there are snippets in dialogue I’m not even sure you are supposed to hear them but you can still read them in the subtitles.

This is the big one for me. If I hear a character mumbling but the subtitles say “[incoherent mumbling]” then I don’t worry about it. But if i hear a character mumbling and the subtitles actually show me what they’re saying, I know the audience was supposed to have understood it.

If this is indeed a serious question, here’s a post I made 2 years ago asking that very question. Fun discussion.

In Graphene’s phone app, you can go to Settings -> Blocked Numbers, and enable “Numbers not in Contacts”. That will send any call from numbers you don’t have saved directly to voicemail. I still get the occasional voicemail message that’s just 2 seconds of silence (they didn’t hang up in time) but it stopped all spam calls for me.

If you can find a good source of that old shadowrun artwork I’d love to keep posting it here for all to enjoy… and as part of my devious scheme to keep this community active.

Do you mean cyberpunk with the inclusion of magic? Shadowrun has been around since 1989. I’m not saying cyberpunk and post-cyberpunk can’t co-exist (we can still have cyberpunk works in a post-cyberpunk era) but I don’t think adding fantasy elements moves it past cyberpunk.

But to take your example of Warframe… maybe post-cyberpunk would include space travel? I would argue most classic cyberpunk stories stay on Earth (or low-Earth orbit) so maybe exploring the stars would be expanding the cyberpunk setting?

The comments on reddit are saying “Monkey man Aramaki is back!”

I think that’s what I find so strange. It’d be one thing if someone created a steampunk community and then just let it sit with zero posts, but for no one to even bother creating that community in the first place? It seems like no one actually cares about steampunk at all. And while I’m not a huge steampunk fan, I thought there were still some steampunk fans out there.

That’s a very good point… Solarpunk has an entire ideology with various independent aspects that can each support their own communities, while steampunk is primarily an aesthetic. I know steampunk also has a heavily DIY mindset, but there isn’t much to discuss other than “here’s how I made a thing.” I wonder if that’s due to being a primarily “fantasy” genre for a world that can’t actually exist.

And I guess that’s what cyberpunk and solarpunk have in common… While they each have a unique aesthetic, they aren’t just an aesthetic. There are entire world views underpinning that aesthetic. One happens to be aspirational while the other is a warning, but they both provide lots to areas for discussion.

Huh, I hadn’t thought about that before, thanks! I always kinda viewed steampunk as cyberpunk’s little brother but cyberpunk actually has more in common with solarpunk. Neat!

Here’s a quick snippet from an interview with William Gibson in 2014:

“I was really fond of the film that I wrote and that Robert shot, but that wasn’t the film that Sony Image Works released. It’s a really extreme example of not being the director’s cut. It was written to be comic in its own way, and be a commentary on sci-fi films and how they are made. Keanu never played any of it straight because we didn’t want him to.”

So yeah, it sounds like Keanu’s performance was intentional but then the studio messed with the movie so much that his performance didn’t make sense anymore.

Doesn’t the movie start with him in like Singapore or something then he flies to Newark?

Pantheon. It only has 2 seasons, has a definitive ending, and is currently on Netflix.

EDIT: Also, have you already watched Cyberpunk: Edgerunners?

They should have just turned Tron 2.0 into a movie.

I completely agree. I’m still annoyed at how Tron: Legacy rendered Tron 2.0 non-canon. I think it was the best entry in the Tron franchise. I loved how they visited the internet and a server being corrupted by a virus. Awesome ideas.

Mister Potato Head? Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!

The Phantom Phreak? The King of Nynex?

I agree, having Edgar Wright’s name attached had me more excited for this than I should’ve been. I really thought I would’ve liked this movie more since I love his work.

Yeah, I saw an interview where Edgar Wright said he changed the ending and got it approved by Stephen King as basically being the closest you could stick to the original ending in today’s world.

In this new movie, it ends with

Totally agree. I was shocked to learn The Accent was an original IP. The world bullring and lore were so fleshed out I had just assumed it was based on some TTRPG I hadn’t heard of. The gameplay was good but the world was amazing.

This was the first reveal trailer, I think the game was only just now announced.