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Snowcano ,

I mean, they’re no Tessier-Ashpool,SA. or anything.

_cnt0 ,
@_cnt0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social avatar

What’s wrong with Tessier-Ashpool?

Snowcano ,

Nothing, I was just saying that it’s a cool cyberpunk corporation name. For me the gaudy names like Meta and X are a little on the nose, true evil lurks under a veneer of banality which I think names like TA have.

_cnt0 ,
@_cnt0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social avatar

I had hoped, that you would notice my user name kind of resembles Count Zero, my avatar is taken straight from a Count Zero book cover, and my home instance is lemmy.villa-straylight.social

Well, you know what they say about explaing jokes and what that does to their funnyness. I guess it was not obvious enough.

Snowcano ,

Omg, I’m actually glad you mentioned it because I totally missed it!! I actually have to get around to reading the rest of the Sprawl books. Rereading Neuromancer now and might just keep going in the others.

What are things like at Starylight.social?

_cnt0 , (edited )
@_cnt0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social avatar

What are things like at Starylight.social?

Small and chill. Like it was an abandoned orbital revolving around the fediverse ;-)

hungryphrog ,

I’m still waiting for the cool neon signs.

z3rOR0ne ,

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/39499d59-23ac-42ab-ab14-959196116bdb.png

Hadriscus ,

The lady eating a cherry is burned into my brain. In the Blade Runner point-n-click game she would appear every time you’d fly out from the marketplace, because it was a prerendered cutscene.

neutron ,

Nah, we got cheaper and brighter LED lights blasting 24/7 and annoying everyone trying to sleep instead. Neon signs are retro now.

nayminlwin ,

There’s also E Corp from Mr. Robot.

poudlardo ,
@poudlardo@jlai.lu avatar

That one was clealy google, not the other way around

vis4valentine ,
@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml avatar

Is more Tencent or Samsung that Google.

poudlardo ,
@poudlardo@jlai.lu avatar

Yeah but samsung in nowhere near Google’s influence in US and worldwide. But I agree these companies are HUGE in Asia.

vis4valentine ,
@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml avatar

Samsung is EVERYTHING in Korea. Not so much in the west beyond phones and smart tv’s, and Laundry machines or whatever, but in Korea, Samsung does EVERYTHING.

poudlardo ,
@poudlardo@jlai.lu avatar

Yes chaebol is a concept in itself

iturnedintoanewt ,
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

TVs, Phones, Washing Machines? Samsung! Cars, trucks? Also, Samsung! Heavy machine equipment, cranes, etc? Believe or not, also Samsung! The Chaebol that does it all!

nayminlwin ,

There was even a scandal involving cancer causing work environments with Samsung like in the show.

vis4valentine ,
@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml avatar

Oh shit

fsxylo ,

And the characters called it evil corp anyways so it might as well have been the name.

Tzig ,

Not exactly, most of the characters seem to call the company E Corp but the main character (who’s also the narrator) “corrects it” in his head.

Amaltheamannen ,

Waiting for Sense/Net

youRFate ,

I also like Alliant Techsystems, then merged with Orbital Sciences Corp into Orbital ATK.

They are part of NGIS (Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), so evil things might come from there.

Apex_Fail ,

If DARPA was Lawful Evil

21Cabbage ,

Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations Inc is a pretty good one too.

MxM111 ,

Skynet.net

Varyk ,

Yea, X Corps definitely becomes the manufacturer of the protein bar machines on snowpiercer

Hadriscus ,

And lab-grown artificiel pet snakes as in Blade Runner

ZILtoid1991 ,
@ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

Anaheim Electronics when? If I have to die in a war, I want to die in a Gundam.

Pantoffel ,

That one is easy. Simply open up an electrics store in Anaheim, California.

ZILtoid1991 ,
@ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

Starting out small, so once I become rich, I can claim I got there through my own work, and not by having military contracts.

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

You didn’t mention Facebook? That’s super dystopian to me. What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

Benj1B ,

It sounds like a cursed item in D&D or something.

The Book of Faces Wondrous Item, very rare

This enchanted tome magically records the likeness each humanoid slain in its vicinity, preserving a snapshot of their life and memories. The book can be read to glean superficial information about it’s subjects. As an action, you can tear a page from the book to summon a ghostly spirit of its subject, which will be magically compelled to answer questions. The spirit knows nothing the owner did not know in life.

The Demon Lord Elgor Ithym is said to have a keen interest in this book…

shadowSprite ,

Now do it for MySpace and Twitter!

Hadriscus ,

👌🏼Pure delight

fubo ,

What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?

Well, historically (and I mean in the 1990s) it was a collection of names and photographs of all the new students at your college, to help in meeting people and/or to see who’s hot.

Da_Boom ,
@Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Meta is Facebook

1984 ,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Yes ofc, I just think the name Facebook is more dystopian than Meta.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

My favorite is literally just “Brand.” The “generic” brand company. Although I feel like they leaned purposefully into the cyberpunk shit.

SnipingNinja ,

Can’t even find anything about them

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

That’s how generic it is!

IONLYpost ,
@IONLYpost@kbin.social avatar

Alphabet.

theneverfox ,

Soon to be alpha-bet

Jackolantern ,

Currently waiting for BiffCo to spice up our lives and give us floating long boards

intensely_human ,

Art creates the future. Whatever we envision we steer ourselves toward, consciously or unconsciously. A vision has gravity, and pulls people toward it. The more a vision is etched into people’s minds, the more likely we will live it.

I’m convinced Apple’s overall aesthetic is based on Star Trek: TNG. Or at least it was for a phase, until we got bored with it and took it even further.

postmateDumbass ,

Nah, calling the visions of aging tech bros on HRT art is a stretch too far.

Zalack ,
@Zalack@startrek.website avatar

They’re talking about the visions of sci-fi authors, filmmakers, and artists. The tech Bros are the ones being drawn towards those artists’ visions.

SnipingNinja ,

Reminds me of the “torment Nexus” meme

MossyFeathers ,

https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/05e5ae2f-f856-4858-b767-b277bad02356.jpeg

postmateDumbass ,

Look what has been done with 1984 and A Brave New World.

postmateDumbass ,

It aint the same vision.

They smashed the Rose-colored glasees in favor of orher lenses, one tinted the color of money. The other a swirl of gluttony, power, and dopamine.

RegularGoose ,

Shitty art is still art.

intensely_human ,

It must suck to spend all day hating

postmateDumbass ,

Nah, it mostly sucks to have watched the tech bro crowd take something wonderful, that bemefited everyone and twist it into personal profit streams devoid of any soul and/or humanity.

I know those types are going to destroy us all, but everyone sucks so just let the bad times roll. Then the heads will follow. Rolling on the floor.

lobut ,

I mean, they’re all also chasing AI too doesn’t that typically lead to our demise too?

intensely_human ,

Oh that’s no problem to solve. Just put Asimov’s five laws in your default instructions and your chatgpt bots will never manipulate you into overthrowing human civilization.

rikudou ,

Isn’t every book about how the laws don’t work?

morrowind ,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

Most of the stories deal with edge cases or situations where the laws are untested or altered. They generally do work quite well, though not always as the characters expect.

rikudou ,

I, robot is full of examples of the laws not working. I seem to recall one where they removed one of the rules for some mining bots.

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