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restingOface@quokk.au 1 month agoWhat is so dark? I feel like I must be missing something. Their consciousnesses are being maintained by a server farm. But what is dark about that? It just seems optimistic and such how they get to pretend to live in their 20s forever. Nothing like living in a torturous snow globe or whatever.
HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
What server farm is forever?
The series Upload is like taking the idea and giving it its own universe. It’s good, but I’ll ruin the black mirror episode.
restingOface@quokk.au 1 month ago
From their perspective, it’s forever.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Right, but to me, that’s why it’s a romance with a horror ending. It’s not forever. Nothing is real other than their love, and even their experience is questionable in tens of is the silicon version of them really them?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I’d launch a real brain i. a jar into space, powered by solar panels. Problem solved!