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You're wrong, simp (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Why is he a simp, I don't understand.

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  • [–] [S] 107 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    "Simp" has been in use as Mega-City One slang since the 80s. It is a subculture of people who have checked out of society and act like simpletons. See, for example, Megazine #15 and, more recently Prog 2207. This was really leaned into with Jack Point: The Simping Detective.

    So, he's basically calling Musk a clown.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    In a finer, better timeline, there was a Judge Dredd movie directed by Terry Gilliam

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Now that would have been one Hell of a film! And Gilliam would have had simps in it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Dan Akyroyd as Dredd.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    John Cleese as Dredd (he's future Dirty Harry, so someone tall and rangy works) but Dan Aykroyd could definitely get in as the Chief Judge or perhaps a simp.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    That's a very comprehensive answer, thank you. Although I have to concede that the car does suit the aesthetic of that comic.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    the car does suit the aesthetic of that comic.

    It... really does not. The cybertruck looks like the sad compromise of a too low polygon budget for a 80s game. The JD aesthetic is robust (*) and thick, sure, but not minimalistic.

    (*) to which I mean the extent in that the Cybertruck looks robust.

    Which is just a classic musky thing to do. Say some BS that barely passes the "as long as you don't know anything about what I'm talking about, then it might sound right!"-test, and simps abound to make the bullshit asymmetry even more asymmetric.

    PS: I'm sorry. I have blocking filters for "Elon" and "Trump". Too many fucking morons with megaphones these days.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago

    The cybertruck looks like the sad compromise of a too low polygon budget for a 80s game. The JD aesthetic is robust (*) and thick, sure, but not minimalistic.

    And, like a lot of Carlos Ezquerra's designs, the early Mega-City One aesthetic was very rounded and organic ("bubbly" even).

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Completely missed this extra layer, today I am the simp.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's a bit of a deep dive, especially as there's no page that I can direct you to (online, I bet it's in one of the books I have).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Ive read most of the pre 1980s 2000ADs at one point or another (my dad had his childhood ones on a big box) but it has been nearly a two decades since I read any so my memory has someone faded.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    He's simping for dredd - an explicit satire of authoritarianism and police brutality

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