I’ve watched this specific one! The rifftrax actually made for a pretty great time - from what I remember the movie had some cool ideas (and the jokes kind of filled in for the rest).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6j8jMn2Kcgs

Thank you so much!

Ha! Someone on discord pointed out that the deer/robot/gun combo probably qualifies as a technical.

Thank you!

I’m so glad! And I’m glad you took a look at Harbour!

I’m not sure how seriously I’m going about promoting my work, exactly. I’m not trying to make money or anything, but I do want it to reach any audience that seems like a good fit, and I’ve found Lemmy and Mastodon to be great and encouraging spaces so far! I use a mix of federated and corporate sites for sharing the stuff I make. I’ve found that I have good conversations on both, but the corporate sites are much more aggressive at getting my stuff to the top of the search engine results. Some of them seem to have much less community though.

When I was regularly working on my Postcards from a Solarpunk Future series, I was very much trying to hit as many solarpunk communities as I could, as well as influence the first impressions people from outside the movement get of the genre, if possible, so I posted all over the place, my wordpress site, reddit, imgur, artstation, deviantart, as well as Lemmy, mastodon, and pixelfed. Even discord, occasionally. When you search relevant keywords, the reddit, deviantart, and artstation posts pop right up.

For ol’ President Deer, I’m not as aggressive about trying to get it seen, it was more just a for-fun project. I post it weekly on my wordpress website, deviantart, Mastodon, and pixelfed, and occasionally to Lemmy and reddit when it seems like a good fit for a specific community, but that’s not too often. It seems to be finding it’s audience (some old pages recently got some interest from a bunch of folks on Mastodon) though it’s obvious still quite small.

I’m not sure if that helps, but I hope it does. I’d say from what I’ve seen, I feel like I get more real interactions with other people on federated spaces, and I appreciate that I don’t feel like I’m getting buried by the whims of the algorithm. Though on the small subreddits I still use (/r/solarpunk and /r/CoreCyberpunk) it still seems okay?

Some kindle books I ‘owned’ recently got updates pushed to them, which in this case included a new cover or I probably wouldn’t have noticed. In 1984 they were fucking about with recalling books and issuing ‘corrected’ ones. But with online media, centralized in a company’s server, it’s comparatively easy to push changes.

Thank you! And thanks for the reminder to update the links, I’ll fix those shortly.

I actually haven’t heard of We3 but I’ll check it out, thanks for the recommendation!

Ah, thanks! I knew I was missing something

I’m sorry, I’ve not seen the film and though I read the wikipedia article I don’t get the reference. I used a quonset hut mostly because they’re a common, cheap metal building that used to be really common around here. As housing or workshop space they’re apparently really unpleasant, but you still see them a lot. Many of the comics and all the still panels are at least partially me trying to catch a specific kind of place/time of day/type of weather, from my hometowns, and filter it through the lens of cyberpunk, so this is mostly that.

That’s interesting! It definitely has some of the visuals often associated with solarpunk (I’m not really a fan of the sleek plastic metropolis look personally, I much prefer solarpunk to be punk and emphasize stuff like creative reuse, but the visual art in the genre is lousy with this stuff and the game makers executed it well from what the trailer shows). I think there’s still room for this to be cyberpunk depending on how real or widely available this area is - if it’s some company park or an enclave of the rich, and wealth disparity still exists, I could see it being cyberpunk in content if not aesthetics at least. It does look very cool, thanks for sharing it!

One of the things I really like about the 40k universe is the incredible scope of the setting. You really can tell just about any story and it fits somewhere in the setting.

I don’t actually know much about necromunda, though I used to love the art and articles about it as a kid. I’m hoping someone else will kick in some recommendations

When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger is a kind of complicated recommendation for this. It features I think the most trans characters I’ve ever seen in one book, the main character’s girlfriend and most of their acquaintances are trans, and the story treats them decently as people with jobs and lives outside of that part of their identity. The problem, if it is one, is that they’re all sex workers. I can’t remember any trans character in the book who isn’t. This fits the story decently as they’re all living in the Budayeen, the entertainment and criminal quarter of an unnamed Middle-Eastern city, the only place where they, and small-time criminals like the protagonist, can exist with a minimum of hassle. But there’s some complicated history and pop-cupture entanglements around being trans and being a sex worker (and the limited other roles historically available to them) which might change how audiences read this forty years later. I honestly have no idea. I quite liked the book, it’s weird in places (for other reasons) but that’s what I read cyberpunk for, and it has a bunch of awesome cyberpunk concepts, a unique setting, and some creative misuses of technology.

The Murderbot books feature a pretty diverse spread of characters, gay, nonbinary, and also people in polyamorous relationships, though that stuff usually doesn’t impact the main plot. Murderbot itself is about as asexual as it’s possible to get which probably explains that a bit. Their tone isn’t super cyberpunk but the themes and concepts very much are.

I think the Gibson short story Johnny Mnemonic or Burning Chrome has a pair of guards, one of whom is trans, but it’s clearly been awhile since I read it. Gibson’s Sprawl books all had a kind of fascination with extending cosmetic surgery past sex and race, identity being as changeable as hairstyle, so it comes up in passing occasionally.

I don’t know why I needed you to point this out, but I appreciate it!

If I remember right that’s actually the bad guy’s gun and it fires bullets that chase you! (At approximately the speed a human can run). Its silly and great and if I was remaking it for a modern setting, it’d be some kind of launcher/targeter for tiny suicide drones.

The book is excellent and the audiobook narrated by Paul Giamatti is so good it ruined the text for me - I couldn’t do the voices as well in my head as he could. First and only time that’s happened.

Whichever form you take, the book is very worth reading

This is the most elaborate photobash I’ve ever seen. Huge scope but the details fit together so carefully. The layout and colors are excellent

That makes a lot of sense!

Oh man, I had this on my list of cyberpunk animes to watch every since it was mentioned on the post about Streets of Fire influencing cyberpunk. I got my SO and the friend we watch TV with every week to watch the first episode with me.

They refuse to watch the rest. It’s amazing and really bad and I have to know what happens next. (At least it’s given me some bargaining power since I can always offer it as a condition when we’re negotiating the next show to watch).

It’s just baffling all around - when the girl the main character likes is gonna hook up with another guy he uses the mech to explode through the wall and grab her and carry her off like fuckin king kong, and somehow that’s okay? They discover that all of the world is just their city, a simulation on a spaceship so the plot shifts to them deciding to use the rest of the spaceship for filming a low budget movie? He’s on the run from the military and escapes into the computer core, so the lead guy is like, don’t shoot in there, use your beam swords (or something like that) and all the mechs suddenly draw light sabers.

Who even is the military? They dress and act like a conventional earth military during the coup but apparently they’ve been fighting the spaceship for control - do they answer to anyone? They don’t appear to be from this level, they’re fighting their way upwards(?). And they know there’s another ship they need to fight soon, so they’ve wisely decided to shoot their own ship up first so the enemy can’t, I guess?

It’s a trip and I really should pick it up again.