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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Like so many dystopian stories, the real life version that eventually comes about is more cringe and shitty.

Compare a decades ago EvilMegaCorp as presented in fiction to the Steve Jobs-emulating ukulele-strumming hellworld corporations burning the planet down around us while trying to seem insincerely quirky about it.

Ultor in Red Faction was evil and all that, but imagine if Ultor was Le Epic X and all of its maneuvers were narrated by an aging very divorced apartheid dad. my-hero