Everyone really is a boomer now
It looks like it’s just idiocracy but swap out TV and Carl’s JR for Phones and VR.
And I’m limited to six images. You got lucky.
These are all fucking amazing I want access to your stash 😩
I got them from here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/boomer-comics-complaining-about-the-kids-and-their-damn-cell-phones.101749/page-35
Uhh, content warning though, it is boomer humour after all.
what’s the new phone bad movie?
the last one i remember was Cell (2016) which has an 11% even though i think it is awesome and periodically rewatch it.
I’m talking about Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die. I’m being facetious as I haven’t seen the movie. I just saw a clip that had phone zombies and rolled my eyes the hell out of there lol.
The trailer looks more anti-AI to me. It also looks like pretty bonkers fun.
Yeah maybe it’s good I’m mostly just being snarky lol
It was fun overall. B+. The funniest parts of the movie weren’t the main plot, but the flashbacks to what the cast was doing before the main plot started, so I think it would have been better as a disconnected anthology than a single film.
The first hour was great, the second hour should have been 10 minutes
Maybe I’ll check it out
the last one i remember was Cell (2016) which has an 11% even though i think it is awesome and periodically rewatch it.
I didn’t like most of the film but,
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“You’ll Never Walk Alone” was an inspired choice of song for that ending.
Absolute masterpiece.
haha yes.
i loved how grim and out of nowhere the conflict was. zero to 1000 immediately in some crazy new reality with its own bonkers internal logic to decipher.
it reminded me of the vibe i used to get reading SK short stories as a kid, where suddenly the world is mad and a group of mismatched randos with pre-existing problems of their own try to skirt death as they come to grips with inevitability. just a pit of the stomach “fuck” thing.
my favorite adaptations of his are like that, even when they end on a downer. The Mist being the archetypal example, where the movie ending is far worse than the book. apparently the end of The Mist movie stunned even SK when he watched it, but he said it made him enjoy it even more.
i saw some interview with him once a long time ago where he said all he did was take regular, innocuous, even comforting everyday things and brainstorm a way to make them a source of fear and misery. and he said it with this twinkle in his eye like he knew he was paid boatloads to be a very specific kind of jerk.
Hot take: I sometimes do think phones are kinda bad.
I also have this thought but then I think that that’s a reactionary take and the true take is that phones are awesome and it’s addictive social media that’s bad
Part of the reason social media has gotten so addictive is that we all have little pocket sized computers that allow us to scroll social media literally at any time we want.
I’m pretty sure alcoholism would go up if some company made a magic flask that refills itself with bourbon.
I mean I’m sure that doesn’t help but I feel like if everyone was still on geocities we wouldn’t be compelled to scroll mindlessly the way we are now. There is an intentionality to browsing the old internet that doesn’t exist on modern infinite scroll websites.
True. But I also think there are other detrimental effects of having a tiny computer in your pocket 24/7. Lots of people are voluntarily restricting their phone use and finding it benefits them, the sexy Eddy Burback did a whole video on.
Ah yes, I watched that video on my phone
That’s a pretty long video to watch on a small phone screen.
There’s a big conflation, but I think phones are bad in the same way I think the luddites were right -
I’m not saying phones inherently suck, I’m saying they’re so widely employed in a way that worsens peoples’ lives that we would all be collectively happier if they simply didn’t exist.
This is the correct take. Technology is not inherently bad, it is the way that it is implemented and handed by capitalism that is bad.
I liken it to food. Food isn’t bad, but if society made it so that the only thing available and socially acceptable to eat was McDonalds, you’re going to get sick.
congrats, youre a luddite
Thank you!
A little nuance though, some technology does lend itself to more good or more ill. Like a combine harvestor can cause harm if the technology is used to prop up an exploitative empire and jealously guarded, but it’s much easier for a nuclear bomb to cause harm.
I’ve seen some reductionism taking your reasonable point (tech isn’t inherently one or the other) to mean the stronger and imho worse position “technology is morally neutral”.
Personaly I think smartphone are tech to be cautious around because while remote communication is obviously incredible, bundling it with general purpose computing comes with a lot of hazard. We ought to be able to heavily curtail the harm though by removing incentives for addictive design.
Absolutely, I agree 100%
Tech oligarchs have effectively turned them into mind control machines with the way they closely resemble slot machines. As usual, the tech isn’t the problem
As usual, the tech isn’t the problem
I’ve seen a lot of AI bros say the same shit. I’m no primitivist but I also do thing there is some technology that, even under ideal social conditions, have a lot more capacity for harm then good, not saying they should be totally banned but that society should be wary of how it’s implemented and how accessible it is to the public.
Yeah but tech bros say that implying the economic system isn’t to blame
There’s some tech where I don’t really see it’s use outside of capitalism. Like what’s the usefulness of tech that’s primarily for making really shitty soda commercials without having to pay an actual production crew under socialism? Also under socialism I’m sure there will be plenty of people making cat girl hentai so I don’t need AI for that either.
(Me too, to be honest. I just think most media misses the point of why. They often attack the individual for being too ‘weak’ and relying on technology instead of addressing the systemic and social conditioning that capitalism uses to both force it upon us and make it addictive. Making phones integral to fitting in in modern society but at the same time shaming people for using them is unproductive and cruel)
It shows how on your phone you are that you know what movies are coming out this week and what scores they are getting. For shame!
It’s OK once we establish communism I’ll only be able to use the communal phone so it will balance out
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Good point, comrade! It all evens out in the long run.
… is it actually called phone bad? 🤔
No but now I want to make a movie called phone bad
I thought it was fun.
Better than I was expecting. It had some pretty dark satirical bits that I enjoyed. It’s more than just “phone bad”, anyway.Good to hear! Don’t let my snarky bit ruin your fun
Everyone really is a boomer now
no just the zoomers
never seen a more annoying generation
They’re a fusion between Hitler and the 4chan straw man of anyone who’s mildly left wing
Ehh it was sorta fun at times, but the stances it took were all completely surface level and didn’t really offer anything stimulating imo
Black mirror did amazing (and hell I liked it) but a solid chunk of the plots are “what if phone? But, too much!”
They’re an obvious symbol of radical transformation of society that correlate with increasing isolation and social breakdown that many people have an uneasy relationship with.
As a social anxiety it’s less annoying than when every second thing was about drug anxieties.
Oh god you’re right, I wasn’t alive in the 80s but I always think that the drugs PSAs of the 80s looked annoying as hell
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