would it be too extreme say nerdy spaces / fandom can be very anti intellectualism? like i genuinely don't know what else call this "too woke" "fiction has zero correlation on its real world context" "let people have fun and ignore the serious themes on a story" approach.

'Fortunate Son' (1969) by Creedence Clearwater Revival was written in 20 minutes in a fit of rage after the band learned that David Eisenhower - grandson of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower - had been removed from the Vietnam War draft list due to his family & status

Por la mañana celebra intervenciones militares para robar recursos y por la tarde llora en el cine al ver Avatar, una película que habla exactamente de eso. Son raros 🥴

People say, “I don’t need to read fiction.” You absolutely do. The world is currently being run by rich, antisocial, amoral men who have never opened a book, and you need only look around to see the damage it’s caused. Empathy & curiosity are vanishing because people don’t read.

stranger things fans gaslighting themselves into believing in a secret 9th episode is kind-of an amazing demonstration of how something like QAnon occurs on an inoffensive micro-level. once you're infected with the conspiracy brain, you see it everywhere

The zombie apocalypse is so beloved in the U.S. because it represents a "rewinding" of the land and permits the population to imagine themselves as the primeval settlers exterminating the hordes of "useless" creatures that have no Lockean claim to the earth

Reading "we wanted to make a casual experience any player can enjoy" in the development history of Monster Hunter 1 is such a great reminder that the conception of this series as being originally "hardcore challenging" is very silly.

most parents don’t support talent till they see money

If you can’t defend your wife from your parents or siblings, you never deserved to be a husband in the first place. That’s not “RESPECT TO FAMILY” that’s cowardice. The moment you let them disrespect her, you chose comfort over character. You chose silence over protection. A real

It's really tiring to see people call old game difficulty "hardware limitations". It's all "limitations breed creativity" until that creativity filters you. Then it's "clunky".

A documentary will be made about Conformity Gate. And it's really not about Stranger Things. It's about fans demanding they get from their entertainment exactly what they desire. It's about conspiracy theories & how they spread online. A microcosm of so much going on right now.

Angell

“You can pet the dog” for animation

Overheard: "It took four blocks and five years to go from kneeling on a black man's neck to shooting a white woman in the face"

The last worker in the US who knew how to make Tubas is having his union job shipped to China by hedge fund billionaire and Trump advisor John Paulson who made the TV rounds to defend tariffs as a way to bring jobs back to US

At the end of the day, most discussions on games end up being being depressing because even many ardent supporters of "Games are Art!" sneer at you if you treat them as such. Thinking deeper than a surface level about games is ridiculed by the average gamer.

I think she's feeling a little lonely #hamillust Gorgeous art done by Sitraell || commissions open