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Josh Lyman posted:If I'm not mistaken, Iridium level meant they real death'd, right? Honestly I'm not completely clear on this; maybe I'm just a confused idiot but that whole deal about why are the whores actually dying was a bit confusing to me. I thought the previous levels just were in VR, or with synths, and the point of Iridium was that it was a real person in a sleeve and if you RD'd in Iridium they'd cover your rear end but it wasn't an intended feature. If they were trying to market real death every time, they could just use whores with a backup, couldn't they? I thought that the reason why they didn't actually respin the whores even when they didn't get RD'd was that it was simply cheaper to do it that way than to actually buy the new sleeves all the time when you could instead hire a whore, let her get offed, and never pay any of them.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:The noir detective stuff I don’t mind, but there just was enough of it for me because of how much ~worldbuilding~ (ugh) they crammed in. I don’t need to know that there are 1000-ft tall alien trees somewhere. Just show me the cool tree, have a character say”it’s alive, you know?” And be done with it. Word building is a fun, immensely masturbatory exercise of genre writers that needs to stay in the background notes and obsessed wiki pages. Teal posted:. I also can't shake the feeling that the book had a whole chapter/arc about resolution 653 which was cut from the show yet a lot of the dialogue/story relied on it as being a thing so it felt weird with everyone referencing something super pivotal to the story while you only got to know what it was from by-the-ways. It’s been a while since I read the book, but if I remember right, the resolution 653 stuff is handled exactly the same way. If anything, it’s more prominent here. If they spend too much time focusing on something like that it ends up making the solution to the murder a bit too obvious.
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I'm only through episode 4 but I'm liking it so far. Shows like this always make me want there to be a Shadowrun universe based show. I don't mind the exposition here since I find it really interesting. I wonder though if everyone just gets re-sleeved what does that do to the job market? How do you get any kind of skilled job when theres a guy whos been doing it for 2 or 3 sleeve changes vs a natural born person with no experience? Are most people forced into going off world to one of the other habitable planets? Is that one of the reasons why cortical stacks came to being, so that they could reduce the number of 'deaths', creating a large population to inhabit the universe?
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Feb 3, 2018 16:23
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Josh Lyman posted:Just lol if you think the criminal justice system is about reforming criminals. Sure, some people pay lip service to it, but it hasn't been true in practice for the 3,000 years that prisons have been around. That's why I said it doesn't work as a form of punishment either, at least compared to the conditions of any actual prison. Hell, you can't even use them as prison labor when they're frozen in time, and even if you lease out their bodies I'm sure you could have them doing menial desk jobs in VR or sleeve them into primitive bodies to do something dangerous and lousy like picking fruit or running an asbestos mine. So it's not even about this being the most cynical of all futures here.
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Feb 3, 2018 17:14
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:That's why I said it doesn't work as a form of punishment either, at least compared to the conditions of any actual prison. Hell, you can't even use them as prison labor when they're frozen in time, and even if you lease out their bodies I'm sure you could have them doing menial desk jobs in VR or sleeve them into primitive bodies to do something dangerous and lousy like picking fruit or running an asbestos mine. So it's not even about this being the most cynical of all futures here. Think about how many people you could house in 1 prison though
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Feb 3, 2018 17:36
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And “you’ll miss out on x number of years, and wake up in a body that is unlikely to be your own” sounds pretty drat punishing to me.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:And “you’ll miss out on x number of years, and wake up in a body that is unlikely to be your own” sounds pretty drat punishing to me. I think it's not really that the body isn't "your own", but that it's almost guaranteed to be a lovely sleeve since the nice ones are expensive(capitalism!). The only people hung up on having their own bodies are the religious.
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Feb 3, 2018 17:44
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People seem to be overly discounting the idea of being on ice for 100 years. "Oh, you get re-sleeved, no biggie" when you'll probably lose all your family and certainly your livelihood.
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Josh Lyman posted:People seem to be overly discounting the idea of being on ice for 100 years. "Oh, you get re-sleeved, no biggie" when you'll probably lose all your family and certainly your livelihood. I'm not discounting that, I'm saying you can already get that, plus more, when you spend several decades in prison. Today.
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Feb 3, 2018 18:00
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:I'm not discounting that, I'm saying you can already get that, plus more, when you spend several decades in prison. Today. It's not clear to me that there's a huge need for that. I mean, prisoners these days do things like clean up trash and fabricate road signs, but the pseudo-dystopia in the show seems mainly to be that rich people are just bigger pieces of poo poo. Regular people seem to be doing okay, not starving or being culled like in The Hunger Games.
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I just finished this and I thought it was pretty good, certainly better than other recent scifi shows like Orville which was so horrible I couldn't get past the pilot, or the new Star Trek which was pretty mediocre and boring. I did read the books a long time ago and the one thing I remember most were the hilariously bad sex scenes which seemed copy pasted from the worst poo poo you could find on literotica. The show didn't have that so it was by default better, but I also did enjoy it more in general and I like the changes they made, like the rebellion stuff. That said the other books were way better than the first, one reason being that they ditch the noir cyberpunk crap in favor of more interesting scifi, so I'm looking forward to the next season(s).
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Feb 3, 2018 18:34
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I liked the noir cyberpunk stuff, but Broken Angels going from that to a War-movie western before going totally nuts with (book spoiler) alien stuff was amazing.
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Feb 3, 2018 18:44
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3peat posted:I just finished this and I thought it was pretty good, certainly better than other recent scifi shows like Orville which was so horrible I couldn't get past the pilot, or the new Star Trek which was pretty mediocre and boring. Orville was pretty great and probably better than this so...
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Feb 3, 2018 18:45
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It's pretty decent, at least will hold me over until the next season of The Expanse.
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Feb 3, 2018 18:53
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Josh Lyman posted:Let's assume that the criminal justice system in Altered Carbon doesn't care about prisoner rehabilitation, which seems reasonable. The question then becomes, why don't they extract more value out of prisoners? Are you saying the heads of corporations in a dystopian setting wouldn't want to exploit what's effectively a form of indentured servitude?
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:That's why I said it doesn't work as a form of punishment either, at least compared to the conditions of any actual prison. Hell, you can't even use them as prison labor when they're frozen in time, and even if you lease out their bodies I'm sure you could have them doing menial desk jobs in VR or sleeve them into primitive bodies to do something dangerous and lousy like picking fruit or running an asbestos mine. So it's not even about this being the most cynical of all futures here. Well, losing your sleeve is the "labor" - you can go in healthy and young and end when coming out end up with some addicted (the story mentions these carry over) crack whore that will keel over and die in a month (in which case as far as I understand you don't get squat all and if you can't afford a new sleeve, just end up kinda limbo-dead). Another issue is that if you keep resleeving into new, mismatched bodies, you will go insane, so it's not like you can keep doing that forever. Generally though even the "gutter" areas in the story don't really seem bad in this I am just going to presume it's a post-scarcity world where the real concerns of people are no longer "am I going to be able to afford food". Also, Kovacs, being an envoy probably meant that his "hasn't woken up in 250 years" treatment might have been a special case. Who knows if all the common criminals aren't on forced labor sentences providing tech support or making advertising phonecalls.
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Feb 3, 2018 18:58
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Why would you need indentured servants when you have AI and robots are a thing?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Why would you need indentured servants when you have AI and robots are a thing? ...filling in captcha?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Why would you need indentured servants when you have AI and robots are a thing? Didn't everyone give Kovacs crap about going to an AI hotel? I thought AI were disliked for some reason, and the people Poe meets to play cards were influential but stayed in the shadows Besides being rich enough to own a person and all they require to live day to day might seem decadent for those who can afford to do it.
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ep8: "Do you realize how much money you just cost me?"  Maybe you should have had a better plan than to through your expensive clones at Ortega until she ran out of ammo hahaha.
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Surprised at just how bad this is. It has the exact same "every scene was filmed at oblique angles to obscure the fact that we're shooting in a warehouse" feel as any generic Sci-Fi channel show yet somehow manages to one-down those shows in acting. Kovacs has no range or affect and Ortega has to be one of the worst actors to get on a major show in awhile. The dialogue, along with most plotting and exposition, feels like a first draft for a fanfic noir writing contest, the voice overs are dumb... just blah. Even the much ballyhoo'd sex and violence are surprisingly tame, badly edited, and poorly choreographed (the fighting anyway - the sexual content is really minor compared to HBO/Startz). The book is pretty good though - people should check it out. False fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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I'm three episodes in, and so far this series is excellent. Given the source material, I haven't seen a better adaption of a cyberpunk novel.
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etalian posted:It's pretty decent, at least will hold me over until the next season of The Expanse. Also, this. The Expanse is better, but The Expanse is really loving good. People should watch it.
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False posted:Kovacs has no range or affect and Ortega has to be one of the worst actors to get on a major show in awhile. I think you might have missed the point of both the book and the show. The flat affect is a pretty crucial part of the character.
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Dahbadu posted:Also, this. The Expanse is better, but The Expanse is really loving good. People should watch it. Agreed. This may be my favorite Netflix show, but The Expanse and Legion are still way ahead of it. It's good and I liked it overall, but it's not as good narratively as The Expanse, or as mind-blowingly incredible as Legion. It had all the ingredients to do both, but just fell short.
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Dahbadu posted:The Expanse is better, but The Expanse is really loving good. People should watch it.
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Blackchamber posted:Didn't everyone give Kovacs crap about going to an AI hotel? I thought AI were disliked for some reason, and the people Poe meets to play cards were influential but stayed in the shadows As I recall, the book explains when it introduces the hotel that there was a human-robot war a few hundred years ago and the humans won. The Hendrix/Poe survived by buying itself out and keeping to itself. What's kind of ironic is that AI eventually won, since the moment you leave your original meat brain you qualify as an artificial intelligence.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:What's kind of ironic is that AI eventually won, since the moment you leave your original meat brain you qualify as an artificial intelligence. THEY. I MEAN THEY PREFER SI.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:As I recall, the book explains when it introduces the hotel that there was a human-robot war a few hundred years ago and the humans won. The Hendrix/Poe survived by buying itself out and keeping to itself. Nope, no human-robot War. quote:“Archive précis I ran on the way over here says it got done a couple of centuries back, when the corporate wars turned nasty. Makes sense. With all that poo poo breaking loose, a lot of buildings were retooling to cope. Course, most of the companies went under shortly afterwards with the trading crash, so no one ever got around to passing a decommissioning bill. The Hendrix upgraded to artificial-intelligence status instead and bought itself out.” Three cheers for kindle search!
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"when the corporate wars turned nasty" Dark Matter universe tie-in opportunity!
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I watched 2 episodes and the writing is retarded. At least it looks good.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Nope, no human-robot War. Looks like you're right, but the key passage--such as it is--is in the next paragraph. quote:Lot of the hotels on this strip are A.I.” She grinned at me through the smoke. “That’s why no one stays in them. Shame, really. Skimming the book, it looks like the only reason AI are unpopular is because they're essentially inhuman and it makes people uncomfortable to work with them. Thus they'll only use an AI when absolutely necessary.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Looks like you're right, but the key passage--such as it is--is in the next paragraph. Yeah, but I don’t see how that would discount robots for stuff you would use convicts for, especially if it’s not true AI. It’s not like they have to have a conversation with a mining drone. Do the managers at a Toyota plant talk to the assembly line robots?
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Yeah, but I don’t see how that would discount robots for stuff you would use convicts for, especially if it’s not true AI. It’s not like they have to have a conversation with a mining drone. Do the managers at a Toyota plant talk to the assembly line robots? Because you'll always have a ready supply of convicts and developing software is expensive. Anyway, we're getting deep enough to the point where it's impossible to really predict what and how much things would have to change to result in Altered Carbon's future. I remain unsatisfied with the deep-freeze penal system the book describes, but if we keep going at this point we'll just wander further and further away from the text of the novel.
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Last couple episodes get a bit verbose. Show, don't tell, writers. Dichen Lachman is great though.
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The pilot episode had big helpings of tits, rear end and James Purefoy dick
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I love this show. It's like if a Syfy original series got to be what it wanted to be instead of what it had to be. Anyone got a youtube link to the More Human than Human cover that played at the end of episode 6?
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Stokes posted:I love this show. It's like if a Syfy original series got to be what it wanted to be instead of what it had to be. Anyone got a youtube link to the More Human than Human cover that played at the end of episode 6? It’s not on YouTube, but it’s the version by Sune Rose Wagner. I think it may be on Spotify though. E:nope, it is available exactly nowhere. Ugly In The Morning fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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