MrHoatzin

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    This is a long one but a fun one. I've been listening to podcasty stuff as I draw. David Graeber starts with a ridiculous premise of Where are all the awesome things that 1960s science fiction promised we'd have by now? …and manages to be show that it is not at all an unreasonable question for us to ask. Along the way he drive-bys some fun interpretations of pop culture he touches upon.

    Anyway, you should all also read Debt: The First 5000 Years. Good book.

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    I think if a system makes it easier for white dudes to assume positions of power due to whatever fake meritocracy cascade of life choices on their part, calling it patriarchy is pretty accurate. If a father of a family owns the honor of all the children (and can murder them for perceived slights against honor with society's endorsement) also calling it patriarchy is accurate. When a bunch of white dudes who have percolated through the system built for them, take it upon themselves to make decisions about reproductive rights of women constituents, calling it patriarchy is enlightening and accurate.

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    Could it more accurately be described as "kitsch"? I don't mean in any way to defend or make excuses for the thing (it's vile); it just struck me that that might be a more appropriate term for low art aping high art (probably the wrong terms – I'm not well-versed on this stuff) without having anything to say about it.

    To be clear, I think that thing is horrible and stupid.

    It is definitely kitsch. Calling something kitsch doesn't excuse it or make it a coherent critique of art or whatever. The entirety of their point is still :fart:PRT, ART, AMIRITE?!

    I guess it manages to transcend itself as a perfect illustration of what is wrong with the misogynistic dudebro gamer culture, as if we're wanting for more examples of anti-intellectual, reactionary bullshit from this industry and its fans.

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    The people who are defending this is "satire of art" get to me the most... like, what cogent and timely point about "ART" could you possibly be making by poking fun at some broken sculpture from the bronze age? :(

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    As a SubGenius, I'm still waiting for the end of the world to come on July 5, 1998.

    I enjoy the notion of waiting for a day that has already passed. Reminds me of that theory (heresy?) that since Jesus promised he would be back within the lifetimes of peeps alive when he psych-died, the entire 2000 years of history since must be an illusion perpetrated by the Devil to help us lose our faith.

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    The side view is really exciting to me. It is surprising platforming adventures such as this one haven't caught on.

    I remember in grade school filling notebooks with these elaborate diagrams of puzzle caves. I thought of them as platformers as they were inspired by The Lost Vikings and Commander Keen (and trap-laden tombs of Indiana Jones)—but it always stumped the tween me that I couldn't fit them into the platforming genre since there was not much platforming going on. They were just elaborate trap mazes with unique solutions behind every "room".

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    There are no good American candies for the spoiled European palate. They use peanuts and shun hazelnuts and mix chocolate so that it tastes like paraffin, on purpose.

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    Just buy 20 dollars worth of diapers at HEB and tape the receipt to the package. I am super weird about presents, giving as well as receiving (they have to mean somehting), that in these sort of cases I just buy a thing and try to spend as little time as possible thinking about it.

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    So Luftmensch, do you want to do art art or just get better at craft art? Because you're plenty good at the craft bit of it to stop caring about just getting better. Start making things you want to make and get better that way. Hang out with the local art scene and befriend competent people, then draft them to critique your work. Do you primarily work digitally? Cause if so, you should probably drop that habit. Knowing to paint in oils and acrylics and draw with all kinds of old-school media has had an infinitely bigger positive impact on my Photoshop skills than other way around.

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    The cartels throughout the series are portrayed very, very cartoonily. At best they've made them weirdly vague—why would they call themselves "the cartel"? Why wouldn't the operators on the US side of the border differentiate between different cartels that are warring just over the fence?—at worse, they really didn't do their homework. I am guessing that they're just being vague because describing the real deal is a huge bummer and may also be dangerous.

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    So many of the conservatives in my field of view are total fascist cartoons. Rick Perry is my governor for fucks sake, reigning Texas for a record 12 years now and unlikely to be voted out of office any time soon (thought Texans might be embarrassed by his presidential campaign, it remains to be seen whether anyone will remember what a flake he is by 2014 when he will be running for his 4th term). Old-world conservatives are a completely different story. I dunno.

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    Aww, really? Man.

    I dunno. So much of the right wing bullshit is completely over-the-top insane and disingenuous, and this lady seems a lot more earnest and rational than a lot of the partisans on the right. I listen to this vid and I wanna form a coalition with her.

    Plus that bit about adding a B to her new Youtube channel in memory of the then recently dead Breitbart was kinda heartbreaking.