this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
1848 points (98.7% liked)

Microblog Memes

5881 readers
5752 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] nirodhaavidya 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Humans as a power source was the dumbed-down plot point. The original concept was the human brains acting as parallel processors, but the writers thought the average movie-goer wouldn't get it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know. My point was more about the concentration camp lol

[–] WoahWoah -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's probably the most reposted piece of movie trivia after the Aragorn helmet kick lol

[–] WoahWoah -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Gabu 4 points 1 year ago

That only happened after humans used nukes to block out the sun, eliminating the machine's access to solar energy.