What was the point of the baseline test in Blade Runner 2049?
The department doesn't treat K like everyone else. He is basically a second-class citizen.
What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love?
INTERLINKED
To identify incels (interlinked)
CELLS
Making sure he’s baseline and not feeling feels
To dehumanize replicants.
Remember that scene when he was walking in the hallway and that cop told him off and he moved out of the way with his head pointed down like a submissive animal? The test makes sure he stays that way.
Test mods are faggots test
if he fails they can dismantle him
interlinked
Recite your baseline.
Let's begin.
Jews.
Have you ever noticed things are off in the world? Jews.
>Jews.
Do you ever notice coincidence? Jews.
>Jews.
Have you ever been in an institution? Jews.
>Jews.
Do they keep you in a cell? Jews.
>Jews.
When you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box? Jews.
>Jews.
Coincidence.
Have you ever noticed things are off in the world? Coincidence.
>Coincidence.
What's it like to hold in your hands a new video game? Coincidence.
>Coincidence.
Do you long for the latest capeshit? Coincidence.
>Coincidence.
Do you dream about coincidence?
>Coincidence.
Have they left a place for you where you can dream? Coincidence.
>Coincidence.
Do you feel that there's a part of you that's missing? Coincidence.
>Coincidence.
Within Jews coincidence.
Why don't you say that three times?
>Within Jews coincidence.
>Within Jews coincidence.
>Within Jews coincidence.
Constant K...
You can pick up your shekels.
zoomer "banter"
WITH INCELS INTERLINKED
as expected of one of ((((((THEM)))))
obsessed
K's full baseline is an excerpt from the third canto of Pale Fire.
When he first reads it in its entirety at the beginning of the test it establishes a baseline to innocuous stimulation, like a lie detector test first asking you banal questions like your name and favorite food. He's then made to recite excerpts of that excerpt after emotionally stimulating questions that may exasperate him, and the response is compared to that of the baseline. The clever part is that sometimes the otherwise innocuous excerpts of excerpts segue into meta questions that would throw the test subject for a loop and make it difficult to cheat. Before having to recite 'cells', they'd ask "when you're not performing your duties do they keep you in a little box" in direct relation to the word 'cells'. Before having to recite 'interlinked', they'd ask "what's it like to hold the hand of someone you love" in direct relation to the word 'interlinked'. He eventually fails when he's so overwhelmed by everything happening on top of him feeling trapped in his miserable life and dubious romantic situation.
So it's not a mere reference, it's completely engrained into the films narrative and expands upon it.
Also "Pale Fire", as a title, is a reference to a Shakespeare line about how the moon is really just a pale image of the sun, which in BR2049 is a metaphor about how K (or Joi or any replicant/AI really) is viewed as a pale image of a person.
Hope that helps.
It was a language teaching technique called Total Physical Response.
What's it like to live in a society?
god, I hate this dumb movie so fucking much
Which part don't you understand?
He probably doesn't understand any of it, that's why he's lashing out. That's how the mind of a redditor works. When he desperately searches for the downvote button and can't find it, he instead whines and appeals to authority, which also doesn't work here.
I understand it all, its just a dumb waste of time
honk honk
studio wanted something to establish a franchise continuum so they had their jobber make his script monkeys whip something up
>I can do that I just don't want to
The mind of the eternal redditor
What's it like to hold the one you love?