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  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Serial Experiments Lain is almost 20 years old, and predicted a lot of how the internet would influence modern society. It's kind of cyberpunky, anyway.
    (If that's not a word, it is now.)

    I have noticed a lot of people in my doorway randomly turning into grey aliens.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Serial Experiments Lain is almost 20 years old, and predicted a lot of how the internet would influence modern society. It's kind of cyberpunky, anyway.
    (If that's not a word, it is now.)

    Lain falls into a more post-cyber category. It does a lot of really weird stuff that strains genre in general, though.

    And yeah for being 15 years old its aged well.

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    BYToady wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Serial Experiments Lain is almost 20 years old, and predicted a lot of how the internet would influence modern society. It's kind of cyberpunky, anyway.
    (If that's not a word, it is now.)

    I have noticed a lot of people in my doorway randomly turning into grey aliens.

    See, that's why I bought a laser pistol.

    (Another sign of the future: Deadly lasers are commercially available)

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    Why I fear the ocean.
  • NikolaiNikolai SSSSSSSSSSS Registered User regular
    Sometimes I think about the technology of today and then remember that we put a man on the moon in '69 and think goddamn, My phone probably has more computing power than they did back then.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    Nikolai wrote: »
    Sometimes I think about the technology of today and then remember that we put a man on the moon in '69 and think goddamn, My phone probably has more computing power than they did back then.

    your calculator does

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  • NikolaiNikolai SSSSSSSSSSS Registered User regular
    I'm pissed I can't live on the moon though.

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Nikolai wrote: »
    Nikolai wrote: »
    Sometimes I think about the technology of today and then remember that we put a man on the moon in '69 and think goddamn, My phone probably has more computing power than they did back then.

    75 bps versus... how fast is your phone?

  • YukiraYukira Registered User regular
    You'd probably have a fuel leak on the rocket trip up there.

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    manwiththemachinegun wrote: »
    Antimatter wrote: »
    manwiththemachinegun wrote: »
    This Cyberpunk enough for you?

    http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-offers-hope-of-new-lease-on-life

    You have no pulse.

    Probably in the next generation or so, we're likely to start hitting some early transhuman ethical concerns.

    Fuck

    Yes

    For the most part, I'm okay with cybernetic enhancement and upgrades. I'm a huge fan of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell, and I think cyborg integration into society would be something really awesome. And that's the cool thing about Shirow's universe, no one gives a crap even though a good portion of the population looks like this.
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    Three eyed, pointy headed borgs in combat exoskeletons wearing Hawaiian shirts and working with local police. Nothing to see here.

    When the human lifespan doubled it wasn't greeted with gasps of horror. It was encouraged. It's the stuff like brain copying and effective immortality that is going to be, really, really, unsettling for some. Me included.

    Living a few hundred years, sure. Why not? Effective immortality? Yeah... that I find unsettling personally.
    Druhim wrote: »
    I don't see what the big deal is about having no pulse. I mean, I get that with early adoption there will need to be education and some way of signalling that someone has one of these hearts so they don't confuse no pulse with them being dead, but that's pretty normal for new technology.

    In some parts of the world, especially tribal and developing nations. Not having a pulse means you are a zombie. The walking dead.

    As in, you are prime burning at the stake material.

    That is an ethical concern.

    Yeah, because there are going to be so many tribal people getting these artificial hearts..

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  • NikolaiNikolai SSSSSSSSSSS Registered User regular
    The original lost in space took place in 1997. I find this hilarious.

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Huntera wrote: »
    Nikolai wrote: »
    Nikolai wrote: »
    Sometimes I think about the technology of today and then remember that we put a man on the moon in '69 and think goddamn, My phone probably has more computing power than they did back then.

    75 bps versus... how fast is your phone?


    Actually just read this.

    And while we're at the whole marveling at modern technology thing, I just found an article on the speed of the guidance computers used during apollo 11 from 3 years ago in about 10 seconds.

    Magic.

  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Gumpy wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    Druhim wrote: »
    To be fair, snowboarding is pretty fucking rad.

    Snowboarding has the same problem as flying cars

    When you think about it, it seems pretty cool

    When you actually see people snowboard, they go down the slopes inch by inch on the wide side scraping all the snow off, leaving the piste an icy carcass, before sitting down and having a rest when they go more then 5 miles an hour. Designing a snow based travel device based on an ice scraper is not a good idea if you want the slopes to have any sort of fluff left on them past midday

    As someone who's been snowboarding for over 20 years, you're full of shit.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    are you trying to tell me the SSX games are not hyper-realistic simulations

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    Wait guys maybe I should try to do a group Gangam Style costume.

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited September 2012
    Muse Among Men wrote: »
    Wait guys maybe I should try to do a group Gangam Style costume.

    Why are you even looking for approval for this. Just do it.

    Anyone that answers in the negative to this question is a horrible person.

    Is that what this is? Weeding out the terrible people in SE++?

    sarukun on
  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    flying cars are impracticable. They'd be fucking sweet as shit, don't get me wrong, but on a practical level, fast moving mass transit and what not is probably a better use of resources.

  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    i'm on the forum leaderboard!

    I'm beating dichotomy!

    unreasonably excited about this turn of events

    play my twine game about dracula IF YOU DARE
  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    how the hell so you even get points on the leader board? i don't understand it, and that makes me hate it.

  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Melding wrote: »
    how the hell so you even get points on the leader board? i don't understand it, and that makes me hate it.

    I think that it's agrees and awesomes.

  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    it's likes + awesomes + badges added up

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Badges?
    We don't need no stinkin' badges

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  • HunteraHuntera Rude Boy Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Badges?
    We don't need no stinkin' badges

    That's why we call them Badgers.

    Keep up, GG.

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Wait a minute how the fuck am I on the all-time leaders list

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    flying boats

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    Muse Among Men wrote: »
    Wait guys maybe I should try to do a group Gangam Style costume.

    Why are you even looking for approval for this. Just do it.

    Anyone that answers in the negative to this question is a horrible person.

    Is that what this is? Weeding out the terrible people in SE++?

    It would be an excellent costume wouldnt it?

  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    Fandyien wrote: »
    flying boats

    Go on.

  • BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    I am reminded of Zonugal once the yellow suited man shows up to challenge Psy to a dance off.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Muse Among Men wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    Muse Among Men wrote: »
    Wait guys maybe I should try to do a group Gangam Style costume.

    Why are you even looking for approval for this. Just do it.

    Anyone that answers in the negative to this question is a horrible person.

    Is that what this is? Weeding out the terrible people in SE++?

    It would be an excellent costume wouldnt it?

    Fuckin' A-awesome, is what!

  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    I showed the video to my dad. He loved it. Maybe i can get him to dress up as Gangam Style . . .

  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    Someone was trying to convince Monica and me to dress up Gangnam style

    I've never dressed up and never gone to a party



    I wasn't sure what they were trying to accomplish here

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    although now I'm picturing Muse dressed up in yoga shorts and me screaming at her butt



    I'll be in my bunk

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    edited September 2012
    You've seen me once wearing my shiapless red robe! Also, how can I scream at my own butt?

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    you can't, thats why you need a partner


    and that's not true, I have too seen you more than that

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    Hmm, I dont think I've seen you on tc more than a handful of times (non-hyperbolic count, maybe 3-5 times). Last I remember you were absolutely tearing into your terrible artist neighbors.

  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    ohh it's been forever ago

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    Are they still terrible artists?

  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    They were when I left.

    I have a house in the burbs now.

    It's currently over-run with Stink Bugs. But I've enacted a Final Solution.



    I am Stink Bug Hitler.

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  • Muse Among MenMuse Among Men Suburban Bunny Princess? Its time for a new shtick Registered User regular
    I had always thought stink bugs were fake, made up Hollywood pests.

    You're gonna gas 'em out with pesticides huh?

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    As I am not on the leader boards at all I have come to the conclusion that I don't care about them.

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    Satans..... hints.....
  • BarcardiBarcardi All the Wizards Under A Rock: AfganistanRegistered User regular
    This new Syndicate game is really great, surprisingly great. I can't wait for the future to be like this.

    BREAKING NEWS!
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