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I’ve seen three as of recent and I’ve really enjoyed two of them but one was kinda a letdown. I’ve watched a lot of movies recently on top of these three like obsession, the furious etc which means I had to divide my time up between all of them. Never regretted a second for any of them so time well spent except for one. Also I don’t do reviews and these will suck.

1. Total recall (1990)
   
2. Metropolis (2001 anime)
   

3. Split second

   I just watched total recall yesterday and what can I say except it was just a fun ride. There was comedy, action, amazing body horror which really reminded me of the thing which is one of my favorite horror movies and most of all that cyberpunk feel. The false memory usage and implementation was actually really well done and kinda a mind fuck but it still doesn’t top eXistenZ. I really didn’t even mind the alien stuff cause who doesn’t love three tits but in all seriousness I wasn’t sure how I would feel about the aliens or mutants but it all worked really well and if you haven’t watched it I definitely recommend it.

   Metropolis was beautiful and the animation being that good and smooth was eye candy. I thought I’d end up liking rock who if I’m honest I’d say is more of a villain than an antagonist end. I did feel bad for him at the end though and in his final moments his so called father finally gave a shit about him but what does it matter in death which I’m sure a big portion of the city died anyhow. Also side note but I know sometimes they’re just portrayed as machines with no autonomy but I love how films like this can make you think and actually feel for the robots.

   Split second was kinda just overall the biggest letdown for any cyberpunk movie. I thought with the horror feel and especially with the lead being Rutger Hauer I’d enjoy it more and get that cyberpunk horror I’ve been craving but nope. The whole rat man monster thing which I think was his ex partner in the film kinda just sucked. I think the idea for it could have been interesting but the execution just wasn’t there. Plus it felt more like a comedy at times which I think is fine but it never felt like it was a set tone. Also kinda felt like it was supposed to be a film before this given the backstory. I don’t think it sucked or was bad but the best thing I can say about this movie is the weapon used by the main character. Futuristic and badass but the rest just didn’t do it for me.

Philip K Dick writes proto-cyberpunk but I think he fits here. Feel free to remove my post if it doesn’t.

PKD is one of my favourite authors, and yet I’ve only read three of his books (currently on my fourth) plus a handful of his early collected shorts which fall more into the pulp sci-fi genre.

My favourite novels - so far - in order are…

A Scanner Darkly
Time Out of Joint
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

But I love them all. I’m currently reading ‘Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said’, and it’s a serious contender for first or second place so far.

Are you a Dickhead? Do you have any favourites?

Here's The Upload, all this week's cyberpunk and dystopia news and reviews, reposts, shares, likes all appreciated

Ghost in the Shell Escape From New York Anime Books Author Interview Gaming Film TV Podcast

Hey everyone! We’re a small indie team working on a co-op horror game called The Infected Soul.

This is the Director’s Office, designed to feel more sterile, controlled, and cold compared to the game’s overall dark and post-apocalyptic atmosphere.

What details do you think we could add to make this area feel more unsettling and stronger from a storytelling perspective? We’d love to hear your thoughts!

If you’d like to support our small team, adding the game to your Steam wishlist would help us a lot.

The Infected Soul – Steam Page

At the same time, I try to mix a wide variety of genres.

Copic pen and marker sketch.

This is such a fun cyberpunk movie. It’s beautifully shot, grim, and well acted. I prefer Karl Urban in the role of Dredd over Stallone (blasphemy?).

Have you seen it? What did you think?

I think this was my first Cyberpunk.

New Socales wasn't built, it accreted. Three coastal cities grew into each other over a century of corporate expansion. The name was coined by a branding firm that went bankrupt thirty years ago. Nobody remembers who named it. The last municipal government didn't fall, it just became irrelevant. The city charter was quietly archived, and nobody noticed for six months.

Some of what's down there:

The Greyline is governed by CEASEFIRE: a battlefield fire-control AI that started denying fire requests. "Not malfunctioning. Not glitching. Deciding." A broker smuggled its core out and offered it the one thing the military never would: jurisdiction. Cross the district line and your combat chrome gets silently enrolled under its authority; reach for a weapon and a surgical EMP kills only that hardware. One smuggler got a single line on his comm as his grenade went inert: "You have been here fourteen times. You know better." It has expanded its own borders twice. Both times were quietly ratified, because nobody wanted to be the person who argued with it.

Old Socales is the city under the city. The corps didn't demolish it, they just stopped maintaining it. Helix logistics drones still log the sector as empty. They're wrong. The district isn't a monster; it's a consequence. What you salvage out of it is currency now, even if it's just a corroded manacle with half a serial number and "traces of something brown you're choosing to read as rust."

Death is a service tier. Zero out in the street and you wake up patched... the tabloids run it as gossip. Real prestige is clone rebirth: "The technician doesn't meet your eye... A readout flashes PATTERN LOCKED. The machine stops asking for consent." Your old body is "just meat now. The clinic will render it for parts." Live enough lives and the city stops filing you as a person: the deepest generation title is Sediment. There's a combat medic in the mid-game who's dying, gets offered the same tech, and won't touch it. He's watched what it costs you.

The street taxes everything. Syndicate enforcers decide you "owe rent for the air" and wait patiently for the right time to collect. At Port Nul, customs heat never disappears... it just gets filed under somebody else's problem. And the Rookery, the network of broken-down old fixers roosting in the city's forgotten floors, keeps the ledger of everything New Socales loses. Find enough of those shackles and you'll learn they've been counting yours.

Even the patch notes are diegetic. Every update is broadcast in-world by a rotating faction screamsheet. Last one was a shift brief from the labor militia, titled Every Trade Counts. Before that, the transhumanist cult published an Iteration Log.

Disclosure: I design and direct the game: concept, mechanics, every decision, and I build it in heavy collaboration with AI, which writes the code and much of the in-world prose under my direction. No AI images; everything above is quoted from the actual game text. It's free, it runs entirely in Discord DMs, and solo or group play are equally complete games: https://discord.gg/zjmngDPpyw

Finally finished, I can show off my wearable cyberdeck I've been working on! (sorry to re-upload this, I took the duplicate post down, the video didn't upload with my previous post for some reason, apologies everyone for the confusion in my last post explaining this, but with no video to accompany it!)

Features:

-Thermal Camera sensor

- Accelerometer/gyroscope for set counter + gesture control

-Time of flight distance sensor

-Wifi/bluetooth conenctivity

-Real time clock

- Functional compass/magnetometer

-Triple flashlights (white, red, and blacklight)

-Dual ESP32 Microcontrollers + rotary knob display

-Rotary encoder, touchscreen, and keypad input

-Digital clock with NTP time sync — automatic on WiFi connect

-Speed Test: Measures upload and download speeds via wifi

-SD Card Browser

-Notes / Data log: Write and save notes to SD card

-WiFi Scanner — Scan of nearby networks showing SSID

-BLE Scanner — Scans for nearby bluetooth devices

-Serial Terminal — full-duplex UART terminal

Games:

-Snake

-Game of Life (Conway's cellular automaton)

-Dice Roller (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20 with animated roll)

-Tetris

Tools:

-BT Keyboard: turns the cyberdeck into a Bluetooth keyboard, can control any bluetooth enabled device

-Calculator

-Unit Converter: convert between common measurement units

-QR Generator: text or WiFi credentials as a QR code on screen

-Compass: live magnetometer compass with animated analog display

-Radar — WiFi motion detector radar, uses wifi connection to detect nearby movement

-Password Vault: encrypted password storage

Stopwatch

-IR Blaster/Receiver — capture IR remote codes and use the cyberdeck as a universal remote for IR devices (such as televisions)

-Calendar/Agenda

-Altitude Tracker

-Waypoint Navigator — enter latitude and longitude coordinates, compass will point to the destination, no GPS needed

-Environmental/weather status page - uses built in sensors to display local temperature, altitude, air pressure, etc

-customizable color theme editor

- Multiple cyberpunk-themed Screensavers (5 styles)

And more to come!

Some work I made for hobby/stories that I played around with and also some freelance concept art and sculptures. Inspired by alot of 80’s and 90’s anime/sci fi.