said this to some friends recently that the reason i find joyce so compelling is that she’s someone who has Done The Reading and concluded that a better world was not possible, which is such a real and pernicious trap, especially as you age
@denimneverdies It just sucks bc I can enjoy trash but trash enjoyers seem to not be able to enjoy things that take braincells, there’s room for all types of content if u just stay open to stuff
Elon buying Twitter was the large scale equivalent of firing a rocket launcher into a maternity ward. Complete carnage. Nothing left to salvage. The only things left here are poor people farming for $15 premium payouts and discord grooming victims taking out their rage on the TL
discussing disco Elysium is weird cuz you'll make an argument but someone brings up a line from game that completely disproves it but you never saw it because you didn't do the "ultra racist homosexual"-playthrough or some other bullshit
There’s a part in the book White Noise where the characters talk about losing their identity once they’ve aged out of being the primary demo for advertisements and marketing.I think about that every time I see nostalgia porn videos because they’re always just ads for old products