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Post by RobRivera »

drivers99 wrote: post #130
RobRivera wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discovered the Hackers ost on a /mu/ thread. So many bangers.

I have this OST and the Mortal Kombat one as well on CD (mentioned together since they both have the same song, "Halcyon + On + On" on them!). When I went to a 2600 meetings in Seattle in 1999, I listened to the Hacker's soundtrack in my car on the way, of course. I gave one of the people I met there a ride and we had a laugh when he saw the case in my car. (I feel like I have a story for every song. Thanks for indul…

Yea doscovering Halcyon was on Hackers as well was wild for me. I knew that track from MK.

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Post by bradfa »

caust1c wrote: post #142

> FYI man, alright. You could sit at home, and do like absolutely nothing, and your name goes through like 17 computers a day. 1984? Yeah right, man. That's a typo. Orwell is here now. He's livin' large. We have no names, man. No names. We are nameless!

Cereal is my favorite character! Especially the random shouting.

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Post by stevenhubertron »

herodoturtle wrote: post #88

I’ve probably watched Hackers over a hundred times. My all time favourite movie. My first crush as a young teenager was Burn. It led to a career in software. So many kindred spirits on this thread - makes me smile. And after 30+ years of watching Hackers, it only occurred to me recently that the biggest noob in the movie Joey beat the Gibson, twice. Sure he had assistance the second time, but still poetic imho. Hack…

We would have been good friends then. My and my friend group watched it so many times.

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Post by devinegan »

rsync wrote: post #94
bilekas wrote: post #6

Hack the planet. This is such a call back and what a nice touch to add the sound to it too. That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists. What a fun movie.

"That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists." The best music, in my opinion, in the movie is not on the soundtrack and it is: Guy Pratt - Combination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_7N8NsU4jQ

They did include this track on the 25th anniversary edition of the soundtrack titled "One Combination"

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Post by socalgal2 »

inanutshellus wrote: post #27
Zaskoda wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap ... I loved it. One could argue that I loved it all along given that I watched it so many times... but there was a distinct moment where I let go and that's when I was able to see just how wonderful this movie really is.

I've flipped that switch for book adaptations. I let go of fanboying on what Hollywood "did to" the story and instead just decided to be thankful something I love was given a new medium / audience / interpretation... and voila! now I have two things to love. It's still fun to point out where things could've been done differently, but instead of actually disliking the film(s) because of those things, it's just another…

I am mixed on that.

For me there are 2 issues

(1) I read the book. it was awesome. If the movie fails to deliver that awesomeness then it's really upsetting as it's ruining something great for everyone that didn't read the book / see the original. They're unlikely to go check the original. They're more likely to just think "That was dumb".

(2) When they change things so much that they arguably should not have used the name.

Why choose some existing fictional world/characters just to shit on them and make it something else? If you wanted to make something else, then pick a new name, make your own IP.

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Post by wrennes »

rsync wrote: post #94
bilekas wrote: post #6

Hack the planet. This is such a call back and what a nice touch to add the sound to it too. That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists. What a fun movie.

"That whole OST is incredible, I still pull orbital and prodigy into my current work playlists." The best music, in my opinion, in the movie is not on the soundtrack and it is: Guy Pratt - Combination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_7N8NsU4jQ

There are 3 'official' soundtracks with various tracks from the movie and some inspired by. BUT on the 2020 double disk reissue, the second disk carries may of Pratt's tracks, including Combination..

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Post by greggman65 »

ericskiff wrote: post #137

This is so lovely! If the original author is here in the comments, some feature requests that would absolutely make my day, presumably from easiest to hardest :) I love this so much, thank you for sharing! * Slow down the motion to about .5 of what it is currently, with easing/acceleration on the speed to emulate the camera dolly and jib effects used in the film * Add a random motion setting that allows me to run it…

I think this is a good example of something you can vibe-code today. (though maybe not as good)

I went to gemini, picked "cavnas". used this prompt

> There's a famous CG scene in the movie Hackers where they "Hack the Gibson". It shows a bunch of translucnt cubes with glowing edges. The textures on the cubes are live computer text. The camera slowly flyies between the cubes tilting gracfully and it searches for the main one.

> Reproduce this scene in Javascript. Be sure to include each of those features

> 1. live computer text which you can simulate by drawing to a canvas offscreen and uploading to a texture, adding more output as it goes. You can even use "function.toString()" of the code you write as input

> 2. a post processing step so we get a glow

> You can probably use three.js for this

Here's the result.

https://codepen.io/greggman/pen/XJKPBZW

No, it's not as good as the site linked above and it's unlikely it would be. On other hand, it got this far on the first try. Maybe a few more iterations and it could get the stuff you want.

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