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I appreciate the reply and link! I will just take your word for it, however.

Makes me wonder if "Ass Cancer" is a real thing, but not enough to google it at work.

I said "Presumed immortality". Meaning Moriarty presumed he would live forever. They did not know they were in a memory cube. They had no reason to believe they wouldn't exist forever, as a hologram manifested into reality.

Now if the concept of desiring death in the face of immortality is foreign to you, then I invite you to watch Season 2 Episode 18 of Star Trek Voyager: Death Wish

I meant they'd go insane with their presumed immortality.

Did Moriarty want to be conscious for eternity?

Wow. The amount of physical sets is quite surprising, along with some practical effects like those cactus cubes.

I'm also surprised this film took so long to be greenlit and created, considering The Lego Movie's success ten years ago.

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Not to take this post too seriously, but why wouldn't the holodeck simulate aging, as well?

If growth and aging were not a part of their universe then Moriarty and the Countess would go insane during their "lifetime of exploration and adventure".

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Some of the needles were found to have hollow handles with retractable points, yep, but not all as far as the article suggests. Invariably some needles would have drawn blood, otherwise the "tests" would have been even less credible to begin with.

As credible as such tests could appear even back then, lol.

My apologies for omitting the relevant link below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pricking

I included it as the URL for this post, but also uploaded the image above, thinking both would show up in the post.

I guess the upload overwrote (overrode?) the URL. I'm still learning Lemmy.

Heil?

Now that looks familar... 🤔

Fitting that the Bene Gesserit "Witches" should adopt such an implement to test their own subjects, lol.

The upgraded sprites look like mobile game rejects.

Succinctly put. I feel like the original vision did not intend for them to look so cartoonish.

Starcraft 1 remaster looked so much better, too. Was that done by the same team?

I'm curious how some automotive drivers' developed expectations of license plates to be private. Is this some kind of sovereign citizen initiative?

From the article:

..." ‘Oh, that’s a license plate reader.’ I started seeing them all over the place and realized that they were for the police. And I didn’t like that.”

Of course they're for the police. Why else do these drivers think License Plates exist?

The article does not mention concerns with unwarranted interstate tracking and state authority collaboration, which is a separate issue itself. DeFlock just seems to be about avoiding police surveillance of their cars entirely, which is senseless.