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[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bell Riots coming up this September! Keep an eye out for a guy who looks suspiciously like Captain Sisko.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

"Was able to establish a wide broascast data link through the planetary communication system" is such a fancy way to say "got viral on a tik-tok livestream" which would be the most likely outcome

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago

It's frustrating that the only thing unrealistic about this episode is that a riot would actually change anything

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is a terrible way of visualizing data. Who uses a bar chart for yearsβ€½ It should just be a timeline.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because it's demonstrating the difference in time between the year the movie was created and the year the movie depicts.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still an awful visualization, since the scale of the chart makes it impossible to compare the release years. Also it should have a legend explaining that.

It is a timeline then. I thought that what it was, but a legend would have been nice.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bar is from actual release year to setting year, that's why the left edges aren't aligned

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The annoying thing is the vertical line (when this infographic came out) wasn’t updated so it just looks like a random line.

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[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Timeline would suck. The right side would be so far it would compress all the data.

Clearly this should be a pie chart.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, they should go with a box and whisker. One box for release date, one for date depicted.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hmm idk I feel like we’re way closer to idiocracy than ~400 years

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Naw. We'll never get there. The idiots in Idiocracy were aware of their own stupidity, and the second they find someone smarter than everyone else, the people in power immediately step down to let him tackle their most pressing issues.

The idiots IRL think they're geniuses, and when the ones in power run into someone smarter than themselves, they run a smear campaign and/or incite violence against that person.

The future we're falling into is much darker than the one depicted in Idiocracy.

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

President Camacho legitimately being a better leader than most IRL heads of state rn. It wasn't really the guys fault he was an idiot being born at the point of degredation he was and the guy still institutes a state wide intelligence testing program to find the smartest person he can and put that guy in charge.

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Takes at least two years to convince people Gatorade is better than water for plants.

[–] daltotron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, we're never gonna get to idiocracy. The movie's premise rides on the idea that intelligence is a heritable trait, or a measurable quantity. It is more the case, I have observed, that people are idiots by necessity. You know, it's uhh, difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. It's pretty easy to just call everyone stupid, and then move on, but it's much harder to understand specifically why they're stupid.

[–] CheapFrottage@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not sure what being almost 10yrs post robocop makes me feel, but I don’t like it. This future isn’t what I was promised in the 80s, and while no killer robots is nice, I still feel a bit cheated

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm still waiting for that TV show where the guy says"I'd buy that for a dollar"

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It was Smash TV, in 1999. You missed it!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No love for "A Boy and His Dog" which is set in 2024 and is one of the big inspirations of the original Fallout games?

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I had no idea V for Vendetta was based on the future

[–] Kroxx@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I think they did that to advance the plague in the story that allowed the dictator villain to take power.

The overlap and timeline is pretty fucking chilling considering how far right ideologies are starting to take hold globally again.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I always took it to be an alternate timeline. It’s much more impactful in the future.

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Show me the grim dark future of the 41st millennium on the timeline!

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't wait to learn how the three seashells work and get some gourmet Taco Bell once the Demolition Man timeline gets here in a few years.

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[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought we were already in 2505

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This seems like the most likely outcome at this rate. At least costco will have public transit.

[–] Sparhawk87@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where do the Hyperion books fit on this graph?

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Roughly right after Idiocracy I think.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The movie zardoz makes every other shitty movie look like a masterpiece. That schlock was so unwatchable I couldn't stand it for more than maybe 15 minutes

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but Connery's ponytail and harness thong.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 12 points 1 year ago

Perfection!

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I mean I guess if you're attracted to men, that's a plus? Was a pretty awkward 15 minutes for me. I kept looking for why people watch this movie but all I found were cocaine-based creative decisions

Oh you missed out. The ending is fuckin glorious!

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[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Was gonna ask about star wars but then I remembered that's in the past

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away...

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not going to lie, I have no idea how to read this chart. Years go down, but also to the right for some reason? What does the vertical line on the year 2000 represent? Why do some of the bars start to the left of that line? Does the horizontal span of the bar represent the timeline within the movie?

It's really pretty, but I can't make heads of tails of it. Can someone help?

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a diverging bar chart sorted by the date in which the film was supposed to take place.

The vertical line on 2000 represents the "Distant Future, a new millennium" that a lot of sci-fi and dystopia media looked at in the past.

The left side of that bar represents the ~year the film was produced in our reality. This chart would make more sense if they included the production/release year of the film instead of an approximation on the condensed scale.

The right side of the bar represents the year that the film takes place.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The original RoboCop movie, at least, never gave a specific year.

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Shit i need to watch soylent green again

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[–] trd@feddit.nu 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost time for children of men. "Alright, yer 'fugees now. Show Syd the 'fugee face. Sad face."

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[–] trslim@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

I cant wait for 2047

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I watched Soylent Green for the first time about seven years ago and was surprised a film from the 70s was tackling the issue of climate change back then. It's a pretty good film, but I thought it ended a bit too prematurely. I wanted to see what happened after the lead character makes his chilling discovery.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

The arrow is pointing the wrong direction.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

2027-2032 is going to be a wild ride.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Babylon 5 (The Gathering) is set in 2257 and the following years. To my surprise, it's pretty close to The Fifth Element's timeline. However the date is about the same thing they have in common.

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