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A Boring Dystopia

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This nation has devolved into Tragicomedy.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It'd start good, but then there'd be chapter after chapter of exposition about the Sumerian language.

As someone who loves linguistics, you're just saying that it starts good and then continues good. :-D

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who genuinely enjoyed Snow Crash from cover to cover and it makes me wonder if my media literacy is suffering

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 16 hours ago

So it improves.

Good.

Hard to find movies that do that nowadays.