Personal consumption is on the surface one of the most direct and simple things a person actually has power of decision over, and social media in particular makes us aware of each others personal habits and consumption decisions with fandom stuff, and so you get a breeding ground for this kind of social pressure.
As well as the fact that people are so disempowered outside of the personal sphere, which provokes a feeling that you need to accomplish literally anything or you're gonna go insane.
Idk why but something seems to have thrown a switch in my brain and now anytime I sit down to practice on guitar I just feel pumped as fuck, its just exciting to sit and noodle and mess around.
I searched for it on youtube and it was 100 results for "I WATCHED KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON!!!" first reactions, interspersed with double clickbait shit like "WHY I LEFT KOTFM HALFWAY THROUGH!!!"
Cant Keffals fucking coke habit blow up her heart already?
Doing tankie bad fearmongering during a genocide, what a fucking worm.
Been trying for a good while to formulate my thoughts on the white murderers of KOTFM and every paragraph I type out about it I end up deleting because I feel like I trail off into nonsense.
Its just really striking how fucking unnecessary and un-exceptional the whole thing seems for these characters. The penniless freaks they hire to perform most of the murders dont actually make any particular money for it, they seem like they make just as much from any regular crime as from these murders, which is not enough to not live like a fucking dirty shithead.
And the men who actually marry the Osage to steal their land rights, like all the profit is basically made there it seems, they are given legal responsibility over their wives and their wealth, and thats just legal for them to do, all they have to do is be dishonest. And they dont particularly seem to be disgusted or uncomfortable with the arrangement. I guess what horrifies me most is just how much of a modern colonialist/imperialist mindset that Bill Hale and the rest of the ringleaders have in terms of like, the oil deserves to be in better more responsible hands, and even if they on some level apparently like and love the Osage(or are capable of pretending to for decades unbroken), they are still lesser humans in the eyes of the white men, a distraction or special period in their lives that will then be heartlessly discarded.
I feel like I simultaneously grasp the mindset that must be required for it all but also its just a big black miasma that I cant really see through. This evil casts a colossal shadow over the history of the 20th and 21st century, and over the global south.
Watched Killers of the Flower Moon and obviously theres just so much to take in, but two things that really struck me was firstly how the camera work for POV shots immediately signals a "predatory gaze" vs the "preys gaze" when it comes to white characters looking at the Osage, and vice versa. Some of that I already felt going on just from context but like as soon as Bill Hale is shown interacting with the Osage, I'm pretty sure he gets a POV shot with that predatory gaze in it.
And the second thing is just how tragic the decay of Mollie is, she's really full of life and energy and charisma when we first meet her but all of that is taken away, and its not even slow like you might expect for such a long film, tragedy upon tragedy is inflicted on her and even in her moments of strength shes forced to be solemn and determined. And even if we'd got to see her life after the events of the film its not like she could have returned to how she was before.
Lily Gladstone better win a dozen awards.
Apparently he hasn't been involved since 2020, but for "focusing on his own career" reasons and not "barred because of racism" reasons.
Whats all this sonic stuff? Is this that tiktok thing where teens have to have 5 things on screen to focus on whats going on?
I tried a couple of times but it was all from the same person so maybe they just gave me shitty weed.
Is it really that unusual for people to not drink at all nor smoke tobacco or weed?
I mean this is in reaction to a twitter post so its not reacting to a real life sentiment exactly but its still a little strange seeing the two sides being "wow these people are badasses just rawdogging reality" vs "wow these freaks are just fine sober?"
Just kinda strange, for medical reasons I cant drink, tobacco smoke gives me splitting headaches and weed just didnt do anything for me the time I tried it, so I guess Im one of these badass freaks by process of elimination.
We must not ally with immoral and fashoid twitter accounts in the struggle against the genocide of Palestinians by permitting them to tweet freely without endlessly quote tweeting "Umm, this is literally a fascist, why are we letting him speak on the Palestinians????" at them.
The business model seems to be that Konami is threatening the fanbase that dumb rubes will make stupid decisions about "The Silent Hill Canon" and so that if they want things to not become fucking stupid and bad, they should pay for premium season pass minigames so they can cobble together a coherent narrative.
With the secondary threat that this will matter in future games, despite the fact that the games that Silent Hill fans actually think count do not have a particularly shared "canon."
Edit: My second guess from where this business model came from is some guy at Konami watched the Jerma Dollhouse stream right before a pitch meeting.