Comment on Who needs stars in a boring dystopia?

• Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I keep laughing when Palanthir comes up. Like, why name your surveillance company after these things that were used for bad in the stories.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When i learned that there is an actual real life food company that’s called “soylent” i just felt like going to bed and skipping the next couple days, like what the fuck

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    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re telling me that in 2013 somebody made a company with the same name as a fictional company in 1966 novel Make Room Make Room! about overcrowded earth and the 1977 movie Soylent Green wherein they FEED PEOPLE TO OTHER PEOPLE AND LIE ABOUT IT?

      That’s pretty awful. I feel like that’s the absolute bottom of the barrel desperation for exposure. Why didn’t they just call it LentSoya or something?

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• InvaderDJ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lack of media literacy is becoming a huge problem for society. People either think fiction is reality or just literally don’t understand satire, parody, and cautionary tales.

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  • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Torment Nexus meme is too real

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• Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My problem is that it’s too real to enjoy

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