Imagine you woke up tomorrow and found out you’d been in a Truman Show dome your entire life. How would you feel about the fact that they made the Jim Carrey movie and put it where you could see it?

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[–] 46 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Too boring. Would have been cancelled when I was a boring little kid. Who's going to watch someone play with Legos for 16 fucking hours straight?

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago

    I’d apologize to the viewers that the show has been so dull. I’d probably blame the writers, they obviously hired utter hacks.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Pissed. I'd be pissed. Yall just watched me suffer for decades. For entertainment.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

    I'll be so excited to get compensation

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Ceiling cam is watching you masturbate.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I’d feel really bad for the actors they made me watch die. I'd also wonder how they got the cameras to follow me across the world (twice) without me noticing.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    Where’s my love interest? Why is everything setup to be so shitty in terms of geopolitics and the economy and such? And finally, the viewers better be laughing at my jokes at least.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    If I'd be honest, probably the first thing that I would feel is embarrassment, thinking that the thousand time plus that I beat the meat would look like the movie Shame from 2011

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    Well, anyone watching would already know I'm fucked in the head. So I doubt they'd be surprised when I went on a killing spree for having been violated like that

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  • [–] 8 points 3 weeks ago

    I'd be like "who the f made it like this and who the f watches that"

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  • How would you feel about the fact that they made the Jim Carrey movie and put it where you could see it?

    I don't think the Morisetteian irony of watching a movie that's equally fucked up in its premise as you found out your life is would move the needle much. The rug would've been pulled out from under you and this wouldn't cause more than a wry bored smile a couple of weeks later when the shock has subsided a bit.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    I was raised religious. I always felt that if there really was a God, I existed solely to be a subject of cruel comedy for it. I think if I found out I was being Truman Show-ed, I’d immediately feel vindicated. Then I’d feel incredibly nihilistic and let’s just say I wouldn’t bother trying to escape or let the show continue.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago

    Probably a bit miffed at what absolute shit writers my show had. Cause this sucks.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Laugh at how much money they would have lost, my life isn't interesting at all to watch, it would have been cancelled years ago.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    I'd wonder what happened to the writers since the writers strike in 2007. It's like they gave up

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    id b like .. those muthafukas

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    If I found out today I was in a show, I'd do everything in my power to end the lives of everyone tangentially involved. It would mean my life was already meaningless, so there's no risk in throwing it away.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    We are living it. Right now. Each and every one of us with a phone in our pocket. Except we don't have paid actors doing the work. Everyone is volunteering to post everything that goes on in our world around us and broadcast it.

    "The man held the brightest star in the sky one morning. Then just went to work."

    https://youtu.be/SlQtB9Xuxlk?is=OrtQTZf0G6mU4NX4

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago*

    actually i do sometimes think that life is in some sense a drama (theater stage), and what we perform is often at least as important as what we actually do in reality.

    i.e. there's a whole lot of symbolic interactions throughout the day. for example every time that we speak to someone. it doesn't change reality, but another person's mind, so it's a symbolic interaction.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I've always felt like the best lies have at least two layers. You think you've seen through something and can feel satisfied about it, so now you can stop looking. Otoh there weren't people with "Truman Show psychosis" before that movie and there were after, so maybe it wouldn't have been the best choice.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    That would be the very least of your worries.

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  • [+] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I used to have same imagination in childhood. Interesting thought, and wish it would be so. At least that would explain why everything is turning dark....

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  • [+] 1 point 3 weeks ago