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Errr...BEDSORES!! Discuss....

posted 13 years ago by terryperring104
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Whilst being an entertaining flick, there are many snags and flaws. i think many of them have already been covered, So I wont drone on about them.
But there is one main thing that bugs me: All the users/hosts would very quickly get bed-sores from laying down on a fairly hard looking couch all the time. These would become infected and would turn nasty. Patients who are immobile in hospitals require turning and padding with pillows, very frequently. Without this sort of care, sores and ulcers would quickly ensue. I wish they had covered this snag.

[–] beckynot 13 years ago

Their surrogate could come and turn them over. I'm sure those chairs are very ergonomically designed, though.

[–] terryperring104 13 years ago

I thought that, just wish they had included it in the film, then I would have been satisfied.

[–] Xardas 13 years ago

Eh, people 'unplug' everyday to go to sleep, eat, take a dump, etc.

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[–] max_demian 13 years ago

The whole matter of body functions of the human 'operators' was glossed over. I expected them to be in flotation tanks like in Matrix, or at least to have tubes in and out.

I can't see them parking their surrogates every couple of hours to eat and piss and *beep*

[–] VonKorzen 13 years ago

In one scene a surrogate is "turned off" for a while because the operator is in the toilet.

[–] sat-elite 12 years ago

Flotation tanks have their own problems.

[–] cranialsi 12 years ago

As in wrinkly akin, well that's only in salt water ranks. A sensation suit could insulate you weightless from osmosis but the muscle wastage would be horrible and you tend to go into lucid dreaming after an 2 hours in a tank.

[–] Arseweb 10 years ago

Surely the lucid dreaming is a result of sensory deprivation, wouldn't come into play here.