The income doesn't prove its worth, but it does give me an idea of how well-known the movie is. So I figure most people probably haven't heard of this one.

Ha, thanks! You definitely remember more of Lain than I do. 😁

I'm not disagreeing with you, this is simply me probing for more details.

Why do you think social media makes Lain more relevant? I thought Lain focused more on the wonder and magic of what The Internet could mean for humanity, rather than the social problems that can arise from actual internet usage. They definitely touch on someone portraying a different personality online compared to the real world (which is absolutely relevant regarding social media) but I thought that was more a function of Lain's deteriorating mental state than a cautionary aspect of The Wired. Granted, it's been a while since I've watched Lain, so I could be misremembering.

Totally agree. Texhnolyze isn't as slow as Lain, but it is extremely depressing. I thought it was going to be about how sweet cybernetic limbs could be but instead it was more about the trauma of having limbs amputated. Definitely a good anime, but it wasn't what I was expecting (or what I wanted it to be).

Personally, I always watch anime with subtitles. I never do dubs, even when they're well-made. So I'm not really the right person to ask regarding this particular dub.

Yes, Hulu and Crunchyroll both have sub and dub versions of the anime.

I agree there are some minor changes they could make that would tip it into the "cyberpunk" category for me. For example, if the aliens were all members of a single corporation (as opposed to integrating with society) then it'd have a stronger "corporations with too much control" theme and might be considered cyberpunk. Or, if you take out aliens entirely and this is other humans doing the exact same thing, I'd consider it cyberpunk.

Cool! I'm looking forward to this game. The same company made a Terminator game a couple years ago and I really enjoyed that one.

Yeah, rich people downloading their consciousness into a younger body isn't really a unique idea. There was also a Batman Beyond episode and a Ryan Reynolds movie with the same plot. The first season of Altered Carbon did a great job with it though.

So it's like Ingress but more cyberpunk-themed? Neat!

Also, corteximplant.com (where that bot is hosted) is a cyberpunk-themed mastodon instance. Although I personally see very few cyberpunk-focused posts there.

I really liked how cyberpunk the songs were when he first started out (Datastream, Salvation Code) but then I feel like his songs skewed a little too far into the outrun/80s sound and just became love songs so I stopped paying attention. Definitely let me know which newer songs are worth listening to.

Also, it's crazy to see how much of the film was actually green-screen and cgi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFJ_THGj72U

Ok, yeah, that's fair.

In my defense, I just copied the table from here https://almost-human.fandom.com/wiki/Season_1#Episode_List

The most jarring for me is the 8th episode, which was supposed to be the 2nd episode. I'm 7 episodes in at that point and suddenly Karl Urban is being a dick and acting like he just met his partner?? Was weird.

I think the idea (stupid as it was) was to front-load all the "action heavy" episodes to air first to try and capture the audience. Then all the "boring" episodes could air once the audience was hooked. Except that doesn't work at all with a show that has a coherent plot. The execs must've thought it was just a police-procedural with random cases and never bothered to actually watch the show to see if that was true.

To avoid spoiling I'll be as vague as I can: no, he doesn't.

Oh wow, that looks much more cyberpunk than the first game. I knew the first flashback was sci-fi but I thought it was all just aliens on a distant planet. I guess I need to pay that first one before this sequel comes out now...

Sure, go for it! It's not my video either. 😁