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I tried to watch that movie. But I quit it 15 minutes in.

What was even the point? It wasn't funny, it wasn't enjoyable, it wasn't dramatic.

It's like "look, here is a blatantly obvious metaphor on climate change" that's our whole movie.

It seemed aimed for a very particular subset of people that wanted to feel a pat on the head or something. I feel like it's the same people who enjoy that big ass climate change doom clock.

Just too much virtue signalling for my taste. Without actually making anything useful.

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Who can forget the scene where they literally ran away from cold.

What a movie

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Your comment is now an extension of that movie’s plot.

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One of the reasons I love Spec Ops: The Line. It’s marketed to the correct crowd. The exact type of person that needs to understand killing your way through a situation rarely works is the one who will see the cover and think “Aw cool, a shooting game about killing your way through an adventure”.

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I agree that the mocking approach doesn’t work in terms of enacting change. I’m still in favor of it for our own sakes just because it’s fun.

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We haven’t gotten dumb enough. The buttfuckers restaurants are still right around the corner.

Once AI lets us get too dumb to read we’ll be closer than ever.

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We are NOT in a fully-automated sex-positive polygamous future with leadership that acknowledges society’s problems and places its best and brightest towards a solution

In fairness, neither were they. A bunch of the "automated" aspects of society were simply systems nobody knew how to operate that were left on autopilot. The administrators rose through the ranks by being Yes-Men and insisting broken systems were operating as intended. Spraying your crops with gatorade is only an "automation" in the most literal sense. It isn't how a "fully-automated" society is intended to operate.

Further, the whole jail system plus subsequent courtroom drama illustrated the dogmatic resistance to change and zero-tolerance for risks inherent in any change, resulting in a highly sclerotic society. It was only able to change when faced with a sudden catastrophic food crisis.

one where free speech is so alive you can even name your restaurant “Buttfuckers” and no one’s even slightly offended, one where even the least educated people in our society can get good quality high-paying jobs in everything from the arts to medical, one where sex work is no longer demonized and is considered so valid a profession that you can get your ass rimmed at Starbucks while waiting for your coffee.

Hyper-commoditization and exploitation of labor isn't liberation, its slavery. What you're describing is a cultural shift, not a relaxation of bigotry (which - again, referencing the courtroom scene - was in full abundance) or absence of elitism (characters regularly derided one another's intelligence while deferring to the violence of authority figures) or a flattening of incomes (the intro scenes of the future were full of poverty, kept in check by a murderous police force).

And I don’t understand why people think we have it anywhere near that good.

The show was a cartoonish reflection of modern day. It wasn't intended to suggest we have it better or worse, but to parody how things were in the present.

Even the depiction of the present illustrated huge social failures - institutional corruption, political inertia, misappropriation of resources, the false choice between careerism and hedonism - that metastasized over the intervening era into comically exaggerated state.

But people fixate on the first five minutes. And they really fixate on the idea of eugenics implicit in those first five minutes. This is precisely because the same set of smug, elitist, know-nothing oligarchs reflected in the movie are consuming it and taking away the most backwards and regressive messages.

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It's a movie, it doesn't need to be "useful". Some people were entertained, some people were emotionally affected. It was successful art. And we're still talking about it.

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I'm just giving my opinion on why that movie is bad.

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I disagree. The point of the movie is not to make people feel to feel smug, it is to provide catharsis for people who feel like the entire world is insane while simultaneously telling them that they are the insane one.

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The one with John Cusack was 2012. California was destroyed by super earthquakes in that one.

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Maybe that's why I kept thinking the name was 2012 even though I knew that didn't have the same premise.

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I think that's a euphemism for "a pat in the head".
As I said, I think is a movie aimed to a very specific subset of people, of which I don't belong. The set of people that also enjoy that doomsday climate clock that I keep bringing out because I think it gives away the same kind of emotions to people who liked that movie.

And for people that does not feel rewarded just for a movie, or a clock or whatever, saying to you "good for worrying", the movie becomes nothing, it's empty of anything else. It's a very simple 75 million dollar message that says "feel better than others, feel special for worrying".
Also the whole message becomes a little ridiculous, when it's delivered on the biggest media platform, with millions in budget, a bunch of famous actors acting on it, and then praised by millions of people.

To me it feels like those conservative figures that say that they are being cancelled while they are live on national TV. It's just silly. And this movie gives the same vibes to me. Talking about the big ignored problem to an audience of millions of people that purposely went there to see the movie about the big ignored problem.

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That is an extremely condescending way of saying that you did not personally find the movie to be funny.

Different people can have different senses of humor. There are lots of comedies that I absolutely cannot stand; that does not make me right and the people who enjoy them wrong.

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was with nightstalker actor.

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The room next door is an "assisted cancer suicide" personal movie, but has as punchline that US empire climate terrorism justifies suicide.

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Why? So that he could sell you marshmellows?

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I like the idea of Spec Ops, but the game getting judgemental and preachy about how evil I am when it literally isn't giving me any alternative is a big turn off.

In earlier builds there was actually an option to do the right thing and stop this madness, and it would just roll credits. That was actually brilliant, but too many beta testers kept doing exactly that and wondering if the game was that short, if it was joke, or if they were missing something.... So they removed the option

A shame, because if the game has me on rails, then it's not my fault that terrible shit happens. It's the person who designed the course this way.

It's why I find Undertale to be a better anti-violence message.

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I used to, but I found making the world my enemy and acting accordingly only leaves people acting with ignorance rather than malice thinking they were right about people like me.

Keep in mind, I speak of kindness only to people who don't know better, not people who definitely do and are just basically fucking Nazis