a) I wonder how many people decided whether or not to watch a video with this title based on their current beliefs.

b) Imagine a dystopian future in which bigots are so discriminated against, they're not even allowed to marry other bigots for fear of raising bigot children. Wouldn't that be unfair.

c) I'm so smug that I upvoted this. Smuggety smug smug. Yeah, but at least it's better than being a cunt. To use the vernacular.

According to gizmodo, almost immediately after the ad was released people had changed the page to include ingredients such as cyanide, toenail clippings, and "medium sized child".

agreed,but this skit is almost an exact replica of the black mirror episode,but with comedy.

the black mirror episode was dystopian as FUCK.

*edit:maybe i should have waited till the end to comment.
me and my impatience...

oh come oooooon.
i lost a WHOLE point because of that?
i was just showing support for these two excellent comedic performer!
so i was a little quick on the comment trigger...
i lost another half point?
for being honest?
how am i ever going to get invited to social events now?
jesus,you fucking people are judgmental twats..

no no..i take i back,i was just frustrated...if you would just..if you could maybe..
awww...
great,i just got fired from my job.
seems it is company policy to not have any employees who are rated less than a 3.0..

anybody need a foot massage?
@dag ?
need those tired dogs to get some enoch lovin?
i could really use a boost from a 4.8.
i'll do your dishes..
wash your car?

where you going?
stop running away!
come on man..help a brother out..

anybody?i'll touch your naughty parts for free,just give me a good rating.
nobody has to know...
anybody?

Nobody knows that want to be an x or y when they are 11. It's easy to look back in hindsight and say "I never needed to know quadratics", but maths is absolutely critical to a vast number of academic areas and skilled trades. How do you give everybody the opportunity to become, idk, an engineer, without a lot of what you teach becoming more or less useless to most others. It has to be a broad curriculum which narrows as you progress because either you have to allow kids to make decisions about their futures for which they really lack the experience or knowledge to make, or you are allowing schools to effectively close off career paths for their students which is fucking dystopian because they'll just do whatever maximises their success rates.

For the things Dave wishes he was taught...well some of them are actually offered as subjects in some schools e.g. Economics. For the others, well, I work in Adult Education and we do actually do a lot of the things school misses. For example, we have courses for single parents (particularly young/teenage mums) on how to budget effectively etc, all funded 100% by the tax payer. It's an area that actually survived the latest budget and that we've been asked by Ofsted to expand, so, you know, it's not completely ignored, its just not really delivered by schools.

I liked it but the whole film needed more Max (dystopian, low on water, low on oil, low on order, seemingly endless wasteland)... less McMarvel (smooth scene stitching, endless action). I mean all the cars are in pretty good order because there is order in the wasteland this time around

Hah, "had it coming"?

Do you jerks consult with Jesus and the Grim Reaper before murdering unarmed, no-threatening citizens?

The worst type of person is the type that can't admit when they are WRONG.



Have you ever seen the movie Judge Dredd? You would LOVE that movie.

"Joseph Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in the dystopian future city of Mega-City One.

He is a "street judge", empowered to summarily arrest, convict, sentence, and execute criminals."

William Gibson wrote about this future too...
Anyone remember his vignette on "Cops in Trouble"?
From his book, "Virtual Light"...

Nicely Dystopian...

The reason we live in dystopian future... today... Excellent fan video released on the internet, stirs up a reinterest in a shitty old intellectual property, people who profit from this buzzes response? Take the video away from the masses. F U, aholes.

I just... I get it, but it doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel like the internet I voted for! lol

Holy amazeballs. I never really considered this dystopian world. Time to write some Power Rangers dystopian erotic fan fiction while this is still hawt.

we'll see what happens once most jobs are 'efficiency-ed-out', unlike in the industrial revolution now you're not just seeing mechanization becoming faster at specific tasks, robotization is becoming more and more flexible, which means that as it goes on more and more broad categories of jobs will go by the wayside.

Just think of when in the endless quest for profit the moment it becomes more cost effective to switch to, say, self-driving delivery trucks and entirely automated fast food, how many millions of people will that put out of work? and what are they going to do?

I don't blindly subscribe to dystopian scenarios, but I also don't blindly subscribe to platitudes like "horse buggy whip factories disappeared and we were just fine", this is something we need to address as a society somehow (via basic income maybe, or some other way)

Another rant from the harbinger of doom. I believe his followers gain succour from his dystopian views because it gives them an excuse for the shortcomings in their own lives. OK, that's a bit strong, but the fact is, no matter what figures you want to analyze, never in history have humans been so fortunate both in health and general well being. Generally, each generation lives longer, is better cared for and enjoys a better quality of life than the last. Is it perfect? No. Will it ever be? Probably not. Do we care enough about our third world cousins? Again, probably not.
I never quite "get" what Chomsky's real problem is. Is it Multinationals? Media? Government? Corporations? It seems to be all of these, and a whole lot more. North Korea would be a good place for him to rail against evidential control, injustice and a true dystopian existence. Here we are allowed to take advantage of education, free thought and certain rights. In short, to make the best of things. I suggest he, and his followers, do the same. Moaning on, and on, and on about this awful, oppressive existence we suffer in the west, really gains no sympathy from people who live in places where they would love the chances Chomsky seems to take for granted.

What Frank Miller's Batman is. What Batman could be. In the movies, Robocop rules!

Anyone here read Frank Miller's RoboCop VS. Terminator?

Long story short, similar idea, everything is f'ed, but this time RoboCop's consciousness is hiding deep within Skynet, waiting for his time to strike. If you like smart but action driven dystopian SciFi, I highly recommend.

You thought correctly. What a blast.

Even despite your recommendation, I expected it to be a run-of-the-mill action flick. Mucho pow pow, cheesy zingers everywhere... the usual. So it was all the more captivating when it turned out to be a proper dystopian cesspool of desperation.

When Dredd lured a group of them to a terminal, covered them in what looked like Willie Pete and set half the quadrant on fire -- that's cold. And if I didn't know Lena Headey to have quite the rock 'n roll personality, I'd be worried by how naturally the persona of an ice-cold murderer seems to come to her. Both Urban and Headey, now that I think about it. Very disturbing indeed.

Anyway, great recommendation, would have never touched it otherwise.

And again, reality beats any dystopian fantasy hands down.