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George Orwell’s 1984 as a ’90s PC game has to be seen to be believed (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Does 1984 simply mean "dystopia" now?

What, you expect people to read? To be familiar with a piece of media before they reference it?

At this point there's been a meme for years about people misusing it.

[–] Vikthor 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What, you expect people to read?

So what you are saying is this is more like Fahrenheit 451?