are you telling me that cyberpunk pop culture might have been warning me of an impending dystopia?!
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gets worse. they tried to warn you again and this time someone's taken action before it could reach you: relevant news article
Scientists are saying we should hit Blade Runner territory by May.
...and WALL-E by June.
The corporations in Wall-E were short sighted and misguided but ultimately well intentioned. We're way off track for Wall-E
Bell Riots are in September.
Eugenics wars and ww3 next π« I dont like this timeline
Technically the Blade Runner universe is the Aliens universe too, so, don't worry, it will get worse.
Ooh, how are they linked?
If I remember right they both have the same company Weyland yutani
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner
Screen capture of DVD bonus feature from Prometheus (2012), a dictated letter by Peter Weyland about Eldon Tyrell, chief executive officer of the Tyrell Corporation
So, Prometheus establishes Tyrell Corporation and Weyland-Yutani as competitors! Neat.
And there's this:
There's also some commentary from Ridley Scott, one of the displayed replicant body designs in 2049 is clearly an Engineer, and I believe a billboard for Weyland in one of the Blade Runners, but I can't find that screenshot so maybe I'm misremembering that one.
Most of it is Easter Egg level stuff but there's enough that it's canon if you want it to be. Or not.
Really, the biggest takeaway I learned from this connection hunt back in the day was that the Blade Runner humanity had multiple colonies on other planets, which was just not something I remembered being a thing from the movies.
The colony thing is in the text into for blade runner, from memory.
Replicants were made to work on the colonies.
Eugenics wars should have started in 2022 by the revised timeline, and were 1992-1996 in the original timeline
When do I get a Replicant?
you? never. sky will be orange though.
Sky was orange during wildfires a few years ago
and in San Francisco, even!
If you're asking about prices; then you can't afford it.
Could someone enlighten me what Deus Ex is about without spoiling more than two hours of gameplay?
Youβre a cyborg agent for a new branch of the federal government formed in response to a terrorist attack on us soil tasked with performing extrajudicial acts in order to keep access to the treatment for a pandemic under government control.
In the opening cutscene the governments response to the pandemic is revealed to be βlet it ripβ for profit.
Itβs a phenomenal game and very fun.
Basically: Anti-Terrorist agent gets instructed not to talk to terrorist, talks to terrorist and becomes a terrorist.
Cybernetics (or technology in general) are both the hope of humanity and its likely doom through abuse by powerful interests.
Deus Ex is the 1984 of videogames.
Someone on here posted the dialogue from a conversation with an NSF βterroristβ from the game and I initially thought it was a pretty reasonable assessment of modern society and its problems. It was only when I read the comments that someone pointed out that the post was quoted verbatim from the game. Need to see if I can find that postβ¦
Corporations are so big, you don't even know who you're working for. That's terror. Terror built into the system.
There's so much more, but I remember that one
Here is another:
Human beings may not be perfect, but a computer program with language synthesis is hardly the answer to the world's problems.
-JC Denton
Is it talking about LLMs? Pretty correct according to me
Ross (Accursed Farms) did a really good review/analysis of the game: https://youtu.be/rxOKEsBx4NU?si=a7UHgYa-TqCfnqvB
I've never played the game and it doesn't seem like it's for me... But this video... I think about it a lot...
They also predicted 9/11.
It's just human nature to see something coming for 40+ years and then be surprised by it.
Meanwhile I'm playing Deus Ex like:
Damn