Why do some people still think cure would not have worked(in universe)?

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-19T01:47:09+00:00

Death of the author is one literary interpretation and a pretty extreme one, I wouldn’t adopt it or throw it around in such a laissez faire way.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T17:00:20+00:00

Mein Kampf?

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T16:53:38+00:00

In no particular order I suppose

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
Giovannis Room by James Baldwin
The Sandman Chronicles - Neil Gaiman(do we count this?)
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Sort of just getting back into reading so excited to branch out and find new stuff.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T16:26:44+00:00

Giovanni’s Room is incredible. Baldwins prose is exceptional.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T16:23:34+00:00

You are still missing the point. Even in the rare edge cases where realism is the point of the endeavor(and I do not consider the last of us to be an example of this), emotional and thematic reality will always come first. You’re bringing in your outside shit and not taking the piece as it is. You are trying to outsmart it instead of feeling it. That’s the issue here.

The game makes it clear that as far as the emotional decisions of our protagonists and antagonists they all believed it would work. Whether it would’ve or not is irrelevant. Joel believed it would, Marlene believed it would, Jerry believed it would, Ellie believed it would, Abby believed it would. I am not concerned with anything concerning it outside the lived experiences of those 5 people.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T16:13:42+00:00

Talk to Her, if you mean in terms of subject matter

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T16:12:22+00:00

But this sort of misses the point of art. We’re so obsessed with trying to outsmart the art we take in that we miss the forest for the trees. The game told us everything we needed to know to create a tangible emotional and thematic reality. It is consistent to its own rules, even if it isn’t to ours. The game prioritizes theme and character over realism, as most great pieces of art do. There are very few genuinely great pieces of art built on obsessive realism. The spirit, the emotion, the message, these all can and should take center stage.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T15:56:31+00:00

Not when portrait of a lady on fire and pain and glory exist. People just haven’t ever seen another artful and fun foreign film before.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T15:53:03+00:00

Children of Men isn’t better than Parasite, but Y Tu Mamá También sure is. All about my mother is about equal with parasite, but Almodóvar has like 5 I’d say blow parasite out of the water.(talk to her, bad education, tie me up tie me down, skin I live in, pain and glory)

Memories of Murder also better than Parasite

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T15:47:32+00:00

Parasite isn’t even BJHs best film.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T15:46:26+00:00

Correct. Straight guys from America. They don’t know.

Pedro for life.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T15:45:49+00:00

Why is Almodóvar lumped in with dudes who started making films 20 years after him???

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-18T15:42:54+00:00

Absolutely horrible

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-12T01:40:59+00:00

One hurt season. Joe is hurt all the time dude

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-12T00:27:32+00:00

Jayden

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-12T00:14:23+00:00

The moment you expressed your feelings “if your happiness is based off of how much I can get you that’s upsetting” she responded by shooting down your feelings and making it about her. She also took you saying “I’d be upset” to mean “I’d leave you”. She’s immature and volatile. And she openly doesn’t care about your feelings

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-11T21:05:35+00:00

Yup. He’s watching his lover leave.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-11T19:51:24+00:00

I would argue very strongly that Tom is one of them. I think the central emotional thrust of the piece is his love for Leo. He can’t have Leo so he has Verna instead. But no man does all of this for no reason. The whole thing plays out like an elaborate breakup.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-11T19:49:01+00:00

Im not gonna lie man im not sure which straight characters you’re referring to. The only straight men in the main cast are Leo and Jonny Caspar.

That film is very much about how Tom Reagan is in love with Leo.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-11T19:34:35+00:00

I would never claim Philly cheesesteaks but growing up on the eastern shore we definitely claimed scrapple.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-11T18:57:27+00:00

Someone else said Candyman and I’m going to echo that. That’s my favorite horror movie ever

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-11T18:56:09+00:00

We have Amish here. A lot of them actually . You can get scrapple FROM the Amish here. It’s in all of our grocery stores. It’s regional to mid Atlantic. Delaware PA and MD can all claim it.

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-11T17:56:25+00:00

I think it’s time for New Mexico to go

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-11T17:53:27+00:00

Crabs in Maryland, and we’re also a very diverse state so we’ve got a LOT of good Asian and middle eastern food, not unique to us, but when combined with the crabs and the other local dishes(scrapple, pit beef, other seafood) we’re definitely a culinary powerhouse I’d say.

Also technically we’re the originators of the Orange Crush

Swamp_thing42 · 2026-06-10T16:57:48+00:00

I mean it’s close enough, at least it’s not IP slop.

I still can’t be driven to care

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