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2049 and the dreams of Philip K. Dick
- justshowpost 5y ago[flagged]
- dang 5y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and posting flamebait/unsubstantive comments. Could you please not create accounts to do that with? We're trying for a different quality of discussion here, to the extent possible. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- errcorrectcode 5y agoSpoiler alert: Deckard is a replicant.
- dane-pgp 5y agoIt would have been better to rot13 that.
- muterad_murilax 5y agoHey, thanks for ruining the movie for me!
- errcorrectcode 5y agoSomehow, I doubt it. :)
- joemaller1 5y agoThat... was far better than I was expecting and somewhat redemptive of BR'49. Worth the long read.
- tudorw 5y agohaving had a recent spiritual experience I have a new found respect for the man who showed me what the mind can do
- crate_barre 5y agoHe was a full blown functional amphetamine addict. Some artists really are something else on drugs, can’t really take away all the stuff he made on it. Someone else can go vet this, but found this with quick googling: Afterward, according to Kyle Arnold’s biography, he was taking speed by the handful. “He stuffed his refrigerator with thousand-pill jars of amphetamines” and “told his mother he consumed a thousand-pill jar per week.” There’s a fine line with all of this, and he is lucky he didn’t enter full paranoid breakdown (that we know of). Zappos CEO pretty much operated in the same way and it got his life. YMMV, for real.
- yeetaccount3 5y agoI hope those were the small pills
- bserge 5y agoGoddammit, where do they get all of it? Is it just for rich people? I'm fine with breaking the law for it, but I still can't get amphetamines.
- blamazon 5y agoPKD himself wrote a semi-autobiographical story (“A Scanner Darkly”) about mental breakdown due to drug use. It’s a haunting book and the feeling it evokes has stuck with me since I read it about ten years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Scanner_Darkly As with many PKD stories, it was turned into a film, which although I have not seen it, is technically notable for being entirely rotoscoped.
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- TruthWillHurt 5y agoMust it be 2049? Can't we go with 2048? Makes me uncomfortable. like this {
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- questiondev 5y agosomeone had to do it, thank you. ;
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- ctdonath 5y agoThat makes me uncomfortable.
- jamesjansson 5y ago( doesn't even fix it
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- tdsamardzhiev 5y agoYou monster.
- zabzonk 5y agoThe article has interesting things to say about Nabakov's "Pale Fire", but perhaps does not stress sufficiently that, like Dick's novels, it is very, very funny (and tragic); if you haven't read it (and others like "Lolita" and "Pnin" and his autobiographical work, "Speak Memory"), you owe it to yourself to do so! At the least, you will have some laughs.
- aschearer 5y agoSuper good read, thanks for sharing. Very thought provoking.
- pkdpic 5y agoSuper long, but seriously love it so far. Best 2049 analysis Ive come across :^)