I knew it, I knew you guys had the vibe of fellow Hooder punks, so happy to not be wrong as a new listener
@Tplwtch28 күн бұрын
I'd buy that FOR A DOLLAR!
@aboodiygames277128 күн бұрын
Hi guys I really like your podcast but can you make an Arabic subtitle because I don't really understand everything
@hightechlowlifepodcast28 күн бұрын
Thanks for the comment! I added them for this video, but not sure how readable they will be. I will look into adding them to other episodes as well.
@otsoko66Ай бұрын
Dude, in the Spanish Civil War the government was NOT the bad guy.
@solidcumbyhaha702Ай бұрын
The 1st time in history people feel bad for the dragon in the story. Wtf lol
@CanadianWolverine2 ай бұрын
I’m not gonna lie, I found Snowcrash so enjoyable it reignited my hope for the next Cyberpunk and Shadowrun novels, that dark humour of being a parody like a Shaun Of The Dead can put pleasantly punk fuel on the low coals of a previous roaring fire for me.
@hightechlowlifepodcastАй бұрын
It was one of my favorite episodes we've done because it's such a strange book. I really loved some of it and really disliked some of it.
@damonkowarsky2 ай бұрын
2:10:32 just on the edge of saying prec*m 😉
@damonkowarsky2 ай бұрын
‘Content’ begins around 26:43
@damonkowarsky2 ай бұрын
7:32 it’s the Rome Statute. Maybe its time to skip to the ‘content’ 😢
@damonkowarsky2 ай бұрын
6:57 not guilty. Just that there is now an arrest warrant for him from the ICC. Needs a trial before he can be found guilty.
@hightechlowlifepodcast2 ай бұрын
Excellent point.
@sturmley2 ай бұрын
So, regarding Judas Priest; Rob Halford wasn't able to hit those high notes for a long time. He quit smoking a few years ago and got it ALL back.
@hightechlowlifepodcast2 ай бұрын
That's fascinating. I was very impressed by his singing, glad he didn't lose it!
@ohdude66432 ай бұрын
Per capita bases?! What a moron
@solidcumbyhaha7022 ай бұрын
The Moral arch of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice
@TDawgBR3 ай бұрын
Appreciate hearing my comments at the end of the episode (TDawgBR - I can explain the origin of that, and while it's a bit rambling and has a couple layers, it's not terribly interesting) Also felt called out as being a recent subscriber to the Astronomica Discord who came in an announced "Hi, I'm here for the HTLL guys."
@Elfr0g3 ай бұрын
Its awesome that you joined, we just always get nervous because its not our discord. It would really suck if a hater showed up in someone else's space because of us. So far only cool people though!
@Elfr0g3 ай бұрын
And of course im logged into the wrong account.
@solidcumbyhaha7023 ай бұрын
Holy fuck that's me I'm somebody
@damonkowarsky3 ай бұрын
1:22:00 might be, except it also looks a lot like one of the metro stations in Sydney.
@otsoko663 ай бұрын
YUP! there are a bunch of shots that are clearly Sydney in the film (says the guy just back from Australia.)
@damonkowarsky3 ай бұрын
57:22 has to be the Georgio Moroder version! (Or the anime written by Katsuhiro Otomo of ‘Akira’ fame)
@damonkowarsky3 ай бұрын
39:35 spirals are the simplest form of maze - Inception uses this in an early scene with Ariadne (who herself was named after the Greek character that helped Theseus escape the Labyrinth).
@damonkowarsky3 ай бұрын
Begins around 19:40. Sorry for not making it through the intro this time 😢
@jercaldin3183 ай бұрын
Love the looper reference. Do tenet?
@damonkowarsky3 ай бұрын
Thanks for the shout out on the time stamps! Listened to the whole introduction this time. But if you want to jump ahead it’s 24:40 or so.
@LostScene3 ай бұрын
Great episode! Oedo means "the geat Edo", which was Tokyo's old name before 1868.
@hightechlowlifepodcast3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Strangely hard to google that.
@damonkowarsky3 ай бұрын
56:05 perhaps ‘Aryan Reggae Band’ comes back in the Bridge Trilogy as ‘Chrome Koran’.
@solidcumbyhaha7023 ай бұрын
Edo was the original name for Tokyo or at least it was the capital before it was moved to Tokyo.
@solidcumbyhaha7023 ай бұрын
Love when you guys talk about anime.
@countxero133 ай бұрын
I'm glad someone does! I simply don't think I'm very well equipped to do it- I know I'm missing tons of context and feel out of my element. Sometimes, I feel like the best I can do is say "That was cool." Which I don't think makes for very good criticism.
@solidcumbyhaha7023 ай бұрын
@countxero13 is there a plan for other cyberpunk anime? Bubblegum crisis, A.D. Police files, Appleseed. I enjoy all the episodes and the Insight ya'll have on cyberpunk stories. Keep making Kool episodes and go with what feels right.
@countxero133 ай бұрын
We'll definitely do more in the future. Appleseed was one of my prized vhs tapes back in the day.
@solidcumbyhaha7023 ай бұрын
@countxero13 ahh I understand how good Appleseed is amazing. Dominion tank police also lol would be to see after you've already done Ghost in the shell. Idk if patlabor falls into something that the show world cover. Just looking forward to whatever y'all cover.
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
Starts around 19:00
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
Suspecting number two is worse than number one kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6bFnn1on9ypha8si=9WFIPfnNA9x0EPgy
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
Starts around 17:00
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
Starts at 19:30
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
Also, I’ve always felt Bateau was in love with the Major, but that such a love could never be possible (or reciprocated). This feeling is even stronger in #2. Lord only knows how the animators managed to make a man with no eyes express such emotion in his face.
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
Starts around 22:40
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
#2 is on KZbin! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnrWqpybmLKcn6csi=GrfRbsRUE5v9hm7j
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
1:07:21 OMG the sequel is incredible!
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
1:05:53 doesn’t the opening sequence show a human (ish) brain being encased in a cyborg body? Or am I misremembering this to the sequel?
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
47:41 some of the subs I’ve seen list him as ‘Bateau’, and others Batoo. But if he is a boat, he’s a Soviet icebreaker.
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
Starts around 29:00
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
1:41:10 50,000 SEK is about $5,000 USD. So not a bad investment for a billion dollar return!
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
Starts around 27:50
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
This quote from the book really hit me, and seemed to capture a lot of what was happening around me at the time I read/ listened to it. “The pain, so unexpected and undeserved, had for some reason cleared away the cobwebs. I realized I didn’t hate the cabinet door, I hated my life… My house, my family, my backyard, my power mower. Nothing would ever change; nothing new could ever be expected. It had to end, and it did. Now in the dark world where I dwell, ugly things, and surprising things, and sometimes little wondrous things, spill out in me constantly, and I can count on nothing.” Also, I loved that bit about impersonating a narc!
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
The original Tron used a lot of rotoscope.
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
Starts at 21:00
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
The audiobook performance by Paul Giamatti is also brilliant!
@hightechlowlifepodcast4 ай бұрын
Damn! I meant to mention that in the episode, I'd read on the wiki that he did the audiobook and forgot to bring it up. I imagine that has to be pretty great.
@damonkowarsky4 ай бұрын
@@hightechlowlifepodcast it’s actually phenomenal - one of those rare audiobooks where the performance takes it to a whole new level.
@mattlevering92104 ай бұрын
Just wanted to reach out and say I love the podcast! You guys are great! I found you a few months ago and just got current tonight. I'm looking forward to more!
@damonkowarsky5 ай бұрын
Starts around 21 minutes.
@damonkowarsky5 ай бұрын
1:29:05 wasn’t it Cayce Pollard’s boyfriend that made the jack moves? “She's down for a jack move. She'd never really been sure what Donny had meant when he'd say that; he said it when he was angry, or frustrated, and she's both. Jack moves. Context, with Donny, seemed to indicate that these were either deliberate but extremely lateral, thus taking the competition or opponent by surprise. Maybe it had to be improvisational and completely of the moment. East Lansing Zen.” Pattern Recognition
@countxero135 ай бұрын
Good catch. With Gibson's recurring themes and archetypes, they sometimes blend together. The 'absolute shitheel ex-boyfriend ' -type transfers very easily.
@damonkowarsky5 ай бұрын
@@countxero13 that they do. Nice handle btw 😉
@countxero134 ай бұрын
@@damonkowarsky I've had it off and on since the bulletin board days
@damonkowarsky5 ай бұрын
47:28 Australian here. Your accents are fine!
@damonkowarsky5 ай бұрын
1:18:58 is this related to Gibson’s point about the internet everting? Though can’t remember now if that phrase came from the Bridge or Blue Ant Trilogies.
@countxero135 ай бұрын
I honestly don't remember when Gibson's use of the word 'everting/eversion' comes around, but if I had to guess, it would be in *All Tomorrow's Parties*. But I could easily be wrong.
@damonkowarsky5 ай бұрын
@@countxero13 found it.
@damonkowarsky5 ай бұрын
@@countxero13 “The internet [is] turning itself inside out. One of the characters in Spook Country says, “cyberspace is everting.” I think it has everted considerably more since Spook Country was published. What seems to be happening is that it is becoming something we won’t talk about, because it will have colonized everything. It was fun to have my little neologism “cyberspace” turn into a word that people use to describe something real. But what I’ve always been most interested in is how it would disappear… I think it’s starting to go out, because it is no longer describing what is happening. When people started using “cyberspace” to describe their life experience, it was always over there. It was somewhere else. It was behind the screen of your computer. It was an nominal space. Now it’s not like that at all. We all move constantly, literally and physically, through its coordinates. We look at the Victorians, and for some reason they had a need to deny that sex existed. I think that when we are the Victorians, people will be looking back at us and saying that for some reason they had a need to distinguish between what they thought of as “the real” and “the virtual.””
@damonkowarsky5 ай бұрын
Begins around the one hour mark. Too slow intro 😭😭😭