I'm not sure what your point is. Are you denying that there's an aesthetic that's common in talking assholes? When you bring up criticisms, is it not in reference to things you dislike?
This is my starting point: talking assholes has an aesthetic. Yes, #notalltalkingassholes, but by and large, there is a collection of visual, dialogue, plot and characterization tropes that are common to the medium. I don't dig those visual, dialogue, plot or characterization tropes. I don't think it looks cool, or sounds cool, I don't respond to the dialogue ticks. They're annoying to me, or, if you'd like, they're silly in a way I dislike.
When I end up liking talking assholes, it's when it avoids those things. Which does happen! But I'm not sure if you're saying the aesthetic isn't there (which I disagree with) or you're saying you shouldn't dislike an aesthetic (which I also disagree with). Yes, I can scour the world of talking assholes for exceptions but why would I? I know they exist, they land on my door step sometimes, but life is too short to swim upstream for media. There's media everywhere.
People talk about Caligula's wild popularity amongst the people as proof he didn't do crazy shit, but I think Trump is proving them wrong.
The difference is, a lot of Caligula's seemingly insane gestures made perfect sense as political moves that would wrong-foot the Senate. For example, making a horse a Senator and claiming only he could understand what the horse wanted, all the while saying he was the only loyal voter there. It's the behaviour of a very intelligent child who never grew up.
why does everything have to be a hashtag these days
two of my three younger brothers say "hashtag [whatever]" out loud and so do several of their classmates and I think this is the first sign that I'm kind of getting old because I cannot stand it.
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I've always kinda assumed that NDT was just kinda fucking around on Twitter
due to the deliberately tone-deaf corrections of people's joke posts and the bits where he says things that every Junior Science Nerd knows are false ie bats are blind
I've always kinda assumed that NDT was just kinda fucking around on Twitter
due to the deliberately tone-deaf corrections of people's joke posts and the bits where he says things that every Junior Science Nerd knows are false ie bats are blind
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
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
This is good
I'm not even sure what he was trying to say with it.
due to the deliberately tone-deaf corrections of people's joke posts and the bits where he says things that every Junior Science Nerd knows are false ie bats are blind
I may have to split the book into two halves. Hmm...
Empirical fact.