What exactly are ice going to do with robot dogs? Because I’m reasonably confident that they make for pretty bad law enforcement machines. As far as I understand it they’re pretty light and I could just pick it up and run away with it if it became a problem.
Do the right realise that they are on borrowed time and all they’re doing is arming the left?
Anyone seen the black mirror episode “metalhead”?
Combine that episode with “Men Against Fire,” and we’ve got our near future.
Throw in a little bit of presidential pig fucking for fun.
Side note, I rewatched 15 Million Merits a couple weeks back and goddamn there was a lot I forgot about that one. We may not be powering a generational space ship with exercise bikes, but holy shit did it nail worker exploitation, classism, and consumerism. And the banality of it all.
The end is absolutely brutal on so many levels.
The end is hilariously dark because it’s so self referrencial to Booker’s previous work on Newswipe/Screenwipe.
Daniel Kaluuya’s final monologue is absolutely channeling Brooker in his Screenwipe era.
I found the arc of his love interest (Jessica Brown Findlay according to Google) to be even more depressing than him selling out.
Seeing her drugged up (I had completely forgotten about the “Cuppliance” drug they forced on her before going on stage) in the porn ads was heartbreaking.
And on top of all of that, being forced to watch them because he gave up all of his credits. Before he sold out of course. And what did he sell out for? A slightly bigger flat with a TV screen that looks like a window. Cool.
I’ve never seen Newswipe or Screenwipe, but I’ll have to check them out. I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve seen from Brooker.
I don’t know why I immediately thought about Deathshead (from Wolfenstein), but whatever
I really hope I get a chance to encounter and take out one of these motherfucking robots.
How do they hold up against an aluminum baseball bat
I’d rather try a net made of wire cables.
Long stick with a high voltage power supply attached to make the robot go zappy zap.
The ones used by the military do basically the same thing: carrying supplies in terrain a wheeled or tracked vehicle can’t navigate through.
They wanna put guns on 'em, too, tho.
We somehow went from inventing robot dogs to carry groceries to developing genetically modified dogs for battle. Apparently humanity looked at man’s best friend and thought: nice, but could it be a defence contractor? At this point the only species that really needs obedience training is ours.
Obedience seems to keep getting us genocides and wars, can we try some kind of constructive disobedience next please?
What do you think the robot dogs are for?
The real selling point is a machine that follows orders without hesitation, doesn’t question authority and never files a complaint. Pretty much the ideal employee for an authoritarian government.
