I haven't tried it yet because it appears to be a client, and my Linux machine is the synergy server in my setup (work windows laptop is the client).
Heh, fair 'nuff. I'm pretty agnostic most of the time, unless a particular show has a known "better" version. For example, IMO, Cowboy Bebop (of course), Trigun, and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners are all fantastic English dubs, but as counter examples I can't stand the English dubs of Naruto or FLCL, off the top of my head.
At first, we grumbled but did it because we knew that running the services had a cost. Then it got normalized. "Eh, it's the price of one game a year, and I get to play whatever online and get three 'free' games a month, so it's a good deal."
Now, it's not a good deal anymore, at least for me. Hit the "Cancel" button on my sub not 5 minutes ago.
I grew up on consoles, spent my teens on PC, and my adult life I've always kept both around, because I love games, regardless of where they are, but yeah. Most of my multiplayer was already on PC, this just solidifies my PS5 as a media/single player game appliance.
But which is better for this show (in your opinion)?
Added to my watchlist, which is getting very long, lol.
Veeeeeeery interesting! I haven't kept up on Warframe, but this looks to me like a big nod to Dark Sector, the studio's first attempt at a "Warframe" style game that ended up getting scoped down into a weird single-player game. But, most of the design language and ideas of Warframe came from Dark Sector first. I wonder if this is them finally making some explicit in-universe connections to the two games, as opposed to spiritual nods and references?
Oh, and anyone who hasn't seen it, NoClip's documentary series on Warframe is a great watch, even if you have no interest in the game itself: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-THgg8QnvU7Weo1mCM9H2AXljC7UrDm8
My thoughts exactly. What am I supposed to do now, read the books?
(I may, tv's just so much easier than finding time to read, lol)
You know, I'm pretty sure that I watched this movie, forgot all about it, watched it a second time, turned to my wife halfway through and asked, "Have we seen this before?", and we eventually decided we had, but finished watching it again anyway.
And right now, I can't tell you a GD thing about it other than Clive Owen was in it.
I largely agree with this. It's a shame that S2 ended on a cliffhanger where they were finally getting into the sci-fi questions.
Light Spoilers, though they may make the show more interesting if you're on the fence:
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The main character discovers he was murdered when someone hacked the self-driving cab he was riding in and forced it to crash. When he was uploaded into the corporate-controlled post-death community, he had memories removed: prior to his death, he was working on a free alternative afterlife system, so it seems likely he was murdered to keep him from competing with the big players in the industry.
Additionally, while there are laws about the uploaded/deceased no longer being allowed to work or otherwise be involved in business with the living, they find proof not only that the founder (?) of the current afterlife megacompany is still running things despite being dead, but that they're working on technology to grow clone bodies and upload the deceased back into them, all for insane prices, of course. It's illegal tech that could further shift the balance of power between the rich and the poor.
That's all from memory, so I may have mucked up a detail or two, but by the end I was really interested to see where it was all going. The show could be really smart when it wanted to, which is why it's a shame that it mostly wants to meander through a slow-paced will-they-won't-they for two seasons instead of getting into the meat of things. Maybe they felt they had to make it more "accessible" and sneak the cyberpunk in?
I dunno.
It was greenlit for a third season, and recent news reports indicate it was still coming (all prior to the current strikes), so maybe we'll get a conclusion? I'll certainly watch it when it drops.
Not 20 years old, but if you're willing to look at 10, I'll always shout out the often-overlooked Remember Me by DONTNOD, back before they did Life is Strange.
It's a 3rd person action-adventure game set in a cyberpunk future where everyone has a cybernetic implant called the SenSen in their brain to allow all their memories to be uploaded into cloud, so they can revisit them whenever they want. Of course, this technology is the property of one corporation, Memorize, but I'm sure they wouldn't do anything evil with the ability to read and store every memory of every person connected to the system, right? You play as Nilin, a former memory hacker with some bad amnesia, who is broken out of prison by unknown benefactors with their own agenda. Navigate the streets and slums of 2084 Paris, avoiding hit squads and breaking into memories to piece together your own fractured past.
Definitely a solid B-tier game, it didn't blow anyone's mind on release, but it's decently fun to play, has an interesting story, and the atmosphere of the cyberpunk city is just perfect. Plus, it gets pretty damn cheap come sale times. I can't recommend it enough for anyone with a love of cyberpunk and mid-tier games with heart making up for the lack of budget.
6.2lbs. So you're saying they're easy to toss in a dumpster...
Not listed as being in my city yet, but seems prudent to keep dark sunglasses with me going forward.
Lots of good takes here, my two pennies: The one thing that's always held me back from labeling it "cyberpunk" is actually the lack of corporate control. It's definitely a sci-fi dystopia with a lot of visual and thematic elements that align well with the biggest examples of Cyberpunk, but instead of corporations being the power in charge, it seems (from the information I recall in the two films) that it's just the government itself has become overbearingly authoritarian.
But I'm not going to argue all that hard with anyone that disagrees. It's definitely hanging out at the same parties.
Yup. I got nothing against Wayland, but been waiting on this particular use case to get tooling for years now.