I don’t know why, but looking at the picture of the pod makes me very uncomfortable. There’s a certain uncanniness to it, like you’re looking at a picture of an SCP, or something that you shouldn’t be looking at, something that violates some unspoken law of nature.
It’s a device with the sole purpose of facilitating the death of the person inside. It’s not a gun, whose sole purpose is to destroy, but can also be used to defend oneself. This is an image of death in its purest expression, and yet it looks like a ship from F-Zero. It’s a Maserati for dying. The ultimate product, in every sense. This is the end goal of capitalism, to turn even death into an expression of luxury.
Yeah, I was completely mortified by the actual design of the thing. PAD is good but there should be no bazinga “glory” aestheticized out of such a decision. It’s revolting.
Having a Carl Sagan quote on the side is oddly demonic too, I know redditors used to get annoying about him like 10 years ago but I feel he wouldn’t have signed off on this shit.
