Chainsawman Part 2 Chapter 178

I want to do an effortpost about the show but I’m also lazy so

NOOOOO DENJI DON’T GIVE THE BOURGEOISIE WHAT THEY WANT!!!

DENJI! NOOOOOOOOO!!!

Honestly I prefer Hammond as a well meaning grandpa.

Hammond in the film is kinda a stand-in for Spielberg himself, the entire flea circus monologue is Spielberg lamenting about his role in the entertainment industry and whether he did more harm than good in it.

To me it just reinforces that the problems with Jurassic Park were systemic. It was doomed to fail no matter how well meaning the creator. The problem isn’t the individuals, it’s capitalism.

DreamWorks game studios so woke they somehow managed to make me, a cis male, experience gender dysphoria every time I looked down to check my health

Lmao

I’ve got good news for you!

https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/kill-six-billion-demons-chapter-1/

Is where “reach heaven through violence” is quoted from. It’s good stuff, written by an actual leftist too

This panel goes so hard

Single show coming out this year that has me the most hyped, and we’ve already had a couple bangers in Dead Dead Demon’s DededeDestruction and Dungeon Meshi (and we’re also getting Uzumaki)

Noooo Lain bitcoin mining is a mistake!!!

WHERE IS THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION IN SETTLERS OF CATAAN?!?

Well…

Edit: Ah cool he covers it at the end of the video

Quinns is married to Leigh Alexander, the lady who wrote “Gamers are Over”. PMG also did this video on the Disco Elysium situation, which er… isn’t exactly their finest bit of reporting.

I’ve been a fan of Shut Up and Sit Down (their tabletop games focused channel) for a long time but I wouldn’t call them socialists.

There’s not enough text for it to be the former

I watched the first episode… honestly was kinda unimpressed. It all felt very boilerplate, the parts in the future all felt like the Christian Bale T4.

I dunno, doesn’t feel like Production I.G.'s best work, so the show doesn’t look that good either (by contrast, Heavenly Delusion and Kaiju No. 8 both at least looked neat). A lot of it feels like standard Netflix outsourced Korean studio work, but at least with Castlevania/Blood of Zeus there was more to work with.

If you can track down a copy of Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals, Hiroki Azuma actually describes this process.

To summarize the book- he says that in our current postmodern landscape, what consumers want isn’t narrative (because stories are pointless). What they want is a database of their favourite things, and they want to selectively consume the things in the database based on their own tastes, just remixed forever (A Tsundere is a Tsundere is a Tsundere, it doesn’t matter what color is the waifu’s hair). In effect trading ‘humanity’ to become ‘animals’, just mindlessly consuming the same things over and over again.

The analysis is postmodern and not marxist tho, so he attributes all this to the death of grand narratives and not capital. Still, the book is interesting since you can see those processes happening right now, with the Marvelification/Disneyfication of media

The show is very very good but it’s very challenging. A lot of flawed characters doing awful things to each other (but like, to illustrate a point. It’s not misery porn).

But it gets politics much better than most media, and it maps out in depressing detail how a crisis (of capitalism) leads to fascism. It’s kinda uncanny given current events, which is the other reason why it’s kinda hard to watch the show rn.

More than anything the show captures the vibes of living in the Pre-Apocalypse really well.

Be the American the Japanese think you are

haven’t played the game (it was basically impossible to find translated versions until now) but from what I heard it has the same general plot but the details are different, and it had a darker tone than the show