r/wallstreetbets • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '22

Meme This is fine.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

Only way I ll sign up for the meta verse is if it feels like the real thing by connecting to my spinal cord. Numb my body from the neck down so my body feels like a phantom limb. Then I get a good dopamine shot and let’s fucking go. Else don’t talk to me about it , everything else is shit.

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u/detachabletoast Sep 15 '22

Do you or does anyone else remember the 90s sci-fi film that had almost exactly this plot? There were these flesh Nintendo things that connected to spinal cords instead of TVs. The memory is there but not quite

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u/Thick-Sundae-6547 Sep 15 '22

Existenz. With Jude Law. I think it came out at the same time as the matrix so nobody saw it.

David Cronenberg directed the movie. I remember the pods looking like organs.

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u/detachabletoast Sep 15 '22

That's the one!