• @selfA
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    602 months ago

    I love Blade Runner, but I don’t know if we want that future. I believe we want that duster he’s wearing, but not the, uh, not the bleak apocalypse.

    there’s nothing more painful than when capitalists think they understand cyberpunk

    • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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      212 months ago

      “Wow, this film is bleak, we sure don’t want that,” said the wealthiest man in the world while spending tens of millions of dollars campaigning for an authoritarian just to enrich himself further via regulatory capture.

    • David GerardOPMA
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      132 months ago

      and the sequel, 2 Blade 2 Run

      • @selfA
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        72 months ago

        The Blade and the Runner: Tokyo Drift is my favorite

        …ok I’m fucking saving that for an RPG campaign I haven’t written yet

        • @froztbyte
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          62 months ago

          Run Blade, the prequel

    • @swlabr
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      132 months ago

      Cyberpunk is when cool coat*

      *said coat is a trench coat, not a duster

      • @selfA
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        72 months ago

        …huh, you’re right (for the movie — the shitty AI image is a bad amalgamation of a trench coat and something like the shoulders of a duster). maybe the fucker was thinking of fallout or some shit.

        and now I’ve convinced myself to go dig up my duster

        • @swlabr
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          2 months ago

          This wasn’t from a place of knowledge. I made a social read. Musk is absolutely the type to call a trilby a fedora and feel smug about it; I extrapolated from that.

    • @selfA
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      92 months ago

      so I just fucking realized, this asshole wasn’t originally going to bring up the duster but he panicked. here’s the original, so much better-looking photo he ripped off:

      and the spinner (a VTOL car) in that, viewed from the back, looks a lot like something he knocked off for the design of his shitty cybercab, including how the doors open and its general shape and color (though the latter’s due to the scene’s color grading if memory serves, but musk ain’t smart), though the cybercab doesn’t have any of the design elements that make the Blade Runner car interesting because of course it doesn’t, it was designed by a creatively bankrupt billionaire from someone else’s work

      so that spinner’s missing in Musk’s generative AI ripoff of that image, because the model couldn’t make a spinner-like car that didn’t look fucked up. and that’s why the AI image has “NOT THIS” hastily applied in one corner and he had to change his speech from “I believe we want that car” (followed by revealing supposedly “that car”) to “I believe we want that duster”

      unbelievably lazy, but not unexpected

    • @swlabr
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      32 months ago

      Image: musk in trench coat