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this joke has been unable to leave my head for several days #Edgerunners2 #CyberpunkEdgerunners #Capri

bsky feature request: make Ad Terram Promissam from ace combat 8 with the crackly radio filter from all the shadows themes play over everyone's speakers when they see me jumping into a horrible discourse

after sleeping on it for a day: yeah edgerunners 2 is... not great. i'm inclined to be kind to it because i'm on friendly terms with a few people who worked on it, and i *want* to like it so much more than i do. but it's just SO rough and janky and thinly-formed in just about every possible regard

and i now get why critics speak in PR language on social media, because christ this is an awkward position to be in, given i am friends with at least one person who worked on this show and friendly acquaintances with SEVERAL and i do not want this to come off like i'm ragging on them personally.

after sleeping on it for a day: yeah edgerunners 2 is... not great. i'm inclined to be kind to it because i'm on friendly terms with a few people who worked on it, and i *want* to like it so much more than i do. but it's just SO rough and janky and thinly-formed in just about every possible regard

if s1 of Edgerunners hit the same "perfectly constructed work by masters firing on all cylinders" energy as something like Terminator 2 or Aliens, Edgerunners 2 feels like the corresponding Terminator: Salvation or Alien: Romulus. i *know* you guys at CDPR can do better. i've seen you do better.

welp. it's go-time. minute one, just like i said i'd be.

like, i'm very mixed on this. i feel like it's a totally fine and decent 10 eps on its own merits but the places it falters noticeably are the specific things that edgerunners knocked out of the park that made it stand out. for all the scorsese vs bay comparisons, ER2 feels like more the bay movie.

welp. it's go-time. minute one, just like i said i'd be.

6/10. i don't know how much i can really get into without spoilers, so i'm going to give my general take: this is a very Fine season of television that does more or less what i want cyberpunk things in 2026 to do, but doesn't really do it all that effectively and feels *very* emotionally hollow.

just had the realization that Ace Combat 8 is basically a test case of everything i'm saying the cyberpunk genre should be thinking about in 2026 and... pretty much proved me correct across the board. it rips and people are fucking loving it and it's not selling out the genre in the process at all.

seeing Ace Combat, one of my favorite video game series of all time and a huge influence on what I consider cool and "hype" writing (growing up with AC and Metal Gear was very very formative to preteen Arrow) go for this, knock it out of the park, and be widely acknowledged as such, warms my heart

just had the realization that Ace Combat 8 is basically a test case of everything i'm saying the cyberpunk genre should be thinking about in 2026 and... pretty much proved me correct across the board. it rips and people are fucking loving it and it's not selling out the genre in the process at all.

ace combat 8's core thesis is that, as we approach a "cyberpunk future" in real life, the main thing driving this is people losing their humanity, losing hope. and the thing we need to be doing is holding on to our humanity in any way we can and raging against the dying of that light.