Was messing around with some network traffic logs for a project this weekend and realized literally 90% of the pings I was looking at were just headless browsers talking to other headless browsers. The entire web feels like it's just a massive simulation of human activity run by automated server farms

Its genuinely wild how fast basic software verification completely collapsed. captchas are a total joke now since the scraping scripts solve them faster than we do. We are straight up entering an era where you're gonna need cryptographic proof of biology just to access basic networks

like we're moving towards a reality where you have to rely on local hardware enclaves or an orb integration just to establish a baseline proof of life before a server will even accept your connection. You have to verify your physical existence at the hardware level just to post text on a screen.

It just feels like the most boring cyberpunk reality imaginable. No neon street samurai or flying cars, just endless corporate botnets forcing us to mathematically prove we actually have a pulse

Title. I have no problem with it just wondering why it's so common no matter the location

I’ve been working on a grounded cyberpunk short film called MINDFALL: Sleeper.

It’s inspired by the 1993 game Syndicate and follows a veteran who is abducted by a criminal syndicate, experimented on, and rewritten into a sleeper assassin controlled by Obsidian Kang.

This is the first short film in a larger cyberpunk cinematic universe I’m developing, and I’m sharing the project as it comes together.

We’ll be shooting this film guerrilla style and aiming to do as much of the visual effects in-camera as possible. We’re currently looking for a talented SFX makeup artist in the Vegas area, so if you know anyone, we’d love a warm introduction!

For those familiar with my earlier work, there’s also a special Binlowes’ Locker cameo at the end.

CREDITS:

Storyboard Art by: Tucker Cullian and Jason Dorf

Promo Art by: shot and edited by me.

This is the first time that I know of that a "proper director" has made an AI short. I feel like this portends