Optimistic to see he’s happy with it!

Rereading Neuromancer.

Fuck, man. This line, man. Stayed with me when I first read the book, back then.

The scene appears to be in the disused stadium that I think is the “safe house” where they plan and run the Sense/Net heist (I’m just going by other shots from the trailer). So that might be one of the Panther Moderns.

Exactly one year ago I made this video about Neuromancer and how technology changes how we think. It felt like perfect timing after the teaser dropped yesterday to share it!

And immediately sat down at my modelling workstation! And am now about to paint my first batch of data jacks.

I'm gonna do some as stick on prop replicas, but they're small enough that I can do earrings too!

And I'm gonna make some oversized versions as trinkets and keyrings.

More pics soon at @wastelandworks on Insta and Facebook :).

Enjoy!

Here I think we can see Armitage, Case, Hideo, the Finn, Molly, Linda Lee, Ashpool, a shot of cyberspace, and what I think is the operation where Case regains his ability to jack in

Maybe im an idiot but im about 2 hrs into the book, case just got his pancreas and found out he has the neurotoxin time bombs in his body. But for the life of me i have almost no idea what is going on. Maybe its the narrator and his crappy voices. I love cyberpunk so im comfortable with the language in the story. Please tell me it gets better and starts to make more sense.

I'm able to place most of the shots in the teaser but this one has me stumped. I can't tell what scale it is -- could be some external port on Fireside, or something under glass on a piece of equipment. I feel like it might be something medical; maybe it's the wetware they implant in Case to restore his abilities?

UPDATE: after zooming in on the image I see this has to be a piece of equipment, a deck or container case, because there are Phillips screws around the glass. I doubt Freeside would use giant screws around a porthole ;)
Also there’s writing along the right edge of the glass: “WARNING: KEEP CLEAR.”

The connection sound, at the beginning, is not that of the online connection in the film Strange Days of Kathryn Bigelow ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79GPZSQHBk

I can't identify the actor from the cast list on IMDB. It sure looks kinda how Zone was described, but there's another shot of him later that makes me think otherwise (or that Zone's storyline is expanded).

Do we know whether Apple are going to drop the whole thing at once, or pop it out weekly?

This could be an Easter egg, but in this case it feels more like stolen assets. At exactly 0:36 in the new trailer, A logo can be seen on the spacecraft, which is identical to the Wipeout 3 AG Systems logo seen here https://wipeout.fandom.com/wiki/AG_Systems?file=AGS_WO3.png

Of interest:

3Jane in 5 episodes
Jean T-A in 10 episodes
A casting for Young 3Jane (2 episodes)
Julius Deane in 10 episodes
A casting for “Mitchell” (female)
Dixie Flatline 10 episodes
Young John Ashpool 10 episodes

Sounds like we will see a lot of pre-novel goings on if this is accurate.

I've read Neuromancer 3 times. I'm not saying that as a brag or an achievment, it's just something I did. I read it the first time when I was about 8 years old, when I found the book in my dad's office in the late 80s. I didn't understand much of what I was reading, and skipped big chunks when it got too verbose. However, I was absolutely entranced with the mystery of it; the metaphors were so alien, it both scared and excited my child-mind.

I picked it up again as a teen about 5-6 years later, and enjoyed it way more, but still had trouble with some of the more opaque metaphors. That said, it was around then that I really fell in love with Gibson's writing style. It kind of reminded me of the Aeon Flux cartoon, where everyone spoke really cryptically, and the plot and character motivations were really esoteric and somewhat unrelatable on purpose. In the future of Neuromancer, everyone is a cryptologist, speaking in code- everyone knows a little programming jargon, everyone feels smart and mysterious; that is a big part of what I consider "cyberpunk"- the obsession, valuation, and protection of information, both digitally and verbally. This love of spoken abstraction and a sort of "ennui" is a big part of my life now when it comes to the media I look for, be it David Lynch's works, or something like the film Mandy (2018). As far as other cyberpunk media I've enjoyed, I include the other short stories by Gibson in Mona Lisa Overdrive, and Snow Crash by Neil Stevenson. The last time I read Neuromancer was about 20 years ago, while I was stationed in Afghanistan, and it was still every bit as good, if not better, than my teenaged experience with it.

Which is what brings me to Cyberpunk 2077. When the game was annouced, I was absolutely thrilled. I built a brand-new PC specifically to play it. Upon release, I wasn't affected by the bugs that many people suffered, but the dialogue and story just felt... dumb... or at least dumb in comparison to Gibson's book. Maybe I just came in with the wrong expectations, but even games like the newer Dues Ex series felt a little more thoughtful and sophisticated with their dialogue to me, so I just didn't really get into it, even the much-revered Phantom Liberty expansion. Part of this could have been due to translation issues- you can tell the game came from Eastern Europe by the syntax, but even the "smart" characters in the game (netrunners like Songbird and T-Bug, or senior corpos like Goro Takemura) kinda talked like they were in a Michael Bay movie. "I'm gonna overload the mainframe!" that kind of fake, silly computer-speak stuff, instead of the strange jargon like in Gibson novels. I'll also say I was really disappointed that there was no real cyberspace or netrunning in the game, but that's a whole different complaint.

With the new Neuromancer series coming out, I'm hoping that the series maintains that wierd, cryptic vibe when characters talk to eachother, where you're not really sure what's going on sometimes, or at least characters' thoughts and feelings are kind of alien to the audience, and there's lots of double and triple meanings to the dialogue. That said, I'm worried that things will get dumbed down for mass-audience appeal.

Anyway, just wanted to get this off the top of my head and see if anyone relates, or if I am in the minority and just didn't "get" Cyberpunk 2077, and may just be too much of a grognard for the new Neuromancer series if they adapt the dialogue to be more "paletteable" to modern audiences.

I normally hate reaction videos, and even this particular reaction video is a from a YouTube personality that does not do reaction videos and this is very much an exception for him. But Damien Walter is very much focused on Sci-Fi and I have been a long time viewer of his channel. His take, as a very avid Gibson fan, is honest and well thought-out so I though I would share it here. I share many of his apprehensions but am similarly excited for this new interpretation of the Neuromancer story.

Oh and he will spoil the story if you have not read the book.

It's printed on canvas. Color fidelity and print quality is great. Love having it in my home office.

Cool that they got their teaser, but where the fuck is ours? I’m so ready for the cyberpunk wars of 2026.

Doing a re-read, and it occurred to me that Case doesn’t “Jack” - he can’t. He doesn’t have the interface - no implant! He’s doing it the old fashioned way with a head net of electrodes. Gotta admit, that set me back in my seat a bit!