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[–] 161 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Also. Why would an allegory for fascism driving your dumbass tiny pp truck be an endorsement? Why is that something you'd want for yourself?

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  • [–] 89 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (31 children)

    Saw it for the first time in person yesterday and I can confidently say….

    It’s even uglier in person!

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

    I don't know how to explain it, but it absolutely is. I saw my first a week or two ago, and was taken aback by how off-putting it is visually. I thought maybe it'd have an awkward charm, but no, it's just physically uncomfortable to look at.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I saw one in person the other day and physically uncomfortable is a good description. I was trying to describe it to my friends who have only seen pictures and I couldn't stop laughing because it's so much dumber looking in real life. Really just horrible.

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

    Huh. I actually saw one for the first time in person yesterday too. On the way back from a camping trip, in a little village surrounded by corn fields.

    It really i the ugliest car I've ever seen. Including the car Homer designed in the Simpsons.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Couple of weeks ago I saw several, all parked next to each other, in a parking lot. Assumed it was some car club, or people going to some car event. Anyway, seeing them all lined-up like that, made me realize just how out of place they looked. They looked fake, like mock-ups, or something. It was weird. I have seen a lot of very highly stylized cars, lots of specialty vehicles designed for industrial, and military, use and never have I gotten that vibe. The only other time I got the same feeling was when one of the Nolan batman movies was being filmed near where I worked, and they had the "bat" vehicles parked in a private lot I passed, on my way to work. Getting to see them up close, and in person, really made it clear that they were fake vehicles, that required distance, and editing/cgi, to look real.

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

    Interesting to know it’s just my area (which does make sense, it's SF Bay Area), but I see them all the time, multiple a day sometimes.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    There is only one by me that I see somewhat regularly, and oh what a trash bin it really is in person....

    But yeah, don't see a lot here. I do live in a progressive area, but we are surrounded by farmland and maga outside the the townships into the more rural parts of the county. The cyber truck isn't something a farmer is going to ever touch since it's garbage for actual truck tasks, it's a very specific pavement princess vehicle. Around here they actually use their trucks.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'll bet Elon thinks that Dredd would put a Punisher sticker on it too.

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

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

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    oof, nothing like the word of god shutting you down.

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

    Here's a vehicle from the 1995 movie. I think the cybertruck could fit in with something like that if it had some greebles and a matching paint job.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    The only Judge Dredd movie I recognize is the one with Karl Urban, which was sadly under-advertised and didn't make the money it should have..

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    The only Fleetway Character I like that makes me think of Elon is Super Sonic

    And if you know the book, that's not the compliment it would be in any other continuity

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

    Clever comebacks

    You’re wrong, simp.

    oof

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