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These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget… inside their bodies.
minus-squareEl_guapazo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up189arrow-down5·1 year agoThis was the plot line to the movie Robots. The solution was socialized medicine.
minus-squareWhy9@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up93·1 year agoA more sinister example was Repo Men. In that movie, the tech still worked, but people were no longer able to keep up with the extortionate payments that came with the implant.
minus-squarebitwolf@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoI always bring up that movie and “Otherlife” when I rant about the importance of open source.
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoWait is that a different movie than repo: the genetic opera?
minus-squareASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year ago*Repoman: the musical
minus-squareSagrotan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoRepo Men: The Concept Album by Andrew Lloyd Ripper
minus-squarerandomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoZydrate comes in a little glass vile
minus-squareTier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoA little glass vial?
minus-squareLrdThndr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoI love how this was somehow both the next line of the song AND snarkily correcting their spelling.
minus-squareTier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoLmao to be fair it was mostly to continue the song, but I did notice that XD
minus-squareAzzu@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah no wonder that was only in a sci fi movie, that really just sounds too unrealistic.
minus-squareBigFig@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·1 year agoFuck me I haven’t watched that in some time…time for a rewatch
This was the plot line to the movie Robots. The solution was socialized medicine.
A more sinister example was Repo Men. In that movie, the tech still worked, but people were no longer able to keep up with the extortionate payments that came with the implant.
I always bring up that movie and “Otherlife” when I rant about the importance of open source.
Wait is that a different movie than repo: the genetic opera?
*Repoman: the musical
Repo Men: The Concept Album by Andrew Lloyd Ripper
Zydrate comes in a little glass vile
A little glass vial?
I love how this was somehow both the next line of the song AND snarkily correcting their spelling.
Lmao to be fair it was mostly to continue the song, but I did notice that XD
Yeah no wonder that was only in a sci fi movie, that really just sounds too unrealistic.
Fuck me I haven’t watched that in some time…time for a rewatch