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Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by codersfocus »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #157
the_snooze wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I think being simple and content focused are two of them. You mean you don't like newsletter subscription pop-ups? Or a virtual assistant chat window on the corner? Or auto-playing videos that follow you when you scroll down? Or a choice between "Accept all cookies" and "Learn more?"

Hey now, don't say anything bad about cookie consent popups, the Europeans will be waking up soon and they'll downvote you to hell.

I think someone should put up a counter of how many lives the EU parliament has taken by summing the collective time every cookie banner has taken from human cognition / lives. Maybe it'll be enough to charge them with crimes against humanity.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by pastacacioepepe »

ajmurmann wrote: post #152
pastacacioepepe wrote: post #116

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Dystopias aren't that fun to actually live in.

I'd prefer many aspects of cyberpunk fiction that we didn't get. Our "cyberdecks" turned out smaller and more omnipresent than in fiction. They are also much more locked down and nobody is hacking anything with them. They ended up mostly attention control machines for the corpos. We didn't get impressive cities with mega buildings/arcologies but instead more sprawl of cookie-cutter town houses. No steamy backalleys i…

> We didn't get impressive cities with mega buildings/arcologies but instead more sprawl of cookie-cutter town houses. No steamy backalleys in which to eat ramen under neon lights.

Haven't visited myself but Asian metropolises should be much closer to the cyberpunk vibe you're looking for. I also really like the vibe but wonder how happy would I be actually living in it.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by FooBarBizBazz »

moonchrome wrote: post #104
moron4hire wrote: post #77

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This site works fine on mobile

If by fine you mean I need to zoom and pan to read it then I guess it does, but I doubt anyone would call that "working well on mobile".

It works way better for me on mobile than most new sites do.

Developers assume everyone has the latest iPhone or Pixel. So they take like a minute to load, heat my phone up, drop the battery by 10%, and have a 20% chance of OOM-ing my browser.

The Guardian is the absolute worst at this. I don't know why, it brings mobile Firefox to its knees.

Basically, fancy "mobile friendly" JS is no good if it makes my phone stutter and go catatonic.

Whereas if people just wrote old school "CSS Zen Garden" sites, or even this old table stuff, any ancient phone could handle them easily.

But no, I need to go pay a kid to dig up more coltan.

I can scroll. It's ok. What I can't do is will my phone faster, without shelling out more stupid cash.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by krisoft »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #136
rilindo wrote: post #117

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> a particular Disney cartoon series back in ‘98 Gargoyles?

TaleSpin.

I understand that compulsion very well. I haven’t seen any TaleSpin episodes in close to 20 years now but they live in my mind crystal clear.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by ajmurmann »

pastacacioepepe wrote: post #162
ajmurmann wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd prefer many aspects of cyberpunk fiction that we didn't get. Our "cyberdecks" turned out smaller and more omnipresent than in fiction. They are also much more locked down and nobody is hacking anything with them. They ended up mostly attention control machines for the corpos. We didn't get impressive cities with mega buildings/arcologies but instead more sprawl of cookie-cutter town houses. No steamy backalleys i…

> We didn't get impressive cities with mega buildings/arcologies but instead more sprawl of cookie-cutter town houses. No steamy backalleys in which to eat ramen under neon lights. Haven't visited myself but Asian metropolises should be much closer to the cyberpunk vibe you're looking for. I also really like the vibe but wonder how happy would I be actually living in it.

That's definitely true. And to be fair, even in the seminal Neuromancer the mega buildings are in and around Tokyo while the US has sprawl and my native Bonn apparently got nuked or something.

I've visited Shanghai, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Osaka and they are definitely more what I want. I visited Chongqing in 2009 and now it looks incredibly cyberpunk: https://youtu.be/cD-t3W1zLzg

I would theoretically be very interested to live in Tokyo, Shanghai or Hong Kong. I greatly enjoyed my visits. The density and public transit makes for fantastic exploration and walking without getting into a car. Tokyo has great parks and many neighborhoods feel quite cosy if that's what you are looking for. I'm worried about Japan's work culture though and it doesn't seem particularly welcoming to foreigners. I absolutely loved China in the 00s and would have loved to live their for a bit. I did stay for a month with a girlfriend who did an internship in Shanghai and it was one of the greatest times of my life. Everything was booming and exciting. China had issues but seemed on a good trajectory. Now I feel that trajectory has reversed and I'd be uncomfortable to even visit.

I still love the idea of living in a huge Asian city at some point. Right now nothing seems attractive enough. Maybe Taipei or Seoul, but I haven't visited either and have obvious concerns about Taiwan.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by qbrass »

ajmurmann wrote: post #61
HopenHeyHi wrote: post #16

Whenever Bebop comes up it hits right in the feels. The future sure panned out different than how I imagined it would be when I was a kid staying up late watching this timeless classic. At the time I just thought it was cool and conceptual, never realizing how much the vibes were on point. I get it now. See You Space Cowboy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qBqP2I4p8

I feel we are getting closer and closer to a cyberpunk future, but without all the stuff that made it cool.

The boring version crept in while everyone was distracted waiting for the cool neon one from the movies to show up.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by ETH_start »

ajmurmann wrote: post #61
HopenHeyHi wrote: post #16

Whenever Bebop comes up it hits right in the feels. The future sure panned out different than how I imagined it would be when I was a kid staying up late watching this timeless classic. At the time I just thought it was cool and conceptual, never realizing how much the vibes were on point. I get it now. See You Space Cowboy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qBqP2I4p8

I feel we are getting closer and closer to a cyberpunk future, but without all the stuff that made it cool.

Cryptocurrency, AI and pretty much all of Musk's projects give me that cool future feeling.

Re: Future Blues – Emily's Cowboy Bebop Page (1999)

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Post by 1MachineElf »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #74
1MachineElf wrote: post #71

When MySpace was popular, you could sometimes stumble upon profiles that looked like this. MySpace's HTML/CSS customization was a great feature.

It was the gateway to a career in software for several people that I know. It's a pity we don't trust users with freedom like that anymore.

Yes! Back in high school, one of the most impressive MySpace profiles I ever encountered was by a peer who went on to build Lil Wayne's website.
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