Watching these reviews is just making me marvel at what a bizarre incomprehensible series of non sequiturs Sonichu would be to anyone who read it without knowledge of Chris's life.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
There were actually people who liked the Lola character?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It's one of the few through that stretch of highway that's visibly rusty because all the active overpasses still get a fresh coat of paint every so often
i have never had a problem with dark music in itself. In fact heavy metal was some of the first music i really liked. For a long time i found certain extreme metal styles offputting, but that wasn't about them being too dark, it was about the vocals, which to me were like, taking a really good painting and pouring petrol over it. Like, they weren't too dark, they were just annoying, distracting from music i'd otherwise like.
Where written fiction is concerned, Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane was too dark for me. i had to read it for uni, by the end of the book i absolutely despised it. It wasn't the most disturbing story i've read, but i think what made it so unpleasant was the sheer unrelenting cynicism and misanthropy.
Conversely, i've been an enthusiastic fan of two works of fiction which i think qualify as genuinely dark. One of those was Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which is largely concerned with suffering and misery but which builds towards a kind of catharsis which borders on the spiritual, which for me justifies the dark tone overall.
The other was American McGee's Alice and its sequel Alice: Madness Returns, which is definitely an odd title out among things i've liked. i think the thing was, the first game was simply an enjoyable platformer/third person shooter hybrid with very superficial, fairly tacky horror elements. It was fun, and too campy to really register as truly dark. Then the sequel was a LOT darker but had gorgeous visuals and was the sequel to a game i liked, so i fell in love with it anyway.
i think wrt "nerds' kneejerk dislike of grimdark", that's a reaction to a specific tendency found in comic books and video games, the "hardboiling" of franchises that were previously considered child-friendly, which usually (though not inherently) entails the ramping up of violence and cynicism with no accompanying increase in quality. That's probably left a lot of nerds with a bit of a distaste for darkness in fiction, since it's become associated with a very superficial kind of maturity.
i think wrt "nerds' kneejerk dislike of grimdark", that's a reaction to a specific tendency found in comic books and video games, the "hardboiling" of franchises that were previously considered child-friendly, which usually (though not inherently) entails the ramping up of violence and cynicism with no accompanying increase in quality. That's probably left a lot of nerds with a bit of a distaste for darkness in fiction, since it's become associated with a very superficial kind of maturity.
I thought nerds have a kneejerk enjoyment of grimdark.
Well, not just comic books and video games, it happens in SF as well (e.g. Torchwood)
but it's specific to media and genres which are associated with children but have cult adult followings, a category which most fiction traditionally considered "geek entertainment" falls into
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Its a story about an Asian-American, BY an Asian-American, and that experience and perspective cannot be discounted just because it's a little ugly. Stereotypes are bad, but they are rooted in a larger context that relates to culture, economics, and other large scale systems.
i think wrt "nerds' kneejerk dislike of grimdark", that's a reaction to a specific tendency found in comic books and video games, the "hardboiling" of franchises that were previously considered child-friendly, which usually (though not inherently) entails the ramping up of violence and cynicism with no accompanying increase in quality. That's probably left a lot of nerds with a bit of a distaste for darkness in fiction, since it's become associated with a very superficial kind of maturity.
I thought nerds have a kneejerk enjoyment of grimdark.
Not in my experience.
Teenage nerds, maybe, which is one of the reasons the 'hardboiling of franchises' happens (the other being that niche media often suffer from a kind of inferiority complex - in relation to literary fiction in the case of comic books, fantasy and SF; in relation to movies in the case of games - and attempt to compensate by piling on the grit and misery).
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
A stereotype is; "people are like this." How true that statement is then or now remains to be seen, but a more important question is "Why do you see people like this?"
Its a story about an Asian-American, BY an Asian-American, and that experience and perspective cannot be discounted just because it's a little ugly. Stereotypes are bad, but they are rooted in a larger context that relates to culture, economics, and other large scale systems.
Yeah, but FOTB takes the stereotypes out of context and plays them up just for laughs and misses most of the point.
So a casual viewer just goes, "haha, those stereotypes, so true. weirdos."
Oh, yeah, FOTB, thanks for reminding me that cheapness is an Asian stereotype and now I have to make sure I make a point about my environmental consciousness as a justification for being cheap.
Unless you're one of those people who thinks that those people who can get away with asshole behavior are actually legitimately socially stronger and more respectable.
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i have never had a problem with dark music in itself. In fact heavy metal was some of the first music i really liked. For a long time i found certain extreme metal styles offputting, but that wasn't about them being too dark, it was about the vocals, which to me were like, taking a really good painting and pouring petrol over it. Like, they weren't too dark, they were just annoying, distracting from music i'd otherwise like.
Where written fiction is concerned, Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane was too dark for me. i had to read it for uni, by the end of the book i absolutely despised it. It wasn't the most disturbing story i've read, but i think what made it so unpleasant was the sheer unrelenting cynicism and misanthropy.
Conversely, i've been an enthusiastic fan of two works of fiction which i think qualify as genuinely dark. One of those was Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which is largely concerned with suffering and misery but which builds towards a kind of catharsis which borders on the spiritual, which for me justifies the dark tone overall.
The other was American McGee's Alice and its sequel Alice: Madness Returns, which is definitely an odd title out among things i've liked. i think the thing was, the first game was simply an enjoyable platformer/third person shooter hybrid with very superficial, fairly tacky horror elements. It was fun, and too campy to really register as truly dark. Then the sequel was a LOT darker but had gorgeous visuals and was the sequel to a game i liked, so i fell in love with it anyway.
He was watching the Muppets show earlier.
I felt vaguely annoyed by the Muppets show (whatever it's called).
I feel offended by Fresh Off The Boat for its piles of Asian-American stereotypes.
It's portraying various other people as assholes/idiots just for laughs.
I don't like that.
Doesn't mean it can't be offensive.
Turns out it's just some off-color jokes featuring Muppets characters. I don't see how it's so funny.
but it's specific to media and genres which are associated with children but have cult adult followings, a category which most fiction traditionally considered "geek entertainment" falls into
Teenage nerds, maybe, which is one of the reasons the 'hardboiling of franchises' happens (the other being that niche media often suffer from a kind of inferiority complex - in relation to literary fiction in the case of comic books, fantasy and SF; in relation to movies in the case of games - and attempt to compensate by piling on the grit and misery).
So a casual viewer just goes, "haha, those stereotypes, so true. weirdos."
I want off this planet.
It's what I need to be right now.
We're cheap because we were poor.
Unless you're one of those people who thinks that those people who can get away with asshole behavior are actually legitimately socially stronger and more respectable.
Fuck everyone who thinks that.
But like I said. It's what I need to be right now.
Cheap because poor.
NOT cheap because Asian.
It's offensive for cheapness to be played up to an insane extent for laughs just to show off how Asian it is.
It's not Asian. It's economic.