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NotASharkInAManSuit

@ NotASharkInAManSuit @lemmy.world

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  • Is it just me or is there an itch that you get every now and then that can ONLY be scratched by watching Blade Runner?

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  • Damn. Now I’m going to have to watch Gattaca again.

    Fun story. The first time I ever saw Gattaca was in my high school ceramics class. There wasn’t time to run the kiln before the school year ended and there were no requirements for the teacher for the last week of school, and it was an alternative (bad kid) school so he knew we were cool, so he just put Gattaca on to watch because it was one of his favorite movies, then it became one of my favorite movies. That dude was rad.

  • history repeats itself once again

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  • Are they evil, or are they just functioning on a different level of reality than us and doing what is required of them for their basic survival? The spider is evil to the fly, a brutal and savage monster, but to the spider it is simply and purely survival, no more and no less.

  • history repeats itself once again

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  • Aww, man, you’ve really got to read the book. From that comment alone I am 100% certain you’d love it for nothing more than the chewy thoughts with long lasting flavor that it has to offer on that precise level.

  • history repeats itself once again

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  • Nah, for that kind of plot armor you’d probably want to blast something like Holding Out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler or Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue.

  • He’s an animal, Jon [ToothyBj]

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  • Well then maybe she, too, should get her some Garfieldubussy.

  • He’s an animal, Jon [ToothyBj]

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  • Mamdani's New York is coming to tax your private jet.

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  • Better! They figured out a vaccine for the virus that has been causing the majority of bee colony collapse and we’ve been seeing huge turnarounds. They treated them in my area and they have been flourishing this year, it’s been a huge relief to see them in healthy numbers again.

  • Society Needs Billionaires [PizzaCake]

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  • He’s doing his best to hold in his giant belly, like an olde timey body builder. My fat brother does the same thing.

  • You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?

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  • Maybe don’t write out three paragraphs if you’re trying to pretend you’re not being defensive.

  • Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

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  • They raised the surrounding temperature in fucking Phoenix Arizona? A place already so hot that it can kill you within hours. we’re so fucked.

  • You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?

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  • Very defensive.

  • history repeats itself once again

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  • I’d say yes, you’d need a lot more overhaul to hit ship of Theseus levels, I think a head replacement counts as a simple repair, you know, like changing out an air filter.

  • You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?

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  • Sure, that’s a great explanation as to why you used slavery as an example to justify shackling and limiting sentient A.I. and called it great.

    Maybe don’t use condoning language if you’re not condoning something, cause that shit was racist as fuck, no matter how you try to contextualize it.

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  • You really should, Jason Pargin just in general is a blast to read. All of his stuff is top drawer. The ship of Theseus theme does tie into the story in a heavy way, but that’s all I will say about it. Of his books the John Dies series are my favorites just because it opened me up to the gonzo Lovecraftian genre for the first time and satisfied a longing for the type of story telling I had always craved in my bones but had never known existed before that book and has lead me to many more great books in the genre (fucking read Skullcrack City, holy shit, it’s so good!) but the Zoe Ashe books are just as good and hit that same nail but with a Blade Runner on meth kind of feel, and I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom is a standalone story in a real world setting that still manages to go so god damned far off the rails.

    Also, the movie is a lot of fun, but watch it before reading the book or you’ll hate it. It doesn’t spoil anything from the book, they only managed to get maybe 15% of the story in there, and it doesn’t at all touch on the core theme of the book and the scenes and setup are not the same as what you get from the book, but it was made with genuine love of the source material and they did the best they could with what they had to work with.

  • The open seas be the only place for Steve

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  • Let’s see if it pays off for him.

  • You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?

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  • Funny seeing you here, surprised you didn’t say you’d go back to when we were enslaving and committing genocide on native Americans and capturing and torturing people in Africa.

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  • John Dies At The End by Jason Pargin. My favorite book series of all time, no contest. That’s how the book starts.

    The fifth book, There Are No Giant Crabs in This Novel: A Novel of Giant Crabs, is releasing this year.

  • Me_irl

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  • Don’t kill Hitler as an infant. Not for moral reasons, but you want to go for early college era Hitler, he was an edgelord, incel, douchebag with a farting problem that wore leather lederhosen and carried around a riding crop. He was that guy.

    Just find him on campus and bash his head in with a baseball bat in front of everybody, people would celebrate you for killing Hitler without ever coming close to the holocaust and nobody would be heartbroken over a dead baby.

  • history repeats itself once again

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  • Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don’t worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you’re the one who shot him.

    He had been a big, twitchy guy with veiny skin stretched over swollen biceps, a tattoo of a swastika on his tongue. Teeth filed into razor-sharp fangs—you know the type. And you’re chopping off his head because, even with eight bullet holes in him, you’re pretty sure he’s about to spring back to his feet and eat the look of terror right off your face.

    On the follow-through of the last swing, though, the handle of the ax snaps in a spray of splinters. You now have a broken ax. So, after a long night of looking for a place to dump the man and his head, you take a trip into town with your ax. You go to the hardware store, explaining away the dark reddish stains on the broken handle as barbecue sauce. You walk out with a brand-new handle for your ax.

    The repaired ax sits undisturbed in your garage until the spring when, on one rainy morning, you find in your kitchen a creature that appears to be a foot-long slug with a bulging egg sac on its tail. Its jaws bite one of your forks in half with what seems like very little effort. You grab your trusty ax and chop the thing into several pieces. On the last blow, however, the ax strikes a metal leg of the overturned kitchen table and chips out a notch right in the middle of the blade.

    Of course, a chipped head means yet another trip to the hardware store. They sell you a brand-new head for your ax. As soon as you get home, you meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded earlier. He’s also got a new head, stitched on with what looks like plastic weed-trimmer line, and it’s wearing that unique expression of “you’re the man who killed me last winter” resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life.

    You brandish your ax. The guy takes a long look at the weapon with his squishy, rotting eyes and in a gargly voice he screams, “That’s the same ax that beheaded me!”

    Is he right?

    Edit: You can even watch this (slightly altered) quote in live action!

    Read and watch John Dies at The End. You simply must.