Ziegebock [he/him]
I remember that once I tried to explain to a skeptical friend about how Rockstar Games contain some interesting commentary and satire of American Society that you just don’t get from mainstream television and film, and that this content is experienced with more immersion. For whatever reason the example I led with was that GTA V’s map is separated rather distinctly between the urban core and the barren rural desert, and that whereas in the city you can listen to public talk radio talking about upcoming elections and the death of culture, in the country you can listen to conspiracy theorists and shows with nationalist and religious themes. While both are lampooned, I thought that it was an interesting artistic choice to set up media echo chambers to illustrate that we don’t share a common media environment in this country and that the ideas that we’re exposed to are largely driven by class and demographics, taking what are already divisions and exacerbating them. For a game that came out in 2013 I feel that there’s a lot in there that’s prescient, if not valuable for understanding the zeitgeist of American culture of that decade.
Sick! consider checking out “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” or that Adam Curtis Documentary on youtube “The Way of All Flesh”.
Wasn’t their like plot arc over a few books where they get a new kid to be an Animorph, and over a few books he goes from just cocky to being an absolute psycho so they make him change into a snake and prevent him from changing back, thus trapping him in that body. I think they then left him alone on a small island full of rats. Thanks, your post reminded me of that weird fucking series I read as a child.
r/politicalhumor has the worst popularity to quality ratio I’ve ever encountered. like, their frequently on the front page of reddit, but with posts like this or something like “well actually it was you who was foolish for supporting a President who would go on to incite a failed insurrection.”
absolutely no sense of humor or grand view of what politics actually is.
back in the Clinton 90’s he got some infamy points to repeatedly referring to Chelsea Clinton as “the White House dog”
He said a number of truly racist things (too many to numerate), like old timey racist uncle stuff. Like he said that basketball teams should really be called gangs, and that watching football was like watching the Crips v the Bloods, and once said that American Slavery was actually just an anomaly in our history, since it wasn’t so bad, really, and we only had it for less than a hundred years after 1776, and that really America was so less racist than the rest of the world because we fought a war to end slavery.
He once said that while White settlers killed a lot of natives in colonizing North America, Native Americans probably killed way more white people globally by introducing us to tobacco nicotine, and therefore whites are the real victims of genocide. This is a view I believe he said out of pure sophistry, since he was also quite vocal for most of his career that tobacco didn’t cause cancer, and that liberals who said it did were contributing to American pussification.
Secure the bag.
If they’re Iranian “proxies” doesn’t that mean that they aren’t Iranians by definition? you know what? I’m going to post this to r/Syriancivilwar and see what engagement it gets.
Every time I think about how I miss a more vocal Virgil on Chapo or Bad Faith, I feel disquieted at the prospect that there’s some internal strife between the Chapos and that they’ll never really admit it publicly, leaving us only to guess as to why they don’t play so well with one another anymore. Then I start to think that I’ve developed a parasocial relationship that’s probably not ideal and that I need more relationships in the meat realm.
Whatever their shit is, I hope they work it out, but no good can come from getting emotionally invested in this. Sucks that there’ll never be another tabletop gaming episode though.