> If you don’t know what OpenCode is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript and the face is everything we have learned about security and systems software since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s.

I nominate this for a Bulwer-Lytton prize in the Tortured Metaphor category.

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evnp a day ago | parent | next [-]

"There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever."

George Orwell, 1984

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saghm a day ago | parent [-]

That would be an example of a non-torturted metaphor. When you copy the famous quote verbatim and then substitute both parts of it for things that are almost entirely unrelated, it becomes tortured.

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beepbooptheory a day ago | parent [-]

Is that right though? I feel like "tortured" is usually used more when one term is overly specific/over-fitted to the other. I've never heard it used like this, where it's about its provenance?

Not that anyone really cares here, but the gp quote isn't even really fundamentally a metaphor either way, its an exhortation to "imagine". The Orwell isn't even a metaphor!

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wren6991 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you don't know what OpenCode is, imagine a dark and stormy night.

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		Referring to the top comment on yesterday's submission for Terranc McKenna psychadelic bad trip. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968515

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jareklupinski a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

perhaps if the boot were Rust it would crumble in the face of Bare Metal

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xg15 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

As tortured as you will feel after using OpenCode!