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I guess if people expected it to be like Pitch Black they were disappointed. I didn’t see Pitch Black until later (and didn’t find it very memorable), but they are very different movies.
I think the thing I like so much about Chronicles is that it’s unabashedly fantastical and epic. It reminds me of Warhammer 40k and Conan the Barbarian, really fine cheese.
I loved The Chronicles of Riddick! It’s bombastic space opera, of which we have much too little that isn’t Star Wars tripe, and Vin Diesel is perfect in this role.
What about Andor? Star Wars, while aesthetically grimy, is certainly not usually cyberpunk. Andor pushes “high tech, low life”, and has an anti-hero and other morally grey characters fighting a totalitarian government. So now that I think about it it does feel a bit cyberpunk, but I’d say it isn’t because ultimately its problems and solutions are too far divorced from those of our world.
But that is what I think is most important about cyberpunk, that it extrapolates the problems and struggles of our current world. The tech themes and 80s aesthetics are just incidental. Which has me asking “Is 1984 (proto) cyberpunk?” 🤔
Yes, but since the pro doesn’t have a disc reader it’s more comparable to the Digital.
It also doesn’t matter, when compared to the standard model the Pro is still a shit deal as it released for 500$. (And came with a disc reader and a vertical stand, which are over 100$ extra for the Pro.)
No, its biggest problem is that it’s outrageously expensive. At its core it’s a four year old console selling for significantly more than release price.
Here are Playstation release prices adjusted for inflation and rounded:
- PS4 $540
- PS4 Pro $520
- PS5 Digital $490
- PS5 Pro $700
A similar relative price point to the PS4 Pro would have seen the PS5 Pro release for $470; and at that price it would likely have been popular, even without any really meaningful upgrades.
I had a similar task to
“Set up a web service, load balancer and infrastructure to scale it to handle a large amount of requests. Harden the security of it to the best of your ability. Document how it works, how to scale it, why you built it the way you did, what measures you took to harden it and why, and any future improvements you would suggest. All code and documentation should be production quality. This should take about four hours.”
Maybe you can write this code in four hours, but all this documentation and motivation as well? Fuck off.
They also asked for a made up report from a security audit (this was for a security engineer position) containing a dozen realistic vulnerabilities with descriptions, impact assessments, and remediation suggestions. Once again of production quality. This is at least six pages of highly technical, well researched, and carefully worded text. Four hours is tight for this task alone.