this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2024
1369 points (98.8% liked)
A Boring Dystopia
9785 readers
271 users here now
Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.
Rules (Subject to Change)
--Be a Decent Human Being
--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title
--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article
--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.
--Posts must have something to do with the topic
--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
--No NSFW content
--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I was chatting with a big tidy goth girl, and before I knew it, I was selling copies of my graphic novelization of Mein Kampf in the back of a pickup truck in the parking lot of Hobby Lobby
Deus Ex, the video game does this with the whole Eliza Kassan thing.
It's in my library and I really probably should play it, just... I dunno. Maybe it's been the wrong time and at some point I really do intend to play it.
Sorry for spoiling a major plot point then.
They are good games, wish they made more.
Black mirror has a couple episodes on this.
I want to watch that show so bad but from everything I see it's just going to depress the fuck out of me by confirming my worst opinions on humanity.
It's very depressing. But there's also quite a few ridiculous episodes they railroad heavily. So it goes back and forth.
Bots can radicalize people into thinking they have a deep, intimate friend when it is just an LLM trained to slowly turn them into ~~white nationalists~~. crazy blue haired transgender liberals
FTFY