If those are communication apps supported by the bank, that's the idea. Banks have been hit with huge fines for employees communicating over unapproved channels.
One of the problems with the unapproved channels is that the bank can't enforce a retention period. So written messages that are supposed to be kept on record for 10 years or whatever can get deleted. In the event of a lawsuit the bank can be fined for not having the messages.
It took me like half the movie to understand the pidgin for New Hawaii.
The book doesn't jump around. Each story is like a book opened to the halfway point, with another book inserted. They're all nested like this down to New Hawaii, which plays through straight, before finishing each story in turn.
I love ambitious (if somewhat failed) movies like this, and I'm not really sure if the Wachowskis could have done a better job.
Unless the policy changed recently: Brooklyn doesn't require a NY address. I had a Brooklyn card for years, but have never lived in NY. It was about $50 a year.
I had attributed that to our fuzzy food categories. Some of which are due to how ingredient usage doesn't map well to botany, some is just marketing.
I suspect the perception of eggs as dairy could have shifted for practical reasons: lactose intolerance became more visible, and we needed a short way to say milk and milk products, without using the word milk.
When poorly written or complex, maybe. I don't know how often I've had to focus on a headline.
Headlines are also written to be attention grabbing. I'd rather headline-specific grammar over clickbait. Maybe there's a different attention grabbing technique, but for now I'll gladly settle for headlines if given a choice.
I was watching a video talking about how eggcorns are an unusual category of error because they require intelligence and creativity to make. The argument was that the process goes like this:
A new word or phrase is heard, but not understood. The brain makes sense of it using existing vocabulary that has sounds that are close enough. This is accompanied an explanation for why those specific words make sense in this new context.
For example: the original eggcorn was a mishearing of acorn. Egg because it's roughly egg shaped, and corn is sometimes used to describe small objects similar to how grain can be.
All this to say, it's maybe not something to feel dumb about. Your brain did something neat.
Maybe they could transition to being a worker-owned collective when Gabe wants to retire. I'm not sure what else keeps Valve as we know it alive post Gabe.
It doesn't look like a hardware issue. Yes, the less powerful hardware is what forced graphical changes, but it looks like an art direction problem.
The changes mostly fail to capture the essence of the original design. The characters look like they were ripped from the SIMs.
No one is expecting the same lighting, textures, or poly counts, but they do expect something that looks like Mortal Combat. That isn't an unreasonable expectation.
You're right that this may be a budgeting issue of sorts, but if they can't set aside enough resources to make it look like some sort of Mortal Combat game, then maybe they shouldn't have made the port.
I don't know that I mind a doomed revolution, as long as it avoids or subverts themes like heroism.
I could also see a revolution inconveniencing the protagonist.
But yes, being hopeful for things to change at the societal level is probably too much.
It's also worth noting that execution trumps most other factors. A Scanner Darkly reads as cyberpunk to me, despite missing a lot of the aesthetics of the genre. Infinite Jest also reads as cyberpunk, even though most of the sci-fi elements are hiding most of the time. That last one might be a hot take, I haven't been able to find anyone else talking about it as cyberpunk.
I was thinking of the Expanse as I wrote that. The Belt maybe feels closer to cyberpunk because the Belters are trapped. They can move around in space, but can never go planetside.
I think that's maybe the crux of it: Characters in cyberpunk are trapped. By circumstance, definitely, but I think there's a physical element as well. Sure you can go anywhere you want in the Sprawl, you can even leave and go to Chiba City. But they're not meaningfully different. You can trade one urban hellscape for another, but you can't escape. The life you lead is very close to the life you will always lead. Interplanetary travel removes that limitation. Being a space trucker might not be better, but it's different. That's too fancy for a cyberpunk protagonist.
The Churn, one of the Expanse novellas, is cyberpunk. It's Amos' backstory in Baltimore. Of course then he makes it off-planet and it's no longer cyberpunk.
It's certainly related, and Alien is richer for the connections, but no.
Cyberpunk for me has always been primarily terrestrial, or at least planetside. Off-world can exist, but it should probably remain somewhere off to stage left (i.e. the protagonist should remain grounded).
I know Neuromancer has a space scene, but it feels jarring and doesn't fit well with the rest of the book. I love space, but for whatever reason, it doesn't mix with cyberpunk for me.
Max Brod claimed he told Kaka he wasn't going to burn his works and that he needed to appoint a different executor if he wanted that. We don't have anything more than Brod's word, but if it's true, that makes it hard to feel bad about him getting Kafka published.
I had heard books having titles on their spine is relatively recent. Partially due to books being stored like they are here, to prevent the pages from rotting. Allegedly titles started to be printed on spines with Alice in Wonderland, at least for mass-produced books.
I'm having trouble coming up with a source, Wikipedia mentions early books not having titles on the spine, but doesn't mention storage or when this practice changed. Or a source. That's as far as I was able to track any of this down.
All this to say, there might be prior precedent for this. Which for me moves her behavior (even if that's not her stated reason) towards eccentric, rather than book-hating.
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Hot take: ham doesn't go on pizza. The pineapple isn't the problem