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That was very memorable. Of all the books it could happen to, it had to be that one.
by userbinator 2y ago
That was very memorable. Of all the books it could happen to, it had to be that one.
- wirthjason 2y agoAfter I downloaded Fahrenheit 451 my hard drive caught fire.
- 867-5309 2y agoshortly after pirating Three Body Problem my homicide count tripled
- goatlover 2y agoThat's not what the countdown only you can see, the blinking stars at night, or the hyper realistic VR game with no power source meant ...
- hardlianotion 2y agowot
- LocalH 2y agoMine tripled too, and I've never read or watched it. Good thing it was zero to start with
- MollyRealized 2y agoI downloaded 2001 and I'm sorry Dave I can't finish this comment
- dotancohen 2y agoAnother memorable - and scarily relevant - example was Disney changing the content of some purchased video content. I think it was a Star Wars spinoff, where a user noticed something amiss and the fix was retroactively edited into already-purchased content. That is _exactly_ the type of rewriting the past that 1984 warned us about. This could be - or is - an ultimate form of gaslighting. If it's not on your hard drive, you can never be sure that what you're seeing today is what you saw yesteryear.