• archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    I happen to really like District 9 for this reason

    There’s no malicious plot of aliens blowing up shit or invading to colonize: nope, aliens literally just crash-landed on accident and humanity was like “stay the fuck right there, we’ll take all your shit until we figure out how to deal with exploit you”

    Humanity is always its own worst-enemy

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      9 months ago

      Also, the future of Elysium (also Bloomkamp) looks more and more likely, with the 1 percent fucking off to a luxury space station in orbit and the rest of humanity living in poverty on the destroyed Earth.

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        9 months ago

        Another interesting thing about Elysium is how the AI is programmed to only recognize rich people as humans. Just like rich people think about it.

      • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I am still hoping for a Halo like future, with civil war in space, war against aliens, the threat of a dark and ancient threat and all of that. Or maybe just a Stellaris future with the same but more megastructures