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It’s capitalism :marx-guns-blazing:
Am I the only one who likes having long video essays to listen to while playing video games or doing chores? It means I have to alt-tab less and it’s something to listen to while my friends are at work or whatever
i do it with pirated audiobooks. let’s me keep listening to something all day with no ads. also i finally got some bluetooth headphones so i don’t have to run around with my phone on me, and someone tries to talk to me i can just pause by pressing the button on the side of the headphone.
Every JRPG boss battle is a reenactment of the most glorious moment in Japanese history (the expulsion of the Christian missionaries in 1622.)
Take a look at the concept art for Kefka’s outfit and tell me it doesn’t look like slightly camped-up 17th-century Papal regalia.
God is the first ‘boss’ we must defeat within. I read (idr where) interesting take of this from the western standpoint in Greek Mythology as a sort of economics take Saturn (ancient societies) defeating his parent Uranus (collectivist ancient societies) and in turn getting defeated by his child Zeus (artistocratic-feudal-and budding bourgeois society).
That is bullshit. I hate the idea that every myth is supposed to map to some very real thing that happened. And calling any iron age civilization “budding bourgeois” is asinine. You can’t get that until complex steel tools emerge that significantly reduce the amount of labor needed to work a field, so feudal living becomes unsustainable.
No argument there, not to mention myths can speak to cultural symbols of multiple eras, get re-cast, forgotten and irrelevant, etc. I thought that was neat seeing some lib academic tying symbolism and economics together, though as you point out they fail their history of production pretty hard.
weird feeling that that question might not require 90 minutes of video essay to answer
