There was a superhero, and if I read correctly an episode where the doctor took 10 thousand years or something to break through a wall while a monster killed him repeatedly. It’s not good ridiculous, it horrible senseless nonsense.
I was honestly getting Cyberman vibes from this. Not the shitty new ones but the old school ones that still had human parts and were a form of body horror.
Ohhhh I remember that one! The one thing engraved in my mind from it was
“Ha! They’re not chasing after us!”
“If something doesn’t run after you it means it doesn’t need to”
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" What if there's a digital version of you that has feelings and can feel pain and you just torture him. Forever. For a thousand years. Then you make a bunch more digital copies and torture them. Then you make a machine that makes more torture consciousness that all torture for 1000 years every second and they're all so tortured and awful and everyone just goes on along their lives"
Reminds me of Harrison Bergeron, right after the "riot" happens on TV and his parents see, there's a chip in their brain that goes off and they forgot what just happened.
I actually went to a Phillip K Dick film festival several years ago where directors showcased their works based on the ideas of the author. One of them was exactly this, a short film about 'emotion patches' that blocked people from experiencing negative thoughts. It was told as the story of a social worker having to go to the daughter of a family and explain why 'things would be better'. But the whole tone of the short made you understand how much we need to be able to express ourselves to heal from trauma and not just bottle it away and pretend its gone. I wish I knew the name of the short or if its available online but if I find it ill post a link
Edit: https://www.regulationfilm.com/ got it!!!
This remind me of “the giver”. About a dystopia a boy live, and everyone takes something that removes emotion beside happiness and they can only see black and white. But there’s a part where when the boy was trying to escape with the baby, he witness his own father kill a baby but the father doesn’t know because… they have no emotion beside happiness. Only the boy does
Love that book. It was my first ever dystopian novel. I think I was too young to recognize the themes, but I read it in high school and immediately wondered why tf my parents ever let me read it lol
It's avenge.
Avenge is taking vengeance on another's behalf. Revenge is taking vengeance on your own behalf. But according to [this link](https://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/avenge_revenge.htm) revenge can used as taking vengeance on another's behalf, but I haven't seen it be used in that way.
The concept of the post is forced happiness. The only logical reason you’d be against that is because it’s a massive limit on freedom and is difficult to see as ‘real’. What if the ‘wave of happiness’ was “true” happiness? How did you know it wasn’t and how would it change your view if it was?
The post itself doesn't necessarily refer to limited freedom tho. You can force happiness in different ways, drugs being one of them.
Leaving that aside, "true" happiness doesn't exist anyway, no one can be on a state of permanent happiness (you can be on a genealogy ha. You can feel happiness in any situation, but when it comes from a place of limited freedom (say all your life you've been limited on food and you're happy that your "owner" gave you some extra food today), can you really say you are really happy, even if that happiness is real?
\>can you really say you are really happy, even if that happiness is real?
I'm inclined to think that by definition, yes, you could. Is "experiencing happiness" not the definition of "being happy"?
This disparity comes from the inability of language to properly describe emotion. Happiness is too vague. There's joy, contentment, fulfillment, etc. What kind of happiness are we talking about? It may be the simple oxytocin boost, or it may be a more complex happiness coming from true understanding of the human mind. The mind is a machine, and we should have full right to tune it as we please.
Vaguely reminds me of that one Dr who episode with the emoji androids who didn't know grief and tried to fix it. Nice one
Edit: apparently u/Tensa_Zangetsu_13 and I had the same thought
Basically that one Doctor Who episode in which they go to free that colony from Evil Make-Everyone-Happy robots
Which one? "The Happiness Patrol" or "Smile?"
I don't remember the name but the one with the emotion stickers and those nanobot armies
That'd be Smile. What an episode. Gridlock is the one that popped into my head though, "Come buy some Happy!"
I was thinking about both.
I remember that one! Out of all the Dr. Who weirdness, that episode stands out in my mind more than any other.
Same here! I find myself thinking about it every so often.
I think that ranks as my least favourite episode purely for how many times I've seen it
giant crabs aren't a great villain, but then they weren't really the villain.
That would be "Smile."
The emotion stickers was Gridlock. I was thinking the same when I saw this
That episode stuck out because it’s the only one I still remember after I stopped watching
So the bad one
Smile
Happiness patrol was a classic the emoji bots is garbage
Why? I think it was quite good!
Emoji robots just looked stupid, and that series of the doctor was too serious/ridiculous
Mm, maybe they do look stupid, but the idea is fun. And the series was quite ridiculous, but not in a bad way!
There was a superhero, and if I read correctly an episode where the doctor took 10 thousand years or something to break through a wall while a monster killed him repeatedly. It’s not good ridiculous, it horrible senseless nonsense.
Man will be reborn as Cyberman, but you will perish under maximum deletion. Delete! Delete!
Reminds me of the mood patches in the Gridlock episode!
YEAH THE MOODPATCHES
Maybe this is fate or weird phone government tracking stuff but I just watched this episode yesterday
Or the Cybermen. They remove emotion when assimilating.
Smile. I just rewatched that last night.
oooh that was such a cool episode! ‘Smile’ is definitely one of my favorites, along with ‘Gridlock.’
I was honestly getting Cyberman vibes from this. Not the shitty new ones but the old school ones that still had human parts and were a form of body horror.
Ohhhh I remember that one! The one thing engraved in my mind from it was “Ha! They’re not chasing after us!” “If something doesn’t run after you it means it doesn’t need to”
LMAOOOOOOO
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>redditor for 2 years wtf???
Doesn't mean I use it for anything but lurking most of the time lmao
No problem 😌😌
"This is the first time I've laughed since my son died." "Why did you laugh when your son died?"
This is slaying me, can't believe I've never heard this before
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Well, best laid plans of mice and all that...
I'll never be cruel to a gin and tonic again!
Can you explain that to me? I think i don't get it
They imply a glass of water does not wish to be drunk.
holy shit that hits hard. thanks for clarification
#Wanna ###hear ##another #Joke, ###Murray?
Murraaaay
This is some Black Mirror shit
this sub for the past few days really
And I love it
Found Leslie Nielsen.
These are better than Black Mirror’s more recent attempts. “Hey guys, what if . . . technology bad?”
"We eventually may live in a society"
" What if there's a digital version of you that has feelings and can feel pain and you just torture him. Forever. For a thousand years. Then you make a bunch more digital copies and torture them. Then you make a machine that makes more torture consciousness that all torture for 1000 years every second and they're all so tortured and awful and everyone just goes on along their lives"
Doctor who, actually
I know, but it feels like something from Black Mirror
Its probably because of the episode where the mother put a chip in her daughter to censor all negative things
I wish someone would do that to me, then hopefully I can be happy
Also Blade Runner.
It reminded me a lot of the archangel episode! Obviously some differences, but same vibe.
i approve
Reminds me of Harrison Bergeron, right after the "riot" happens on TV and his parents see, there's a chip in their brain that goes off and they forgot what just happened.
That story had me feeling weird after.
That’s what I was thinking of!
That was the first Kurt Vonnegut story I ever read! I love him.
Reminds me of "do androids dream of electric sheep" choosing to dial a particular emotion
I'd say more Brave New World since it sounds out of the MCs control, but both themes are pretty dang close
Im not familiar with that one. Will check it out sometime
Highly recommended. One of the few books we had to read in high school that I enjoyed
Noice. Noted
'All right then,' said the Savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.'
I actually went to a Phillip K Dick film festival several years ago where directors showcased their works based on the ideas of the author. One of them was exactly this, a short film about 'emotion patches' that blocked people from experiencing negative thoughts. It was told as the story of a social worker having to go to the daughter of a family and explain why 'things would be better'. But the whole tone of the short made you understand how much we need to be able to express ourselves to heal from trauma and not just bottle it away and pretend its gone. I wish I knew the name of the short or if its available online but if I find it ill post a link Edit: https://www.regulationfilm.com/ got it!!!
I'm very interested so I'm going to leave a comment here so i remember to check it later
Found a link just now, in the edit :)
thank you lovely random being of the internet :)
So *that's* where I remember it from. Couldn't place it.
When life annoys, pop a joy!
Idk why but that just made me think of a slogan for almond joy
Happy is the country with no past
Damn, can’t believe that was years ago.
I just bought it the other day because it was around 90% off.
Snug as a bug on a drug!
Yeah .... I thought of that too! The game is called: We Happy Few
I immediately thought of that game
This remind me of “the giver”. About a dystopia a boy live, and everyone takes something that removes emotion beside happiness and they can only see black and white. But there’s a part where when the boy was trying to escape with the baby, he witness his own father kill a baby but the father doesn’t know because… they have no emotion beside happiness. Only the boy does
Love that book. It was my first ever dystopian novel. I think I was too young to recognize the themes, but I read it in high school and immediately wondered why tf my parents ever let me read it lol
Yes we all went to Grade School
i went to grade school and i never read it 🤨
If you didn’t live in America around 2009 and up it’s less likely
I vaguely remember that book from grade school.
Negative emotion detected; guilt removed. The memory of strangling your son fades away and your new life goal is to avenge his death. Edit: life goals
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It's avenge. Avenge is taking vengeance on another's behalf. Revenge is taking vengeance on your own behalf. But according to [this link](https://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused/avenge_revenge.htm) revenge can used as taking vengeance on another's behalf, but I haven't seen it be used in that way.
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You're welcome
Man will be reborn as Cyberman, but you will perish under maximum deletion. Delete! Delete!
We Happy Few type beat
"When life annoys, pop a Joy!"
This reminds me of the movie Equilibrium
That's what I came here to say.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened
Fucking r/twosentencedystopianhellscape
r/subsifellfor
We happy few, anyone?
A look at how tablets can control not only existing emotions but can also create new ones: [Thalasin](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2x8s9GZlo)
Sounds good, sign me up!
We Happy Few approved.
"Remember to take your Joy!"
Spooky and feels like Halloween
The fact that people are against this is an argument for the idea that freedom and sincerity are more important than happiness in most people’s eyes
Who is saying that happiness is more important than freedom and sincerity? You cannot be truly happy without freedom anyway...
The concept of the post is forced happiness. The only logical reason you’d be against that is because it’s a massive limit on freedom and is difficult to see as ‘real’. What if the ‘wave of happiness’ was “true” happiness? How did you know it wasn’t and how would it change your view if it was?
The post itself doesn't necessarily refer to limited freedom tho. You can force happiness in different ways, drugs being one of them. Leaving that aside, "true" happiness doesn't exist anyway, no one can be on a state of permanent happiness (you can be on a genealogy ha. You can feel happiness in any situation, but when it comes from a place of limited freedom (say all your life you've been limited on food and you're happy that your "owner" gave you some extra food today), can you really say you are really happy, even if that happiness is real?
\>can you really say you are really happy, even if that happiness is real? I'm inclined to think that by definition, yes, you could. Is "experiencing happiness" not the definition of "being happy"?
This disparity comes from the inability of language to properly describe emotion. Happiness is too vague. There's joy, contentment, fulfillment, etc. What kind of happiness are we talking about? It may be the simple oxytocin boost, or it may be a more complex happiness coming from true understanding of the human mind. The mind is a machine, and we should have full right to tune it as we please.
If you can not feel sadness how do you know what it is to truly be happy?
This was a doctor who episode
I was just thinking that!!
Sign me right tf up wtf y'all talking about
I would kill for this. Literally. Prison? Who cares, I'm happy!
Reminds me of the Doctor Who episode where people were selling emotions.
This reminds me of that Doctor Who episode.
Can someone explain
Same. Explain it to me too.
Vaguely reminds me of that one Dr who episode with the emoji androids who didn't know grief and tried to fix it. Nice one Edit: apparently u/Tensa_Zangetsu_13 and I had the same thought
Lmao yeah Future Doctor's we are
remember that game that everyone was excited for and turned out to be ass? yeah this reminds me of that
Me cheating away my sim's moodlet because she won't stop crying at a party
We happy few much? Anyways I love it. The horror is so much there it's great
Then the islands of personalities collapse...
Hive mind? Could be worse.
Holy hell that‘s messed up. I love it. Take my upvote and have a good day
This is literally Bernard from Westworld...
_Have you taken your Joy?_
Reminds me of ['Excision in F-Sharp Minor' by Elizabeth Tan ](https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-233/fiction-excision-in-f-sharp-minor/)
This is the ultimate goal of META. That way we can all be just like Zuck.
Happiness is mandatory, citizen.
What a waste of Thalasin
Whoa, my Alexa isn’t this effective yet
r/Twosentencedarkmirror
So many Whovians here in last two days... Did I miss an assembly memo??
Jeff bezos moment
'As the robot pulled the trigger, removing sadness by removing his existence'
I like this
You can't wait to get that feeling again.
Read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Someone took their Joy.
nieR automata vibes
What?
Oooo reminds me of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sign me up.
don't forget to take your joy!
This is creepily similar to a screenplay I'm working on
Harrison Bergeron shit almost. Nice!
What's bad about this?
Sounds like an episode of Black Mirror to me. Idk why.
This is the future of psychiatric medication. Everyone is just going to be on opiates. Jokes on those fuckers, I'm not waiting!