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Imagine the matrix came out today. A movie where people have become nothing more than disposable interchangeable sources of energy for a society run by machines. With an endless supply of media/simulated reality used to placate the human livestock and keep them from rising up. Oh and the pinnacle of human history is the 1990s. That all checks out way too much, there's no way this movie would be allowed to be made today.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Is there any credit to artist?

[–] FermiComics@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

im the artist. this is my first comic.

[–] Epp@lemmus.org 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

FYI it's forefathers. Those who came before.

[–] CalypsoGirl@lemmy.today 3 points 53 minutes ago

Also:

buy

people

millionaires

And then I remember that sometimes typos are intentional engagement bait.

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

Based. It's a little hard to read the text tho

[–] nbsp@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago

props! πŸ₯³πŸ–Œ

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Source is this post by Reddit user ProfessionalOrder667. The user posts in the comments about being the original artist.

EDIT: See replies, OP is the original artist!

[–] FermiComics@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

were the same person in fact i posted this comic here before reddit click on my profile and it says fermi comics as the name i dont now how to change the user.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

Oh awesome! Glad you're here.

For future reference, if you put [OC] in the post title that's a good way to indicate that you're posting Original Content.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago
[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I love this comic because in the "make it or make it perfect" debate, I'd rather 100 flawed comics asking people to think then 1 perfect comic that does the same. Hell yeah to typos and imperfect art!

[–] someone@lemmy.today 3 points 23 hours ago

The real problem is avocado toast.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

AI in most movies: Evil killing robot.

AI in reality: Evil robot that convinces others to kill, also makes bad "art" en masse that it hurts artists' visibility, also makes subpar code en masse that it hurts open source projects' visibility, not to mention it melts your brain.

(When will the first slasher movie come out, that features a troubled person getting addicted to a chatbot, which turns them into a serial killer?)

If I draft a screenplay about it and credit you will you come to my premier of "CHATBOT KILLER: ALGORITHM OF EVIL"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i don't want to spoil this
angry coworker casting summon bigger fish noises

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any of you seeing the text too small and distorted?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

You don't actually want to see that spelling. Small and distorted is much better.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 102 points 2 days ago (32 children)

2 out of the 3 movies pictured involve job loss: one spree kicked off by losing the job, and one story about the tension of the "will they or won't they fire me" and the arbitrariness and unfairness of it all.

So no, only one of these involves unrest amidst a stable career. The others are about unstable careers.

[–] TimeRonin@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

The top panel is 'Office Space', what about the other panels?

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 94 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, I'm sure it still sucked. I'm sure it was just as unfulfilling then as it is now, it just sucks WAY more now.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (6 children)

And the fun thing is we (GenX) are still working! So we’ve just got to experience the fucking slow slide to oblivion where every day is just worse than the last! Yay!

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At work, when people ask how it's going, I always say, "Every day is better than the next." Been doing it for years now. So far only one person has clocked that if each day is better than the day that comes after, that means every day is a new low.

[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah i forget did camus have much to say about prometheus?

[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I think he did

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[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't even imagine. It felt hard growing up in the time that I did, but I look at what my kids are facing and I can't even imagine how it must feel.

Pretty fucking bleak. I feel for them too.

[–] sbbq@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The guy in falling down got laid off. He went crazy because he didn't have a job anymore.

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[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but we were stuck at entry level jobs and told that the boomers were going to retire any day now and if we just stick with it, we'll shoot right to the top. Then as they started to retire, those jobs are not being filled and there is a fresh round of layoffs coming. Oh, and also being told by those same boomers that they owned a house by our age.

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[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I think men would misunderstand the message of fight club even more now and it would become a white supremacist hit.

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[–] iatenine@piefed.social 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] Dagobah@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't you want to be an millionair?

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

To by shit I don't need?

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[–] sunsofold@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

I don't think you could. Fight Club is about a few different things but it rests on a societal shape that doesn't really exist anymore. No one looks at modern society as stable on any level unless they are older and living the memory of the society of their childhood. The inability to afford the stuff from the pottery barn catalog means many people can't afford identifying with their stuff. The young people born this century have so little they can rely on epistemically they can end up latching onto really weird things. 'I want to join the military because it seems like it pays okay, I can meet the requirements if I live at the gym, it'll make my dad like me despite his toxic masculinity, but I don't like the idea of murdering people, so I'm going to become a medical spec ops guy so I only have to kill defensively and will be dedicating my life to saving lives.' - paraphrased from a real conversation

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If I used dating apps, I would mention I like fight club, starship troopers, and V for vendetta in bio. Just keep people guessing.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Do you not have spell check?

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