Afaik it’s not. It’s all stop motion animation. Granted, I don’t know much about it’s production.

Oh damn, that’s interesting! You’re right, I totally didn’t notice it at first.

Yeah hopefully they were tasteful about the crops, at least… Part of me suspects it will be cropped right down the center though…

I was hoping this would have the Japanese dub lol. Still, pretty cool that they did this.

Really looking forward to see another take on GitS.

I also have faith that Science Saru will come at this one from a unique direction and art style. 🤞 Fingers crossed that the story holds up and has something really interesting to say about the modern digital climate.

Yes,

but game companies also want to spy on you and potentially sell your data. Even if they aren’t selling it, the ability to do so increases the value to investors. This is the way tech companies talk about invasive software in general, FWIW.

Yeah, I mean… We all hoped it wouldn’t have been this way lmao

I actually feel like season 4 was pretty good as a modern rendition. Otherwise, I’m partial to Takeshi Koikes films. There’s a new one of those coming out just this week iirc.

If you have the lid closed, you’re looking at 3 to 15 watts to have a laptop running in the background doing some basic server shit.

Not all laptops make effective use of power with the lid closed, sadly. Not saying this as a correction, but for others to know that they need to make sure these settings are available in the bios of the system they are buying.

Yeah those original 3ds cutscenes haven’t aged as well as one would hope lol.

Once again, the EFF is simply acting as a faux good will foundation that simply argues for the right of megacorps in the tech space. They’re not interested in protecting the ownership rights of the users who use these sites with their adamant defense of billionaire interests.

I wish these guys would suck a little less, long gone are the days where they were advocating for things like the right to repair or other consumer interests. They’re now only interested in bootlicking.

Wow, this actually sounds like a good idea. We all miss “classic” tactical fps games like the old rainbow six, and this feels like it’s at least an inspired choice.

Hopefully they look at games like valkyria chronicles as further influence.

The term “unalive” is so cringey yet dystopian that I don’t know whether to feel embarrassed or concerned when I hear it.

What will happen is that politicians will see this as another reason to push for everyone having their ID associated with their Internet traffic.

You’re right. Which is exactly why companies should be exhibiting better behaviour and self regulate before they make the internet infinitely worse off for everyone.

I think it’s timeless too.

It does concern me that SE might be considering a remaster or remake of this game – mostly because a lot of the important elements of the game might not scale well to a “HD” style. I think a HD2D aesthetic would be the only way to appropriately scale CT up, but even then I would be concerned about the game losing its charm in the transition.

The idea of remaking CS 1.6 in Source is completely backwards to me.

CS 1.6 is kind of liked for the way it “looks” as it is today, most of us who prefer 1.6 would rather they polish up the original game instead of making a sourcified version (arguably uglier) that loses most of the charm the original game had.

I think Valve’s answer to this should be to simply make CS 1.6’s game code open source and allow community members to help fix the very legitimate issues the game currently has ATM (server listing spam, “fake” users in server listings, etc.)

As long as there’s centralization and data brokering, there will always be a capitalization. It’s basically the only logical path forward for a service that isn’t decentralized or running as a charity.

The windows kernel isn’t all that great, particularly in the realm of memory security or scheduling.

You know, to each their own. Question is really whether windows maintaining a closed source kernel even makes sense from a maintenance burden perspective when it really doesn’t give them much money in return. (Most of their money in 2025 comes from cloud services, not operating systems)

Yeah, but we also lose to china by not having child labor. We want to lose battles that are against our morals – that’s what it means to have morals. Besides, it would also be illegal to use chinese ai models in the states that infringe copyright.

I love how copyright isn’t a problem when it’s the little people having it leveraged against them by megacorps.

But now that the little people are leveraging it against the megacorps – oh, I guess copyright was a mistake now. It wasn’t meant to protect the people, it was meant to protect the richest.

Disgraceful. I love the EFF but this is a huge miss. Copyright is the only thing protecting creatives from a corporate driven slop fest, and consumers would be hurt by this too with lower quality higher quantity trash.

Yes, but also their cars are ugly and they were riding high on musk’s cult of personality in the first place.

Rivians are better anyway.