We're getting to the point where advertisers are trying to capitalize on everyone's cynicism and anxiety over our changing world, and it sure feels like a god damn slap in the face. Some of these are certainly intended as jokes, but when you think about what they're trying to say, are they really? For more alarming Dystopian Images Straight out of an Orwellian Nightmare, check these out.
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There's nothing quit like the satisfaction of making a prediction and ending up being totally right. Okay, maybe it's not so satisfying if it's about being cheated on or your brother's divorce, but it at least feels a little cathartic to have been right. Here are times people got it right out of the blue. For more stories of amazing intuition, here are some times people's "there's something not right about him/her" predictions came true.
Here are some frightening examples of brands sinking deeper into everyday life, rewritten history and creeping cynicism in a changing world. Really makes you feel like pretty soon we'll all be working for the same corporation for 16 hours a day. Yikes.
Ol' Musky is back at it again with news of a flying car (or aptly named, Roadster), being a thing by 2022. Elon Musk shocking Twitter with his status quo-shattering capacity for bringing the world the cool sh*t we thought was reserved for the movies, is nothing new. In this case, we need only ask ourselves, what will he do next to leave us speechless?
Can't unsee/unthink that every time people talk about this super cute robot movie.
Via HK-Devblog
What a time to be alive. The game titled, HK, is still very early in development, but the creators went ahead and posted a Q&A to the game's development blog. And this is what we can tell ya based off that:
The third-person solo adventure game takes place in a dystopian city inspired by Kowloon Walled City (see real world shot below), and it takes place in the somewhat distant future based off the presence of humanoid robots:
Check out one of the in-game screenshots that have since been released:
Sure, the game isn't as far along as we could've hoped; but based off what we've seen so far it looks like they nailed the cat's movements! And the image that was shared for the game back in October 2015 makes it look like the game will be using Unreal Engine 4.
