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George Orwell’s 1984 as a ’90s PC game has to be seen to be believed (arstechnica.com)
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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does 1984 simply mean "dystopia" now?

What, you expect people to read? To be familiar with a piece of media before they reference it?

At this point there's been a meme for years about people misusing it.

[–] Vikthor@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What, you expect people to read?

So what you are saying is this is more like Fahrenheit 451?