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Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by Sharlin »

jghn wrote: post #61
chrisfosterelli wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The movie is obviously technical garbage but one thing it did well was capture that early hacker counterculture spirit. I think a lot of us can appreciate that for the warm blanket it is and forgive its technical accuracy and story flaws.

I find this and Starship Troopers to fit in a similar niche for me. When I first saw them I found them very cringey, horrible, couldn't stand it. Hackers for the reasons being discussed here. ST because of how bastardized it was from the source material. But over time I grew to love both of them. In both cases I started to appreciate how they weren't trying to be faithful representations, but rather capture a particu…

Bastardized? It's satire and not at all subtle about it. You can of course argue that it's poorly executed satire, but judging it based on how faithful it is to the source material is rather missing the point.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by mpeg »

chrisfosterelli wrote: post #57
enkonta wrote: post #2

This movie had an unreasonable influence on me as a kid...as cheesy as it is, it still holds up as one of my top ten favorite movies.

The movie is obviously technical garbage but one thing it did well was capture that early hacker counterculture spirit. I think a lot of us can appreciate that for the warm blanket it is and forgive its technical accuracy and story flaws.

It's surprisingly accurate in terms of how weird and cringy the 90s / early 00s hacker culture was, I too was obsessed with the movie and it led me to obscure irc channels, e-zines and eventually a whole career in tech

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by pja »

JaggedJax wrote: post #77

Love it, what a great throwback, especially with the OST. In Firefox is there a way to play this without FF popping up the search box on every key press? Maybe there's a way for the JS to override the default FF search functionality?

Doesn’t do that for me. Have you got some oddball extension installed or something?

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by kayge »

whynotmaybe wrote: post #26
shon wrote: post #14

The Gibson! Very cool. did you make this? I made a Tron lightcycle game: https://new.af/tron Now that AI accelerates dev so much, I suspect we'll get to see a lot of cool throwbacks.

While we're at it, I remember an atari st game that was like the tron lightcycle as "Trek4". Did it really exist ?

Was it maybe called Surround? Try looking up Atari catalog # CX2641 and see if it brings back any more memories :)

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by Sharlin »

chrisfosterelli wrote: post #57
enkonta wrote: post #2

This movie had an unreasonable influence on me as a kid...as cheesy as it is, it still holds up as one of my top ten favorite movies.

The movie is obviously technical garbage but one thing it did well was capture that early hacker counterculture spirit. I think a lot of us can appreciate that for the warm blanket it is and forgive its technical accuracy and story flaws.

It's not really even technical garbage. From many throwaway lines it's clear that the writers actually knew their stuff. They just chose to not make a hacking movie based on realism (because boring) but based on the zeitgeist, the computer tropes of the 80s and early 90s, and the concept of "cyberspace" as envisioned by Gibson and made its way to the collective consciousness. In a time when virtual reality and 3D graphics were at peak cool, yet most people had no experience with computer networks, or even computers at all.

"Cyberspace […] A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding." – Neuromancer

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by blahaj »

par wrote: post #82

Damn dude this hurts. My friend took his own life last year, and Hackers was our absolute favorite movie back in high school. I mean even as late as 2022 we were messaging each other the Hacker manifesto, hack the planet, you know all the good stuff. Sam Singh, you would've loved this man. I miss you homie. hack the planet.

Sorry for your loss.

"This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...

after all, we're all alike.

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by JaggedJax »

pja wrote: post #114
JaggedJax wrote: post #77

Love it, what a great throwback, especially with the OST. In Firefox is there a way to play this without FF popping up the search box on every key press? Maybe there's a way for the JS to override the default FF search functionality?

Doesn’t do that for me. Have you got some oddball extension installed or something?

Found that this is a Firefox setting, maybe it's not (no longer) defaulted to on.

"Search for text when you start typing"

I have to say, I do like this setting enabled, but can see how it conflicts with the page. And let's be fair, how much time and I saving over having to press Ctrl+F when I want to search a page?

Re: Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

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Post by par »

blahaj wrote: post #118
par wrote: post #82

Damn dude this hurts. My friend took his own life last year, and Hackers was our absolute favorite movie back in high school. I mean even as late as 2022 we were messaging each other the Hacker manifesto, hack the planet, you know all the good stuff. Sam Singh, you would've loved this man. I miss you homie. hack the planet.

Sorry for your loss. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... after all, we're all alike.

Thank you. And you know, it's those quotes and concepts that really stuck me with, about how we were all in it together. And not to get off topic, but i'm so sad and disheartened to see what tech has become since those days.
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