Thank you, @pitchfork and Maria Sonevytsky. It's an exceptionally well written review, with a deep delve into the relevant context:
https://t.co/2UXVuOBosk
Music doesn't help either. It sounds like an AI hallucinating a stream of Mick Gordon-inspired Doomcoresqueness, intermingled with out-of-place stock music cutscenes, revealing a lack of comprehension why and how Mick's music worked.
Mixed feelings about Doom: The Dark Ages. Gameplay-wise, it feels like a proper Doom, and it is still fun. Demon design is decent. However, apart from the usual contemporary games blights — hand-holding and overexplaining (god forbid,
never revealed the Necronomicon: it is the mystery of the lore-based narrative that tantalises the imagination, making players work alone in darkness, stumbling upon scattered scraps of lore and hints to come up with their own story, always incomplete, with enigma at its heart.
gives it a ghostly, eerie, threatening quality. It often appears to us as sourceless or source-agnostic, acousmatic event, as if it were bringing itself into being without the need for an external subject.
The Japanese oto ga suru (音がする) literally translates to 'the sound does' or 'the sound is doing the work of being'. While it is usually translated into English as 'I hear a sound', the underlying metaphysics are entirely different.
shaping our relationship with it not as a being in itself, but as an expression of a specific source. Japanese, however, captures both the ontology and phenomenology of sound more truthfully. Unlike visual media, sound is notoriously difficult to map—a characteristic that
My main problem with this is how utterly inoffensive it is. Whoever looks upon it believes that it's saying something about their opposition, and not themselves. It flatters people into believing *they* are the free thinkers in a world blinded by ideology, and nobody is ever forced to grapple with any complex issues or do any sort of soul searching. This is why Banksy isn't truly counter culture and is not dangerous or transgressive in any way. The art just reinforces whatever you already believe about yourself.
The fact that most artists, especially music artists, are not the brightest lot, to say the least, and yet some of them create profound works of art, makes me believe that god indeed favours holy fools and often speaks through them.
The western art values are neither universal nor immutable. Imposed upon other cultures, they produce sameness, not better art. Some cultures view art as a pure fantasy space without restriction, not as an extension of the real world waiting to be policed and colonised.
The "choice":
1. terrifying one-world totalitarian horribly competent social credit war surveillance nightmare
2. incompetent totalitarian social credit surveillance data-leaking weak-military tax-extracting insane and wrong ideas nightmare
3. heroic efficient para-state corporation social credit data mining war machine, with unfortunate glitches and freedom cover story nightmare