General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Chris]

They're like "yeah I heard this one town down a way with the lottery, could you imagine? These young rebels these days are trouble"

 

[Butters]

I can't remember did the stoning turn out to be a twist in the story or was it known the whole time?

 

[Samoa Looch]

I mean the short story, you don't wanna win that one

You don't know me, man

 

[Chris]

I can't remember did the stoning turn out to be a twist in the story or was it known the whole time?

it was the twist at the end, but if you pay attention you can assume the winner isnr getting a good thing, but they're so casual about it you don't assume it's fucking death

 

[Comrade Khan]

that concept been co opted a lot ig

 

[Comrade Khan]

battle royal is a similar concept

 

[Samoa Looch]

See... I would want to win that one

 

[Butters]

Video games[edit]In the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas, a location in the game, Vault 11, takes inspirations from the story, with a main difference being a tangible threat instead of the superficial threat of a bad harvest.[21]

 

[Chris]

The point is pretty on the nose of not blindly following tradition

 

[Comrade Khan]

just more than one person wins the lottery and then u fight it out

 

[Samoa Looch]

As much as any lottery

 

[Butters]

yeah, i believe the hunger games was inspired by it

 

[Samoa Looch]

Video games[edit]In the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas, a location in the game, Vault 11, takes inspirations from the story, with a main difference being a tangible threat instead of the superficial threat of a bad harvest.[21]

I mean... there is a lottery in a town, but the winners to get to survive (or die less horribly), so it's not that much of the same idea.

 

[Samoa Looch]

The point is pretty on the nose of not blindly following tradition

Oh well, here's WRESTLEMANIAAAAAA

 

[Samoa Looch]