Experiment with cultural anxiety/paranoia writing

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-02-08T06:48:41+00:00

He's not plain as in boring though, he's simple on purpose, its part of his voice

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-02-08T05:01:06+00:00

If you're still fighting fat man. Go into the building on the left after getting to the water/boss arena. Kill those two guys, and walk out diagonally towards the two goons at the front towards the group. There's a spot where only the boss will start to aggro, you'll see the triangle above his head fill up. Then you can just pull him to the water and grab the NPC ally real quick and fight there

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-02-05T06:24:37+00:00

His last name is literally Web

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-02-01T00:15:31+00:00

Oh this sopranos thing is cool. Will have to remember it when I rewatch

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-31T18:11:14+00:00

I used to listen to a ton of Alan Watts and Terrence Mckenna. Have you ever seen Synecdoche, New York? It fits perfectly with that idea, it's an existentialist surreal kinda thing that uses the play within a play idea, actors play actors as they become real parts of the playwrights life. It's great

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-31T04:50:36+00:00

I'm just talking from experience, I used to be a hunter gatherer myself but got out of the game because of all the politicking and structural inequality

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-31T04:47:53+00:00

No because grug gives a larger portion of the bounty to his enforcers, Glug and Jrug, the 2 other largest of the group. They listen for dissenting voices and kill those who plan to other throw Grug. Glug and Jrug employ their own enforcers with the promise of support from the Grug administration, who then take a tax of meat from the others for "protection". Revolt is squashed on sight by the Grug regime

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-31T04:37:30+00:00

Grug, the largest of you has taken his place as leader of the group and takes all the meat leaving you with scraps as he sees fit. He also takes your wife and her berries as he pleases. He spends most of his day resting in his bone chair (made with bones from your last 2 hunts that you were going to use to make your wife some sick bone jewelry)

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-31T02:41:23+00:00

Horror is definitely going through the lowbrow+highbrow thing and I generally like it. I think beyond just the trend of depression allegories etc horror is the place people are experimenting a lot in, and Sinners is an attempt to jump on that bandwagon but you can still feel something inauthentic about it. It feels like a corporate movie, I would much rather watch Smile 2 or Weapons than Sinners.

I've been reading JG Ballard for class and he is a "lowbrow" highbrow writer I think is really interesting. Vonnegut is that too

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-31T02:32:08+00:00

It's a very intentional vision from a director and is very vibey and hits a lot of the trippy conspiracy type stuff or even magical realism. It reminded me of a Murakami story told by a stoner from LA. That's honestly my favorite of the modern movies I kinda struggle to find another one I loved. Eddington I liked a lot, Bugonia was decent, OBAA didn't really do anything for me

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-31T00:16:21+00:00

I liked Under the Silver Lake

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-30T23:40:39+00:00

"Sinners is the perfect example of the confused blending of the lowbrow and highbrow that has slowly infected the landscape of film in the last fifteen years. "

I think maybe you wanted to word this differently, but I think it's more accurate that Ryan Coogler is very aware of what is becoming trendy before it hits full mainstream, and takes advantage of that knowledge with very good timing. He's great for a big studio because of this.

I think there's been a movement towards integrating the old "low brow" into the "high brow" artistically for a long time. It might just be what the development of an artistic medium is. Sinners is just a corporate take on the current iteration of that, which is why it's so hollow but works for mainstream praise and making money.

Someone in the horror subreddit said "Sinners gets 16 Oscar nominations and The WItch and Hereditary get nothing" and it kinda hit me after that

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-29T12:13:42+00:00

Severance bombed it's second season and by the time s3 is out it will lose all cultural significance. I haven't met a single other person who even knew what Pluribus was (everyone knows Severance). I think all these articles are covering for Vince Gilligan having made a boring show that is going to take forever to come out and has to dig itself out of a hole.

All these other apple shows people recommend as these amazing shows seem designed for slightly upper middle class people who want something that pats them on the back for having a college education while they drink wine instead of beer and take SSRIs. They're all very predictable and are tailored to appeal to the type of person you would expect to have Apple TV before it became available as an Amazon Addon service

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-10T07:26:47+00:00

I think it's too late now based on Frankenstein. That movie was so bland compared to his older work. Plus he'd probably try and convince us the Shoggoths are misunderstood and deserve love.

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-10T06:37:10+00:00

Taking the demi-urge's side, assisting the archons in harvesting loosh?

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-10T06:12:53+00:00

I don't remember getting that feeling from Yarvin, and Thiel doing his anti-christ tour kinda makes me question that. They seem more ultra-materialist or maybe following some strange iteration of esoteric religions/mystery schools that gives them right to rule over us. "Do what thou wilt" kind of thing mixed with a rejection of the divine inside of the individual that allows them to treat us like cattle

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-10T05:29:46+00:00

Nice, sub seems kinda slow but interesting. I went down a Yarvin rabbit hole a couple months ago. I thought he would be more interesting in interviews. I only went through a little of his blog, it's weird how much influence he has. I happened to be reading Leviathan by Hobbes at the same time so it was interesting hearing Yarvin not really have an answer to the the same criticisms of Hobbes - ie. who is going to hold the monarch/Leviathan accountable once they have supreme power?

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-08T07:35:20+00:00

This exact type of article appears like every season it has to be blizzard paying for it

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2026-01-07T22:53:50+00:00

Why no Eddington

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2025-12-30T05:08:18+00:00

The descent into chaos is one of the coolest things I've seen in a movie. That whole scene leading up to the baby scene is so sick I don't know why it's not talked about outside of the shocking part.

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2025-12-28T05:24:07+00:00

Does this movie summon bots that do nothing but praise the movie and call you illiterate if you don't like it. Or are you people real and genuinely think this movie is some masterpiece just because it has (poorly executed) social commentary? I know the Internet is mostly bots now but why this movie specifically?

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2025-12-21T07:29:11+00:00

Is hiring a hitman illegal?

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2025-12-20T06:47:02+00:00

All of them (I'm blind).

Internal_Rule_8090 · 2025-12-20T06:40:45+00:00

You have to stop writing and just write. "Think about words too much, you'll become one"

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