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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

All dome related content is actually a ripoff of an old children's board game called Trouble.

[-] Blep@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Trouble is just a simplified ripoff of ludi/parcheezi

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

The genre peaked with Biodome.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

You know....

IIrc the ending of Stephen King's Under the Dome

spoiler

was just some alien kids playing games. lol.

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Yes

[-] 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Blue Curtain Theory but it's about low men in yellow coats

theory-gary You see, the yellow coats symbolize the author's closeted fear of Dick Tracy. Also that he really needed to pee.

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

What if the hearts in Atlantis are just the beams we broke along the way?

[-] ephemeral@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

yes but the Simpsons Movie was a ripoff of "A View Through the Window", an episode of the 2001 horror anthology series Night Visions

idk if anyone will get that reference but that shit freaked me out as a kid

[-] splendidsadiks@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Would you say it's worth a watch for the vibes or anything

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