Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space
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lord of the rings pontification
@vahnj I agree that Tolkein is very simplistic-manichean in his.. Setting and the worldview it seems to espouse, and.. It laid the roots in fantasy for the whole race = species = handful o' character traits thing.
So.. Yah. I agree, and misunderstood you saying stuff that can be seen as influences as authorial Word of God on what it All Means. >>;;
lord of the rings pontification
@vahnj Ahhh, yeah..
I misread what you said, I thought you were saying Tolkein intended it as a WW2 allegory. I'm sorry.
I haven't been following Shadow of Mordor but after trying the original I found the combination of "gross racial tropes around orcs" * "Make them your slaves and manipulate their society to dominate them" very offputting (and then stapled onto.. Assassin's Creed Arkham Combat in the dreariest landscape ever)
lord of the rings pontification
@vahnj @vahnj https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/411971-i-cordially-dislike-allegory-in-all-its-manifestations-and-always (for source. sorry if I sound grouchy. I'm not, I'm just tired.)
lord of the rings pontification
@vahnj Tolkein explicitly said he hated allegorical stories and it's not a metaphor/allegory for anything
So while it can be read as about WW2, that's not authorial intent, that's reading into Tolkein's personal life & history and making connections after the fact.
Which isn't to say "authorial intent or worthless" as interpretations go, or that Tolkein's flawless; but that Tolkein didn't explicitly write it about WW2, he said the opposite.
Pastelbat
boosted
When you really want to play Japanese Pokemon Crystal and find out Google Translate's camera feature is garbage
Food, Cookies
Searching for "Hard Cookies" will just get you page after page of
"How to soften hard cookies"
"How do I stop cookies going hard?"
"Cookies too hard??"
Food, Cookies
Okay so
We're talking about cookies and "Hard" vs "Soft"
and "Crunchy" vs "Chewy"
and
I like crunchy cookies that aren't like, wafer-crackle-snap-crunch. Something dry and not limp or oily but you can bite into it, there's not just "Ok I snap now"
And the best word I have is 'Cronch' and that's really annoying sibby but they can't think of a better word either
Podcasts, Neg
The answer to this is just to pirate more audiobooks, ofc
Podcasts, Neg
I wish there were more RPG podcasts that don't derive the vast majority of their humour from "The player characters are all awful people to 99% of NPCs"
Podcasts, Neg
Man
Looking down Wired's list of podcasts is just
- Social Anxiety Cringe Fuel
- Bleak Awful Stuff Happening
- Bleak Awful Stuff that Happened Historically
- C-List Libertarian Sleb + Topic of the Week = ~Incisive and Thought Provoking~
- Dubious EvoPsych Explanations for Day to Day Phenomena
- Be More Productive, Drone! (feat. EvoPsych)
Watching Rogue One. (Just in the starting minutes so far)
Hannibal has trained a strong response in our head of "No what are you doing this talking to him?? This is a terrible idea GET AWAY" to anyone talking to Mads Mikkelsen, ever, so seeing him as a Jedi is really weird.
The Wicked + The Divine thoughts (no spoilers)
(...) I think Demolition Man by Grace Jones is probably the best fit for "sum up this character in one song". Also it fits one of Sekhmet*'s key pop-icon influences (Grace Jones), and uh it's an amazing song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwUsuf15P3A
(Warm Leatherette by GJ is a close second. "Bad Girls" by MIA and "Oh No" by Marisa & the Diamonds crossed my mind too)
c) Keiron rlly missed a mega pun by not including "Chase The Devil"/"Out of Space". :p
The Wicked + The Divine thoughts (no spoilers)
I was thinking about the K.Gillen article asking about the Spotify Playlist (Article: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/guest-list-kieron-gillen-on-the-music-behind-the-w.html , Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/missadalovelace/playlist/11LAaVMMhxPfSp4i2b6JRJ , non Spotify link: https://imgur.com/a/WI3Kn ).
a) Gosh I love that playlist, it meshes so well with the entire "Pop as Emotion & as Cultural History" theme.
b) He mentions not really having a Sahkmet song.. And we've been passively chewing over that since NY read thru to current a few nights ago. (...)
It feels like a good game though. Different enough from other fighting games. I like the deck customization aspect, and anything where you get to dress ludicrously and bow to everyone is my kinda thing
I uh that came out wrong, I meant like
Blade Symphony, Dark Souls, "We're going to fight but it's friendly and we respect each other" bowing.
>.>;;
I played Absolver PvP for the first time today and it went about as predictably as you'd expect
A Learning Experience was had
I do not have a good avatar.. Humf. I should really fix that.
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