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Youtuber stupidity and level of suspension of belief make no sense


Just when I thought certain 'respectable' youtubers couldn't get any stupider..

This movie doesn't make much sense anyway, the 'programmer nerd' character is complete opposite of what a nerd would be like. Someone drinking and partying that much, being obsessed with that stuff, focused so much on 'health food' and 'bodybuilding' (well, basically), would not be able to be a 'programmer nerd', let alone genius at that field.

Nerds are best when they don't drink, and when you have programming projects, you can't keep shoving alcohol into your system, or you will never get anything done. A nerd wouldn't also TALK about alcohol constantly, nor would a nerd care about attire, shaving his head so meticulously, etc.

Just giving a jock-thug glasses doesn't make him a believable nerd, so that's already killing the whole story of the movie right there.

However, what bugs me today is that I can't even watch 'movie reactions' anymore, because these !@#&$ airhead youtubers are just too ignorant, uncivilized, uninformed, and downright stupid.

How - just tell me, HOW? - can anyone that is supposed to be a 'rational adult' that has watched 'a ton' of movies, pair-bonded with someone, lives in some kind of 'adult world', look at a 'female-shaped robot' and call it ... an ANDROID?

HOW?!

Do people not know what words mean anymore? It's shocking living in this world, trying to assume people are at least semi-intelligent, but holy cow, do I keep bumping my head against stupidity, ignorance and idiocy from all directions so hard that an average velocity of a meteor would envy the impact, if it could.

I know that doesn't make much sense, but it still makes more sense than adults not being able to write simple english correctly..

(you are NOT nauseous, you are nauseated - look at 'noxous', 'obnoxious', 'inspirational' - those things CAUSE other things to be that, they're not describing things that are that! Nauseous CAUSES nausea, there's no such word as 'nauseating' any more than you can call yourself 'inspirational by a speaker'. WHY is this so impossible even for seemingly intelligent people? Even The Simpsons fell for this, among other TV shows, magazines, 'respectable people' that SHOULD KNOW BETTER..)

..but how the heck do you not know what 'ANDRO' means? These youtubers have seen 'The Matrix', so they should definitely know why the protagonist is called 'Anderson', they should know the word 'misoGYNY', so they should definitely understand the difference between an ANDROID and a GYNOID.

It's like when only one word is used a lot in 'culture' or the world, people forget the other side, that another word to descripte the opposite even exists, it's mind-bogglingly childish language usage and understanding (or even absorption, or should I call it mimicry at this point, since no thought is involved anymore?)

It's just like 'misandry' - a word that WAS used already in the 1800s, but people forgot, because it doesn't fit the narrative. The victim is double the victim, when they are neither allowed to call themselves a victim, nor to talk about their victimhood, and yet they must take all the blame for every bad thing in existence, even though they didn't cause it.

It's perfectly OK to be racist and sexist, as long as the race and sex are certain so-called 'majorities'. I guess people relate this to poor people bashing the rich, but it's not the same thing at all, it's pretty much the opposite.

In any case, please stop being stupid, introducing characters that make no sense, misrepresenting nerds (only fewer than a handful of movies represented nerds accurately, correctly and in a way that shows understanding of them, one of them being 'War Games' from 1983 - Melvin could NOT be more of e nerd. Compare him to this movie's beardy thug and you'll see what I mean - ONE THING IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER THING!).

For the love of everything that's still good, please learn how to write simple english words correctly, please understand what words mean, and PLEASE stop calling GYNOIDS androids! How the F do you nake this mistake? I just can't understand how a brain can work with such low awareness and still function in life.. how do you make this mistake, not see it, and are still able to go out and buy groceries?

It makes NO sense to me.

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