• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    PRE-CRIME, JUST LIKE IN THE SCI-FI TREATS

    soypoint-1 no-mouth-must-scream soypoint-2

    EDIT: reddit-logo is leaking again; apparently even emojis can get pulled over by the Pedantry Police. 🚔 berdly-actually 🚓

    • NotErisma [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Ah yes being chained by vroom vroom for wrongthonk, just like in my spooky sci-fi treat 1979 by George Foreman.

      Did the cops at least wear cowboy hats and greet them by saying 'audi pardner?

      blob-no-thoughts

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      What does this have to do with “I have no mouth and i must scream”?

      I can’t remember any “pre-crime” in it. Just an AI torturing people for his amusement.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        I know.

        I was just stretching the application of the emoji to summarize bad futuristic outcomes because there isn’t a Minority Report related emoji yet.

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          1 year ago

          You can’t just use any random emoji you want, that doesn’t make any sense.

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              Fair enough. I don’t believe it is a very popular story so that might be the reason.

              Why is there even an Emoji for the book? Does it come up that often on hexchat?

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                1 year ago

                I don’t believe it is a very popular story so that might be the reason.

                It was popular enough for me to have known about it before I saw the emoji.

                Why is there even an Emoji for the book? Does it come up that often on hexchat?

                Because the Hexbear creator of emojis decided it’d be fun to add it, and it was almost immediately used to summarize bleak and terrible future outcomes, especially in reference to this moment mocking the tendency of tech billionaires to miss the point of the fiction they consume and make announcements about how they want to make the bad things in such fiction come true:

                https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/386/548/92f.jpg