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Sun Yuan & Peng Yu: Can’t Help Myself (2016)

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Bryan Christie: 'Portraits' (2012)

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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#ppl

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Palestinians ride horses on Gaza beach as the sun sets in Gaza City on February 15, 2013. (Hatem Moussa/AP)

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Northwest Chicago

January 2024

#places

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I always thought Reynald's kleptomania was such an interesting character quirk since it's so unusual to see an honor bound knight have that in media, I wonder if he picked it up plundering the cities he crusaded against.

I feel like it has a lot of potential of funny or interesting stories of others finding out about it and trying to confront him about it lol

I appreciate Reynauld’s kleptomania from two different perspectives:

First, it lampshades the truth about the "noble knight" trope. A knight is bound by honor and loyalty? ...Yes, a little, most of the time, perhaps... But that allegiance is to his lord. To everyone else, a knight is as likely to indiscriminately kill, maim, plunder and destroy as any raider.

Crusaders are pilgrim soldiers of their faith? Kind of..... If you consider they are hoping to get plenty of land and booty along with the salvation of their souls. Reynauld’s likely inspiration, Renaud de Châtillon was a dishonest bastard who even engaged in piracy. I like that the game acknowledges that reality.

On the other hand, Reynauld’s stealing is presented to us as a mania, a pathological condition, not as a moral stance. We also know Reynauld is a very broken man who made many mistakes. It's not difficult to imagine his experiences in the crusades would have led to this compulsion. Taking things you don't need or even necessarily want, because something tells you you have to have that *right now*? I can think of a dozen situations a soldier goes through that could cause that sort of disfunction.

Reynauld isn't a knight in shining armor because there is nothing beautiful or romantic about his profession *and* because it destroyed his life and psyche.

Also it's funny.

#dd

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tofusmell <3

#hard launching myself into the reality of identity via how good it would have been if i grew up w this music #im p sure we're born the same yr but still... like wttff hi this is everything i needed #.jrnl

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"he tastes like you only sweeter" is an insane thing to say dawg that song used to play on the radio

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“source?” divine intuition, gut instinct, and cryptic symbolism from my dreams

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holding hands

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

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