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etalian posted:Would you give up you anal virginity if meant getting some cybernetic enhancements? im gay
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etalian posted:Would you give up you anal virginity if meant getting some cybernetic enhancements? Obviously it would depend on the enhancements.
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Aug 19, 2014 03:51
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etalian posted:Would you give up you anal virginity if meant getting some cybernetic enhancements? No, but I would def crew with a rasta spaceship for minimum wage.
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Aug 19, 2014 03:53
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Cold and Ugly posted:Obviously it would depend on the enhancements. A buttjack.
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Aug 19, 2014 03:53
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etalian posted:Would you give up you anal virginity if meant getting some cybernetic enhancements? if cool, absolutely
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Aug 19, 2014 03:54
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Benito Hitlerstalin posted:A buttjack. Well, that doesn't sound like a job that's worth the money.
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Hobohemian posted:No, but I would def crew with a rasta spaceship for minimum wage. Definitely too unchill. Sorry bro.
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lexan posted:I liked it a lot, it's probably my favorite Gibson book. Better than any of his sci-fi stuff (although I did like Neuromancer more than the rest of this thread did so maybe I'm wrong). I missed this. But Pattern Recognition is the first book in the trilogy with that lady named Cayce in advertising, right? Actually, I think she might not have been in the whole trilogy, I want to say that the big boss, Bigend, was the only recurring character. But those books were pretty cool, too.
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Aug 19, 2014 03:59
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Cold and Ugly posted:Nice edit, man. But I think that's sort of a harsh idea to have about a black guy running around with samurai swords. i took me most of the book to get a decent feel for what hiro looked like. its like i i found it much easier to identify with the protagonist in snow crash than in neuromancer, but i still had to fill in the blanks. here's a good fan rendition from devart: 
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Aug 19, 2014 04:06
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Cold and Ugly posted:I don't know man. It was like two paragraphs long and almost totally irrelevant. Kind of weird that it would make it into your two sentence synopsis. well would it be "weird" if I told you I was cranking it to those two paragraphs right now?
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Aug 19, 2014 04:10
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At least we already sort of live in a cyberpunk world with things like as huge powerful multi-national corporations and the environment being sent in a death spiral.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:10
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the hobby lobby decision could be woven into some fun cyber punk
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Aug 19, 2014 04:12
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etalian posted:At least we already sort of live in a cyberpunk world with things like as huge powerful multi-national corporations and the environment being sent in a death spiral. thats why communism owns fyi, anything other than advocating for the complete destruction of this hosed apocalyptic cyperpunk dystopian system is nihilism
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Aug 19, 2014 04:12
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Izumi Konata posted:i took me most of the book to get a decent feel for what hiro looked like. its like i i found it much easier to identify with the protagonist in snow crash than in neuromancer, but i still had to fill in the blanks. That's a pretty cool picture. I think though that I would have imagined him with softer features, to account for like the, to paraphrase "me and my boys were wondering if you were you a sneaky rear end gook or a watermelon eating friend of the family" part of the story. And more buff and with less flashy clothes because he lives in a storage unit and practices kendo with a piece of rebar with a chunk of concrete on it. It's been a while, isn't there a part where YT describes sort of what he looks like?
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Aug 19, 2014 04:16
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Bread Dragon posted:well would it be "weird" if I told you I was cranking it to those two paragraphs right now? Not really, no. That's sort of what I was getting at.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:18
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etalian posted:At least we already sort of live in a cyberpunk world with things like as huge powerful multi-national corporations and the environment being sent in a death spiral. That's what i'm saying, man. They got the broad strokes right.
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a starwar betamax posted:ya the book was very chill especially the part where it was incomprehensible garbage I think, I can speak for the whole thread when I say, "You didn't 'get' it" Plebs.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:20
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you only get like forty pages into neuromancer before the main dude can't enjoy his drugs anymore. not chill at all.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:20
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Izumi Konata posted:i took me most of the book to get a decent feel for what hiro looked like. its like i i found it much easier to identify with the protagonist in snow crash than in neuromancer, but i still had to fill in the blanks. Also, i'm almost certain that's a photo from the new Shadowrun games.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:22
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Cold and Ugly posted:Also, i'm almost certain that's a photo from the new Shadowrun games. A drawing, I mean.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:23
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Space Rasta, mon.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:23
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My fav part of the book is when the Sentient AI begins to speak to Case, but using the stored memory fragments of people he used to know. I can't put my finger on what metaphysical idea that was trying to analogize. I guess when you're not with your friends but you're accessing your memories of their personalities.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:25
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redshirt posted:Space Rasta, mon. what happens if weed smoke escapes to space?
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Aug 19, 2014 04:26
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BKPR posted:you only get like forty pages into neuromancer before the main dude can't enjoy his drugs anymore. not chill at all. Actually, yeah... the whole book isn't really chill at all. I don't know, though. Maybe if you were a teen or adult reading it in the 80's.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:26
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SO you guys know when you listen to rap songs and the rappers are all "yo, I'm all iced out" do you think they mean that they have been cybernetically enhanced with Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics? like ICE? get it? no??
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Aug 19, 2014 04:27
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etalian posted:what happens if weed smoke escapes to space? Your deck gets fried mon.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:28
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killaer posted:SO you guys know when you listen to rap songs and the rappers are all "yo, I'm all iced out" No. I think they're actually talking about jewelry and precious stones and stuff like that. Pretty vulgar, if you ask me.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:29
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Cold and Ugly posted:No. I think they're actually talking about jewelry and precious stones and stuff like that. Pretty vulgar, if you ask me. Of course, but peep the deeper meaning god, it seems like these jeweles and precious stones have a social value in our society. To me the entire book, at least the cyberspace aspect of it, was like case maneuvering through the "social norms" present around him. There are basically rules that you have to follow and if you break them you trip up over ICE. Which sets off alarms and lets people know you're trying to do something you're not supposed to do. But this 'phat diamond chain' that the rapperman wears is like his own ICE, a symbol of status that establishes a sort of defense for himself as a social symbol. I mean you could take it in a more literal way, like when he's hacking through ICE it's him hacking through Bank of America or whatever and actually doing computer code poo poo. But I like the more metaphorical aspect of cyberspace, as if it is a mental 'idea landscape' that you can maneuver through. Dunno if this makes any sense No lamer is going to mess with you if you're wearing a phat gold diamond chain because you look so cool so you have effectively ICEd the average biter's attacks, but you establish yourself as a hostile target for robbers or 'hostile hackers' or 'space cowboys' or 'criminals' or whatever to burn you and rob you. killaer fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Aug 19, 2014 |
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Aug 19, 2014 04:35
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killaer posted:Of course, but peep the deeper meaning god, it seems like these jeweles and precious stones have a social value in our society. To me the entire book, at least the cyberspace aspect of it, was like case maneuvering through the "social norms" present around him. There are basically rules that you have to follow and if you break them you trip up over ICE. Which sets off alarms and lets people know you're trying to do something you're not supposed to do. But this 'phat diamond chain' that the rapperman wears is like his own ICE, a symbol of status that establishes a sort of defense for himself as a social symbol. You better have quoted that from somewhere ,otherwise Lol.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:38
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killaer posted:Of course, but peep the deeper meaning god, it seems like these jeweles and precious stones have a social value in our society. To me the entire book, at least the cyberspace aspect of it, was like case maneuvering through the "social norms" present around him. There are basically rules that you have to follow and if you break them you trip up over ICE. Which sets off alarms and lets people know you're trying to do something you're not supposed to do. But this 'phat diamond chain' that the rapperman wears is like his own ICE, a symbol of status that establishes a sort of defense for himself as a social symbol. Nah, none of that makes sense. If there were any rappers in the world in the early 80's that they'd heard of in Canada they were wearing giant clocks or garishly colored jeans. That's entirely a product of your own stupid lame imagination.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:42
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Cold and Ugly posted:That's a pretty cool picture. I think though that I would have imagined him with softer features, to account for like the, to paraphrase "me and my boys were wondering if you were you a sneaky rear end gook or a watermelon eating friend of the family" part of the story. And more buff and with less flashy clothes because he lives in a storage unit and practices kendo with a piece of rebar with a chunk of concrete on it. It's been a while, isn't there a part where YT describes sort of what he looks like? it doesnt have concrete on it
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Frostwerks posted:it doesnt have concrete on it t-t-trap?!
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Aug 19, 2014 04:42
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dude you goonna get shot lol
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Aug 19, 2014 04:44
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i liked how dub music was playing everywhere all the time on the rasta colony.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:49
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Frostwerks posted:t-t-trap?! Dunno. I remember it having a chunk of concrete on the end, but whatevs. That poo poo would be heavy anyway.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:49
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Cold and Ugly posted:Dunno. I remember it having a chunk of concrete on the end, but whatevs. That poo poo would be heavy anyway. Oh wait no, I get it. No, man. I'm being completely genuine in my appreciation for Snow Crash. Really enjoyed that poo poo. Don't really care what Effectronica or those other fags think, it was a fun book. And I don't think the fact that I enjoyed cool poo poo like Raven the ultimate badass or kindly uncle Ezio the mob boss or The Deliverator bits make me a bad reader or person in general.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:54
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Yivgev posted:actually, Neuromancer and Snow Crash are both good I read them both a long time ago, and the only thing I can remember was that there was a pizza delivery guy in one of them. I remember enjoying them both, at least.
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Aug 19, 2014 04:58
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Snow Crash was fun and cool and gently caress the haters.
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Benito Hitlerstalin posted:A buttjack. 
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