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WHY YOU LITTLE! (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46174405

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[–] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

... Not because of that one episode of Black Mirror?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That one was truly fucked up. I realy liked most of black mirror, but that one was a bit to much for me. What broke me was seeing the guy at the end missing multiple teeth and it's very obvious where they went...

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I don't actually remember that detail. I mostly remember the premise of the episode: torturing you with visuals to make you comply.

    But yeah. Torture in general, physical or mental, is messed up.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's because they're talking about another one, where someone's braindamage is countered by a part of their brain being ran on a commercial cloud. Of course, enshittification follows, and her husband resorts to extreme measures to pay for the increasing cost.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, gotcha. Thank you for the information. I'm at least a bit behind on that show and don't remember that premise from it at all, so I think it must have been after I last watched it. I think the last Black Mirror thing I saw was that interactive choice movie, but I might be misremembering.

    FWIW, I also liked Love, Death & Robots and it was mostly less depressing and/or frightening.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Which one specifically? Not remembering from context and I feel like a lot had brain chips

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    You're right, several of them would be perfectly relevant in this case, but I was specifically thinking of an episode where they put electric contact lenses in soldiers and made them think they were fighting monstrous creatures rather than other people.

    When the protagonist of the episode realized that and refused to fight any more, he found that the contacts were not removable by the user. His superiors put horrific displays on his lenses. Because of their nature, he couldn't escape even by closing his eyes. Eventually he agreed to behave so as not be forced to see such horrible things.

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