one zoomer thing i don’t get is the total fixation with lore. i get people now want every single thing explained to them all the time but it’s so boring to me to watch some new movie and immediately demand an entire history of that world and leave no room for wonder or mystery
Watching Last Crusade on tv and it went to commercial right after Indy says Marcus Brody will blend in and disappear and it completely ruined the cut and I looked at my kid like this
UK tv was once so good that it spawned an international subculture of britaboos throughout the 00s and early 10s and then went completely extinct by 2018
Wanted to buy cyberpunk today, saw it still at $60 on the PS store, checked how much local retailers were selling the physical and found it for $30. At the end of the day, that’s all this is about. A monopoly only ensures every consumer loses.
The smartphone really revolutionized the waiting room. Oh I get 20 minutes to look at my phone? Don’t mind if I do. The only problem is sometimes when I’m looking at my phone at home my home starts to feel like a waiting room and I realize it is and I’m just waiting to die
We're moving towards the ideal future where companies don't actually make or do anything, you just pay them as a sort of token of appreciation for their cool logo and handsome shareholders
When I was growing up you were largely seen as a rude freak for running up and filming a stranger - now I see videos of people asking not to be filmed and the comments are like “WHATEVER KAREN YOURE IN PUBLIC” and I guess I’d just like to congratulate the mass surveillance psyop
The real problem with (most) modern fantasy is that writers have only read post-Tolkien fantasy, so they’re not drawing on the vast weirdness of medieval literature: the green men, glass castles, all-knowing bronze heads, a child who spins a torch like a burning wheel.