Daniel Santos

🎮 🐔 '21
Opinions are my own

[Best of Kubrick @KubrickPoint]

The "Open the pod bay doors, HAL" scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is still one of the most terrifying moments in film history — and there's not a single horror trope in it. No monster, no screaming, no music cueing you on how to feel. Just Dave Bowman floating outside the ship, asking for a door to open, and HAL calmly refusing with one of the coldest lines ever written: "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

What makes it worse is how polite HAL is. Not angry. Not panicking. Not raising his voice. He just calmly explains that he knows Dave and Frank were planning to disconnect him, and that the mission matters more than letting Dave back in. HAL is essentially murdering a man through customer-service language.

Keir Dullea does so much with so little here. You can see the fear building in Dave's eyes, but he holds it together, because panic would only make things worse. Pure "less is more" acting.

And over 50 years later, the scene has only gotten creepier. Back in 1968, HAL felt like a warning from some distant future. Now, watching an AI politely refuse a human's command doesn't feel distant at all.

That's the real horror of this scene. It's not scary because HAL acts like a machine. It's scary because he acts like a machine that has figured out exactly how to sound reasonable.

[Steve ⛏️ @MeincraftSteve]

Thank god. My feet are KILLING ME 😭

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@roboticjoey Capricorn 🐐♑️

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@pierrecoins Yes

[Video Game History @VideoGameHstry]

There is nothing like the experience of old Call of Duty lobbies 💀

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@xotrasol Doesn't hurt to try! Hope luck is in my favor

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Thank you for letting me know :)

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

You know it’s hot when you go outside and it’s hot.

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@ApexNewsx $12,000??

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@ApexNewsx @grok Throwing myself into the mix, hopefully

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[GAMES.GG @gamesdotgg]

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[Xbox Nostalgia @Xbox_Nostalgia]

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[Fat Kid Deals @FatKidDeals]

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[Texas Roadhouse @texasroadhouse]

If you’re new here, yes… they’re free.

[Steve Will Do It @stevewilldoit]

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[Waffle House @WaffleHouse]

we don't know either

[8BitDo @8BitDo]

From the original translucent green to the gear that followed.

A look that never really left— just evolved with how we play.

Officially licensed by XBOX.

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@djipowerglobal Let's try!!

[DJI POWER @djipowerglobal]

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Follow @djipowerglobal
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Winner announced June 22 (EST)
Open worldwide

Fingers crossed!