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Nangijala
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Having a parent who clothes and feeds you is a social construct too. Funny how people think that "social construct" means that something is bad or should be dismissed when none of us would be here without social constructs.
At least this time the argument is being made by the only age group where I would give them a pass for being stupid. Unless that kid is past the age of 12, that is.
I think it's is a bit disingenuous to pretend like Gen X hasn't also been drowning in member berries. All the 70s and 80s nostalgia that has also been permiating media the past decade is more or less Gen X dreaming of their childhoods. Hell, the birth of the online movie and video game reviews was mostly spear headed by Gen X'ers sitting and screaming in front of their cameras about how this game and that show or movie was either amazing or ruined their childhoods. One even called himself the Nostalgia Critic. I have also heard countless Gen X'ers reminisce about how much better things were when they were young. Especially in more recent years where more and more "back in my day we played outside and didn't stare at phones all day"-videos get posted to social media.
Gen X is not too good to be down here in the mud with the rest of us nostalgic peasants.
Every generation has a bit of nostalgia for thier childhoods and everybody misses parts of times that have passed and that is fine.
I just don't like it when it gets to a point where one starts acting like there is absolutely nothing positive or better going on in the current age we live in and that all the good stuff is in the past. That irks the fuck out of me.
Yeah, thats why I'm so impatient for this shit to end NOW. I don't want to see innocent people have their futures utterly annihilated for years to come. It is so frustrating.
Their ideology: man is boss. Woman is kitchen. God is science. Money is God.
Amen, my friend. My spouse keeps telling me to have patience wait for the consequences to hit these clowns. I am just very impatient because I don't want them to succeed in ruining more things for other people before they get what's coming to them.
The 90s had a lot of good in them but I gotta admit I'm a bit tired of this nostalgic mindset people have about the past.
Sure, a lot of things are not going well today, but at the same time we have made amazing advancements in multiple areas where I'm sure most of you would regret going back to the 90s and not have them.
Advancements in medicine and science as well as social advancements in the form of a better understanding and acceptance of mental health issues. Being gay and trans today is also a lot easier than it was in the 90s. We hold sexual predators more and more responsible for their actions today than we did back then. More people today are aware and concerned about fixing the environment than they were in the 90s where you got to hear things about the ozone layer and then that was it.
Smoking is on its way out. Similar with alcohol. At least in my country. It is less nad less socially acceptable and more and more people turn away from those vices, which is amazing.
In my experience, more and more people raise their kids with respect for the child's emotional well being. My generation were barely seen as humans when we were children and I see more and more people around my age raising their children with the respect they didn't receive themselves when they were little. It is bound to create some more robust people in the future who have a healthy sense of self and who believe in themselves.
There are so many good things in the world right now, but if you only look for the bad and start romanticizing a past that wasn't really as perfect as you think it was, then you're, in my opinion, living wrong.
It's okay to appreciate things from the past and miss them, but this "the world was better" bullshit is just very counter productive and in many cases objectively untrue.
Jeg er begyndt at kaste mig over flere udenlandske og ikke-amerikanske film når jeg går på biblioteket. Kan virkelig mærke hvor glad jeg bliver indeni over at se film fra andre kulturer, især film jeg aldrig har hørt om før.
Senest kan jeg anbefale tre film til dem, der interesserer sig for udenlandske film der ikke er hollywood.
Kvinde På Krigsstien som er en gakket, men uhyggeligt relevant islandsk film fra 2018. Den omhandler en midaldrende kvinde, som er naturaktivisternes svar på V for Vendetta. Temaet i filmen er mere relevant i dag end da filmen blev lavet og jeg kunne slet ikke forstå at den var fra 2018. Det føltes faktisk som om instruktøren må have haft en krystalkugle med nogle af de tematikker hun belyser i filmen. Den formår også at sprede et vigtigt budskab uden at blive irriterende. Jeg hader prædikende film og selvom denne film har et meget klart budskab, så tager den ikke sig selv alt for alvorligt og er ganske humoristisk og syret til tider, hvilket både er charmerende oh hjælper med at gøre budskabet autentisk. Og så er den bare flot filmet.
Life, Above All er en sydafrikansk film fra 2010, der handler om en 12 årige pige, hvis familie rammes af AIDS og bliver socialt udstødt af lokalsamfundet. Den 12 årige nægter at opgive dem hun elsker også selvom det sociale pres fra hendes omverden næsten er ubærligt. Det er en meget smukt og rørende film om loyalitet og at stå ved sine principper selv når alt i verden er imod dig. Den sydafrikanske kultur får lov til at ånde frit i denne film og mange at Sydafrikas støtte problematikker og tabuer bliver belyst med en enorm empati for både hovedpersonen og hendes familie, men også for menneskene i lokalsamfundet som, trods deres grove adfærd overfor familien, stadig består af gode og kærlige mennesker, der blot bærer på en enorm frygt og sorg over hvordan AIDS har påvirket deres liv hver især. Fantastisk skuespil fra især moderen, den strenge nabokvinde og stedfaderen. Nogle gange glemte jeg næsten at det var en film og ikke en dokumentar fordi de var så overbevisende.
Tangerines fra 2013 er en estisk-georgisk film om en ældre herre, der bor langt ude på landet på en mandarin-plantage da han og hans nabo bliver vilket ind i en konflikt mellem georgiere og tetjenere og pludselig må huse to sårede soldater - en fra hver side. Det er en film der har fokus på pacifisme og beskuer krig fra almindelige bønders synsvinkel mens de prøver at passe deres daglige pligter. Jeg har generelt en interesse i citrus-farming, hvilket er hvorfor jeg lånte filmen i første omgang, og jeg var faktisk klar på at se en halvanden time lang film om en gammel mand, der passer sin plantage og være lykkelig nok ved det, men at de lige smider en betændt konflikt ind mellem tetjenere og georgiere også, det kan jeg sgu ikke beklage mig over. Filmen har en ret god humor og endnu bedre værdier. Den form for pacifisme man møder her er den kloge, velovervejede og rolige slags. At disse bondemænd kan bevare roen midt i så vanvittig en situation er fanme imponerende. Vi har ikke set den færdig endnu, men det gør vi nok i morgen. Både min kæreste og jeg er ret betagede af filmens stemning. Min eneste anke ligenu er at jeg gerne vil se mere mandarin-høst, men jeg ved også godt at det ikke handler om mandariner sådan for alvor haha.
Glad you did as well. It was painfully unpleasant and dull to get through. My friend and I genuinely didn't enjoy ourselves once except for maybe when a heavily pregnant character decided to do parkour and be in active combat for a good part of the game. My friend and I are both women and we kept joking about how this game was clearly written by a man who doesn't know any mothers in his personal life. It was so dumb.
I distinctly remember them claiming that you had the choice to spare the dogs, but they would viciously attack you and blow your cover every chance you got so you literally didn't have any other choice than to kill them sometimes. Then there were the plot related actions where the story took your choices away from you and forced you to kill a dog and torture a woman to death as Ellie.
And the ironic thing was that they claimed they wanted you to feel bad for killing people in the game and had the npcs yelling out the names of the people you killed, but I literally felt nothing.
Meanwhile when I played the first game and got to the hospital scene, I was so fucking devastated because I didnt want to kill the fireflies. Up until that point you had mostly killed zombies and deranged people who were directly putting you and ellie in danger. But the fireflies felt different. I was so devastated making my way to Ellie. The game did a fantastic job showing how Joel was crossing a line in his humanity in order to protect the one person in the world that gave his life meaning. It was at once a very beautiful and very tragic climax to a story about humanity in dire circumstances. So beautifully made.
Ain't gonna sit there and cry over some random dog or some dumb npc named Jason when I'm forced to plow down hundreds of them while rarely if ever getting to attack zombies becuase they're barely present in the game by comparison.
If you want to treat human lives as precious in your game, don't make your player kill them by the hundreds the whole time. Fuck man. I sometimes wonder if Druckmann really wrote the first game at all or if he just took credit for some underling's work because I struggle to believe that the same writer who wrote this emotionally complex game is also the same writer who pooped out its sequel.
Sorry for long rant. I just really hate that stupid game.
It is so insidious when they do that with any piece of media. Use minority groups as a shield against well deserved criticism. It'd just been a thing in entertainment for so long that I kinda ended up tapping out and focusing on indie stuff more.
I literally cannot imagine creating something that is so incompetent, so shit and then using trans people as a shield to avoid taking responsibility for me delivering a shitty product.
Worst part is that I think it was almost deliberate. It just felt so hateful and like every decision was crafted to specifically hurt the fans and, as you say, gaslight them by accusing them of hating minority groups. So fucking disgusting. If you look at the teaser scene that was published way back before the game's release, where Abby is getting hanged, she is suspiciously more feminine looking. Why did they change that? To piss off the gamers.
They also made every single ad seem like Ellie was on a revenge rampage because of Dina's murder and that Joel was either going to join her or that his "ghost" would be by her side as her mental health tanks.
My friend and I had a lot of theories about the story of the game back when those teasers came out.
And then they go and create the most cruel, mean spirited murder scene of a beloved character that everybody already expected to get a send off in this game and afterwards they act smug and/or like victims when the fan reactions roll in.
They knew what they were doing. It was so gross. Joel's murder was probably one of the most physically disturbed reactions I have jhad to a piece of media because it felt like personal hatred directed against the player. Like, where the fuck did that come from, asshole? All I ever did was enjoy your game.
Are there some asshole fans out there who fit the stereotype of a sexist gamer? Of course there are, but the vast majority of fans are just normal people whose only crime was to get invested in a story, a world and its characters and we all got punished for it.
To me, that is behavior from a creator that I will never support and too many creators in the hollywood/LA sphere have had this gross attitude towards fans for too long. When you treat an entire fan base with disgust because of what a small minority does, you are no longer a professional who deserves their time and money. It literally is the equivalent of going to a restaurant and the chef going up to your table and spitting in your food because he had a few shitty customers the other day. Like good fucking luck bringing new customers to your restaurant in the future.
I would encourage you to take a hike through Greenland barefoot and come back to me with the "humans have made our environment less friendly to bare feet" line. It is, for the most part, the exact opposite that is the case. Nature is not friendly to bare feet in the slightest hence why humans have been wearing shoes long before recorded history.