• ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It’s not as bad as you think. Its just the young man a rich older man pays to live a cloistered life and occasionally give blood to the older man in the belief that it will slow or reverse aging.

      They don’t bathe in it or anything.

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        He might actually be the most frightening individual that walks the earth in terms of insanity with influence and power, and I fully realize the gravity of that sentence

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          If it makes you feel any better he also strikes me as the panicky stupid type, y’know the type that thinks they’re super smart cool and collected but collapse like soaked cardboard when a car backfires. Wait no that actually probably makes it worse on a moment to moment basis, upside is whatever plans he does have probably would die pretty violently on first contact.

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        20 hours ago

        That’s a very cruel way to explain what having a blood boy is. They don’t think that. They just think it will keep them young and hot long enough for them to see technology advance to a more sophisticated solution.

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          11 hours ago

          I liked the story, but I can’t stand these movies that are 100% green screened and seem to take place in a perpetual dust storm.

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            You think Fury Road was primarily green screened?

            The majority of what was done was compositing. The stunts, props, etc. were real. The crashing war rig was real, for example.

            It’s one of the things I thinks makes Furiosa worse - much less practical.

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      23 hours ago

      “Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the blood boy in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the blood boy.”

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      22 hours ago

      I hear you, but the best way to learn about this is by watching Silicone Valley. While depressing facts like the existence of blood boys are revealed, the show is net worth it.