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fascinating hunger games is having such a cultural resurgence given how shitty everything in our world is. i love the series but christ every scene is dark and depressing

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Feels prescient, at the moment

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Didn’t a new Hunger Games movie just hit theaters? I assumed most of this stuff was a result of their marketing campaign…

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It’s probably not that. People just like to reference things that are culturally relevant.

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it’s all a direct ripoff from a japanese book and movie…

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ואין כל חדש תחת השמש

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אמא שלך חדשה תחת השמש

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Which one?

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Battle Royale

Except Battle Royale is a lot darker.

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Nah, they’re different genres. Hunger games is a power fantasy. Battle Royale is horror.

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it’s the exact same story, slightly reframed… and then sequelized

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The shipping containers make it so much more dystopian, and calling it “The People’s Park” is just bad writing, even for schlocky YA fiction.

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Even more dystopian if you know the park’s history

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I do, but I was writing from the perspective that it was invented for the Hunger Games.

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I’m sorry, I didn’t intend to imply that you didn’t.

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…but why

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Berkeley wants to turn the park into housing and I guess they hope the wall will keep protesters out.

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Surround the park with shipping containers, and done! It is now 100% dystopia appropriate housing!

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Berkeley wants to turn the park where homeless people are staying into housing for homeless and undergraduates… While refreshing 60% of the park.

Why are people upset about housing homeless and undergrads? Is this some NIMBY shit but people dont think it’s NIMBY because it’s their park this time?

https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/

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Obviously people are upset because public space is being taken away for this.

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May the odds be ever in your favor.

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