https://x.com/pcgamer/status/1826643882467012943
Original Fallout co-creator Tim Cain says 'Critique of capitalism was never the point' of the games and if anything they're about how 'war is inevitable given basic human nature'. https://t.co/HMqJaDBX6z
— PC Gamer (@pcgamer) August 22, 2024
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Google "death of the author". It'll blow your mind
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Good idea, comrade
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The new left wing thing is "media literacy" where whatever themes they pull out are the only intended themes of a work and if you disagree you are a stupid chud who doesnt realize it was making fun of you
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It's like middle school english class: "ok kids you gotta do a 5 paragraph essay on this book, here is the list of theses you are allowed to write about."
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Unironically old Jewish Lives Matter directors including that libertarian polanski knew how too incorporate political and philosophical themes without overly obvious allusions or simplistic reductions that turned everything into an allegory.
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And these tards don't even understand that NOBODY in the world took communism seriously in the 1990s. That's not my opinion as a chud or something, it's just a fact everywhere on the planet, even goddarn Albania.
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"Allegory is for brainlets."
-JRR Tolkien
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I've only seen media literacy as an rDrama meme, who is saying this unironically?
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It was all over twitter and bled into YT:
It even hit journos:
https://www.polygon.com/24093674/helldivers-2-groomercord-meta-role-play-fandom-joel
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Polygon as journos
This Helldivers conversation is hilarious. "No, when I pretend to kill a bunch of stuff and run around repeating slogans, it's just ironically. The whole time, I'm just laughing at the comedic irony, there's no roleplaying or immersion, just like watching SNL. I press B repeatedly to blow this thing's head off again and again, but just for an ironic laugh because it's preposterously wrong." We're almost full circle to anti-violence in games, almost fricking there, and it's just edging me these past couple years. I need the drama from the polygon crowd to broadly come out against guns and violence in games. Jack Thompson that shit, try to get shit banned in California.
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Thanks, you're really vindicating my habit of not being on Twitter or Youtube (or reading video game journos, that should go without saying).
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Frick nugget and steve shives lmao
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Death of the Author is a valid point of view but most of the time interesting art is made by interesting people, so trying to determine how the artist's lived experiences influenced their art is fun. You wouldn't understand this because you're not an interesting person, which is why your book never hit shelves and you are compelled to skinwalk as other people.
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Whats ironic is that "death of the author" directly violates leftoid focus on identity.
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Some authors 'die' more than others. You already know which ones.
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What book? Wtf are you talking about
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FellOutOfACoconutTree.txt
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This is profoundly ironic. The amount of smooth-brained, pseudo-intellectuals and dimwits who take that essay literally and then turn around and try to present it as a grand revelation of sorts is genuinely hilarious. It's even funnier when these same dolts try and shit on the whole "media literacy" crap.
NGMI
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