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February 27, 2024

Aaron Bushnell: assessment, and online reactions (TikTok Zoomer carelords vs. Twitter Millennial ironycels)

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First an assessment of the US Air Forceman who self-immolated in front of the Israeli embassy in DC, to protest his being called to duty to ...
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January 23, 2024

Wide-ranging thread on shoot 'em up video games, vidya in general, and Japanese vs. American aesthetics

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Might as well put a new post marker here, since the comments section for the last is getting a bit long. I'll be adding post-length-comm...
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December 12, 2023

Venetian ethnogenesis and its role as the creative hotbed of the Italian peninsula after the fall of the Roman Empire

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I've been trying to write up various posts on describing and tracing the history of striking visuals in cinematic history, having been m...
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November 13, 2023

Thoughts on Hardcore (1979) by Schrader: Manic Pixie Dream Girls, thriller vs. action "rescue" movies, and complex / useful vs. simple / superfluous violence and nudity

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I wrote another post in the comments section on an unrelated topic, which I'll copy-paste into a new post, because search engines don...
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November 8, 2023

After non-Halloween October, skipping right to New Year's Eve, eliminating Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Christmas, as American imperial collapse wipes out its major holidays

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It snowed a bit on Halloween (i.e. Oct 31, not "The Saturday Before Oct 31"), and the workers in the thrift store at the time brok...
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October 8, 2023

Seven (1995) as the origin of Puritanical torture porn, not Saw (2004)

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Continuing on the theme of disgust vs. fear in horror, the origin is really Seven from 1995, not Saw from 2004. Maybe you'd say it's...
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October 3, 2023

Why are puzzle video games most immune to the cult of ugliness & crappiness? And horror the most susceptible? And why are there puzzles in horror games?

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There's a puzzle game that's trending among Japanese streamers, in the same rough family as Tetris, with very kawaii graphics (fruit...
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October 1, 2023

Portrayals of Hell: empathetic, seductive, cautious vs. callous, disgusting, vindictive (the Nether from Minecraft as an example)

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Blogger's comment function is on the fritz again (for me anyway), so I'll start another new post for a topic I began exploring in th...
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September 23, 2023

Re: Minecraft skins, buggy video game releases

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Blogger's comment function is temporarily down for me at least, so I'm putting this response to another comment in a standalone post...
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