infernal machines posted:

punk's been dead for a while. cyber? it's here to stay

Captain Foo posted:

qtiyd

Carthag Tuek posted:

shes gonna get her nips caught in his chest hinge

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An interesting "Virtual Magazine" that mixes Max-Payne style comic panels with Full Motion Video. The disc image is in Bin/Cue format. The program won't run on 64-bit Windows but will work in a virtual machine like XP Mode or the like, and contains a Macintosh version as well. As long as your virtual machine thinks the virtual drive you've mounted the game to is it's own main disc drive, it will work fine, and you can also burn the image to a CD for less software hassle.

Crazy Achmed posted:

well go on then, what was the game

Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/broderick/status/1490317584855674886

NoneMoreNegative posted:

ACRONYM (high-end tech clothing) dropped some new kicks today, and the gimmick is they have a swappable heel-plate that you can bolt on, based on the Bōsōzoku modding vibe:


https://acrnm.com/products/BLA-001_NA

Armitag3 posted:

Alan Smithee posted:

and also why would you ever watch dub

Agile Vector posted:

at least with google you can't shout commands at them when viewing the results

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

my beef is augmented

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Skin #5 Video Mix M.M.M.
1989
Directed by Norimizu Ameya

Synopsis:

A young man discovers a floppy disk hidden in the urn that houses his father’s ashes. He and his friends access the floppy disk, which asks them a series of questions. Upon successfully answering them, two bizarre figures appear with body parts hanging out. The young man is also reunited with his dead father whose mind and soul seem to have possessed a giant, terrifying machine.

Review:

I feel incredibly lucky that I was able to see this. Fellow Osaka-bound expat filmmaker, Guy (of Difficulty Breathing fame), had just bought this extremely expensive holy grail tape titled Skin #5 Video Mix M.M.M. He knew little about it, simply because there is so little about it online. But it appeared to be a filmed theatrical production directed by someone connected to Shozin Fukui's Rubber's Lover and something of an early cyberpunk effort. Even that extraordinarily mysterious introduction was not enough to prepare for the lunacy awaiting us.

Skin #5 Video Mix M.M.M. starts with a somewhat tacky opening that reeks of theatre despite its rather dynamic cinematography. Hip hop blasts as some guys dance about a stage and introduce themselves to the audience (or lack there of). But things quickly take a turn for the insane when an urn is delivered to our main character. The urn contains the ashes of his father and a concealed floppy disk. YEP. They fire up the floppy disk using some VR-looking goggles. A green screen flickers to life behind them as they're asked a series of questions. Upon successfully answering them (I think), two freakish figures appear and the film takes a turn into cyberpunk. One of the lunatics has an eye patch and painted on moustache, the other has what appears to be an anus or deformed penis hanging from his/her mouth. Both have bodies covered with torn up innards and sport some very sadomasochistic outfits.

Things only get more befuddling and complicated from there (it didn't help that there were no subtitles and a lot of fast-talking dialogue). A giant machine with a TV face shows up. This seems to be the electronic reincarnation of his father. There's violent fights and a smattering of gore. The mouth-anus thing is shoved down someone's throat. The score groans and throbs like something out of The Shining. By its end, I had no idea what was going on, but I knew it was something I liked. Seeing something as obscure and wild as this was pretty exciting. It also makes me salivate at the thought of more stuff like this existing, gathering dust in people's cupboards, waiting to be unearthed. Magic.

Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1515736044808847360?s=20&t=LIV3gxQvhF3hJNgXCh_h1A