ThisIsSin
Derive the current state of affairs from a frictionless spherical state of nature
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ThisIsSin
Derive the current state of affairs from a frictionless spherical state of nature
6hr ago
The answer to this is simply not to dignify it with a reply [because it would be beneath yours to do so]. This is why apologies don't work either.
ThisIsSin
Derive the current state of affairs from a frictionless spherical state of nature
6hr ago
Dark Salvation
Yeah, they're starting to blur together for me, too.
How do you make a sequel that manages to keep things reasonably optimistic without basically undoing everything that has happened?
By not shooting the main character in the first three minutes of the story? Low bar to clear, but Dark Fate doesn't even manage that!
but replaced Linda Hamilton with a silly little girlboss
The series stopped being about Sarah-John (interestingly, you don't hear much about the other series that still should feature this, and I'm not actually sure why that is). That's part of why T3 was meh- sure, it's spectacular, but not as interesting with Just John.
T2 is timeless because it has to do with motherhood just as much as it does fatherhood. Dark Fate, and Genisys (to a point), intentionally spits in the face of both.
ThisIsSin
Derive the current state of affairs from a frictionless spherical state of nature
9hr ago
'80s horror series (including, interestingly, the ones that rip off that style like Stranger Things) also all suffer from this.
Ironically, the series that avoids this is, of all things, FNAF, to the point it blew up into an entire ecosystem. But FNAF is a game- a simple one, at that- that relies on abusing a fundamental quirk of human biology [re: a thing that screams at you and gets all up in your face when you lose] as the main tension driver (and everything else is pseudo-ARG for people who actually want to engage with it).
Episodics tend to avoid this, but they have different problems, which leads to the Half-Life 2/3 problem.
ThisIsSin
Derive the current state of affairs from a frictionless spherical state of nature
10hr ago
Standards inherently create good times.
Good times inherently destroy standards.
No standards inherently destroy good times.
Bad times inherently create standards.
Morals go bankrupt gradually, then suddenly. The liberal[itarian] order was hollowing out in the late 2000s simply due to Boomers- one of the most liberal generations ever produced- retiring.
Remember, the youngest Boomer will turn 66 this year. Generally speaking, these guys retired at 55-65, so a lot of them would have been leaving the workforce in 2005-2015, most of them I suspect leaving in the 2008-2011 recession (there was a second wave of permanent retirements in 2020-2022 for the tail end of the Boomer cohort for similar reasons).
Gen X, by contrast, has hit its prime moralfag years- that's 40-50, if you're keeping score. Now, Boomers were huge moralfags, too- that's what the Religious Right was (and to a point, still is) and why it hated violent video games in particular, but you don't hear from that segment of society too much these days. It's still overly concerned about racism and sexism- but of course it would be, that was kind of their huge generational change.
But if you're wondering "wait, why did the old liberal order suddenly collapse, and why is it moralfaggy in that direction?", it was mostly just demographic replacement and listening to Boomers complain too much.
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