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Franchises are a farcical mirror of religion in many ways, which is why I advocate de-Disneyfication after the revolutionPener Kropoopkin posted:A franchise where one company that can dictate canon isn't a mythology, it's a property. That's just organized religion. Bob Iger is a modern day Constantine
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:imo the only good thing about the new star wars flick was the name “babu frick” nah there were a few good things, all only due to prop design people trying to do something with this garbage Breakfast All Day posted:Somehow all the people talking how bad this was didn't prepare me for how bad it actually was. Good things (exhaustive list): had to look up my own post because christ was that poo poo forgettable
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get that OUT of my face posted:these two tweets aren't 100% related to this talk about "consumerism as identity," but it's close enough to be relevant Yeah, this is more a sociology tangent, but the way I've heard millennials talk about relationships... well, more how all generations now talk about relationships is through exclusively marketing terminology, including calling friendships "networking" and talking about intentionality and a bunch of other buzzwords. The real word element is how that hits religion, where I've seen generally good dudes worried they're not meeting some salvation quota with their ministries, as if something like religious conversion is a marketing process instead of an organic one. Every single bit of our thinking, even supposedly separate areas like friendship and religion and love, has been utterly twisted and warped by capitalism.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Culture is shaped by the purse strings, and the vast majority of what's on offer comes primarily from institutional nepotism cases who grew up indoctrinated with bourgeois values culture is a dancing baby yoda
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Do you think someone could do that Percelus? Combine elements of the dancing baby and the baby yoda?
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https://twitter.com/lodgepolepines/status/1211830091182936064 Tim is one of the good ones btw
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Culture is shaped by the purse strings, and the vast majority of what's on offer comes primarily from institutional nepotism cases who grew up indoctrinated with bourgeois values Daisy Ridley comes from a wealthy family and went to a prestigious acting school, Lena Dunham's parents were both established in the art world, Robin Thicke's dad was an actor (he was also babysat by Wayne Gretzky), Lana del Rey's dad is a music executive, Taylor Swift's dad is some finance guy with music industry connections... that's just off the top of my head and there are many other examples lovely society makes lovely culture
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Im watching return of the Jedi now and a) what the gently caress is this musical number Lucas you hack b) the  doesn't have subtitles for Jabba lol
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this entire shitstorm with the new trilogy makes me so, so glad that i didn't really care too much about Star Wars in general growing up. i watched the first six movies solely because everyone else was
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gradenko_2000 posted:RoS was Keri Russell's best performance since Mission Impossible 3 gently caress you, "Waitress" exists. If we count TV, so does The Americans
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get that OUT of my face posted:this entire shitstorm with the new trilogy makes me so, so glad that i didn't really care too much about Star Wars in general growing up. i watched the first six movies solely because everyone else was At this point it’s kind of a wonderful universal experience though. We’ve gone so far down the nostalgia culture rabbit hole that the bad reboots and remakes far outnumber the good, so assuming there was SOME media product that you sincerely enjoyed as a kid, one of the For many who are currently insulated from the immediate suffering of our corporate hellhole, it’s probably meaningful as some sort of roundabout confrontation with the fact that current system can’t even get the circuses part right and that the bread is probably soon to follow. From there, you either evolve and see how this minor issue speaks to a broader fundamental flaw in our society, or you spend the rest of your life talking about politics in terms of Harry Potter.
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get that OUT of my face posted:this entire shitstorm with the new trilogy makes me so, so glad that i didn't really care too much about Star Wars in general growing up. i watched the first six movies solely because everyone else was I came to this from the opposite perspective where I got super into all the bullshit when I was a kid and am thus OK mentally writing out the huge chunks of it that suck
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StashAugustine posted:I came to this from the opposite perspective where I got super into all the bullshit when I was a kid and am thus OK mentally writing out the huge chunks of it that suck  Been doing it since 99, it's second nature now.
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the only bit of nilfgaard you see in the show is an archeological dig where its evil culture is on full display: free alcohol and conscripting smug mages they show b-roll of cintra getting sacked every time nilfgaard is mentioned so you don't forget theyre the bad guys
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StashAugustine posted:I came to this from the opposite perspective where I got super into all the bullshit when I was a kid and am thus OK mentally writing out the huge chunks of it that suck
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get that OUT of my face posted:i should also mention that the only new Star Wars movie i saw was Rogue One, and that was because i went there with my sister and her (now ex) fiancee. didn't really wanna watch the rest You made the right decision
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I liked Star Wars in high school and I read all the books, but I was also very aware this was not a cool thing to do because it was the 1990s and the worst thing was to be a nerd, so I never told anyone. Now it's apparently cool to like Star Wars and everyone is just watching the movies and talking about them all the time and not getting ridiculed for any of this?? What the frack!
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the best thing about "Toss A Coin" bein popular is it means we'll get more Dandelion-Geralt interaction in S2, the best relationship in every medium in which the series has been presented
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Bro Dad posted:the only bit of nilfgaard you see in the show is an archeological dig where its evil culture is on full display: free alcohol and conscripting smug mages the black guy who studies archeology tells her that everyone is being fed and don't have to starve and yen is like yeah but it sucks later Yennefer stands there listening to de Vries while she says a little belief will make men do the worst things imaginable. Hey Yen, remember when your king tried to have you assassinated because his wife gave birth to a girl? And they killed the freaking baby?
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nikosoft posted:I liked Star Wars in high school and I read all the books, but I was also very aware this was not a cool thing to do because it was the 1990s and the worst thing was to be a nerd, so I never told anyone. Now it's apparently cool to like Star Wars and everyone is just watching the movies and talking about them all the time and not getting ridiculed for any of this?? What the frack! https://twitter.com/aquariusacquah/status/1210595050415104001
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A drat good tweet, Ken.
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Postmodernism being all 'everything is actually secretly communist and subversive' kinda seems like a desperate reaction to the stark lack of actual leftist themes in media since the brutal suppression of anything left of Reagan and now actual communists are getting to make media it's become pretty redundant, with all of the last generation's woke subversive allies turning out to be impotent centrists
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nikosoft posted:Great, so basically I will never be cool. if you grew up in the 90s and are only now coming to terms with this smdh
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Cool for our generation were just whichever kids stumbled on a marketable fad first
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once upon a time in Hollywood it good I like how Pitt’s character took every externality for DiCaprio’s poor decisions, and on a clear class basis curious why liberals disliked the film 
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nikosoft posted:Great, so basically I will never be cool. Embrace being a trash failure, like me. Hobocop forever.
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baby yoda became an internet sensation for the same reason that puppies and cats do, it speaks to the yawning void inside millennials wherein they know they'll never have a family of their own
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Dr. Killjoy posted:once upon a time in Hollywood It portrayed Bruce Lee as an rear end in a top hat and beaten by a white man! (never mind that Lee was a bit cocky and it's totally plausible that a fit, former Military stuntman could hang with am elite martial artist). It portrayed violence against women (who belonged to a cult that commuted murders to ignite a race war). Identity is important, but it can be blinding. As a Latino, representation is important, but context is doubly important.
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I think this belongs in the game thread, but the outer worlds is pretty good if a bit generic and on the nose with its dangers of hyper capitalism message. That Spacer's Choice jingle will never leave my head.
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Bro Dad posted:the only bit of nilfgaard you see in the show is an archeological dig where its evil culture is on full display: free alcohol and conscripting smug mages Cintra isn't really portrayed as the good guys either considering they massacred the elves because they wanted to not starve to death. Cintra is also largely considered to be expendable and the only reason the northern kingdoms does unite is because they're afraid that Nilfgard won't stop with Cintra. Everyone is the bad guys in the Witcher.
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Probably Magic posted:Yeah, this is more a sociology tangent, but the way I've heard millennials talk about relationships... well, more how all generations now talk about relationships is through exclusively marketing terminology, including calling friendships "networking" and talking about intentionality and a bunch of other buzzwords. The real word element is how that hits religion, where I've seen generally good dudes worried they're not meeting some salvation quota with their ministries, as if something like religious conversion is a marketing process instead of an organic one. Every single bit of our thinking, even supposedly separate areas like friendship and religion and love, has been utterly twisted and warped by capitalism. Whoever you're hanging out with are a bunch of weirdos cause I'm millennial and me and my friends and hell even my enemies do not use marketing speak for romance
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get that OUT of my face posted:these two tweets aren't 100% related to this talk about "consumerism as identity," but it's close enough to be relevant the culture gen x and boomers grew up with was complete dogshit
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