Both are good. From a genre perspective it shows that corporations have taken over. I like the idea of corporate militaries, but corps influential enough to tell governments what to do hews closer to reality.

I have no idea if I’ll ever use this, but it sounds like a great feature.

I think there are much better social media platforms for sharing clips. From what I’ve seen, most of Twitter is people angrily typing opinions at each other, so your target demographic may not be there. The UI is designed for text rather than video, and responses/reactions don’t integrate nicely with videos.

Sharing game clips on video-oriented social media makes a tonne sense, however.

I guess they’re discovering that your grocery store trip on Feb 17, 2017 does not help them target ads.

The data has costs associated with it: they’ll want to back it up, they need to migrate it when they change formats, they need to maintain the hardware it resides on.

And, as the article mentions, there are liabilities around law enforcement requests, costs due to data breaches, and regulatory requirements.

Three months is plenty for them to target ads.

I’m kind of giving up. When I came over during the Reddit APIpocolypse, I tried to post as much as I could. My posts here don’t get much engagement, and only seem to reach a small audience, so it doesn’t feel like it’s worth the effort.

I still try to post and comment, but it feels like a slog sometimes.

Totally fair. It’s been a long time since I saw the movie.

To the second, while the government does have power Zorg also has a bug (literal and technological) in their war room, which shows while they might not be subordinate to Zorg the government isn’t powerful enough to prevent this sort of thing. Also, the government ends up failing in their mission to save the planet.

There’s an interesting question here. IMO government’s loss of control is a big part of cyberpunk, because it kinda/sorta shows people have lost power to corporations.

I was going to say that governments are usually absent/background in cyberpunk, but then you have Deckard (Blade Runner) who is employed as a cop.

But whatever. It’s a genre, so there are no rules, only commonalities.

I wouldn’t. It has a great dystopian setting, and the visuals are totally cyberpunk, but the antagonist isn’t an embodiment of The System That’s Grinding The People Down (I don’t think? It’s been a while since I’ve seen it). Also, the government has a degree of power, and isn’t corrupt/defanged by evil corps.

I also think of cyberpunk stories as operating on smaller, human scales (e.g. the stakes in Blade Runner are personal), whereas the Fifth Element deals with THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PLANET EARTH. I think. It’s been a while.

Having said all that, lots of people like it, and if you will enjoy it more if it’s cyberpunk, then I agree, it’s 100% cyberpunk.