Meh, it really just feels more like were at the center of idiocracy
Listening to average person explain AI feels very similar to idiocracy explaining electrolytes
And I can't even get a handjob at Starbucks
A gentleman's latte, you say
Better get it later than never.
Not with that attitude, you just need to lower your standards on who is giving. Have you tried just making an announcement when you walk in like "I'll give $50 for a hand job, right now, in the back"
These prices are OUTRAGEOUS
Fine, how much you got?
38 cents and a twix wrapper
I don't know how many times I'm gonna have to keep saying this, but Idiocracy was infinitely better than real life. President Camacho was both well-intentioned and (relatively) competent, and that is in stark contrast to the "president" we actually have.
President Camacho was actually a great president. He didn't seem to be abusing the office for any kind of personal gain. He was an inspiring public speaker. He listened to the voters, he tried to find the smartest person and appoint him so that he'd solve the problems facing the USA, he let the genius try out his solution even though it seemed absurd, and only ordered him to be executed when it only made the situation worse. Also, once the problems were solved, he left office without any complaints.
I watched it again recently, and the thing that really stood out for me was Camacho's speeches compared to Trump's. I think if they re-made Idiocracy today, they'd have to make Camacho sound a lot more stupid in those speeches. Trump has lowered the bar so much.
It... It makes me sad that you're right. Camacho is better than Trump. Fuck me sideways and call me Sally.
camacho and trump are both wrestling promo shooters but widely different versions of it
It’s funny that Idiocracy is too wholesome and positive to be applicable to our situation.
Idiocracy is what happens after now. We have to finish hitting rock bottom first.
*Don't Look Up
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Oh man. This was like a sleeper code to activate the Jean Luc Picard song in my head lol
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".
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
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
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
Wait, there is another.
Add in Dune. We're also in Dune.
I want the butlerian jihad!
Butlerian Jihad NOW!! Iran, strike the datacentres!!!
What they won't tell you is that all three take place in the same universe.
Any chance anyone's up for sharing a pod? I need a hug.
Vampires dont go to heaven. They can see the pixels.
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