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Gaslighting
Submitted 8 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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runswithjedi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
He was also deeply paranoid and delusional, since he was high on speed most of the time. Don’t see “blindly supporting police” in his works actually, any form of authority is usually portrayed of having bad intentions. Although his protagonists are often some form of cop, they are usually in conflict with their colleagues in some form.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Most of his novels are basically bog standard 1950s sci-fi, but with a weird metaphysical twist that completely turns everything on its side by the end. The characters are empty vessels, but it probably doesn’t matter.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The guy wrote some mind-bending shit, for sure, but the world is a very different place from the 60s (when he wrote do androids dream, for example)
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Valis is very upsetting if you understand Phil’s upbringing, history with drugs and counter-culture, home life and his abusive relationship with sanity.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Every night, as me and my wife are going to sleep, I lean over and whisper into her ear, “It’s too bad you’re not going to live. But then again, who does?”
Rolando@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh, it’s the D.E.N.N.I.S. system:
Demonstrate Value
Engage Physically
Nurture Dependence <- YOU ARE HERE
Neglect Emotionally
Inspire Hope
Separate Entirely
klemptor@startrek.website 8 months ago
What a sweet tradition! 😊
distantsounds@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 8 months ago
That movie is so slept on, it’s honestly one of my favorites. The book is really good too, I love the dialogue.
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Uh yes, hi, how are you? I have something, um, emergent to report!”
skylestia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
OpenStars@startrek.website 8 months ago
That reminds me of this FASCINATING deep dive by Innuendo Studies on agency / protagony. Warning: while not technically NSFW… caution is still advised.
downpunxx@fedia.io 8 months ago
........ and a fully functioning uterus
AdmiralShat@programming.dev 8 months ago
I mean, they are organic, so yeah, it’s not impossible one could create offspring with another replicant
Actually, her having a child proves Deckard was one all along.
JamesTBagg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No it doesn’t. How does it prove Deckard is a replicant versus proving Tyrell Corps had become just that good at replicating life. In both Blade Runner movies to prove something was replicant they had to get electron microscope close to find printing on cells. Perhaps Rachael was just that human. Unless it was explained somewhere I missed.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Little radiation as she sleeps should take care of that.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And the immortals in Highlander are from the planet Zeist.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Telling a robot that he’s “done a man’s job” is a Gaff.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 8 months ago
See…this is what teenage cyber bulling should be instead of catty bitches calling someone fat over and over.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
🤓☝ That didn’t happen in the the novel though
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Did the question of androids dreaming of electric sheep actually get answered in the novel? 🤔
Zehzin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Only implicitly, total ripoff.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A lot of what happened in the movie didn’t happen in the novel.
And the whole Mercerism thing isn’t even in the movie despite being a huge part of the novel.
psmgx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But we got tears in rain instead.