u/Dark_Throat

The one on the shelf in the cabinet, not the one playing on the TV. If the complex managed to accurately reproduce the dimensions and mechanical components of a VHS tape, then it should theoretically be able to interface with a standard VCR. Could it be more of the same of what's on the TV? A jumbled mess of of home movie clips peppered with a No Signal screen, or could it be a distorted recreation of an actual film from the 90's?

sheesh

Born to play medium, forced to play heavy, occasionally dabble in light.

Just finished rereading Neuromancer to brush up on it before the AppleTV series airs next year and I forgot just how much I love Maelcum as a character. Easily the most based guy in the whole book; never hesitates to help Case when shit's actively hitting the fan, fantastic comic relief, just an all around great guy, an' a righteous tug pilot to boot.

Though this frame from the trailer has me a lil worried. Now, I might be making a lot of assumptions here assuming that dark skinned arm is that of our resident rude boy, but the background here doesn't look as scrappy or cobbled together as Marcus Garvey outta be; where's all the strands of caulking, the flight console painted bright pink with the overspray scraped off the monitor, the Lions of Zion painted over the wordy Cyrillic decals? Where's the g-webbing, how come they're just sitting in reclined hacker chairs?

Not to mention, the actor credited as Maelcum on IMDB (Jordan Kouamé, though his character's name is spelt Malceum) is only listed for 1 episode and I'm guessing that's gonna be the very last episode considering that's when Maelcum has the most page-time in the book, which is somewhat disappointing since he's present for a decent chunk of the book's second half.

I rented an Airbnb and noticed there was a chair sitting over what turned out to be a hidden floor panel. Out of curiosity, I moved the chair and lifted the panel. Underneath was a staircase leading down to another door, and it honestly gave me the creeps. I didn’t go down there because it didn’t feel right.
The next morning, I thought I heard what sounded like footsteps coming from below, but I can’t say for sure what it was. The whole thing just felt really unsettling.
What do you think that space is for? And should I go down there because I’m really curious to see what’s behind that door.

1. Furniture throughout the complex is seen scaled incorrectly on an individual axis rather than uniformly being scaled across all three.

2. Clipping is when the geometry of an object intersects with that of another. In video games, "noclipping" is when the player passes through a piece of geometry by disabling collision on either the player model or the object.

3. The wall that Kat could see through but Clark could not reminds me a lot of backface culling, a technique used to reduce resource cost by turning the backside of polygons invisible; in games this effect is usually seen when the player finds themself out of bounds.

4. The array modifier is used to create instanced copies of an object with a variety of parameters (including scale and positioning along a curve) so as to avoid creating several individual copies at the cost of system resource.

5. A boolean modifier is used to cut a chunk out of one object using another object as a reference shape.

6. Texture stretching can occur when the UV Map of an object has not been correctly set up for a texture.

7. The repetition seen in the visual designs of the still lifes reminds me a lot of when multiple objects are positioned at *almost* the same coordinate, giving the appearance of redundant features poking or blooming out in uncanny ways.

None of this is to say that I believe the complex takes place in a digital world or simulation of any sorts, but I'm positive that Kane drew inspiration from these graphic artifacts/techniques to create the anomalies that we see in the film and web series.

Kind of really annoying if I'm being honest cuz I just got into Khan (the Melbourne based psychedelic progressive metal group) but I get instantly turned off when some shitty trap beat comes up.

Theory is that the alcohol in the suncream and printing methods, on the transparent label allowed the ink of the letters to detach. All the letters generally kept their integrity though, which I found extra fascinating.

The way he's grabbing his coat definitely feels like an homage to old school Cyberpunk. Some things just never go out of style in Night City.

Betcha he's gonna have some wacky cyber optics too

Backface Culling is a technique used in 3D graphics where the polygons of a model's mesh are rendered invisible when viewed from behind. This is typically used to lower resource cost when rendering an object. It's especially common when rendering large objects like buildings out of bounds because the player is never intended to see it from that angle.

The complex already operates on some of the same logic that 3D graphics do. Furniture is seen stretched or shrunk on any combination of the X, Y, or Z axes, objects are rendered clipped into a wall or floor, while walls can have long stretched out textures that follow the edge of a triangular poly face; backface culling wouldn't be outside the realm of possiblity to explain why this wall appeared "like glass" to Kat but appeared completely opaque to Clark. Kat is seeing it from an angle she's not supposed to, or the complex simply "misremembered" how the other side of the wall is supposed to look because it was conjured out of an incomplete memory of sorts.

EDIT: I'm not trying to imply that the complex is a simulation or digital world or anything, backface culling is merely the real world analog I'm using to describe the anomaly that occurs in this scene, given that there are other examples of "graphical artifacts" found in 3D represented as anomalies in the film and webseries (re-refer to the second paragraph where I mention object clipping and axial scaling).

The first 40 minutes of the film are in a non-linear order, so where necessary I've included timestamps to show when a specific shot takes place. Once Clark enters the complex for the first time, the movie is strictly in chronological order. Kane's use of wardrobe both to indicate passage of time as well as subtle world building/symbolism is extremely compelling and it was a lot of fun to try and piece this altogether.

I probably got some details wrong, but I'm confident that the collapsed chair commercial filming took place prior to Naren's death, but it couldn't have occured more than a day prior because I'm positive that Clark has therapy on Sundays and he arrives at the store closer to noon when he's wearing his plum shirt while the electrician arrives in his office just after 11am.

Also for seeing the time on the analog clocks/watch, I recommend holding your phone at arms length to see the clock hands. Obviously it isn't perfect cuz it's from an extremely low quality bootleg, but I didn't make any edits to the image after the fact aside from zooming in so it's as raw as it gets.

EDIT: My images claim Kat and Bobby entered the complex with Clark on July 2nd, but someone mentioned that their missing person poster at the end claims they were last seen July 3rd, which I missed during my theatrical viewing and the bootleg I pulled all these screen caps from was too blurry to make out the text on it. That said, it's a little wild how close I got just based on all the other context clues

No album art, tons of wasted space unless space unless you scale it down. I usually don't whine about updates like this, but this is just a downgrade across the board. Common Spotify L.

Now it's the first thing people will see when they enter my apartment