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 Jul 7 2004, 02:42 PM
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Mr. Quote-function  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,317 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Somewhere in Germany Member No.: 1,376  |
*hmm* Somehow I got the feeling that Misfit isn't insulted so much by the mere fact that Gibson doesn't like SR and openly says so. It's more the fact that an encyclopedia takes his rants about SR and includes them in their definition of Cyberpunk. That's more or less giving Gibson more credit than he actually deserves |
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Jul 7 2004, 03:32 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,548 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Personally, I have no respect for any encyclopedia which even uses 'underhanded' in part of a description of history. I'd blame the encyclopedia writers, who apparently don't understand they're supposed to give a neutral, third party view on these things, for putting out a poorly researched and biased piece of rubbish. In fact, I'm thinking I might just send a curt note to said encyclopedia today, assuming I have the free time to throw away.
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Jul 7 2004, 04:12 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 18-March 02 Member No.: 2,411 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk
Check it out...it seems part of the wikipedia Cyberpunk explaination has been riped from that page...or vice versa. It may be in more places than one...and knowing the internet, I'm going to go out on a limb and guarentee it. |
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Jul 7 2004, 04:37 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
Well, not really "ripped" - most of the material on Wikipedia is available under an Open License, and the site Misfit Toy linked to appears to acknowledge that.
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Jul 7 2004, 04:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 577 Joined: 12-June 04 Member No.: 6,398 |
I just found the page by accident while looking for some interesting Shadowrun content on the web one day. I didn't research through to find all the references or anything. Sorry.
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Jul 7 2004, 06:10 PM
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Avatar of Mediocrity Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 725 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle, WA (err, UCAS) Member No.: 277 |
How can people be talking about recent cyberpunk and not mention Richard K Morgan? Altered Carbon and, slightly less so, Broken Angels, are both AWESOME post-cyberpunk stuff. Props for the Carlucci mention a couple pages back, too - Destroying Angel rocked - but Morgan is the best I've read in a while.
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