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Re:Building virtual worlds: video games and autobiographical... by dfxm12 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:24PM (#27225075)
You can tell that Clive Riordan, the villain in Edward Dmytryk’s Obsession (1949), is a thwarted and disturbed person because he owns an elaborate model railway.

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[In Animal Crossing] They could also pay a visit to ‘Joe’s Train Town’, a basement room featuring an array of model railway sets. This touch was presumably meant to evoke Biden’s old-fashioned decency and pioneer spirit, while expressing a vaguely greenish, vaguely leftish regard for mass-transit infrastructure; I took it as confirmation that anyone who aspires to be Commander in Chief must have a Riordanesque streak.

What? Biden famously commuted on Amtrak to work for decades. That's what this was meant to evoke. That the author is so out of touch as to assert this nonsense above does not really instill in me any confidence in their ability to analyze pop culture and its relationship to the real world.

Is the rest of the article this off base?

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Re:Building virtual worlds: video games and autobiographical... by isaiahg on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:01PM (#27225580)
“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions."
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Re:Building virtual worlds: video games and autobiographical... by prox on Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:03PM (#27227225)
This is indeed a big oversight and if the article had been proofread it might have held some merits, but reading and them skimming this is more an awkward collection of observations, loosely jointed by some similarities.
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