We’re coming from different places, but I’m the one out of the loop here.
Where I’m coming from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality?wprov=sfla1
Where you’re coming from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminal_space_(aesthetic)?wprov=sfla1
The Prestige is a movie where Wolverine and Batman fight in a battle of who is the best magician. David Bowie makes a teleportation machine for Logan to teleport across the entire theater to the shock of the audience.
But we learn that the machine is not a teleporter, but a distance copier–the original Logan still remains on the pad while his copy stands across the expanse, beaming triumphantly down on the amazed audience. Logan rigs a trap door for his original self to fall through and drown every night, and every night, he never knows if he will be the one to die or the one to live.
I thought it started off as some abstract anthropology/psychology thing.
Liminal hallway is semantically overloaded in that all hallways are liminal.
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Did the arsonists also go through hudreds of acres of wood and brush with blow-driers, or was the susceptibly to wildfires a natural consequence of climate caange?
Any companies building guillotines I could invest in?
In that interpretation; the boss just agrees with what his company’s HR is putting out, so it would really be a non-meme…
Cryptocity where the streets are paved with blockchains and the mayor is AI.
It also has some damn good music… somewhere over the rainbow and if I only had a brain are bangers, and Judy Garland was a touchstone for gay boomers…
Understanding references was part of the draw, too… if I keep seeing a reference to something, I want to watch it. The biggest problem is being unaware that something even is a reference. The Simpsons DVD commentary is eye-opening in that regard.
Huh. Do you particularly care about movies? I think I’m old enough that movie history (watching the classics) was a pretty common hobby… these days, I guess people are patient gaming and there’s a lot more anime to catch up on, on top of all the scrolling.
Yeah, but isn’t it in the pantheon of Movies Everyone’s Seen like The Wizard of Oz and The Matrix?
Is there a word for memes that totally lack the context of their original images to the point of being opposite the intention of the creator?
Because I think the next scene is Ledger’s Joker setting that pile of money on fire.
I got away from Microsoft two years ago, so my references are out of date.
I haven’t noticed, but my grocery store recently limitted their cash back to $40, so you have to split your purchases into separate transactions until you have the cash you want.
And I guess that’s the opposite problem that for-profit products have, so desperate to maximize every marketing dollar that every fucking thing has the same name in it even if it’s a fundamentally different product.
Microsoft Outlook is the poster child of this in the software space.
The true comparison is someone getting into work at 7am to work on a project due for a meeting at 10am and two of those hours are waiting for a mandatory Windows update to install.
I think they got rid of the mandatory updates, tho, largely because the updates were breaking the OS…
but anyway, I think the meme might be pointing at the issue of consent.
That’s the reason protein has always been popular.
It’s even more popular today beause GLPs, the weight loss drug that actually works, cut our caloric intakes so severely we might not get enough protein.
What you’re seeing with all these high-protein foods is a society adjusting to spending their food budget on pharmaceuticals.
Honestly, I see UFO stories as just the same imaginative human instinct that brought us saints & demons. They are definitely linked.
Tip: Some stores, realiizing you can return a product and re-buy it at the current discounted price, will retroactively price match themselves within the return window.
But the movie also has Alfred!