PixlShft

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Wait till these dusky dewdrops get the vespers when they see my cut of cabbage.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Except in the neurolinked soldier will still be playing Mario Cart in their mind tossing banana peels into refugee camps.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

@braingetter is Caleb Pitts from Podcast About Lists. He's a comedian and this is 100% irony. He is making fun of people who think like this.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Thats cool. Since these forever chemicals are already inside us and all throughout our environment, forever, I guess they don't need to add them to fast food anymore. 👍🏾

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

One thing I always wonder about these is the threat of carbon monoxide poisoning. Being that building primitive shelters is a youtube phenom today, I really would love to see one of those shelters tested for CO buildup.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That's not Jesus... That's Jared Leto... We do have a problem here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

After seeing Monster 2003, I remember leaving the theater feeling gut-punched. After reading about the constant child abuse Aileen Wuornos suffered as a kid, it was hard reconciling the path her life took. Charlieze Theron did a masterful portrayal of a broken person grasping at straws for a bit of authentic compassion. It's no wonder Wuornos was such a mess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

10 Skittles < 3 elephrants.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Modern cars are the epitome of feature creep. They have overladen these machines with overly complex systems that are all cascading points of failure.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Imagine dying in a place called Nutty Putty Cave.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's from two published books so far, called the "Jackpot" series. The Jackpot is a Black Swan Event that decimates the population in the future and creates a new kind of techno-oligarchical society. These future oligarchs are in constant conflict with each other and as such develop a way in which to infiltrate the past through VR sims to alter their destiny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think it's a bit easier to digest if you have some background with Gibson's world building. It didn't seem like it was too opaque to me, but I'm coming in with a bit of previous context. I think you'd find that Gibson's writing is a lot more opaque when you start one of his books. He writes notoriously short chapters at times and tosses from one POV to another rather often. It can be disorienting but it is intentional. Like when you watch a thriller that seems inchoate going in, flooding you with disparate unresolved information, then when it's snaps together, you get the satisfaction of mentally revisiting all those previous clues/details with that "ah ha!" feeling. I believe it's meant to work this way. It's a more satisfying reward for the reader/watcher.

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