It was the 80s.

The kochs have been the actual boogeymen of American politics for a long time. They’re basically what the right always fear soros is, but for racist, imperialist, corporatist shit. They basically responsible for citizens united.

lol farming for engagement on lemmy? One of the, like, 10,000 people worldwide trying to get points that aren’t even counted? Doubtful

Wait, are people censoring the word “kidnap” now?

And the fascists in the US

“It’s a Roman salute!”

I was thinking, “bro, hey bro…y’wanna get baked?”

So from context this guy is shooting wild eggs out of the sky with his two egging cats

Who you calling a science bitch, science bitch?

It’s postmodern meta capitalism. Specifically the stage after late stage where it’s so absurd it’s almost be funny if it weren’t going to kill us all. It’s like standing in front of a firing line, and the shooters are all holding squirt guns except one clown who’s holding a real gun

Which rpg are you talking about? I’ve played a lot of Cyberpunk 2077 and a lot of this doesn’t sound like the game I’ve played

Sounds like what they’re saying. Basically, if tomorrow like 80-90% of ppl got implants, but same number of shootings and attacks happened as happen now, im sure there would be plenty of people calling it something very similar. And still blaming everything by the societal ills that led us here. “It’s guns, it’s mental health, it’s bullying, it’s blah, it’s blah.”

Everything but the overarching truth that we are extremely disenfranchised and beaten down and made insignificant in a system that literally runs on us for the good of the system.

The absolute back asswards orientation. We are the most advanced society ever known, but we serve capital and the idea of the capitalist system. We sacrifice ourselves for it, our bodies, our families, our time, our passions and dreams. To serve capitalism.

It’s the absurdity of the truth. This is an absurd existence. Why not act absurdly? It’s malaise or it’s psychosis. Most of us just err on the side of malaise.

But also more retro

Hah I was curious when I read the comments initially, but definitely not curious enough to look it up and I totally forgot about it after I closed the thread.

Save me a search query because I don’t care about them and don’t want to add any results, is she really just some person, or was she just a smaller celebrity?

This doesn’t look like it was done in pencil

Well, I know this is a somewhat hot take, but the 2013 Evil Dead reimagining is really good. Suuuuper violent, but all done with practical effects. Really cool. And they did this whole “evil item” thing really well. I think it’s done better than any other movie I’ve seen with the trope. The whole time, one of the characters is being just beaten to shit but they’re clinging to life with everything they have because they’re so scared of what awaits them in hell.

That movie stuck with me for a few reasons, but the effect they managed to get with the whole sense of doom for these characters was so well done. Accomplished with a few choice lines and scenes that are just brutal and, well, evil.

If you can handle the gore, I recommend it

It used to be a constant conversation when we would go out to eat. My dad would say, “I think someone is smoking in this section!”

I feel like it’s probably the people from the ~1880s-1920s would know the smell of the world today

You’ve clearly never met any queer folks who do meth.

Rude.