same goes for art and critique! if they keep the public starved of self and societal reflection, devalue the act of thinking critically about the world we live in, there’s less and less resistance to them doing whatever the fuck they want with it. the goal is your apathy. bsky.app/profile/jonf...
the WaPo layoffs aren’t about money in the same way that every billionaire acquisition of a newspaper was never about making a profit. we are in an information war. it’s not mismanagement—the whole point is to gut these institutions that inform the public on what the elite do.
where are the excruciatingly sincere takes on video games as a salve from our crumbling reality??? i need 3k overwrought words stat on HOW ARC RAIDERS RESTORED MY FAITH IN SURVIVING AN INHUMAN WORLD THROUGH KINDNESS
it feels like we finally achieved the dream of an online game with (mostly) positive player interactions, but now there’s no games media left to give such a feat its proper laurels and discourse 🫠
me when I was right about AI being the latest overvalued, underperforming tech bolstered by the hell trifecta of bro CEOs, idiot VC money, and the sycophantic press
these guys have been dumb for so long
one of my pride and joys 🙏🎾
the incommunicable relationship between an autistic girl and her metro system
it’s like they design pharmacy hold music to get mentally ill ppl to kill themselves
yeah like he’s definitely a bad guy, but I genuinely thought he was characterized as a shit father figure too. extremely controlling, protective in a way that actually risked ellie’s life because of a need to infantilize her, total inability to be there for her emotionally after the david trauma
like, *maybe* if you’re a TV-watcher only—but he’s a real bastard to ellie throughout a LOT of the first game, right? and definitely implied to have been physically abusive toward tommy…am I misremembering?
chat, ppl saying joel isn’t an abusive father figure ??
was looking at sam seder and it finally hit me: it’s the SAD EYEBROWS. i’m horny for a “😩” kinda lookin guy, you know what I mean?
how tf is RFK the only kennedy not getting assassinated
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thank you! the fantastic writer of that article (@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social ) is unsurprisingly one of the very best editors I ever got to work with too 🙏
felt like I spent the entire game mourning her, not joel 😔
the whole thing is just the most emotionally convoluted experience imaginable! like why does the narrative have to twist this way and that just to ensure I dislike or misunderstand every single character? for what? nothing compelling to be gained from it. just forced brutality.
oh I couldn’t sympathize with that impulse more! unfortunately, it was mostly the madness crowd that found this article back then, so i’m very glad it can finally find the right readers 🙏 not all TLOU2 haters are trash 😭✊ there are dozens of us with legitimate critiques
oh my gosh I blush THANK YOU 😭🙏🫶
thank you for reading 🥺 when I wrote it, only angry reddit gamers seemed to notice lmao
when the show introduced the seraphites via ANOTHER daddy-daughter duo who die at the cost of violent revenge i lost it like does literally any other human relationship get to matter in this allegedly sprawling emotionally complex world orrrrrr ???
igenuinely want someone to give me a compelling argument for why TLOU2 isn’t just your standard revenge violence-begets-violence story
yes THANK YOU! like this is still a whole problem and no one ever seems to talk about it!! mashable.com/article/last...
i’ve been using a mug to eat soup and, lemme tell you, you’ve all been HAD by Big Bowl
nothing but respect for MY commissioner and chair of the fec 🫡🫡 thank you for standing up for the people.
you are so incredibly vital and I can’t wait to keep watching you slay the greatest beasts of our time!! 🫶🫡
and who can they fucking turn to for help when this country is rounding up legal immigrants and citizens and sending them to concentration camps? how close do these disasters need to get to us before we all wake up and realize none of us are safe when our leadership considers life this disposable?
that plane crashed in a heavily brazilian working class area of PA, nearly burning down the house of the incredible caregiver who was my dying mother’s greatest companionship in her final hours. the terror and devastation this crash reigned down on her and her community is indescribable.
joan baez cameo omg 😍 - your mom