While walking along in desert sand, you suddenly look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over onto its back. The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not helping, Adam, Why?
Do you people get some weird, illogical enjoyment out of assuming that someone with slightly different opinions or methods than yourselves are assholes who would torment shelled animals?
I honestly don’t understand your rather aggressive reaction. Why would they get enjoyment from those assumptions?
From how non-sequitur this comment was, I assumed it was a reference to Blade Runner. So, not having seen Blade Runner, I did a quick Google search and looks like I was right, it’s used for something called the Voight-Kampff test (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Voight-Kampff_test_questions).
I have never seen Blade Runner either, so if my reaction -was- a line from Blade Runner, I did not mean for it to be. I received a question about a tortoise, in which it was presumed I was the one who flipped it over and would refuse to right it, after I proclaimed that I did not like egg rolls.
Regardless of what it was referencing, to someone unfamiliar with the source, the tortoise ‘question’ comes across as a presumption of jackassery. Thusly, when I proclaimed I do not like egg rolls, and somebody asked that ‘question’ of me, the immediate impression is “I am being treated as a villain because my tastes differ form theirs”.
I almost fell off my chair when I saw Stargate SG-1 use this in a personality test in one episode. Vala’s response: “Why aren’t I helping? Because I am a turtle too.” I never stop laughing at that one.
That was the version they played in the movie theaters originally. Besides, the director’s gone through more than 20 versions of the movie–He makes Lucas look like a piker when it comes to not leaving a finished movie alone.
I’ve read Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, so that helps me remembering somewhat. But if my memory of this movie is anything to go by (and for your sake, I really hope it isn’t) I expect chunks of The Fifth Element with a bit of Total Recall (the Verhoeven one) to grace this page in the foreseeable future.
While walking along in desert sand, you suddenly look down and see a tortoise crawling toward you. You reach down and flip it over onto its back. The tortoise lies there, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs, trying to turn itself over, but it cannot do so without your help. You are not helping, Adam, Why?
I wouldn’t let him. I should be enough for him.
What’s a tortoise?
Do you people get some weird, illogical enjoyment out of assuming that someone with slightly different opinions or methods than yourselves are assholes who would torment shelled animals?
I honestly don’t understand your rather aggressive reaction. Why would they get enjoyment from those assumptions?
From how non-sequitur this comment was, I assumed it was a reference to Blade Runner. So, not having seen Blade Runner, I did a quick Google search and looks like I was right, it’s used for something called the Voight-Kampff test (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Voight-Kampff_test_questions).
Or was your reaction also a Blade Runner reference? That one is trickier to Google for.
I have never seen Blade Runner either, so if my reaction -was- a line from Blade Runner, I did not mean for it to be. I received a question about a tortoise, in which it was presumed I was the one who flipped it over and would refuse to right it, after I proclaimed that I did not like egg rolls.
You mean this? https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/thats-how-i-roll/
That was a Blade Runner reference too. See the last panel.
Regardless of what it was referencing, to someone unfamiliar with the source, the tortoise ‘question’ comes across as a presumption of jackassery. Thusly, when I proclaimed I do not like egg rolls, and somebody asked that ‘question’ of me, the immediate impression is “I am being treated as a villain because my tastes differ form theirs”.
You haven’t said anything about egg rolls anywhere in this comment section, though…
And the original comment was a top-level comment, not a reply to you.
I was referring to my previous experience with the ‘question’ with that egg rolls remark, sorry for the ambiguity.
I almost fell off my chair when I saw Stargate SG-1 use this in a personality test in one episode. Vala’s response: “Why aren’t I helping? Because I am a turtle too.” I never stop laughing at that one.
” All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. “
I’m not sure what year you are living in, if you’re going to “rent” a copy.
I’ve never actually seen Blade Runner, so this is going to be interesting for me.
If you are watching the one that has Harrison Ford speaking narration, you have the wrong version.
That was the version they played in the movie theaters originally. Besides, the director’s gone through more than 20 versions of the movie–He makes Lucas look like a piker when it comes to not leaving a finished movie alone.
Did you have a dream about a unicorn recently? Are you older than four years old? When was the last time you remember having an emotional response?
I’ve read Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, so that helps me remembering somewhat. But if my memory of this movie is anything to go by (and for your sake, I really hope it isn’t) I expect chunks of The Fifth Element with a bit of Total Recall (the Verhoeven one) to grace this page in the foreseeable future.
Inasmuch as the future is foreseeable, of course.