I love talking about Disco Elysium with others (esp my friends!), but by god. sometimes I take very real moral damage as we discuss the politics and future of the setting.
God it really is so dreary. All I want is to imagine these people in a better life, but how can you handle your own happiness in a shithole run by a political body that could wipe you out whenever? I can’t even come up with a feasible solution because HOW would you even REFORM the government like that!!! and I don’t typically delve into politics so my understanding is very limited!!
God nevermind the character analysis. Who is ever a good person in that game? Is it possible to be one completely in a setting like this? Racism in otherwise likable people, dont even get me started on our RCM cop colleagues...
But maybe thats just what this game is about! Confronting us with harsh reality that’s meant to be a mirror of real life. God I know the story is all ‘enjoy that youre alive, help your community, find little joys’ but does it matter if I do? Sure it helps in real life because youre not meant to burden yourself with things much bigger than you; but I just!!! argh!! I want to be able to help these little fictional people!!!! its so bleak and I feel so small!!!!
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So I'm reading for an art history class, and Baudrillard is talking about the trends in colour usage from generation to generation (mostly in interior design, but there's definite spillover into fashion, architecture, etc.), and how every new colour movement is a direct rebellion against the previous one, like how the bright colours of the 60s/70s were a direct response to the austerity and seriousness of the WWII/postwar era, and how a shift back to organized, moralistic neutrals were a direct rejection of 60s/70s gaudiness, etc., and that all makes sense, people find their parent's style tacky, sure
But he goes on to observe how we've now been stuck in a lull of pasty tones and naturalistic finishes for some time, and I'm thinking yes, he's so right, but that's weird, because its been hanging around for so long, like what is it rebelling against anymore? What is it answering to? Well all I had to do was be patient because lo and behold, Baudrillard provides the following sentence, which caused me to completely wig out:
"...except of course, for the spheres of advertising and commerce, where colour's power to corrupt enjoys full
rein"
And I'm like ooohhhhHHHHHH, so this colourless minimalist wasteland of a design principle:
Is maybe hanging on so stubbornly because this corporate hellscape:
is assaulting all of our eyes, inside and outside of our homes, every waking second, and is tainting the very concept of colour into something we can't relax around in our living spaces.
EDIT: The reading was The System of Objects by Jean Baudrillard, 1996 Ed., Part A, Section II, Subheading "Atmospheric Values: Colour" (p. 30-36 in my copy). Even if this was a passionate spur-of-the-moment post, omitting this was pretty silly; my bad.
EDIT 2: I was trying to be chill and leave this one alone, cuz I know most people in the notes are talking to themselves and their followers and not actually me, but 11,000 notes in it's starting to get to me - yes, I am aware that decreased homeownerhship/increased renting/landlord specials/hyperfocus on resale values, are all very direct causes of this too. I totally agree. For me, those were the obvious answers; I think we all get why the owning class is serving this to us. My epiphany moment was about understanding the flip side, the psychology of the consumers who keep accepting it, and even seem to enjoy it. That's what I couldn't understand before, but now I suddenly do. (And for those of you saying such people don't exist, no one actually wants to live without colour - check the notes, bb, they're everywhere. Not everyone has the same brain as you. We all deal with the horrors of capitalism differently.)
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why did wilson feel the need to go gender neutral when talking about the homewrecker he cheated with that made him fall out of marriage? why did house feel the need to describe his ex-bandmate with “if he was a woman i would have married him” ? why did they both say “you’d be surprised with what you can live with?”
There is no closet there are only two men afraid of changing the dynamics of the good thing they already have
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God the current TV landscape has completely destroyed audiences ability to wait for developments and to accept suspense.
"Why hasn't this couple gotten together yet??" -> it's a slow burn, it takes time
"Why is nothing resolved by the end of the season??" -> sometimes, things have to get worse before they can get better, it takes time.
The best stories take their time because instant satisfaction is not good for storytelling. Rushing things is how you end up with the finale of game of thrones, and no one wants to end up like the finale of game of thrones
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Danny: damn bro you smelly as fuckkkkk wtf you bathe in? Sewage?!?
Jason: wtf did you just say
Danny: yo hold still a sec
Jason: wha—
Danny, pulls toxic dark green sludge out of Jason’s chest that fucking wiggles around like a parasite: there the little bugger is
Batfam: 0-0
Danny:
Batfam:
Danny: *eats it*
Batfam: ?!?!!!!?!??!?!!!?!!???!!!!!??
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“Farewell, Aragorn! Go to Minas Tirith and save my people! I have failed.”
“No!” said Aragorn, taking his hand and kissing his brow. “You have conquered. Few have gained such a victory. Be at peace! Minas Tirith shall not fall!” Boromir smiled. “Which way did they go? Was Frodo there?” said Aragorn. But Boromir did not speak again.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers.
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[ cw: injury mention / jokes about death / ]
Love when people depict Leo like-
Leo, covered in grievous wounds and having several broken bones: Ew, Staten Island? Anyway lmao that sucked-
Leo, with a paper cut: My LIFE is OVER I am SUFFERING I am DYING I leave all my comics to Mikey, Raph gets my posters and figurines, April can have everything else in my room, I guess Dad can have my swords, Donnie you get NOTHING until you admit I was RIGHT back when-
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