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I am! Thanks for asking! by cool 04/16/2024, 10:40pm PDT
Mischief likes skimming so he can jump straight to another one of his "Hidden Fortress did it first!" moments.

Nobody remembers R.U.R. because Metropolis did it so much better. Just like nobody cares about We because 1984 buried it. Just like Zero Hour is a trivia question because Airplane! was the better comedy.

Holy shit though that takes some major skimming to think that R.U.R. was in the category of "robots as racism", or really any underclass. It's about capitalist efficiency run amok to its logical conclusion of dumping capital as the most inefficient leech of them all with the same cold disregard as they dump labor. It's Skynet, not Bicentennial Man.
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All "sci fi" with magic mind powers is F tier by laudablepuss 04/14/2024, 7:55am PDT NEW
    Sorry this was supposed to be under the hot takes thread. Ffff NT by laudablepuss 04/14/2024, 7:56am PDT NEW
    Re: All "sci fi" with magic mind powers is F tier by MM 04/14/2024, 7:58am PDT NEW
        that guy makes my position sound a little less awesome by laudablepuss 04/14/2024, 8:13am PDT NEW
            Isn't this just a statement of preference for "hard sci fi?" NT by Fullofkittens 04/14/2024, 8:15am PDT NEW
                No NT by laudablepuss 04/14/2024, 8:23am PDT NEW
                    It's like Harry Potter wands instead of tricorders. It's NOT SCI-FI AT ALL NT by laudablepuss 04/14/2024, 8:27am PDT NEW
            Blame L.Ron Hubbard. NT by Mischief Maker 04/14/2024, 12:41pm PDT NEW
                Ok *stops blaming the jews* NT by laudablepuss 04/14/2024, 1:40pm PDT NEW
                    JEWS: NOBLAME NT by Mysterio 04/15/2024, 10:57am PDT NEW
            Most notable in Looper (2012) by Remember Looper 04/14/2024, 5:53pm PDT NEW
                Love me some LOOPER. NT by lololololololololol 04/14/2024, 7:26pm PDT NEW
    What about mind powers that make time freeze so you can have sex with people? by You seem pretty fond of those. 04/14/2024, 8:50am PDT NEW
    The stupidest fucking sci-fi allegory of all time is "robots are the underclass" by fuck an Animatrix 04/15/2024, 11:15pm PDT NEW
        That's literally the origin of the word. by Mischief Maker 04/16/2024, 2:12am PDT NEW
            So it was last relevant over 100 years ago NT by cool 04/16/2024, 8:47am PDT NEW
                riiiiight NT by laudablepuss 04/16/2024, 9:01am PDT NEW
                    I am! Thanks for asking! by cool 04/16/2024, 10:40pm PDT NEW
                        Re: I am! Thanks for asking! by MM 04/16/2024, 10:54pm PDT NEW
                        Re: I am! Thanks for asking! by Jack Bauer 04/17/2024, 6:43am PDT NEW
                It was last ORIGINAL 100 years ago. by blackwater 04/17/2024, 12:39am PDT NEW
                    Still skimming after all these years, MischiefMaker? NT by You're BAD at READING. STOP. 04/17/2024, 8:02am PDT NEW
                        I am EVERYONE! NT by Mischief All-Maker 04/17/2024, 8:23am PDT NEW
            Ideology fight: Robots as Marxist critique of capital vs robots as BLACK SLAVES NT by A brawl is surely brewing! 04/16/2024, 12:10pm PDT NEW
                "By gaining possession of the factory we have become masters of everything." NT by Robots seizing the means of product 04/16/2024, 1:46pm PDT NEW
            Smart fella NT by Wow 04/16/2024, 12:12pm PDT NEW
        "Are they sentient" NT by "That's not the point!" 04/16/2024, 1:43pm PDT NEW
        I agree with you. NT by Feris 04/16/2024, 3:39pm PDT NEW
    There was a lot of new-agey stuff in the 1970s that always had telepaths by blackwater 04/17/2024, 12:37am PDT NEW
 
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