Well, at least I can stop buying condoms soon!

I think the UK is on track for 2038 V for Vendetta.

Less than six years until I finally learn how to use the three seashells!

We can only but hope! But not keen on how soon after we'll open a portal to hell. . Liberate me. .

Hey we've got children of men before thatand I reckon there's a not terrible shout of some of the things coming true there.

Stop putting them over your head! You're not howie mandell! That's why your brain hurts. It needs oxygen.

why is this a bar graph lmao

17776 has started

Hold on, are the years listed for The Matrix and Dune right? Isn't Dune like thousands of years in the future? Like so far in the future humanity has forgotten where Earth even is.

Where's my damn free nanite-made granola bars then??

(At this point Taco Bell will be fine dining by Demolition Man times)

Yeah the Matrix isn't right unless there's some obscure comic that clarifies the "closer to 2199, no one knows for sure" line.

Dune is supposed to be like the year 10,000 or something?

They also left off Idiocracy's date, which was 2505 according to the newspaper.

Oh so is that where the 2505 for Dune came from?

Affordability is a hoax. We're gonna make food great again! Soylent Green!

Wikipedia has Zardoz in 2293. I'd say it got mixed up with Star Trek for 2263, except there isn't quite anything set then yet, with TOS starting in 2266 and SNW only up to 2261 or 62 so far.

This graph is missing Johnny Mnemonic at 2021

No I'm on the earth?

Dune is like 10,000 years past the Butlerian Jihad which is supposed to be an existential war against AI and humans that leaves Earth unrecognizable. Even generously that's still not even close to this millenia

No. The Butlerian Jihad is somewhere around 10,000 AD, the first book is somewhere around 20k~25k AD.

Also, in my headcannon Dune and 40k are the same universe and the story of Paul Atreades is how the god emperor came to be.

So you can see how many years long a bar is.

Yes but Paul knows who Hitler is for some reason

That's a really weird way to use graphs. The data being presented is really just a timeline, I don't quite understand the thought process that led to presenting this as a horizontal bar graph. There is no second dimension here, so you don't need a two-dimensional graph.

I was only off by 10,000 years!

I've noticed a lot of carried over themes in 40k, with the cautionary tale of rogue AI making computers untrusted and stuff like that. What I didn't expect is how much the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia movie seemed to influence the first Dune book. That might be a stretch since the movie came out just a year before he started releasing Dune content, but a lot of that fit.

I mean... Lawrence of Arabia was a real person and his story was quite well known. Written into a biographical account in 1926.

It's not a far stretch to think Herbert was inspired by those stories as well as those of the desert rats and fighting forces in the Africa campaigns of WW2, Conrad's heart of darkness and well... Yeah everything in human history up to that point.

Why can't I be in the 5th element timeline? This one is whack. I mean, who even thought it up? Moron gets elected by morons and then proceeds to fuck up every possible thing imaginable. And the morons still cheer! Whack...

in ad 2101, war was beginning

Idiocracy was like 2400 or 2500.

I feel it’s more like this:

This graph sucks. 2084 is listed twice but at different lengths.

Dune is minimum 20k AD. When people say "Dune takes place in the year 10,000", that's 10k years after an event that took place at least after 10k AD.

I don't think Idiocracy would take place after Star Trek. Before, maybe.

I remember everyone making memes about passing Back to the Future. It was so fun cuz it was the 2010s. I don't think anyone made jokes about passing Blade Runner's date, 2019 wasn't a good year to make jokes.

Joe / Not Sure was in the pod 500 years. So it's after most treks: Enterprise 2150s, Strange New Worlds 2250s, Disco 2250s + 3190s, TOS 2260s, TNG/DS9/Voy 2360s and 70s, Lower Decks / Prodogy 2380s, Academy 3195.

That's not even close to right for Dune. What garbage.

2084 is a leap year dummy.

Imagine if they all took place in the same universe. What an insane timeline that would be

In Matrix the uprisal of the robots happens around the year 2000. I remember a scene though where Morpheus explains to Neo something like "You think the year is 1999, but it's more likely we write the year 2199. We don't know it exactly to be honest".

So this could actually be true

Sam Altman would beg to differ.

This is also missint Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four. I forget what year that was though

I'm just saying the society that creates Starfleet wouldn't go down that path.

Come onnn, 12 Monkeys 🤞

I bet it was somewhere in 2010s

The Humans in Zion think it's closer to 2199, but they don't know about the cycle of The One.

In his cave speech just before the rave, Morpheus says they've been fighting the Machines for 100 years. There are people in Zion old enough that that might be accurate for the cycle they're on.

The Architect says this will be the sixth time they destroy Zion. The Machines being machines are likely consistent in their timeline, which would mean that the cycle of The One takes about 100 years to resolve each time.

So the year is at least 2699, but likely later than that when you take into account the earlier, failed, versions of the Matrix before they figured out The One cycle.

There's some weird appearances of contemporary art too. Pretty sure Vincent van Gogh works appear in chapterhouse.

Ok, but why a bar graph??

V for Vendetta in 2038 is eerily similar to what's happening right now. The UK is slowly turning into a surveillance state with all of the biometric scans and digital ID that the government is trying to organize. Oh, and don't forget those facial recognition cameras that are popping up in public places throughout England and Wales.

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-facial-recognition

https://xkcd.com/887/

idk we know egyptian pharaohs it's not that hard to imagine that he will be remembered, especially among politicians and history buffs

I need to learn how to use the three seashells!

Did they choose 2038 because of the Unix date issue?