This graph sucks. 2084 is listed twice but at different lengths.
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2084 is a leap year dummy.
There's also no Mad Max.
What kind of apocalyptic list doesn't include any Mad Max?
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Hold on, are the years listed for The Matrix and Dune right? Isn't Dune like thousands of years in the future? Like so far in the future humanity has forgotten where Earth even is.
Yeah the Matrix isn't right unless there's some obscure comic that clarifies the "closer to 2199, no one knows for sure" line.
Dune is supposed to be like the year 10,000 or something?
They also left off Idiocracy's date, which was 2505 according to the newspaper.
Dune is like 10,000 years past the Butlerian Jihad which is supposed to be an existential war against AI and humans that leaves Earth unrecognizable. Even generously that's still not even close to this millenia
No. The Butlerian Jihad is somewhere around 10,000 AD, the first book is somewhere around 20k~25k AD.
Also, in my headcannon Dune and 40k are the same universe and the story of Paul Atreades is how the god emperor came to be.
I was only off by 10,000 years!
I've noticed a lot of carried over themes in 40k, with the cautionary tale of rogue AI making computers untrusted and stuff like that. What I didn't expect is how much the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia movie seemed to influence the first Dune book. That might be a stretch since the movie came out just a year before he started releasing Dune content, but a lot of that fit.
I mean... Lawrence of Arabia was a real person and his story was quite well known. Written into a biographical account in 1926.
It's not a far stretch to think Herbert was inspired by those stories as well as those of the desert rats and fighting forces in the Africa campaigns of WW2, Conrad's heart of darkness and well... Yeah everything in human history up to that point.
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The Humans in Zion think it's closer to 2199, but they don't know about the cycle of The One.
In his cave speech just before the rave, Morpheus says they've been fighting the Machines for 100 years. There are people in Zion old enough that that might be accurate for the cycle they're on.
The Architect says this will be the sixth time they destroy Zion. The Machines being machines are likely consistent in their timeline, which would mean that the cycle of The One takes about 100 years to resolve each time.
So the year is at least 2699, but likely later than that when you take into account the earlier, failed, versions of the Matrix before they figured out The One cycle.
In Matrix the uprisal of the robots happens around the year 2000. I remember a scene though where Morpheus explains to Neo something like "You think the year is 1999, but it's more likely we write the year 2199. We don't know it exactly to be honest".
So this could actually be true
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Dune is minimum 20k AD. When people say "Dune takes place in the year 10,000", that's 10k years after an event that took place at least after 10k AD.
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why is this a bar graph lmao
So you can see how many years long a bar is.
Yeah you're WAAAAAAAAY off with Dune.
Add a zero and it's about right.
Yeah, the first book is the year 10191 after the founding of the navigators guild. There isn't good (canon) information as to just how far away the founding is from now, but they already had FTL travel by then. The guild just made it safe; they were just raw dogging foldspace before then.
Ok, but why a bar graph??
Dune starts in the 10,000s.
10,000 after the founding of the guild. There's at least another 10,000 before that.
Oh wow, I had forgotten that. Time for a re-read.
V for Vendetta in 2038 is eerily similar to what's happening right now. The UK is slowly turning into a surveillance state with all of the biometric scans and digital ID that the government is trying to organize. Oh, and don't forget those facial recognition cameras that are popping up in public places throughout England and Wales.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-facial-recognition
Tbf, that's been a thing for a long time now. Still feel much freer living here than the US.
But if we're giving it a generous timeline of accumulating effects, then yeah I'd say 2038 is probably accurate for when the other shoe finally drops lol
Democracy in the UK is already kind of dying. At this point the UK government is just doing whatever they want (such as laws which weren't on the manifesto) and completely ignoring the people when they petition against it.
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Oh boy we're almost to 12 Monkeyyyysss!!
Dune is far more distant
I remember everyone making memes about passing Back to the Future. It was so fun cuz it was the 2010s. I don't think anyone made jokes about passing Blade Runner's date, 2019 wasn't a good year to make jokes.
That's a really weird way to use graphs. The data being presented is really just a timeline, I don't quite understand the thought process that led to presenting this as a horizontal bar graph. There is no second dimension here, so you don't need a two-dimensional graph.
Where's Futurama?
(At this point Taco Bell will be fine dining by Demolition Man times)
When is Star Trek?
Yeah, but why is Star Trek?
Imagine if they all took place in the same universe. What an insane timeline that would be
Laughs in Warhammer 40k
Fuck it, let's just combine children of men and soylent green.
Soylent... Men?
Children of Green ?
Y'all acting like I'll let that happen.
metropolis takes place in 2026
That's not even close to right for Dune. What garbage.
Less than six years until I finally learn how to use the three seashells!
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