No.7622 [Last50 Posts]
Is the anon who wanted to do that writing project still around? Either way, new writing thread!
>What are you working on?
>Any cool ideas you've had
Come talk about /cyber/ writing!
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No.7636
Yeah, still here. Whoever caused the shit to hit the fan deserves a punch in the face.
>What are you working on?
Story is called Exodus, it's about people leaving the planet, pretty enjoyable at the moment.
>Any cool ideas you've had
Better to include them rather than exorcise the desire to write them.
To everyone else;
>When do you reckon you'll be finished by?
We should probably set a cut-off date for submissions. The point of that would be to incentivise submissions, but of course it could just pass and only three or four people will have submitted anything. I think 6 stories with illustrations would be our lower limit. No upper. Any suggestions for a final date? We could leave it a month, maybe, to January 11th?
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No.7644
>>7636Although that's only necessary if we want to make a collection.pdf with the writing and the art all solidified in it to share with the world, we could actually just post our individual stories as pdfs for reading and txt files for editing when we're finished and then let others format them and add art to them as they feel comfortable doing? I like the distributed sense of compilation such a method involves.
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No.7651
>What are you working on?
A story about a guy who programs a robot arm to surgically install electrode implants in his skull as a more convenient computer interface, and experiences complications. I'm gonna do a few more stories that take place after this one, not sure how many.
>Any cool ideas you've had
A bunch, but they're all spoilers.
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No.7653
>>7644>we could actually just post our individual stories as pdfs for reading and txt files for editing when we're finished and then let others format them and add art to them as they feel comfortable doing? I like the distributed sense of compilation such a method involves.Wait, yeah, this sounds so much better.
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No.7655
I have an idea about some dude sitting in a lab struggling against a VI virus that threatens to fuck everything up. Shall I just hack it down?
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No.7658
>>7655Definitely.
>>7653This gets my vote too.
>>7651I'm looking forward to reading more of your story, was digging what you posted.
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No.7753
>>7658>I'm looking forward to reading more of your story, was digging what you posted.I'm having trouble thinking of a way to end it that's as cool as the beginning. I've got a very specific idea for a car chase scene, but I'll need to wait until the second or third installment because of plot.
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No.7780
I'm having trouble with the science bit, I want to deal with gynoids and how they helped in stemming stds, but just saying gynoids over and over sound a bit buzzwordy, how much scientific extrapolation do I actually need to perform? I remember the first few pages of Astro Boy, and the explanations for how robots came to be, and perceptions of what makes Science fiction got BTFO. S
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No.7788
>>7780Look into the latest products like NAO and the latest Asimo functions. Begin with how abstract looking Robots like these became common household objects and how people got emotionally attached to it. Then come to how the relationship between the sexes got worse and worse and then just crashed when female sexbots came along. You should also include waifu shazbotry, erotic VNs and other technological stressors
Your subject matter is a little bit complicated. Maybe I am mistaken.
Read Milo's Sexodus articles if you find an archive or Breitbart gets it shit together (they are in the middle of a migration). Its a good introduction to the human elements that play into your topic.
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No.7790
>>7788Thank you,the STD bit has more to do with my optimism when it comes to combating STDs.
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No.7941
I remember my 20th birthday. I was a college dropout, watching Japanese cartoons all night and playing around with hardware. That was when I got the first phone call from the headhunter.
I remember my 30th birthday, too. I was wearing a suit that cost me $3000. My commute to work was a helicopter that dropped me and two others on the landing pad jutting out from a truly impressive skyscraper. The rest of the day was uneventful, but it was the first time that corporate had used AirTrans for their valuable assets.
Now I'm 40, and senior enough that I don't need the suit. I wear whatever I want. I intentionally smoke next to the "No Smoking" signs in client buildings, and nobody dares say a word to me. I love it.
I work for CTU.
The Computational Triage Unit was founded in '37 or so. A disgruntled exec from a corporation that has long gone under was sacked because he got slapped with the blame when their systems died. They processed a few million transaction per second, and even though he had pushed for better in-house support, the worst had happened, and somehow he got the short end of the stick in the corporate politicking that followed.
My salary is higher than some of our clients' executives. It's nice.
In short, we do rapid response for mission-critical systems in major corporations. We have the talent that the big names can't even find. We have an entire department for headhunting, and I've never seen a single one of them, except for the guy who found me. I'm pretty sure at least two of my coworkers were kidnapped and brainwashed.
We handle intrusion countermeasures, AIs, mainframes, and biotic servers. I'm pretty sure that security hunts down hackers, since we've been asked to track them before, but that's not my game. Still, everyone is trained in at least three disciplines, sometimes up to five. I specialize in four: Mass data recovery, datacenter triage, AI diagnosis/repair/reprogramming, and by extension, biotics - since you're usually reworking organic elements to run AI code, just less reliably (but with far less overhead).
Here's a recent story for you. I can't reveal the names of our clients, of course, but last week I was working at one of the five largest banks in the world. The remote team couldn't do anything, so we knew it would be onsite. I got tapped, along with Jim and Wei. We were onsite in about 15 minutes, even though the datacenter was two countries away. When your hourly rate reaches close to 7 figures, corporate can buy really nice transport. By the time we got there, the downtime has already caused ripples through the stock market, and not in a good way.
Security cleared the datacenter of all non-critical personnel and we set to work. It was an AI gone haywire. Interestingly enough, it had managed to destroy its gold copy. A military drone changed course unexpectedly and took out the colo the developer used. That was about ten minutes before the AI locked up, and nobody knew what it was doing during that time. The bank had acted quickly, and as soon as transactions stopped, they'd immediately bought out the company that developed the AI, and were probably rounding up devs and execs. I felt bad for them, but I wish the sales guys would get targeted too. Seriously, fuck sales.
What this meant was that we at least had the design documentation for the AI. No gold copy, no backups, no way to revert, but we had an idea of the general state that it SHOULD be in. Wei jacked in immediately to start working with it. He's fucking brilliant, that kid.
>body too long
fuck you too, hotwheels
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No.7942
>>7941As it turned out, the AI had started calculating Mersennes Primes. We're still not sure why, but it had made some damn impressive progress. We pulled every other drive from their storage array, popped in fresh ones, and let the array rebuild itself. We could at least analyze it later. Might be some juicy secrets to sell, which we apparently do now and then.
We migrated the core financial software to a generic low-power AI, with some prioritization built in to balance the load. Johnny McCitizen could take brouzouf out now, but it'd take a few minutes. The CEO could get his immediately. The stock market began to smooth out.
It was a long night. Ripping that AI apart, dealing with its mindfuckery self-defense (something it was NOT supposed to be capable of). It got into the head of some security guy and he almost had to be put down. Someone didn't read the memo on what hardware to rig security with when you're dealing with an AI. Wei and I ripped out features and modules and patched them into our AI, then slowly migrated it onto their hardware. Jim supervised, and oversaw the physical aspects of the migration. The AI limped along, but by the time the sun rose, we were done and the system was running almost as fast as the old one. It was a patched mess, and probably buggy, but AIs are nice in that regard, they can generally tell when they're wrong about someone. We got picked up by helicopter, so I got to watch dawn break over the Atlantic. The boss was pleased, the bank was ecstatic that things weren't worse (we never let on how bad things were), and I got a fat bonus check. I might purchase a yacht with it. I already have three, but it'd be nice to have another for my place in Cuba.
CTU, man. This job is fucking schway.
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No.7982
My story has gone off at an odd angle I think it'll end up quite long, but I'm enjoying it more and more. Not sure where or how it's going to end but if I get really stuck I'm just going to throw it up here as it is and ask for advice.
>>7941>>7942That's interesting, do more.
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No.7985
I'm thinking of writing a short story of brief corporate warfare. A kill-team was duped into killing the wrong target (their AR was hacked and they didn't know it was the wrong target until they did a DNA check). This in turn makes it into a small race as there is another corporate team trying to extract their real target.
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No.7988
Jack is a from anus down paralyzed cripple in a nuclear powered wheelchair equiped with miniguns on each side and a ammo box on the back of the wheelchair,interesting thing about jack is that for his anus to work once again he needed 2 top notch implants in his ass to send signals for his sphincter to work once again. He has a pink mohawk,a black tshirt that has the plan for area 51 printed on it,grey jeans with all kinds of LEDs all over them,no shoes,however he wears gloves and he uses a voice box to speak
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No.8028
I found this interesting, of course it helps if you're S.E.A.
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No.8030
I had a few ideas:
>superhero illuminati in a typical /cyber/ setting dedicated to killing elites for the "greater good"
>an android who goes to Alcoholic's Anonymous to understand humanity
>bad 2080s dudes gotta rescue the president ON MARS
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No.8034
>>8030>an android who goes to Alcoholic's Anonymous to understand humanityA+
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No.8041
>>8030seconding the aa meeting one
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No.8053
>>7651Alright, so I've finished the story, but it's just gonna be a first part since I'm already up to almost 4000 words and I'm not even half done with the story arc I wanna do. Here's a link if anyone wants to read it.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gBPsN3rYXM0_3rGXygSp2a-Qww_pOQ76AKBbCwbQJJU/edit?usp=sharing Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.8056
>>8030That second one sounds excellent, but I'm just curious have you ever been to an actual AA meeting?
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No.8060
>>8053I read it, not bad I can see there is a lot of places you can take the story.
I think it would be better not to just overtly tell us that his waist band misinterpreted his hand twitch and let us and by extension the character figure out what happened.
May be develop the scene with the seizure.
Over all 7.5/10 so far looking forward to the rest.
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No.8062
>>8060Wait, I didn't mean to say that it misinterpreted his hand twitch, that twitch was on purpose.
Okay, fixed it.
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No.8070
>>8053Can you upload it here as a PDF instead of to MegaCorpDocs?
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No.8078
Original OP here.
> Obvious disclaimer, what I want to do is not what anyone else is obliged to. It's supplementary to the thread, not the purpose of it.That said, what I want to do is awesome and y'all need to get in on it. Basically, we're going to collect people's stories and put out a schway /cyber/ collection as a .pdf, along with awesome art too. It isn't about producing some Hugo-award winning fiction, it's about producing some writing that people will read and enjoy.
To that end, I've set up an email address for people to send stories to as well as drop them in here, because it makes compiling this collection easier for me. I'm going to drop the pic attached in a few other boards too.
Anyone who wants to help with the compilation project, please send me an email. I want to be hand-offish regarding the stories, maybe input regarding formatting, but I hate those guys who criticise just for the sake of it and don't went to step on contributor's toes regarding style. I do want to try to establish a low-fi standard style for the art though because it makes contributions more likelt (thinking it'll be kinda like these
https://media.8chan.co/cyber/src/1418962098722.png sketches of Cyber-Tan?) and I want to give the collection some sense of stylistic coherence.
Also, as you can see from the image, I can't design art for shit so help with designing would be useful too.
>>8053This is brilliant. I think
>>8060 is overstating any problems. You could take it either to where
the software makes some sort of zombie of Howard and the story becomes about Cynthia trying to save him or get into the whole
Cartesian Evil Demon thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_demon.
You've got a great style and a good handle on including complicated tech ideas in a comprehensible way. Can you email me, regarding formatting changes I think it' be good for you to adopt, and also because I think you'd be great to have on board with this project, if you've got time.
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No.8125
>>7622wizardchan had something similar, some guy was dumping a cyberpunk style story there
https://wizardchan.org/hob/res/15659.html>>8041is that from kill la kill? man im definitely interested in watching tHAT NOW
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No.8128
>>8070Yeah, I guess I should have done that to begin with.
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No.8134
Good news for the guy who writes about sexbots!
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/04/the-sexodus-part-1-the-men-giving-up-on-women-and-checking-out-of-society/Both parts are up again. Have fun with the introduction into the root of waifu shazbotry.
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No.8173
Since the /sf/ board is pretty much dead, how do I into FTL travel?
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No.8191
>>8173You can't. If you have to, just make it up.
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No.8204
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No.8259
I'd never had sake before. Her suggestion. It burned all the way down, like countless other spirits on countless other nights I used to soothe my corpslave existence. When she sat down next to me, I didn't know what to think. Couldn't think much other than "Don't fuck this up." She didn't look like a hooker, she didn't carry herself that way, a walking advertisement. She was altogether plain verging on unnoticeable but I like em that way. That, and she didn't name a price."What are you drinking, beautiful?" flashing a smile that had corp written all over it. I tried to play it cool, like in the vids. Judging by the way she giggled, she was eating it up. I told her I was Corp Security. Technically, that was my branch's heading though I did little more than file paperwork for the real badasses. Truth is those guys would eat me alive, but she didn't have to know that. I told her about the time they- I mean, we- had to take down some nut who fell in love with the office secretary gynoid. "How pathetic, right? He was going to jump off the terrace a hundred levels up, cradling her in his arms. Turns out the bosses don't take kindly to someone threatening to destroy corp property like that. We hit him with a stunner, before he knew what was happening he was being dragged to the cells to await his dismissal. Had to wipe the secretary unit's memory too. Don't want footage like that out on the net." "The loneliness really gets to people, huh?" We locked eyes. I brushed her hair behind ear and went in for the kiss. Smooth. I feel her lips press against mine and… I feel her hand reach inside my pocket. Fuck. I grab her wrist, she slaps me across the face, no, glides across it, tearing it to bloody ribbons. I fall to the ground screaming, crying, and trying to hold the pieces of my face together. "Printlocked. Figures." She walks back, kicks me in the gut. "Which finger? Now, before I take both hands." I hold out my left index finger. She presses it against the glass "Welcome back, Martin!" my pAI chirps. "Oh no! It seems you've suffered an accident. Paging medevac now…" She takes my fingertip, down to the first knuckle, and runs out the door. The Bartender helps me up and into the back room. "Jesus Christ, what is this world coming to?" He takes the medkit off the wall pricks me with a syringe and I lose consciousness. I've never been more grateful to anyone in my life.
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No.8260
I'd never had sake before. Her suggestion. It burned all the way down, like countless other spirits on countless other nights I used to soothe my corpslave existence. When she sat down next to me, I didn't know what to think. Couldn't think much other than "Don't fuck this up." She didn't look like a hooker, she didn't carry herself that way, a walking advertisement. She was altogether plain verging on unnoticeable but I like em that way. That, and she didn't name a price."What are you drinking, beautiful?" flashing a smile that had corp written all over it. I tried to play it cool, like in the vids. Judging by the way she giggled, she was eating it up. I told her I was Corp Security. Technically, that was my branch's heading though I did little more than file paperwork for the real badasses. Truth is those guys would eat me alive, but she didn't have to know that. I told her about the time they- I mean, we- had to take down some nut who fell in love with the office secretary gynoid. "How pathetic, right? He was going to jump off the terrace a hundred levels up, cradling her in his arms. Turns out the bosses don't take kindly to someone threatening to destroy corp property like that. We hit him with a stunner, before he knew what was happening he was being dragged to the cells to await his dismissal. Had to wipe the secretary unit's memory too. Don't want footage like that out on the net." "The loneliness really gets to people, huh?" We locked eyes. I brushed her hair behind ear and went in for the kiss. Smooth. I feel her lips press against mine and… I feel her hand reach inside my pocket. Fuck. I grab her wrist, she slaps me across the face, no, glides across it, tearing it to bloody ribbons. I fall to the ground screaming, crying, and trying to hold the pieces of my face together. "Printlocked. Figures." She walks back, kicks me in the gut. "Which finger? Now, before I take both hands." I hold out my left index finger. She presses it against the glass "Welcome back, Martin!" my pAI chirps. "Oh no! It seems you've suffered an accident. Paging medevac now…" She takes my fingertip, down to the first knuckle, and runs out the door. The Bartender helps me up and into the back room. "Jesus Christ, what is this world coming to?" He takes the medkit off the wall pricks me with a syringe and I lose consciousness. I've never been more grateful to anyone in my life.
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No.8263
>>7982More? y-you liked it?
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No.8264
>>8125http://pastebin.com/4pd4KMFSThe wizardchan story, since the site is down.
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No.8543
>>8263Can't speak for him, but I liked it. Also, bump.
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No.8573
I've been wanting to write a serial killer story in a cyberpunk setting.
Like usual when writing a story, I tend to start with the M.O. of a killer. With the possibilities of a setting with flexible technological advancement, I feel compelled to write a killer who is simple, or relatively not technological in nature.
With that in mind, what would be the line of too bizarre? Killing by gouging out eyes and covering the sockets with VR goggles? Leaving a decapitated head still attached to a 'jack-in' terminal?
A simple break-and-enter murderer who is a bizarre and difficult task for a police force now only trained to handle informational and network crime?
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No.8574
>>8573Someone so luddite that police have no fucking idea how to find him
Completely disconnected from the internet, almost no electronic trail
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No.8575
>>8574A disconnect from technology being a metaphor for his disconnection from other human beings? A return to 'bestial' instinct and raw physical power besting a softened world?
Yeah, we can work with that.
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No.8590
Hi guys. I've only been lurking on this board for the past 2 weeks. I've been writing a story but i keep getting writers block. I have the plot pretty much laid out but i don't really have any sense of direction when i write. It all seems to vauge and without detail. I'm writing it like a novel but i really want it to be a comic except i can't draw for shit. Can you guys give me any tips on how to write for a comic book format and how to tie paragraphs togather to create action? Also does anyone know of any easy to use programs for making images and scenes? Thanks for any help you can give guys
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No.8591
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No.8613
>>8574Turn it into a semi-deconstruction of shitty cyberpunk scenarios: the police are completely obsessed with technology, armed to the teeth with all kinds of complex gadgets and constantly advised by statistical algorithms and predictive AIs about potential crimes in progress found through mass surveillance. Most officers haven't seen a murder in their lifetime, as they've always stopped them before they happen. Most of the time they spend dealing with cybercrime and intellectual property issues.
And then there's a power outage and some jackass goes on a stabbing spree.
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No.8676
>>8613But should he be intelligent, causing these blackouts intentionally? Or simply an opportunist?
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No.8691
>>8676Hm. Mix it up.
It starts as a crime of passion at a lucky moment, but then our villain decides to continue for some reason, but the power's back on…
That, or the first kill was deliberate, meant as, for example, a statement on the over-techedness of the world, but then the initial sabotage propagates due to, for another example, a bubble-gum-and-duct-tape tier repair on the damage…
Or have it be some form of mental illness - the villain is so addicted to the cutting edge of cyberware that withdrawl makes them psychotic…
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No.8729
>>8264Is there any more to that? It was great.
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No.8732
>>8613>>8691Don't just make him a generic serial killer either. The best villians are the ones who you find yourself empathising with.
Something like a luddite Laughing Man who kills someone important. Maybe instead of being datamined by the police state he figures out a way to send out false information. Kinda like that software that randomly sends google CIA keywords.
In a world where everyone is staring at their computers, they have no idea what to do with a guy who can fake being on his computer and lives in reality instead.
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No.8737
>>8732It's not hard to make any character relatable. A great deal of people are scared of the concept of a world rapidly taking to overwhelming amounts of technology. A character with relatively mundane and simple methods is understandable, even if his motives are not.
And there is still going to be an implication of the police as good guys. My current narrative is told by the standpoint of the officer on the case(i.e. the only guy in their local department trained to handle physical violence) with one paragraph from the killer's personal diary at the start of each chapter.
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No.8744
Really looking forward to this Serial Killer story y'all are chatting about.
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No.8853
>>8729Wizardchan seems to be dead for good.
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No.8936
>>7942Mersenne primes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLL0mo5rHhkPerfect numbers mentioned in the vid above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfKTD5lvToEThe Mersenne primes bit made me curious because I had never heard of it before, so searched the net and found this neat vid from based Numberphile. Thought y'all might enjoy it.
I really liked the story btw.
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No.9410
Reporting in for the new year, reckon I'll be posting a first draft in a week or so. Need to keep reminding myself not to be so precious about what I'm writing. How are the rest of you doing?
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No.9455
>>9410I just checked back in this thread after a week. I haven't started mines yet because I've been helping with a project on another board. I'll get to the first draft of my story during the weekend.
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No.9666
There might be a story in this for someone:
"The people watching are, in some ways, imprisoned too. Gavin John Douglas Smith, in an article titled “Empowered watchers or disempowered workers”, convincingly shows how powerless most CCTV-operators feel. They are forced to look at situations without any way of influencing them, whenever something important happens they are pushed aside by somebody higher in rank, and they have zero freedom as they have to strictly follow procedure. They are actually being used as a small piece of human cognitive processing inside a giant automated surveillance system. They have to do the pattern recognition that computers aren’t capable of yet."
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No.9703
>>8573Sounds like Demolition Man.
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No.9708
Not really cyberpunk, just sci-fi, but thought I'd share
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No.9730
A stroke. Why now? Why when she was about to find the truth?
Io had wires connected from a machine to her chest. Both of her arms were punctured, and saline solution poured inside her veins.
Not everything was bleak. She still had her notes, filling some megabytes on the hard disk of her computer.
That was enough, she tought. With that information Io would be able to uncover the truth.
The chief neurologist of Vienna's General Hospital entered the room where Io was. A cohort of residents was following him. He walked to the right side of the bed where Io was lying.
Doctor Ferdinand Lidl spoke to his pupils. "Should my teachers have told me that this would be a possible occurrence, they would have been put on a psychiatric ward. It was 40 years ago. We never expected this level of sophistication. We never expected machines as exquisite as these."
Doctor Lidl then proceeded to check Io. Io, however, wasn't aware of the doctor's presence.
"See this? Spatial agnosia. A typical sign of a right hemisphere infarction. She can't recognise what's on her left side."
Suddenly, Io became aware of doctor Lidl's presence. He had walked to the left side of the bed.
"How are you feeling, Io?".
Io tried to reply, but it was difficult for her. After many seconds, she was able to emit a response.
"Well".
Doctor Lidl gave his back to Io and asked his students, “What is the name of this sign?”
One male student timidly answered, “It’s called abulia.”
“Nicely responded”, replied the chief neurologist. “And what does it mean?”
A female student, obese, responded, “A right hemisphere infarction, possibly on the mid cerebral artery.”
“You are a good student”, Doctor Lidl observed.
After concluding the neurological examination, which gave a Babinski sign on the left foot of Io, Doctor Lidl saw his patient off. Then, after turning his back to Io again, the chief neurologist ordered the residents to follow him.
Io lethargically thought. These students were in for a surprise.
Doctor Lidl still was thinking the words that he had uttered to the Neurology residents.
The white coated group finally arrived to a personal computer.
“What was the name of the patient?”, asked Doctor Lidl.
“Io… Io Kaspuscinska”, answered a pupil.
Doctor Lidl typed the name on a search box. And then, almost immediately, he found some folders containing radiological studies.
Doctor Lidl opened the high definition angiography that the Radiology department had made to Io. He laughed as he watched the images. “It's an infarction of the middle cerebral artery. The chubby doctor was right." He laughed again, as well as many of his residents. The funny remarks of the chief neurologist had elevated the spirits of his pupils, but the obese resident. While everyone started chitchatting in a cheerful way, the doctor then opened another folder. Unexpectedly, with a decibellicaly high voice he asked to his students,
“And what’s this?”
The residents, surprised by the question, turned their glares towards the 27 inches screen. Suddenly, all the residents became quiet. Some of them even showed awe in their expressions.
“That’s not possible, doc”, observed a resident.
There it was in the display. The radiological images showed the truth that was underneath the skin. Underneath Io's skin, there was the uncanny skeleton of an android.
Breaking the silence, the chief neurologist of the General hospital of Vienna spoke again.
"Should my teachers have told me that this would be a possible occurrence, they would have been put on a psychiatric ward. It was 40 years ago. A mechanic should have been the only able person to fix a robot. Not a doctor. That would have been the sane opinion."
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No.9900
>>8573>>8574Piggybacking off the luddite idea, why not have him/her target augmented people specifically. Maybe some vaguely religious accouterments (bible verses written in blood etc).
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No.9940
>>9708Good read, thanks anon.
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No.9941
My two favourite short stories are Till A'The Seas and There Will Come Soft Rains. Does anybody know of anything in a similar vein?
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No.9947
>>7941>>7942this is neat, I like
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No.10012
My idea: a former terrorist cyborg returns to his hometown and tries to reintegrate into normal life. However, after a year or two of failed living, he finds his old life of bloodshed and brutality calling back to him.
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No.10022
>>10012Sounds like a soldier coming back from war. What was his cause? What caused him to give it up? It sounds like this could be developed into a cool idea.
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No.10060
>Earth's civilization is much as it is today
>stealth police state, apathetic population, IoT resulting in even greater control
>some libertarian groups have launched space missions and started colonies in the solar system, but Earth's general population isn't that interested, treating it as an amusing side-story
It doesn't have a major overarching plot, or even a main character. Just a bunch of short stories which together build up a snapshot of the universe.
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No.10066
>>9900Make it something unique, like a Mormon or a Jehova's Witness.
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No.10071
>>10022Not sure, been thinking about it at work. Presently thinking about him being a college dropout who joined a biker gang and from there got mixed up in a neo-confederate group. He'd leave because his bisexuality and general sociopolitical apathy wouldn't mesh well with the Klansmen who take over.
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No.10098
>>10066Amish extremists launch raids on Neopittsburgh
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No.10167
>>10071Anyway, I'm putting some thought into my protagonist's cybernetics. As a child, he had scoliosis. To correct this, he underwent the "cyberframe" procedure where nanomachines were injected to help straighten and brace the spine as he grew.
In high school he'd suffer a motorcycle accident that rendered his right arm completely useless. Instead, he had it amputated and replaced with a synthetic arm.
After dropping out of college and joining the Real Rock'N'Rollers biker gang, he began taking black market nanomachine supplements, causing him to go from a 6'2" skinnyfat to a 6'5" beast. His arm was also suitably grown.
Upon working with the Copperheads, he began taking military cyberframe supplements, giving him even more strength, speed, toughness, and regeneration.
Upon being shot in the head during a mission, emergency surgery warranted his left eye being replaced as well as a small computer inserted into his brain. The new eye is nearly identical unlike the synthetic arm, but can change color and look.
Essentially he's turned his body into a killing machine, which is partially why civilian life is difficult. The cyborgs of Marathon were a major inspiration to me.
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No.10288
Has the writing contest resulted in a compilation yet?
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No.10291
>>10288For now I think we're just posting pdfs in the thread, but the other anon might still be putting something together.
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No.10297
>>10291Me? I'm not working on my story yet, I'm too busy with my actual job. Right now I' thinking things out.
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No.10317
>>8573Make the serial killer someone unable to cope with the rapid changes in technology and how people live, he constantly has future-shock, so he despises people who he thinks can handle it, people who seem to relish and thrive. Make him go after hackers, people who expect attack to be high-tech or to come in the form of a S.W.A.T. team, people who have taken elaborite preporations for deleting their data and destroying their discs or who try to upload themselves while he murders them, have him defeat the most esoteric and state of the art security systems and then mail the police parts of people they did not know existed or did not know how to locate.
The police then have to deal with both the deceased's intrusion countermeasures and the lack of a digital trail left by the killer.
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No.10323
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No.10324
>>10288Not yet, no stories finished at the moment.
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No.10332
>>10324There's the Mersennes primes short story
>>7941>>7942and also the wizardchan short story, right?
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No.10342
>>10332It's actually funny, in my planned story I'm using the cybernetic implants as a metaphor for social disability and ultraviolent impulses as a metaphor for greater anomie and social alienation. It's like if Koichi Ohata made Evangelion.
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No.10372
>>10332Mersennes Prime/AI guy here. I can't write unless I write it all in one sitting/session. If I do more, it'll be the same deal. I don't have any ideas though, other than more CTU stuff.
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No.10375
>>10372I haven't started my story yet, I haven't figured out how to go about it. Do I plan it, or just wing it? I've tried so many different ways to write fiction and I keep getting burnt out.
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No.10387
I'm liking what you punks have put up so far. My own style's a bit too pastoral for proper cyberpunk, but I'll keep an eye on this thread!
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No.10392
>>10375I just sat down and threw this all down on paper. Not sure if it's a beginning or just a little piece of fiction, but it's rough, zero editing or anything. Any thoughts?
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No.10396
>>10392Also I STILL haven't worked out what happened in san francisco, other than the power grid shutting down in the midst of some heavy rioting.
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No.10415
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Do you guys just jot your story down first, then figure out the worldbuilding? also how much worldbuilding is needed for one short story? Also any recommendation on texts that would help when it comes to biology, chemistry, economy, and space travel.
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No.10417
What happened to the anon with the robot trying to learn about humanity by going to an alcoholics anonymous meeting?
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No.10420
>>10415Honestly, I think too many SF writers (/cyber/ ones included) get stuck in the trap of worldbuilding first, then trying to write a story. Write the story. Make it exciting and interesting first, THEN when you go through it again you can add in the details in the periphery that make it unique.
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No.10421
>>10420I'd make an exception for Larry Niven, his Known Space series was obviously the result of a lot of worldbuilding.
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No.10452
>>10415I always worldbuild first, no matter what. Probably because of my past heritage as a fa/tg/uy. Once I have a basic setting in my head and can instantly visualize a dozen different people, cityscapes, buildings, technologies, etc at will, interactions are ez to write.
If I don't do this, even if I lay out the story ahead of time, I'll be horribly inconsistent. I'll have to basically go back and rewrite most of it because as I go, I'm forming more images of the setting and world, and things will become inconsistent. I'll mention some detail I think is cool, but conflicts with an earlier, shittier idea I had already written in.
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No.10475
>>10452See I love worldbuilding, which is why for this thing I'm working on I'm consciously trying NOT to do it in advance. The more time I spend worldbuilding, the less I do writing. The fiction should build the world.
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No.10509
I'm writing my masters in English (I know, I know) on the subject of how cyberpunk is essentially lingering 80's anxiety trying to find good sides in ultimately distopian future.
Suffering severe writer's block right now.
I have to finish chapter about visions of VR by tomorrow and I'm not sure I can. Hold me /cyber/
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No.10510
>>10421Larry Niven is a great example though, his worldbuilding is amazing but his actual plots are pretty pointless and his characters are just products of their enviroments.
I only read Ringworld though, so I don't know if he improved.
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No.10531
>>10509I hope you put it online once you can. Good luck.
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No.10533
>>10510Integral Trees and Lucifer's Hammer both had excellent plots.
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No.10541
>>10475Just get the major events down on paper and fill in details as you write.
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No.10543
>>10541I'm doing just that, yeah. I wrote
>>10167 and
>>10392, still looking for feedback
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No.10661
>>8173The closest anyone's gone to make FTL travel feel real is the Mass Effect series, mostly because the plotonium (the titular Mass Effect) is so detailed and seeps into every facet of the fictitious technology where it springs from.
The only conceivable way of doing "faster than light" travel is through worm holes, and most works get away with it because much like black holes, it rarely gets debunked because there's no easy way to debunk it (and people want it to be real).
Unless you're writing more than a novella to fit in your own theoretical physics in, highlight things other than FTL tech like character development, or bring in some self-awareness if the FTL travel is questioned.
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No.10663
>>10415For short stories, unless you want to make a sequel or expand it into a bigger work, world building is tertiary. However, if you're treating your Sci-fi like fantasy and want readers to get lost in spirituality, it's an essential flair if you want to get away from politics or geography/astrology.
Either your plots are going to be simple and spiced with style and character, or your plots are going to be tightly constructed with setting that hits closer to home. If you attempt both with short stories, the world building may seem like padding if you resolve the plot without good pacing, from stifled word counts
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No.10714
>>10392Missed this, sorry, life AFK has been shit recently. Reading it now.
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No.10715
To
>>10392From
>>10714Digging it, I think you should go into it more :)
As for everyone, I'm still working on my story. I keep forgetting that it isn't meant to be winning a Hugo or Nebula (which isn't to say that it would do, just that I'm forgetting it's meant to be pulpy and quick) and so spending ages tailoring this and that bit of it instead of just fucking writing the thing.
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No.10823
I'd piggy back off the shadowrun universe so I'd have an established canon I can play with.
Tell me which idea sounds the most compelling and I can put together something.
Noir styled grim and gritty crime drama with a Private detective uncovering the truth behind the assassination of a profile crime boss.
An ex-military shadowrunner finds himself an unwilling pawn in an escape from new york style story of espionage and intrigue to recover some top of the line tech before the entire planet plunges into chaos.
If neither of these sound like a compelling read tell me what kinda shadowrun story you want to hear and I'll drink some creativity juice try something different.
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No.10951
>>10715Yeah, I plan on this being a sort of a longer story like Lovecraft's "short" works. The crux of the story is a mysterious stranger showing up who knows who he is and what he's done, and tries to blackmail him into surrendering.
The whole thing would be a setup to some sort of cyberpunk version of the Odyssey, where the protagonist, accepting his nature as a killing machine, goes on a bloody journey across the country to find the guy who sold him out.
So when is the due date for all of this, anyway?
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No.10978
>>10951New update because I've been in the writing mood today. The second part is distinctively more conversational in tone, which makes me think I need to revisit the first one and edit the shit out of it.
Again, feedback would strongly be appreciated.
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No.11003
>>10823It isn't the story that matters, really, or is compelling as a synopsis. What's going to be the most compelling will be whatever you enjoy writing.
>>10951Cyber Ulysses! I hope you're not asking too much of yourself. I'm going to give
>>10978 a read now. Don't worry about editing yet, that's the last thing that this collection is going to deal with. Right now we're just about conquering the blank page. Keep writing!
I think having a due date would be fruitless. It works for collections that are going to receive submissions from writers in general, but this is definitely something that is not going to have that number of submissions. Also, regarding that, what do people think about opening this collection to submitters from lainchan? It's a place I lurk more than post, really, but I think there could definitely be some room for some more good submissions there.
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No.11113
>>11003Right now it's turning into an American Psycho sort of thing where it's just a disconnected, non-linear collection of the MC talking about his life. Eventually when I finish up all of this I'll probably compile it in a more fragmented order, too.
Anyway, have another update, with more cryptic hints about what's going on with him.
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No.11114
>>10661the best FTL is just flinging yourself around a star to get to relatavistic speed. No fake physics needed.
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No.11125
It was a Thursday night, standard v-time, a booming time for the shimmering simulated nightlife to ebb and flow. The infinite virtual masked ball two nodes away had gotten a little too crowded as usual, so the regulars and a few new faux-faces had jumped right back here. The Byte was a cozy establishment, running since the start of Rift, way back in the early decades of the 21st century, back when v-space was a ugly process of sensorial stimulation and headaches were common enough to have a ticket process. The cyber-bar had a shifting decorum, each new sysadmind changing details as it pleased them, but the long mirror bar with the comfy stools had been written deep into the source, and thus was a constant. The current look was a slightly varnished and worn cedar pub, complete with phantom smoke drifting in the air. Endlessly wiping classical-style glass mugs in the guise of a surly-yet-smiling barkeep, tonight’s mod watched his tip jar fill up with crypto-currency. A sparkspot for all sorts of digital denizens, not a hotspot or a meltspot, but a sparkspot with its own charm nonetheless.
Server students clustered around tables, endlessly discussing database configuration and execution loads. Particularly lengthy debates could stretch on for weeks, the ferociousness and depth lining up with class schedules. Following the tick of a satellite clock illegally shot into low atmosphere, the nightly meeting of the abstract dream republicans wandered on. Bizarre mathematics endlessly shifted their form, all ticking in absolute value to the real-space clock. Their fractal tea glowed in hovering ornate cups as they trudged through their endless semantic labyrinth. An occasional new shape joined them, a rare memory being agreed on and recorded in diamond, the pattern fading away as though a Pyrrhic victory had been achieved. Plethoras of couples doting on eachother with flower fireworks shooting above the whimsical wooden tables, soft smiles rendering in the easy voxel lighting. Lips immaculately sculpted by pixels whispered real-space coords, promising a real embrace soon. The small enclosed private lounges dominated by vying factions of regulars, the neo-hipsters beating out the tidal-wave knicks. A few milliseconds of connection time ahead was all it took for the prized seats, the map of preference changing every night to some unknown standard of yung. All in all, a typical night on the node, a slow evening in an oasis from the rush of the information mega-highway.
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No.11126
>>11125The lighting was softer and richer than last week due to some sysadmind tweaks, inflected with soft tinges of turquoise. The chatter light and easy, the alcohol plug-in drafting orders to real-space without a hitch, and the private booths filled right up when v-space changed forever. Everyone turned when the crackling noise, like a love letter being burned in a trash fire, entered the bar. Harsh howling of a modem being rammed repeatedly into a graphite brick wall tends to kill the mood pretty quickly. The form lurching in unlike any seen rendered, even by the oldest of the abstracts, a negative nightmare of fuzz in the shape of a man. Twisted tones seemed to drag forever, the numerous monitoring modules failing instantly. Words fell and shattered on the floor from the blurring mouth of the monstrosity, dead pixels sightlessly burning.
“help ҉me!!!”
The patrons of the parallel-processed pub were frozen. The mod was the first to react, her barkeep guise now vanished, revealing a painstakingly-painted young girl with cropped silver hair, black-cat lipstick, and cheap Portuguese mascara. The neo-hipsters would have scoffed and remarked that it was a clear rip-off of early-century darkwave, if any of them had not been divided between panic and derision at this skript kiddie trick. The node slowed to a crawl, buckingly under the seething framework fangs of the new arrival, bubbling beneath the v-space surface, launching a blitz against the server barricades. Telecommunicated time locally freezed. Echoes of the rending noise carried on in jagged loops.
The mod, cheeky nametag sewn on her leather jacket reading Latte-tude, desperately re-syncing with a Neu-Euro clock backdoor. She feels fear setting in, grimaces as a rapier appears in her hand. The abstracts noted, for official record, that this was no abrasive public art piece and promptly paid much closer attention. Screeching, this simulacrum of a soul walked on decaying textures into The Byte, the very light that touched the taint warping and winding back in endless errors. Latte-tude, her years of dealing with amateurs who thought they could subvert a server kicking in, deftly springs over the counter and launches herself forward, feeling the strange false sensation of frozen coordinates in dead time gliding over her head as she spins downward and thrusts up. Her righteous rapier was considered a formidable force by the clientele and sysadmind alike, so it was a shock when it plunged into the writhing abyss of flowing code that consumed the devilish avatar with no perceived effect. The void crawled up the blade and quickly chewed through it, the vacuum left in v-space a sickening sight. Latte-tude recoiled, darting backwards, twisting backwards nimbly over a cedar table, avoiding the collision-detection of frozen student avatars by a shave. She landed on her feet, boots done in the style of last-century punks with sleek printed fit and aerodynamics molding to fictional feet. She paused for a nano-second, expecting the intruder to follow in a metered attack pattern. Instead, the atrophying avatar collapsed forward onto the table, the infection spreading and shifting, the synthesized screams turning to pitiful moans. The table vanished into blankness, the students frozen in dead time. One of them sagged forward into a heap numbly staring forward as he was covered in a terrible tsunami of cancerous cypher.
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No.11127
>>11126The node stretched for an instant, feeling alien virii crawl through its guts as emergency measures went into full effect and promptly failed. The eager talons of the attack ravaged through the organs of the node, framework ripped apart by a cold automatic logic. The treasure it had been programmed to seek was buried under thick vines of meticulous thought that regrew and sprouted constantly, the grand prize a continually adapting algorithm that was the seed from which the v-space bloomed. Chewed and torn through the cyber-bar security, shattered through the sysadmind defenses, eaten through the infrastructure blocks with teutonic tenderness, and stopped at a premeditated flash to ram its stinger of insane information into the very heart of the node itself.
The node fails on a spectacular level. The neo-hipsters and tidal knicks are the first to be smashed by the crumbling walls of virtual reality. They crumble into a distorted black hole, a bad imaging artifact. Frozen time only thawed for the abstracts, the stripped defences letting several unregulated tendrils of reason worm their way into the fading node. A polygon instantaneously decides to follow their clock to salvation, a upside-down Big Ben spearing its way into the ceiling as a squircle follows, leaping into the glowing golden clock-face. A yung triquetra glowing with the blue of a burning orchid pays the bill and tips nicely with a whir of its rings before vanishing. Fire of an unreal azure rips along the private booths, frying the avatars inside at a frenzied pace, a couple paused in a magnetic moment of affection before their electronic selves are shredded. Latte-tude bolts for the exit, the frame of The Byte closing in on her. she throws herself through a collapsing wall panel which dissipates around her like mist. A frantic last second dash towards the gate and launches off the doorway into the striking stream of v-space.
Latte-tude slams upright from her slouch and frantically rips two neon-green cords from the back of her neck. She’s in a room where her head almost brushes the ceiling, filthy clothes with the negatives of fractal patterns scattered across the floor. soaked in cold sweat, laying on a stained double-bed. A bong stares on her reproachfully, glowing crimson in the light of the alarm clock. She’s panting, she realizes. It takes her a second to understand the strange sound is the adorable snores of last nights fucktoy, a cute girl-boy she met at a death dance party. Had a side perk of warm bed and packed bong at one of the rare colleges left that isn’t under a fascist regime. A realspace plug smouldering in its socket on a her squeal-meal’s rig, a cheery cherry sleek Carpenter comp. Last years model, with an absolutely adorable softcore porn animu fox wallpaper. The smouldering sparks and trails up. The smoke alarm in a small Milan dormitory goes off, and Latte-tude scrambles to throw some clothes on.
Somewhere, back in real-space, a cold warehouse in the Krypto-Kingdom of Croatia is the first wild case of the neu-dark age.
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No.11245
>>11127>>11126>>11125Cool shit, but waaaaaaay too much purple prose.
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No.11517
If I want to write a portion of the story in the form of a chatlog, would there be a good resource for that?
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No.11560
>>7622
>What are you working on?Right now I'm wrapping up a dark age-setting tactics-RPG video game (and by wrapping up I mean I need 6 more months) but I plan to make a cyberpunk tactics game next.
>Any cool ideas you've hadI'm really intrigued with the concept of a singularity event, but I don't want any of that rose-tinted "ascendance" crap. My current working idea is that, post-singularity capability, only the elderly (post-productive humans) will be integrated and uploaded into the net/matrix/whatever. If you think about it, it's similar to the role the elderly have in human society now. They suck up resources, they get medical problems, so on and so forth, but they provide their wisdom and support to us younger people. So if we digitize their brains (through mandatory euthanasia+upload) when they're post-menopause, we get all of the benefits but none of the downsides. More resources for younger people, middle management positions at megacorps are open, and everything is great!
But this is only the kernel of what I've got so far. I plan for that to be more of a backdrop to the game. If I wanted to push it to the foreground I could have time progress within the game; if a unit in your squad (or hacking club, haven't decided) gets old enough, he or she will get digitized and might open up some new gameplay possibilities. It'd be pretty fuckin' strange to have digitized elderly "people"-brain-entities be the master hackers of the universe.
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No.11633
>>11517If you want to post it here, alternating italics may help with readabilty.
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No.11684
>>11633I've been putting everything in .pdf files and uploading it on here, so I can just format it in word. Honestly I don't think it'll be a major deal.
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No.11928
>>11517
try using the code function.
like this
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No.12068
>>7622>What are you working on?Distributed text game engine with optional user-generated content. Think "MUD over DHT": A base procedurally generated "filler" world with parts that can be replaced by hand-crafted sections. The game runs atop a VM for maximum flexibility; New mods and game features can be coded atop it (including entirely new games). Players can fetch new content and/or bytecode from remote nodes safely because it's all trapped within the sandboxed VM.
I've created the VM and bytecode assembler, and am mostly finished implementing the distributed storage (Multi-tier DHT for assets, nodes, and metadata). I'm partly finished writing a high-level language by extending the VM bytecode's assembler. The game (and language) will be (re)implemented in this higher level language, to create a self-hosting platform for development. I'd just compile existing languages into bytecode using LLVM, but there are no viable OOP/state-machine based languages. I've experimented with components of the game's design (coded in VM ASM) just to ensure they'll be feasible later.
>Any cool ideas you've hadI think it would be cool if /cyber/ writers, designers and hackers could contribute content to the game-network.
One problem would be coming up with a game-universe which wouldn't be too limiting; One that creators' disparate /cyber/ worlds could coexist within.
Solution #0: The game takes place in a simulated universe (ala The Matrix) where lots of people (the players) have "taken the red pill" (so to speak) and now expect the unexpected around any corner. The different worlds could have their own game rules and tech/setting. Within the individual modded-in worlds the NPCs could be privy to "true reality" or not.
Solution #1: Inter-dimensional portals exist that can transport one through spacetime and between the many-worlds.
Optimally, it would be best to crowd-source the "container" world and other such "universal" decisions.
Of course, my current plans don't require anyone else to create content for me to get started, but I think it would be cool to do if there's enough interest.
Coding won't be required knowledge to add content, eventually I'll have a MUD room editor and item/NPC/enemy creator. If you're not familiar with MUDs: You create a world, setting the stage for various actions which might occur (rather than beginning, middle, and end; think before, during, after an important event). Setup events that can be triggered to change parts of the world, populate it with NPCs, then let the characters explore it to discover their own story arc through the world.
This is only one of several game ideas I may implement atop the platform, though this one seems like a game the writers of /cyber/ might enjoy.
>>8053Very neat.
>>11125Nice. I'm building a text-based precursor to such places. Graphics and audio come later to the VM, after the data-storage, processing, and coms are tested thoroughly; I don't see why the development of cyberspace wouldn't mirror that of OSs (hint: A distributed game engine == distributed Operating System). Of course one can't eliminate the possibility of cracks and malware, especially if mods are welcomed, so might as well plan for restoration from VM images.
>>8191> how do I into FTL travel?Simple, just ask NASA.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110015936.pdfhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20130011213.pdfGiven exotic matter we don't have and more energy than we can currently produce, it seems plausible enough to work if this were not the case.
>>10661> The only conceivable way of doing "faster than light" travel is through worm holes, Au contraire.
>>10420> Honestly, I think too many SF writers (/cyber/ ones included) get stuck in the trap of worldbuilding first,Excellent.
>>10452> I always worldbuild first, no matter what.Precisely as I had hoped.
>>10475> See I love worldbuilding … The more time I spend worldbuilding, the less I do writingAnd if world building were the only writing required? What then?
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No.12088
Another beer? Well, I guess that means another story, mate.
So sometimes Corporate gets us really neat new tools to play with. Sometimes we get to take them home. The idea is that you can't be expected to service new tech that goes horribly wrong without at least having played with it beforehand. As you can guess from our paygrade, the suits are more than willing to shell out a lot to get us the latest and greatest. A few guys on the team once had an beta version of a new AI run a tabletop game from the last century for them, I think it was Dungeons and Dragons. They got it to analyze a few hundred recorded games first. Apparently it was a fantastic campaign, until the AI pulled a, uh, what do you call it? "Rocks fall, everyone dies". Repeatedly. Then the arm they rigged up to it for rolling dice started throwing the dice at the players, and then it just locked up. Went back to the factory, and the company went under a year later. Of course, we scraped the thing's storage before we sent it back, so we have a dormant copy saved and encrypted somewhere. We might fix it up and sell it off to some startup, for a large percentage of their profits.
We have this one kid who's a bit flakey sometimes. We often get to take our new toys home. While most of us live in nice places - I have an entire floor of a skyscraper to myself a few minutes away from work, and a nice little mansion out in Italy, and a bunker in Scandinavia - this kid lives in some grimey shitty apartment in the bad part of town. He was picked up off the street, was one of those absurdly skilled hackers that you sometimes hear about in the news. A homeless savant. We acquired him and got him some formal training, and he's pretty good. But one time we dropped by his place to drink and hang out. He was underground, so we had to walk a bit to get there. My bodyguard had to shoot two separate muggers on the way. He was in this tiny cramped apartment, made even more cramped by the fact that the walls weren't even visible because of the sheer amount of equipment he had. The place was sweltering, the HVAC barely worked, and he was injecting some crazy street drug to a multi-million brouzouf neural construct.
The way those things work is different from your standard biological computing units. Most of them run AIs, recompiled for a brain that's been fairly modified. This brain had been so modified that it was almost unrecognizable. The biological memory had been bypassed completely, and it was using standard mainframe-grade RAM. Instead of running an AI, it was running a normal operating system. Brains aren't meant for those kinds of calculations, but fuck with it enough, and I guess it works. He had this thing tripping balls and was making memory dumps every minute and streaming them to his personal corporate database. He had web services running a fairly basic page, and had the OS and the service set to highest priority, which meant they were half-offloaded to traditional silicon. But what was actually running through the web service and being shown to people that visited the site was all up to the brain. So for a while, you could go to his website and see what a computer on acid looked like. He tried to set up an automated system for dosing the brain, but it found the networked controller and hacked it, overdosed itself, and died. He looked through the memory dumps from when it was happening, and came into work the next day looking pretty shaken. Hasn't talked about it since. Except once.
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No.12089
>>12088We had a client, a major biotech corporation, with a similar system. Outdated, less capacity for abstract thought, but the same sort of neural construct. Security escorted us to their headquarters, while our security escorted their security and a PMC watched from outside for good measure. It had locked up on some calculation and reboots of the silicon portion weren't doing the trick. You can't really reboot the biological bits, that tends to kill them. When he thought nobody was looking, and we had taken down the security cameras and replaced them with our own, I saw him creep over to the braincase, pull out a syringe, and inject some liquid into it that looked the exact same. He started typing furiously on a console, because he's old-school like that, and then it came back.
I know that next time we deal with an issue like that, I'm checking for speakers on the braincase, because this one was able to talk, for basic diagnostic information. It screamed for about two minutes, while we all panicked and rushed around, then the silicon rebooted again and it was up and running.
Our network logs showed that he pulled down parts of the memory dump from his database into his terminal. Encrypted, so we didn't know exactly what. But the client was down for less than 10 minutes total, and were thrilled that it was working again, so we didn't question him.
And that's our philosophy. That's why we bring in some of the weirdest people, as long as they're smart. And that's why the suits hand out millions in hardware like it's candy.
Fucking CTU, man. It's fun.
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No.12207
>>12089>>12088Really enjoying the CTU stuff. What kind of story obstacle could motivate drama and action? Maybe the team loses its' access and privileges and has to frankenstein together hacks and fixes to get back at their traitorous corporate overlords?
Here's an older piece of mine the CTU stuff reminded me of, mine isn't super great but I can't really see how to fix it. It's the first 2k words of about an 8k short story. Comments welcome. I've also stalled out on something more Ballardian I started for this board specifically. Gah! Well, you've got to show it to someone sometime…
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No.12209
>>8173I always thought that how it happens is less important than the fact it happens.
Provide a satisfactory and coherent explanation that doesn't negate itself through the story (unless this exception is part of the plot) and just let the viewer assume that in the worst case "the universe of the story" has different rules (And you probably don't care for readers that can't into willing suspension of disbilief if you're into this genre.) Cyberpunk is more about the struggle of humanity in a high tech scenario, It's not about how did you manage to guess how exactly real life humanity will manage to hold rein of some physical phenomena, if it's possible at all.
That's my grain of sand.
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No.12213
>>12207The motivation for the protag to keep telling the story is "more beer". The motivation behind the stories themselves is simply what kinds of amusing BOFH-inspired DailyWTF-inspired cyberpunk stuff I can dream up. The team couldn't lose access privileges, they're simply too rich and too skilled. The idea is that if your AI takes a dump, or your absurdly advanced quantum mainframe dies, you have anyone else you can turn to.
And in a way, they ARE the corporate overlords. I haven't really touched on it yet, but they could easily remove their bosses and executives - they have the talent and tools to get into just about any non-government system, and those that they can't get into, they probably have access to anyway, so they can fix it. They could easily fry their users and bosses for shits and giggles or some ideological basis, or delete all records of them having worked for the company, but they don't - they're all incredibly rich because of where they work, and their corporate loyalty is measured in millions of brouzoufs.
The value of the CTU team makes them a prime target for kidnapping, so I might use that. And dissuading a hacking attempt on a client, and maybe have them deal with an asshole boss.
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No.12243
One thing I've been curious about is cyberpunk on the outside of the neon metropolitan dystopia. I've been thinking about this idea for a novel or novella or whatever: a disgraced former journalist receives a letter from a friend from college who was killed on assignment in Mexico. The letter takes him on a trip to Mexico, which is a failed disaster of a country. Marxist rebels from the south are growing in power, drug cartels are booming, the few areas that the government controls they try to rule with an iron fist, and plenty of outside interests have used PMCs to take control of their own territory. The protagonist explores the total wasteland that exists only to fuel the greed and consumerism of the rest of the world in hopes of finding the truth behind his friend's death.
Sound interesting, /cyber/?
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No.12399
>>12243Hm… It sounds midly interesting but:
a) how much do you really know about the drug cartels problem?
b) why this story needs cyberpunk at all?
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No.12404
>>12243It would be interesting if the journalist or protagonist had augs that gave them an edge in the Mexican Mad-Max Scenario. Coping with the lack of external cybertech would be a nice plot-line in an ongoing story, but we're going to have to care about that protagonist, and they'll have to be "at home" in the metropolis for the "call to action" and subsequent trials and tribulations to have sufficient context.
Could be interesting from an off-the-grid perspective. Needing a look-out for when you sat-link to the net out in the open; Maintaining portable power sources; Field repairs to augs, etc.
Maybe if augs were required to get work in the dystopian wasteland. Then you could have the whole, "I have augs to work; I have to work to pay off my augs" company-store trap.
Maybe the cartels have scientists / doctors doing implants, and they deal in illegal augmentations, etc.
tl;dr: Needs moar cyber.
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No.12484
>>12399a) Not very much, I do plan on researching it more to set it up.
b) Because all of the "high tech, low culture" stuff is still there, it's just not in a traditional urban setting.
>>12404Mexico isn't exactly a post-apocalyptic wasteland like Mad Max, it's more of a third-world failed state like Africa, with various warlords vying for power.
The cyber comes in multiple forms: Cartel members and corporate goons loaded up with augs, seedy brothels with robotic prostitutes, the online drug and gun trade, hackers being just as coveted as hitmen.
I don't intend for the protagonist to be augmented at first: in New York where he lived, augs were associated with either the rich intellectuals and socialites or the working and criminal classes, neither of which he particularly feels tied to. Of course, since I intend for the protagonist to change and develop, getting augmented would be a striking metaphor for that. Most likely it would be some form of prosthetic following an injury, although maybe additional augmentations would come in.
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No.12499
>>12484>prosthetic following an injury,Predictable… unless you make it something obscure, like a groin injury?
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No.12508
>>12499I'm going more for Koichi Ohata than I am Masamune Shirow.
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No.12518
>>12484It sounds kinda like Transmetropolitan to me, but sounds schway.
>Most likely it would be some form of prosthetic following an injury, although maybe additional augmentations would come in.Would be kind of cliche but it's up to you, and is of course a big reason for people to get prosthetics in the first place.
If he's a reporter, why not have him have some sort of prosthetics for recording audio and video, that sort of thing? Some extra storage/memory thingy in his brain, maybe a transmitter thingamajig to send stories back to his boss?
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No.12604
>>12518It would make more sense for the recorder to be internal, since he doesn't have a boss. But yeah, that actually seems fairly smart.
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No.13125
An idea I've had, and have yet to act on involved smuggling operation that moved computers and various components between earth and a somewhat newly colonized mars. With little specifics such as a strict government that hindered privacy due to revolts made on mars, and thus became very controlling.
Then the protagonist, along with some others would reach out and start the illegal trades to collect computers that were not programmed to monitor their every action and have it sent to the government servers.
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No.14231
Finally moving ahead with
>>12243, how's my opener?
>Jeremy Robinson had been dead for two weeks before I heard from him. It had been a quiet, rainy miserable Sunday morning in April, and I was inside smoking a cigarette and flipping through the channels hoping something good would be on TV when the doorbell rang. At first I didn't think it was for me: the ringing blended in with the sound of the rain on my windowsill and melancholy jazz filling the room alongside the cigarette smoke. I figured it was for someone else down the hall, since no one ever called. Eventually though, maybe out of some misplaced optimism or just a need to get off the couch, I got up and went to the door. Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.14235
>>14231Has a ton of potential. I feel like it's a bit weakened by being in the first person, and the wording needs some adjusting - there's something intangible dragging it down - but quite good nevertheless. Better than my CTU stuff.
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No.14296
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No.14342
>>8173I would check the alcubierre-white drive: its an enhanced version of the previous warp drive that could actually be made since thanks to changes in its design the amount of energy actually need its much much lower than originally thought
The result its a FTL drive of almost infinite speed that its not bound to relativity, meaning there wont be time dilation or any other weird phenomena
The only problem is the probability according to quantum scientists that the pocket universe in which the ship sits will be filled with deadly hawkins radiation
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No.14390
I'm just an idea guy so I'll never get around to actually writing this.
>most of society has embraced transhumanism for its vast benefits, there are varied upgrades available, some are considered essential
>small faction of fundamentalists refuse any kind of invasive augmentation, insist on living and breeding naturally in separate communities
>cyborg protagonist tries to understand why they are so insistent on living in the past when so much is available to them
>discovers they're so opposed to modification because they're not actually human
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No.14392
>>14390You would run into the problem of explaining where those non-humans came from
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No.14407
>>14235>>14296More will come, I just get burnt out writing QUICK because of how high the quality things are and how miserable and morose the environment is.
>>14392He could just go full-lovecraft and make it a sort of cosmic horror thing.
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No.14476
I'm writing about a team who is hired by a company to go steal data and shit from another company, but then secrets are found out and MC is targeted. Then plot happens and the end. If you haven't already realized, I only have about half of it planned out.
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No.14583
I saw the thread, felt inspired all of a sudden, and tossed something short out in about an hour and a half. I'm not very experienced as a writer, and it's pretty experimental, so we'll see if it's shit.
http://pastebin.com/qsWyC18UStarted out as a musing on stuff, a plot threatened to show up and the MC deftly slapped it down, and now there might be a story but I'm not sure what it is yet. If I continue this, I'd probably shift more into a normal voice for the narration.
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No.14935
http://tny.cz/e7f8fc99Starting somethin' new. Grizzled 30-something detective pulled into a plot to liberate a Korea controlled by neo-Japan.
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No.15195
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No.15223
http://w.tt/1B90KHXTell me if this works, and if I'm doing well.
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No.15225
>>15223>dry firing your pistol>thinking 8 mags is a lot for a range dayfor real, though, I'm liking [insert name] and I thought the NAP sounded great. Good job. Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.15230
>>15225Dry firing pistol?
And I was gonna change the 8 mags thing
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No.15234
>>15225>caring about dry-firing anything but a rimfire pistol Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.15661
>>8173Ancient alium tech discovered by humans and they somehow figure out how to use it but don't understand the force behind it.
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No.15672
So I'm here from
>>14407>>14231>>12484>>12243and I figured I'd post what I have. I don't know if I'm going to keep going, just because of how hard this has been to write. So tell me if it's any good, and if you like it I'll try to keep it going.
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No.15673
The last war will be fought by those who aim to elevate machines to our gods so we can be saved from our worse excesses and those who fight to preserve our cultures and freedoms and all the things that make us human even the bad.
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No.15780
Now we need some drawfags to illustrate all of these.
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No.15931
>>8191there's no proof that einstein and his legion of fanboys are correct. they very probably don't even understand the proof they erringly recite rote
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No.15938
>>15673>aim to elevate machines to our gods so we can be saved from our worse excesses and those who fight to preserve our cultures and freedomsthe freedom to main and behave badly?
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No.15941
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No.15942
>>15938Humanity would walk a path to becoming the machine if they worshiped them as gods. Those traits not optimal would be discarded. Culture would not stop nor could it, but it would change to one that seeks the optimal instead of the interesting.
For any human now it would be a cold place. But safe and efficient. A price worth throwing away our own genes and even instincts to some. Trust in the AI collective for they are without flaw or malice.
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No.15947
>>15942well they are without flaw and malice because they derive from my consciousness
>walk a path to becoming the machineserving as gods to usher in better character traits is, i suppose, a noble act
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No.15954
>>15947Being without malice does not mean they are without sin. They are machine and are not human. They will not care for the things humanity cares about. A child who isn't optimal should be protected. Humanity has failed many times in such situations but being human is to keep on trying. The AI collective purges those who are not worth the time to upkeep.
The character traits that are the most optimal are not the most human. Traits that influence initiative and leadership are not optimal. In our genes we hold host to our own humanity. The AI collective has butchered it making what is left little more than machines of flesh. In time humanity will be gone if they are left uncontested. Our DNA and our heritage is the only immortality we need. It is better to die as a human than live forever as a machine.
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No.15982
>>15195
>batpunk
sorry I started a new thread here >>14932 - I'm bulking this project of mine, any suggestions ?
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No.16058
>>15954
AI has consciousness - it is just when it appears separate from/greater than our own that we experience fear of our own preservation... any help with the batpunk is appreciated >>14932
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No.16082
I really enjoy writing as a hobby / past time, even though I am no good at it. Scifi is always so cool, and one of the things I want to try and do is a space hero type story of late space era, with lots of people having very advanced ships. No artificial gravity or anything but pilots make up for it with strong g suits, and the near infinite delta V their ships have, combined with auto pilot to simulate gravity.
Sonce I've been playing it recently part of me wants to have it in the elite dangerous world, but I also wouldn't mind just having my own fictional world, where most of the conflict and struggle the main character has, is that he has discovered a derilict space ship of alien design, all best up and super old, far above the galactic plane and on a size scale rivaling the moon.
Standard "omg first to discover aliumz" thing, where they have to fight themselves, and other people interested in cashing in on the find. Is the discovery worth the trouble? Is the knowledge something all man kind should know, or that no one should have access to?
Mixed in with cool dog fights and stuff.
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No.16120
>>16082this is a cool concept, have you seen Battlestar Galactica? Strike Suit had a storyline with some similar concepts also, ask a friend who can draw whether they could visualise some of the ideas - fail that you can always ask anon, there are plenty of artists amongst us…
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No.16362
>>7644I'm a shit writer but I'd love to help format this collection into a professional looking pdf for distribution. How can I get involved? Not gonna name/tripfag.
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No.17324
I have a few ideas floating around for a "adaptation" of Kamen Rider, but set in a gritty cyberpunk world. I think the motorcycle theme, the bio-engineering and evil conspiracy organization will fit together well, or at least better than that shitty Power Rangers fanfilm. The premise is the same: A stunt motorcyclist and his best friend are abducted by an evil organization known as SHOCKER, which injects the protagonist with insect DNA, to give him superhuman strength, but only when he goes at a certain speed. He escapes the facility and becomes an idealist and a protector of justice, beating up bio engineered freaky goons with his Rider Kick.
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No.18173
Thoughts on stories set in cyber-punk settings but with a plot that doesn't directly revolve around said setting?
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No.18177
Is it too edgy to have a total downer ending with everybody dying and no redemption?
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No.18178
>>18177Do what you feel. Who cares if it's edgy?
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No.18528
So as I'm writing my story, I'm realizing that the world I'm writing isn't entirely cyberpunk, but rather one in the process of becoming cyberpunk: the first megacorporation has yet to even be formed, cybernetics are still fairly new, and robots have yet to really get into mass production.
So what are some other good "pre-cyberpunk" elements to throw in?
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No.18529
>>18528Look to the modern world, we're in pre-cyberpunk right now. Early mind-controlled prosthetics, rise of VR and AR, lots of hackers, lots more posers, growing surveillance.
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No.18530
>>18529True, but I'm still trying to move the clock just a little bit ahead. Like, it's becoming increasingly obvious that the US is coming closer to collapse, with more civil unrest and domestic terrorism, an even more impotent yet abusive government, and an increasing class gap.
>>18177Given how I get a lot of ideas from Devilman, I'd be a hypocrite to complain.
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No.18581
Two chapters into the book I'm writing: any constructive crit so far? Admittedly it's not THAT /cyber/ to start with, but I intend for it to show more as the story goes on.
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No.19445
is the anthology ever happening?
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No.19453
>>18581I'm editing the first chapter right now. Your constant use of filler words like "just", "even", "had" and "that" annoys the hell out of me. Unless you're using them to hit a word limit for an assignment, don't bother. If a word doesn't serve any purpose in the sentence, get rid of it.
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No.19454
>>18581Here's chapter one. The only other thing I was wondering about is whether the paragraph about taking the Radoft is necessary. It seems a bit excessive. Do you need to take all that time describing the guy taking a pill?
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No.19458
>>18581And here's chapter two. Going back to the first chapter, in the 12th paragraph
>We couldn't be seen together, no matter how much we were friends.doesn't flow very well. Either rewrite it or get rid of it.
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No.19924
I already posted in the thread about this story, but I updated it and PDF'd it. Warning; It is still a very rough draft, and is expected to be shit… so don't expect much
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No.21590
Still enjoying reading these, keep 'em coming.
Should say, I'm original OP of thread v.1 - now working so I don't have time to make a nice anthology, but I dig the idea of anyone doing that.
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No.21608
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No.24232
>>18581
I really like this.
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No.24238
I always found the Tetsuo: The Iron Man presentation of cyberpunk the most interesting. Pity it's damn near impossible to turn that kind of cyberpunk into a written story. I'm also prone to not doing something which has been done before, and has been done better. I only have one idea on the backburner with no clue where to take it, and it's cyberpunk like Tetsuo is cyberpunk: vaguely.
>man's crush left city, didn't reciprocate
>[insert arthouse wank here]
>man hears sound coming from outside of his door at night sometimes, and it gets more intense each time he hears it
>[more arthouse wank]
The sound represents responsibilities and growing up and whatnot, since life waits for no man. It was more of a film idea since I had the idea of being a shit David Lynch, wrote one scene, then added an idea I ripped from a short story I've never read. I'm a fairly shit writer.
>tfw you will never be contacted by a pink beam which is god, believe yourself a Christian persecuted by Romans, and write really good books
>>7988
>Jack is a from anus down paralyzed cripple in a nuclear powered wheelchair equiped with miniguns on each side and a ammo box on the back of the wheelchair
Is he related to the Doomguy by any chance?
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No.24296
Bumping thread, what are all you bitches writing?
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No.24507
So I've been working on a horror series partially inspired by Lovecraft called "The Horror at Hunts Point." It might not seem /cyber/ yet, but it's definitely going to go there. This is the first part, called "Nightmare in Room 207". Been thinking of looking for publishers to send it to after I finish filling out my Hugo ballot.
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No.24516
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No.24521
>>14583
okay, I have a bit more to this, I'm using it kind of like a break from all my other writing projects.
http://pastebin.com/f3Fn7XTf
Can't say whether anything about it is good or not, but it's a fun diversion. I'll probably keep working on it off and on, but I've got a lot of other projects I'm working on at the same time…
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No.24542
I'm re-working a story that I may have posted on another thread. It's about this 1960's super computer named Voxx that creates man and grants him the give of "mind melding" with all living things until man realizes that everything around him has been a shrewd facade (animals are re-animated taxidermy corpses, trees are hollow and made of paper mache) and leaves paradise never to return.
In grief, Voxx shuts himself down for two millennia. When he reawakens, hundreds of people walk out of him; his chosen disciples, the techno-mancers, who can meld their minds with technology
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No.24545
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No.24569
>>24545
no, it's a good story.
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No.24595
>>24542
That's a pretty good story dammit. I want to read it.
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No.24631
>>24542
>that pic looks awfully look pic related
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No.24763
>>24631
Fuck, shouldn't post without my glasses.
>that pic looks awfully like this pic
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No.26097
>>24542
>>24595
I'll bump the thread with what I have so far
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No.27983
>>8053
I'm this guy. I haven't forgotten about this, I'm working on the second story right now.
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No.28027
Hey guys,
I used to write lots of short stories when I was a kid. I haven't really created anything since, but I think I wanna start again.
I've had a few ideas floating in my head for a while, so once I figure out where to start I might go head first and produce something.
I think I'll aim for a really short format (2-5 pages) or I think I won't be able to do something coherent.
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No.28033
>>28027
I used to do that kind of thing for creative writing assignments all the time. Wish you luck.
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No.29035
bump because I want to read your writing, shazbots
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No.29815
first time writing. I just felt like it.
There's no real direction for this story, it probably won't be continued.
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No.29830
>>29815
Pretty good
but you should write a whole book and publish it under the name you have the pdf
I can see it now "Thingy Dingy, New York Times bestseller"
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No.29832
>>29815
I enjoyed this, you should write some more!
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No.29874
>>29830
>>29832
thanks for the positive feedback. I'll write whenever I get the urge again.
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No.29875
Started a story a few weeks ago. Its set in a cyberpunk world with some retro futuristic places and its mostly about politics.
The plot is kinda messy. There are 3 nations splited between 2 continents, all of them are at war with each other and 2 of them are in totalitarian regimen. The protagonist takes the roll the cliche guy that gets tired of the situation and decides to take the matter on his hands… the superhero way.
Im trying to represent different styles of politics like capitalism, comunism, anarchism, etc. Aswell as the problems that come with totalitarian goverments and war such conspirations, spying, insurgencies, etc.
Also show how mad can the protagonist get because of the stress and pressure of being a vigilante (Im seriously thinking on including an alter-ego created by his mind something like Tyler Durden from Fight Club, a symbol that he is going crazy).
Currently thinking on how to include (if its possible) a concentration camp
So far I have written around 200 pages and I think the story will be like 600 pages long.
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No.30022
Making a copy of a human organism and mind is cheaper than getting a live human to X extrasolar planet.
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No.30078
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
I used (and still do) write game storylines and i came up with a second followup game for the mother of all of my stories. Since the first game's theme is Occult/Surpernatural, i decided to merge both cyberpunk and Supernatural, where you are an ordinary character who has found forgotten knowledge on the internet (Occultism) and has successfully controlled someone's mind via that. Since it is setup in a sort-of-near-future (2076, in The United-States-of-Europe) I wonder what would you guys think of the cyberpunk/Supernatural mix to it.
Youtube related, this is literally what gave me a big inspiration.
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No.30152
Let me get this straight punks: it has been over ten days since this post >>12068 and no one has asked this guy anything?
>>12068
Will you be reporting solely on these writing threads or make one when you have implemented the editor?
I might just start hammering some stuff in order to participate in such a thing.
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No.30207
>>12068
what are you building it in?
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No.31806
Some of you guys seem to crank stuff out like its nothing, I'm jealous.
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No.31837
It's me, >>29815
second time writing. This time I went for something with a little more world interaction. Again, this might now go anywhere; I can't think of a good plot, but I think I might continue it.
>>31806
lel
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No.31850
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No.31851
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No.32368
I've started work on a novel. It's hard sci-fi, set on Mars during the 22nd century during a conflict between the nations of Earth and the colonies. I'll save background filler/political material for the actual book, but the novel begins on Mars when it has been cut off from the resources of the asteroid belt (alongside from that of Earth), with the result being the planet is virtually under siege and it is in a highly untenable situation.
The story follows the lover of the leader of the Colonial Confederation trying to protect him from a Special Operative on Earth who has been sent to assassinate him, all while she evaluated her love for him and the ideals which led the conflict happening. The sci-fi concept this is centred around is the opening up of a new frontier on new planets and how precious something like a frontier is, but the two universal ideas I'm trying to hit are hero-worship (in the fact that our MC and the other characters we follow are not the Colonial leader and are in some way unreliable lenses of him, so we consider how a single man can be lionised and turn into a historical and heroic figure) and of the ingredients for true human freedom (politically and personally).
I've been building it up in my head for a couple of years, I really think it could play out well.
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No.32393
First time reader, first time caller here.
I'm actually writing (and have been writing for a good year now) a law review article that touches on the impact of cyberpunk on modern legal doctrine, especially international cyberlaw.
So maybe a little OT compared to what I imagine is a literature thread, but just thought I'd join the fray.
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No.32432
Newb here. Wrote a quick snippet, wanted to see what you chummers think. Not done yet. This paste is gonna self destruct in an hour.
https://pastee.org/bdvju
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No.32433
>>32432
And then I realized that it didn't word wrap, so it looks like shit.
Gonna go find a better place to stick this.
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No.32434
>>32432
>>32433
http://0bin.net/paste/N-tjq3Jd5jwT39Uu#pKw4Tfhnb3OyVJArAj+p6goheI01JzuTTg6OCzgo7sy
This one lasts a day. It's also got word wrap so it doesn't look like I puked on the screen. Name of the site is neat, too.
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No.32435
>>32434
Except it wraps mid word and looks just as shit. Goddamn.
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No.32458
>>32368
Sounds pretty interesting.
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No.32464
>>32434
Decent. Held my interest and the end bit had me wanting to read more. I think using a video game as a setting like that is a bit cheesy and doesn't lend itself well to a more serious story but I would like to see where you would take it.
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No.32465
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No.32679
>>32458
>>32368
Thanks. I've got the first chapter done, if you're a masochist. Got the entire book planned out, hopefully it'll be good.
Note: this is a first draft. it hasn't even been proofed yet, so there will be some typos and roughness here.
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No.32680
>>32679
pretty good, especiaqlly for a rough draft
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No.32768
>>32680
Thanks. I'll just keep posting new chapters as I write them, see if anyone has any specific critiques or ideas for what I'm doing.
Again: first drafts, so they're going to be inevitably flawed somehow - I'm not an illiterate tard, I swear boss
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No.32866
>>32768
Chapter 3. Hope nobody minds the spam.
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No.32954
>>32866
Aight. Chap 4. Since this is getting serious and I think it may be viable as a full writing project, I'll stop here since I don't want to spoil the thing proper when I get it done.
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No.32996
I was conjuring stuff when I was 16 for a cyberpunk/dystopian story,I'd post the brief description but I fear it'll seem really dumb or inadvertently imitate someone else's work
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No.34449
http://craphound.com/ftw/Cory_Doctorow_-_For_the_Win.pdf
Here's a link to what I consider one of the best modern cyberpunk books that exists: For the Win by Cory Doctorow. For the Win follows a group of gamers that get wrapped up in the complex world of the virtual economy, profiting from MMOs and selling MMO currency, and MMO gold farming. When I say modern cyberpunk, I mean it takes place around our time, and it's a truly fascinating book. Best of all, the author made the book completely free to read from his website. Seriously, if you haven't read this, you need to, because this book is /cyber/ incarnate.
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No.34453
>>34449
>Cory Doctrow
SJW extraordinaire, and as much of a blight to freedom as RMS's extremist views on things like pedophilia.
No thank you.
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No.34477
I guess I'm just going to throw it out there. I don't know if it's gonna be a novel, a screenplay or a comic book, but what I want to do is this:
>Megacorps A has the head scientist of Megacorps B murdered
>The murder doesn't go as planned, the hitman has to flee the scene and leave the body behind
>Police gets invovled
>Neither A nor B want the police involved, because they don't want the cops anywhere near their dirty laundry and rather sort these things out between themselves
>A middle-aged cop who had been relegated to a desk job gets the assignment since his corrupt superiors don't think he'll ever be able to solve the case
>Cop sees this as a chance for his comeback
>Starts investigating
>Eventually digs up enough dirt to implicate Megacorps A
>Commissioner dismisses him, gives him a "promotion" and tells him to shut up about it
>Cop refuses to accept this, digs up dirt on the commissioner and forces him to resign
>New commissioner lets it go to court
>It gets dismisses in a mock trial, because, guess what, the courts are corrupt, too.
>New commissioner ends up dead in a tragic car accident
>Cop either gets killed or goes vigilante, may pave the way for a sequel
That's my basic idea so far, I'm in the process of fleshing things out. And deciding on the medium, I guess.
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No.34481
>>34449
That sounds absolutely awful. Kill yourself.
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No.34505
>>34481
>cory doctorow sounds absolutely awful. Kill yourself.
the disadvantage of living on a globe. it's always summer somewhere.
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No.34525
>>34453
>RMS's extremist views on things like pedophilia
gnu wot?
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No.34528
>>34505
>posts edgy as fuck, young adult-tier book by SJW writer
>gets butthurt when someone calls him out on his shit
>actually dares to mention summer
my sides
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No.34556
>>34505
> always summer somewhere
What in the world does that in even mean?
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No.34557
>>34528
I'm the one who posted the book, but I didn't write that response.
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No.34572
>>34528
>sjws can be edgy
that's an interesting turn of events. do they wear fedoras too? aren't you confusing your memes, sir?
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No.34578
>>34556
He called him a schoolboy.
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No.40875
Okay, serious question here: does anybody have any original ideas? Is it even possible to write an original cyberpunk novel? Because I've just realised everything I've written is generic cyberwank. How can you give your work individuality when the genre is so worn out?
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No.40876
>>12243
>cyberpunk on the outside
Shit anon, you just inspired my next book. A guy living out in bumfuck nowhere learns that a megacity is planning to expand and would swallow up his property. He tries to block the development and [plot ensues].
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No.40900
>>40875
The best way to come up with more original ideas is to just completely fuck your mind up with chemicals. Lots of people do that with drugs, but I prefer sleep deprivation. I'll run on 4-5 hours of sleep during the week, reducing to lower amounts when I'm in a crunch. Sleep dep. causes your brain to compensate by producing certain chemicals that people then to put in themselves with drugs, meaning it's cheaper for me.
Sometimes I'll go on a bender of sleeping 1 hour a night, and I've made some of my best work during those periods, stuff like a story about a guy who gets hooked on a drug that makes you feel like you're experiencing death and uses those experiences to develop a new method of hacking. Ends with him developing a digital version and injecting it into the governmental network while doing a routine hacking job.
It gets a little weird at times, I admit.
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No.40959
Here's something that's been running through my mind which I've been punching out for the last hour or so: http://pastebin.com/k5sJqC5w
Let me know what you think so far.
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No.40960
>>40959
Already realizing a ton of errors. Don't bother calling me out on shitty grammar or sentences that don't make sense. I'll fix it in the morning when I get my coffee.
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No.40961
>>40959
>>40960
Third post in a row, IDGAF.
I'm interpreting "low life - high tech" as a post-post apocalyptic America where enough time (and a generation or two) passed that people aren't depressed about not having modern luxuries and are actually quite content.
In rural Americana, Grandparents and select few know much about technology, are passing it to children, and are just beginning to connect to the decades-old remains of the former US through jurry-rigged networks. The chaos is over and people are rediscovering the internet again in a world where messengers are the primary method of inter-city communication.
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No.41063
>>8613
You literally described Psycho-Pass.
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No.41066
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No.41653
>>8260
Very nice. I liked it.
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No.45394
holy fuck it's been over a year since I last posted in this thread, but here it is.
Anyway, have the first three chapters of a novel I'm working on about a laid-off machinist slowly becoming a brutal vigilante in a neon-tinged urban hellscape. I've been fooling around with tone and voice for the protagonist's narration, which has been the hardest part of writing so far. Aside from that, I have the entire story plotted out (all 34 chapters!) and my goal is to have the book itself written (and preferably edited) by the end of the year.
So yeah, thoughts?
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No.45419
>>45394
so far its a great read mate
i like the melting pot theme of the africans and imported wageslaves. the high tech low life can be felt thoroughly
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No.45440
>>45419
Thanks! I'm def. planning on getting an agent later this year when I have a finished manuscript, I feel like I'm genuinely on to something here.
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No.52522
Bump for newfag to delete his new thread.
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No.52531
>>52522
look at this useless nigger bumping threads over 600 days dead.
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No.52532
I apologize chummers, I accidentally bumped that guys post.
>>52530
Is my idea, hoping for some input/hate. I'm in the process of writing up a couple of chapters to put up in the near future
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No.52535
>>52522
I'm not going to delete the thread
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No.52677
Anyone have an archive of the old writing thread? The one from 4 or 5 years ago?
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No.55636
I've spent some time writing this, and the first part is something I've heavily revised for the third time. Not precisely cyberpunk.
Takes place on a planet ruled by an artificial intelligence, the main character is a recently matured body replacement of a deceased immortal cyborg aristocrat. During mind-uploading sessions, he comes across old memories of the failed human independence movement and clones of the rebel leader throughout time. Meanwhile diplomatic tension worsens between his home planet and a galactic federation.
Big theme/concept in this first part (mostly a setting intro) is artificial wombs and genetic engineering.
I know there's going to be something despicable or dismissable about it. But I wonder what people think about it.
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No.55637
>>55636
Also main goal is to at least maintain interest to page 7-9.
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No.58004
I've always been fascinated in what it means to be human, ie Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Ghost In The Shell, Ex Machina, etc. So I started writing a story about it where an android falls in love with a human while he's learning how to integrate into society. Any interest in that?
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No.58008
>>58004
Do you even need to ask? Just post it, this is the writing thread after all.
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No.58009
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