That hair though.

C’mon man, it’s time to get a coverage appropriate cut or just shave it altogether.

He looks like a boiled sweet that’s been dropped on the carpet.

All my heart still belongs to the canon HV20 forum. It taught me how to film, it taught me how to chat to people in an online community.

It was never about a camcorder. It was about connection.

Plus, you could search for stuff on google and the forum results would pop up. Good look with discord doing that.

I mean, I did mean run but also, yes, windows 10 is hot AF.

My set up comfortably plays cyberpunk at dead fancy settings, but doesn’t meet the system requirements for windows 11.

Yeah, I’m going to rub out windows 10 as long as I can (although I dual boot Debian anyway).

That’s why it is stubbonky popular.

My experience with certain chemicals suggests this is true.

Absolutely. I wrote about this a while back in an essay:

Prime and Mash / Kuru

Basically likening it to a prion disease like Kuru, which humans get from eating the infected brains of other humans.

Can we swap out the word “hallucinations” for the word “bullshit”?

I think all AI/LLM stuf should be prefaced as “someone down the pub said…”

So, “someone down the pub said you can eat rocks” or, “someone down the pub said you should put glue on your pizza”.

Hallucinations are cool, shit like this is worthless.

How you choose to fight hell spawn is OK with me.

Right?! When they could be playing Doom on it.

Well, once again a tech company gives a service I don’t care for an overhaul I don’t want and tries to charge a fee I won’t pay.

I suspect when this doesn’t do the numbers they want they’ll try adding a user fee to oxygen as a retaliation.

If only she was ever in a situation where her voice was professionally recorded.

Feels very Black Mirror to me. Not a bad thing at all.

(Idiots)… Way to roast normal people. Don’t know if they will ever recover. The best bit was putting it in brackets.

You are normal people.

Web in the search, AI in the search, personal assistant in your files, things in your things that you don’t want, didn’t ask for and are struggling to extract.

“There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android.”

So there are ways.

I say that, but I, in no way, want that to happen.

But yeah, Boston Dynamic have long said that they don’t want their robots weaponised, but here we are seeing it happen.

West bank.

I’m specifically talking about the difference in time between when he wrote the story and when that film was made.

That is, one is pre- the conception of cyberpunk as a formal genre and the other is very much post- it.

I wasn’t attacking anything you said, and I’m sorry you interpreted it that way.

Also, I’m not saying anything about the quality of the films made of his work. I sort of agree with you. They make fine books, but film is a different form and requites different ways of exploring narrative. If anything his work acts as a good launching point to explore ideas in film, rather than acting as templates for a movie.

You should read up on how Dick and his drug usage led to his own paranoia. This is practically a diary.

I also think you are confusing films made from his work with the actual work itself. To comment on the worlds Dick was creating you need to look at the text rather than adaptation that came decades after cyberpunk was already a thing (in some cases). An aesthetic veneer of cyberpunk works well with his narratives but not neccessarily with the writing style.

But… Look at his halo!