Re:Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japane...
by makerdiety on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @08:50AM
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I'm not Elon Musk or Donald Trump. Sending your complaints of mainstream culture to me will not result in your political representation and its voice being heard. I am unable to effectively sponsor and defend your proposed alternative dynamics.
But! If I am like a techno-angel sent from the Heavens above, then what I can do is suggest to you that exit, as opposed to voice, is a sociopolitical act that you should consider. Exit from the mainstream culture is your best bet.
Re:Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japane...
by morkalork on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @09:11AM
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The token characters and checkboxes are a symptom of design-by-committee corporate culture anyways and even without them, the quality isn't going to be any better because again, it's corporate slop.
Re:Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japane...
by makerdiety on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @09:22AM
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This only means that there's a pervasive cultural synagogue/cathedral that has infected behavior through pedagogical means. Namely, education itself has been made to serve the interests of all possible economics that can occur within the borders of global liberal democracy.
This also only means that any sociopolitical exit from the zombie invasion must at least be as high as considering a departure from common epistemology.
There's a good way and a bad way to have elements in entertainment. Using the "black man" example again, a good example are the Redguards in The Elder Scrolls games. I wasn't annoyed, the Redguards were a natural and very good part of the world building and lore and served to better entertain me.
A bad example on the other hand is literally any of the "obligatory black man" now seen everywhere. He doesn't serve any purpose other than to say that there's a black man.
I want more Redguards in my entertainment, not obligatory black men.