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Oh man. This was like a sleeper code to activate the Jean Luc Picard song in my head lol
He just kept talking and talking in one long, incredibly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt.
It was really quite hypnotic
You wish you were in The Matrix. The robots on that one were much nicer to humanity than humanity deserved.
Even taking the idiotic “humans as energy sources” justification at face value, the fact they didn’t go all I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream on humanity after humans took the most imbecilic and morally reprehensible path at every turn, shows they got out of their way to not be the bad guys.
I recently had a thought that they should retcon this so that the humans were basically GPUs. In the simulation they have lots of people doing complex processing because it’s the late 90s in the simulation. People grind a lot of thinking.
It’s just like websites that scam you into processing bitcoin mining. But with human brains.
IIRC the original script apparently had humans being used as CPUs, but it was decided that people wouldn’t get it.
Here I am 27 years late to the party.
how dare you
Yeah, I mean, I can’t deny that.
Well, that I can refute.
Wait…ugh, well, no, not really. Actually, that some about right.
Don’t Look (Them) Up
This should now replace Idiocracy or Wag the Dog. It’s so on the nose in so many ways, that’s why so many people didn’t like it. And there’s no positive really, like “well, they had a President who cared and recognized the smart people’s opinion” or “well, at least the war didn’t really happen”.
I’d add “Brazil”, for so many reasons, but specifically the first appearance of Mar-a-lago face.
Ioved the first half of that film!!
Never made sense of the ending however
What movie is it?
Oh I thought they meant “Brazil” as in the country. 'Cause even without your context, the comment still makes sense lol
No judgement, but I recommend checking it out
I feel like if they marketed Cro-magnon forehead injections as “making you 20 years younger”, Mar-a-lagos wouldn’t even question it and do it until they looked like stand-ins for a Geico Caveman commercial lol
Problem with venn diagrams is that I’ll never know what 1984 and hunger games combined to make without watching brave new world or Soylent Green
Also how much is animal farm like hunger games
Lucky of you, this exists.
thank god for mathematitians
We’re not quite at Mad Max yet. If anything, that’s beginning to slightly shift away from the aftermath of fierce authoritarianism to the sort of “free market” where you can begin disregarding zoning laws to build death pits and tricking out your cars with flamethrowers and shit lol
Wait, there is another.
Add in Dune. We’re also in Dune.@The_Picard_Maneuver chef’s kiss
What they won’t tell you is that all three take place in the same universe.
I had a headcanon that Terminator movies are prequels to The Matrix but I don’t know how Idiocracy fits in that.
There’s a big semi-sentient computer running the government in Idiocracy, which could make it a neat stand in for Skynet.
Idiocracy -> People become overly reliant on automation and complacent to the point of self-annihilation
Terminator -> Computers decide humans aren’t worth the trouble, so they do a mass extermination
Matrix -> The conflict ends in a blotted out sky, which forces the computers to cannibalize humanity
Wall-e - > A little love-sick robot conqueres an AI overlord and cleans up the mess left behind
I was thinking the same thing in terms of order of events.
It’s the happy ending
So true
As it turns out the fiction people who live in this world make up is similar to this world.
And if you think we’re in any one of these fictive realities you did not pay attention to the medium.
