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Sagebrush posted:i suspect this is CGI. the one on the table to the lower right is what we can actually build today they claim they're real https://www.engineeredarts.co.uk/robot/ameca/
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Improbable Lobster posted:haha yes yesss
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How do I join that sick crew
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Sagebrush posted:i suspect this is CGI. the one on the table to the lower right is what we can actually build today lexx rear end looking head seems like the future we deserve
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https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/s...ingawful.com%2F edit: beaten
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lomarf https://twitter.com/kukicat7/status/1466328532250943491
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“ Innovation doesn't seem to work in winter...” Mods
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reminder: any booth can be a suicide booth if you are clever and determined enough
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ADINSX posted:How do I join that sick crew have you tried being gay and doing crimes?
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uh https://twitter.com/isabelleboemeke/status/1467897553681276931
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got a jump cut from when mom walked in with the pizza rolls
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FMguru posted:reminder: any booth can be a suicide booth if you are clever and determined enough
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i want to run over her with a steamroller.
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Jonny 290 posted:i want to run over her with a steamroller.
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how about we just seal all the current world leaders inside it instead
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Sweevo posted:how about we just seal all the current world leaders inside it instead dont forget the billionaires
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Carthag Tuek posted:dont forget the billionaires he said world leaders already?
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haveblue posted:is the risk of counterfeiting for tie-in merch for an overhyped video game really that high it’s not a crazy bet — the entire planet is one lovely home brand counterfeit cyberpunk knockoff
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Wait blade runner black lotus already started airing and no one here thought to tell me? Is it any good
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Alan Smithee posted:Wait blade runner black lotus already started airing and no one here thought to tell me? its pretty good? its fairly low budget 3d anime. its very blade runner, it has all the blade runner things. replicants. flying cars. blade runners. coke signs the size of suburbs. my issue with blade runner in terms of story is that the entire thing of it is that replicants are clearly just clones of humans with enhanced abilities and a brainwash that for some reason everyone is super cool with just treating like slaves. people treat them like robots but they aren't robots in any way, they are biologically just humans otherwise you could just run a metal detector over them instead of running an incredibly aesthetic turing test. but the story always focuses on that problem of consciousness, that people believe they aren't conscious but they do and clearly they're right because that's exactly the sort of thing that conscious beings go around doing. which is tragic, but also trivial when presented as a puzzle for the audience and the main journey the protagonist goes on. if you're going to focus on replicants, then the shock reveal of replicants have feelings just isn't the headline. they have literally everything else a human has. the headline is replicants exist at all and, like, why. because humans have been forced to do lovely things by rich fuckos literally for the entire history of the world - only the means by which that force is applied has changed in any way. and humans are cheap as poo poo. and they're well-known. and if you need them to be stronger or faster you can use technology to augment them biologically or mechanically and you can force them to be augmented too if that's what you need for your moonbase or whatever. so its not 'do replicants feel' that is to me The Puzzle of blade runner. it's that, given humans exist and if you throw two with the right bits into a room they will replicate themselves, why the gently caress are they going to all this trouble. there's gotta be something else going on. anyway that's the poo poo that i think about with every blade runner thing and this does that too so its very much blade runner. the music is not vangelis but what is
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I mean people dehumanize people irl so it's not that surprising that they dehumanize replicants in blade runner. could even be intentional by the creators???? 
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chaosbreather posted:given humans exist Do they? The sheep are electric because the environment is too contaminated to have real sheep.
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really you should steer clear of all works and derivatives of works by pkd if you're unwilling to as a first step accept an overtly kind of dumb and internally inconsistent premise. working out the details is for nerds really.
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Alan Smithee posted:Wait blade runner black lotus already started airing and no one here thought to tell me?
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:really you should steer clear of all works and derivatives of works by pkd if you're unwilling to as a first step accept an overtly kind of dumb and internally inconsistent premise. What? Seriously, what? Did you miss the bits in the book with the empathy religion for the "people", the electric sheep, the question about androids dreaming, the inaccurate tests, the colonies that don't ever really play a role, and the replicants? Or it being written by Philip K. Dick?
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endlessmonotony posted:What? right, all typical big picture questions about society, consciousness, the human condition. did *you* notice that the book does not dwell for more than a few words here and there on how a replicant is built, what they are made of, the economics of replicant production, etc? it just rapidly establishes that replicants are real, are regarded as emotionless machines, but that identifying them is a difficult process. which does not make a lot of sense if you pick at it, but that's why you don't pick at it.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:right, all typical big picture questions about society, consciousness, the human condition. did *you* notice that the book does not dwell for more than a few words here and there on how a replicant is built, what they are made of, the economics of replicant production, etc? it just rapidly establishes that replicants are real, are regarded as emotionless machines, but that identifying them is a difficult process. which does not make a lot of sense if you pick at it, but that's why you don't pick at it. I'm NOT supposed to question what's real... in a Philip K. Dick book? What a take!
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endlessmonotony posted:
sure is, do you have anything to say to defend this bizarre take you appear to have suddenly invented?
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:sure is, do you have anything to say to defend this bizarre take you appear to have suddenly invented? The book? Like, the entire book? The point is that nobody in the book can quite tell apart replicants and humans. Except posthumously, which is all based on the say-so of a government that's clearly an unreliable narrator. And then when you dig into it, the existence of humans doesn't quite make sense either. It's... the style of Philip K. Dick. It's present in everything he's written. He famously had some words about "reality" in his books.
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endlessmonotony posted:Do they? edit: well a whole lot happened while i was writing my reply yeah, there's other layers the film cuts for clarity (in a film-length adaptation), at least as i remember it from years ago. if i'm glossing over or wrong def correct me one is a global human empathic experience that the people of dying earth use (the mercer box), the implications of the replicants not being able to connect, and how people view them, and vice versa, for that another is the fear that replicants fleeing their captivity on westward-ho mars are 'taking over' earth from the remnants of humanity that can't afford or qualify to flee to mars and what that means for the remnants if society flips to a replicant-run earth there's also the megacorp and it's role in selling both fake animal prestige symbols to earthers while selling slave labor to martians, and their actual goals with the latter the film trims a lot of the story for cohesion since many full pkd books are a jumble of philosophic ideas, questions on the nature of reality, and mid-century scifi and trying to put all that in is nearly impossible a scanner darkly is, imo, probably the closest someone has gotten to doing so, right down to whole scenes and dialogue taken from the book. that's likely because it was originally plain fiction, so the scifi elements that he was told to add are light and the film doesn't have to work hard to likewise add those conceits Agile Vector fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Dec 10, 2021 |
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endlessmonotony posted:The book? ...i have no idea how i have managed to communicate what i was saying so poorly that this is a response to any of it, but rather than make this some 30 page derail where we talk past each other i will yield the point.
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Agile Vector posted:one is a global human empathic experience that the people of dying earth use (the mercer box), the implications of the replicants not being able to connect, and how people view them, and vice versa, for that Yeah but the very way replicants are defined is by their capacity to feel empathy, in a way that would consistently disqualify a lot of people in actual reality, right now. And in a way that should make it impossible to arrive at the reason the world is so polluted in the first place. Almost as if the theme is the way people treat each other and what the replicants are isn't exactly the point.  Agile Vector posted:the film trims a lot of the story for cohesion since many full pkd books are a jumble of philosophic ideas, questions on the nature of reality, and mid-century scifi and trying to put all that in is nearly impossible Funnily, the film is less coherent without the jumble since it only implies so many of the questions on the nature of the reality underlying (and indeed, enabling) the story. Gotta love the aesthetic though.
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i thought that replicants started out as obvious robots everyone was fine to enslave but then nexus 6 came out and changed the game also there are a ton of examples today about how people and governments do really batshit inefficient and unsustainable things for all kinds of stupid reasons, so it's plausible that the future is even worse. given the extreme dilapidation of the world depicted in the stories, it makes sense. edit: I forgot that blade runner took place in 2019 
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