HARRISON, Ark. — Local ICE agent Pete Drurey was honored to arrive home to a hero’s welcome from his AI girlfriend after serving four grueling weeks terrorizing citizens of the Twin Cities, confirmed sources actively avoiding the lonely loser.
IIRC the programming not only made them see the undesirables as literally alien monsters, they also had a whole simulated happy life going on for them.
The episode ended with the protagonist being released from service going home to his nice home and loving woman, which is then revealed as still being part of the programming, showing him in peaceful bliss, alone in a wrecked, rotting poverty home.
This is somehow supposed to give you comfort about the future like yeah life sucks but at least you won’t have to deal with it because we have this great tech that masks reality! But really life will just suck an even if we have that tech it will only be used as a weapon or to give trillionaires brain jobs
IIRC the programming not only made them see the undesirables as literally alien monsters, they also had a whole simulated happy life going on for them.
The episode ended with the protagonist being released from service going home to his nice home and loving woman, which is then revealed as still being part of the programming, showing him in peaceful bliss, alone in a wrecked, rotting poverty home.
I somehow completely forgot the second part, I gotta rewatch it again
This is somehow supposed to give you comfort about the future like yeah life sucks but at least you won’t have to deal with it because we have this great tech that masks reality! But really life will just suck an even if we have that tech it will only be used as a weapon or to give trillionaires brain jobs