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“Fuck that, I’ll do it,” he recalled to Polygon in a video interview.

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Also check out: Ghost in the Shell and its sequel film for more existentialism and cyberpunk sci-fi classics. I’m also partial to the blunt-force metaphor of the recent Akudama Drive.