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i devour this slop whenever i can. i totally get it lol

i barely remember specifics but there's something about witnessing these types of gamers build themselves up over time amd eventually crumble into gamer dust. they are just so smug about their grift game.

these gamers deserve it idc

oh god it is voteball

supreme court justices are just refs

they are exactly as bad as you can imagine them to be lmfao

Rush Revere walked so that PragerU could run

this poster is a child

i voted for joe bramdon yet this still happens i thought it was supposed to defeat fascism

You can win the game by simply not cooking pizza in the hut. Many gamers don't know you don't have to consume every side quest. This is why the USSR fell.

he gets to enjoy his vanilla milkshake and drop an american stinkbomb in court

he really is living life

no mercy for boomers

they know what they are doing

I think I understand what you're saying. lmk if this sounds close lol

Assuming we're talking about fiction made in America, I think there is a "death roll" approach about how we come up with it in the first place. Start at a base genre of fiction, then just slap whatever weird genre tags you feel like because it -might- make sense later. We end up reading these blobs of fiction with no direction and no root in something "real" because genre intertwining is a difficult task. Everything gets lost when different types of fiction mash together and you end up having nothing while having "everything".

Hauntology is no exception and is definitely part of that "death roll" approach, especially as a secondary genre but barely as a primary genre. It also became a niche little part of "American Lore" so to speak because it may have been profitable at one time or maybe it still is(?). Taking these two things into account, you have authors slapping genres together and tacking on hauntology to create specific feelings but it always falls flat. Integrating such themes from that genre needs to have a grounded basis in order to justify the haunting. A lot of fiction just mentions souls, spirituality and more but then leave it at that. There is no deeper meaning but it sells. Having hauntology in the background of fiction in this manner gives readers a strange sense of comfort that terminates thoughts and the need to find more understanding.

So why do Americans like this shit, in this form? There are two things that come to my head. One is the desire to create American "lore" from the past. The second is that Americans only accept things as "good" if it makes money. Creating American lore is white supremacist as a foundation, it's fake as shit and has no culture. What a better way to learn the lessons of the past and create lore by watching 3 dude bros flail around on a Civil War battleground listening to noises that they recorded in production. Those soldiers taught us a lesson and that's our culture! Meanwhile, "voodoo" is big, bad, and scary because the slaves wanted to inflict suffering on their oppressors. Now wouldn't that be a scary thought?!?! Why do they want American "Lore" to suffer? We learned lessons from those soldier ghosts!!

My second point comes into play when TV shows and movies try to build this shit up. Both of those things are extremely profitable and it just begs to be created over and over again. If you can beat other real cultures into a consumable, digital paste of slop, then you can most definitely build a new lore structure off the remains. There are so many pieces of fiction in our overall media that desperately tries to add spirituality into a vessel that wants to destroy. It's been proven to make money and it serves its secondary purpose of hurting other cultures.

I think I'm rambling at this point too

TL;DR Culture appropriation = destruction and this applies to fiction and ESPECIALLY hauntology.

I really hope some more thoughtful posters can poke holes in what I wrote because I'm way more interested in this topic then I ever thought I could be and I want to learn more lmao

I always call Florida the Heart of Darkness for a reason. It really is a libertarian paradise lol

You're not alone there. I hate it with every fiber of my being.

I still to this day have troubles when it comes to picking out, purchasing and eating food in public settings thanks to the sheer amount of anxiety that was inflicted on me as a child. The pitying, judgemental eyes glancing back at me as the lunch lady says I have too much food for the "free lunch". Or even worse, now that I picked out extra, I have to pay "normal lunch price" plus the extra fee that I tacked on because I had the audacity to want a little extra slop. There was a "premium" lunch and snack concession line in the cafeteria for all the "better" treats, drinks and a bunch of random things you could bring back to your table to share with your friends. Good luck trying to convince the people running the concession line that you're not scamming them by "pretending to have a free or reduced lunch" tag on your account. All because you wanted something a little sweeter to make the day easier.

This was a high school cafeteria. I can't even understand how you could apply this way of thinking all the way down to the elementary schools. It's just heartless and I want to write something angry and edgy at the end of this sentence to justify the rage I feel.

idk what all these colors are i'm just gonna keep hugging my vampire boy