soma_m3ch: and you have implants which, can ostensibly induce another cyborg to commit suicide...
BUT YOU CANT RECORD THE ASSASSINATION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN ON EARTH?
as it occurs in front of you, literally centimeters away?!?!?!?!??!?!
in what world?
ffs
a2055: I mean, the writer could come up with an elaborate explanation for why you couldn't. Or you could just understand that the entire plot is created out of thin air, and the purpose of the plot is to first and foremost deliver a pleasurable narrative, and not a narrative free from any plot holes. But I understand you're not being harsh in your criticism.
ah yes. the pseudo-intellectual response with the passive aggressive snide.
lol. if this is you, the writer, then lemme just say. yeh this bit is shit.
for the sake of creative argument. the story COULD have gone down the route of say, releasing the recorded scene as a BD and then had the ridicule of the net simply state it was a very very clever and yet very distasteful fake.
THEN, dare i say, an agent approaches you to, idly, on the whim that it is true. and you set forth the story and mechanisms that craft the narrative creating a truth that cannot be simply digitized and synthesized...
and the 'what is real' story would begin. they did it on Ghost in the Shell.. and the simpsons, i think.
or could just be lazy... and say 'things happened real fast and i couldnt press record on my phone quick enough'
oh wait.
the joke continues.
in this 'future world'. folks have digitized personas on satellites, and so ostensibly... because... only the corps have the ability to recording everything! so then, of course T-bug wasnt record anything. Nor did have Dex have 'cover your ass' backups of those recordings... no no.. nothing whatsoever, because...
wait for it.... deus ex machina!
the writer's best friend!
you can almost tell this entire story was written up before drones were popular.
hell, my friends had 3D printers making parts for them, on their own, at the comfort of their own desks, five years ago
it would be humorous and kind of embarrassing if it werent now mostly cringe
i do so enjoy the attitude of 'how dare you ask questions'. 'your gripes and opinions are meaningless, peon!'
and other musings.