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NaissanceE is a fantastic inversion of the tried and true image triple A dev smiling assurance to the consumer that of course they can climb that mountain, of course they can explore that city. It’s a grand presentation of paths you cannot take and horrifying, looming structures dripping with brutalist surrealism which you certainly cannot enter. Even the correct paths feel as though you shouldn’t proceed. It is, in short, a stunning simulation of the alienating horror of the modern cityscape.

This is the only environment that could have insulated Harry Potter from total critique for so long. stereotypes of the site always hinge on parodies if overly judicious teens slamming the hammer down at anything that could possibly be construed as “problematic,” but this is only one minor element of a broad cultural landscape. Much to the contrary, the site is remarkable for its capacity to absorb critique, to neutralize it.

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The culture of fandom on tumblr is still such a unique thing because I’ve never seen such exacting and overwrought defenses of media. It’s a cult of fandom. Nerds deploying every trick and phrase they have at their disposal to say that actually lord of the rings isn’t problematic or doesn’t bear x or y qualities. It’s remarkable.

Using Adorno’s critiques of children’s toys in Minima Moralia as the foundation of my reading of Jentha vast Error

It’s the exact same as the subject of A Serious Man. A movie packed with meaning, with allegory, cultural allusions and deep abiding symbolism, while spitting in the face of attempting to understand it literally. Homestuck is much the same. Fuck every handwringing question about plotholes and outcomes. Fuck makin and his stupid request for a complete guide to sburb. Fuck every attempt to kill meaningful mystery for the sake of a taxonomic autopsy of lore

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This is the much more delicately phrased version of how I actually feel about classpecting which is less suited for a post and more for an extended inarticulate rant including the phrases “stupid fucking reddit le rationalism” and “banal literalist Lore obsessed bullshit”

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I just wanna be one of those Bolshevik sailors who was the core of their support in the early years of the revolution and were absolutely adored by the party then got absolutely wiped out the second the German imperial army rolled in

youtube.com/watch?v=07FdNR6ikH ANYWAYS stan motorama this is one of the first tracks that got me to start getting into russian post punk

Say what you will about candle cove but there’s a really interesting reading of willful or perhaps structural parental ignorance of the trauma of their children. These kids have such an active imagination, making monsters out of white noise.

Idk even if you have problems with the prc it just seems strangle to readily believe the words of companies with a vested interest in ramping up hostilities with them

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We’ve come to distrust the results of tobacco company funded studies on the benefits of tobacco so why are so many people falling over themselves to believe the “journalistic reports” on the internal affairs of the people’s republic of china ran by think tanks funded by Northrop fucking Grumman

about to started saying pwned in normal conversation so watch out

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