Wetfish Online
Discussion Forums => Shitpost Central => Topic started by: nicefish on September 29, 2019, 06:44:09 pm
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lol nice thread
see also: cyberspace (https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?topic=2720)
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Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/05/ford-built-an-electric-mustang-with-a-manual-transmission-and-were-mad/
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Wait what is this?
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Wait what is this?
It's a book about cyberpunk hackers published in 1995
Blast off into the next millennium with Cyberspace gurus and professed cyberpunks St. Jude and R.U. Sirius--consummate insiders and co-founders of the revolutionary Mondo 2000 magazine, and co-authors of Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge--both definitive source guides for members of the electronic underground. Includes Cyberpunk cryptic crossword puzzles and a hipness checklist, plus a true/false "final exam."
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Wait what is this?
It's a book about cyberpunk hackers published in 1995
Blast off into the next millennium with Cyberspace gurus and professed cyberpunks St. Jude and R.U. Sirius--consummate insiders and co-founders of the revolutionary Mondo 2000 magazine, and co-authors of Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge--both definitive source guides for members of the electronic underground. Includes Cyberpunk cryptic crossword puzzles and a hipness checklist, plus a true/false "final exam."
Huh
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Tourist Decks vs. Real Cockpits
Cyberpunk Cockpit Manifesto
There’s a sickness in the feeds: plastic tourist cyberdecks. Raspberry Pi bricks with tiny keyboards, bolted into 3D-printed cases, paraded on Instagram like trophies from a war they never fought. They’re not tools. They’re cosplay.
Let’s be clear: a real cockpit doesn’t start with aesthetics. It starts with pain. Problem → solution → function.
- No media keys? You build a pause bar.
- Net keeps cutting? You wire in a pulse and watch your LEDs blink the truth.
- Need signals streaming in real time? You spin up a ticker.
Every fragment is earned. Every organ of the cockpit exists because without it, the pilot bleeds time.
Now look at the tourist decks.
- Four-inch LCDs that scorch your eyes.
- Chiclet keyboards designed for toddlers, not operators.
- Tethered to a smartphone that could do every task better, faster, cleaner.
- It’s all form before function. Fake nostalgia. A cargo cult of movie props.
And the irony? Those movies — Hackers, The Net, every 90s cyber-thriller — got tech wrong in the first place. Neon GUIs, floppy disks with nuclear payloads, hackers typing like pianists on meth. Pure fantasy. The tourist deck isn’t just pretending to be a tool — it’s pretending to be a prop that pretended to be a tool. A Xerox of a Xerox. Dead on arrival.
Meanwhile, the cockpit grows like coral. Black boxes stitched together over years. Hardware knobs, kill switches, LED ghosts, fragments of code that live on because they work. It looks rough because it is rough. It looks alive because it is alive.
The tourist deck is a selfie. The cockpit is a survival rig. One is a weekend project for clout. The other is a control panel for your life.
Stop building props. Start building cockpits.
— Rev1