It’s fine if a a video game is sad, even exhaustingly so. The mechanics of making it sad (narratively and gameplay ) however shouldn’t make the player feel manipulated or be so bare boned that the player registers them as having an intended effect
The sub vs dub topic Is also silly. At least it has potential for interesting conversation. Performance. Intention. Responsibility from the viewer. Instead we get articles and opinions from anyone with a master’s in journalism and not actual expertise
Only talking about the “meaning” of a film is the worst way to engage with one. It’s especially boring when the conversation becomes “did the film get its point across?”
the five stages of being into film
-watching every Woody Allen movie
-criterion canon
-going to grad school and watching 0 movies for a couple years
-vulgar auteurism
-watching every Woody Allen movie
truly my favorite thing about A24 is that when they have no idea how to market one of their movies, they toss it aside and act like it never existed. if there are no memes in it or merch to be made, or a lack of valuable pull-quotes, the movie is dead. a corpse sent to VOD.
to people in the ex soviet states that dont really know american pop culture, family guy appears to them as a surreal avant garde comedy where the boundaries between the fantasy, dreams, and reality of characters are extremely blurry. to them macfarlane is the new fellini
I was playing smash and going in on this person with the nickname “Bernie2020” in the name of my girl elizabeth warren and I accidentally died and he gave me the homie stock and killed himself