Lyre

I'm a lmaoer myself but i can throw in a lol depending on who I'm talking to.

For me its moreso about what the older gens won't use than what the younger ones will

My general metric:

Hahaha = gen x

Lol = older millenial

Lmao = younger millenial

💀 = Gen z

Very well said, did you ever read the sort-of-prequel portrait of the artist as a young man?

The thing i always think about is that qoute from Virginia Wolfe where she likens the writing to a schoolboy doing stunts for the sake of getting attention. I remember thinking that was exactly how it felt while I was reading Ulysses, it felt like a highschool creative writer mashing things together without considering whether it was actually good or not.

However im not going to sit here and pretend im an objective critic. The book is obviously famous and important for a reason. I'm interested to know how it saved your life, if you feel like sharing

You know how when you're studying literature you're generally supposed to assume that everything is intenional and there's nothing just thrown in for no reason ... Well when you read Joyce, it's really really hard not to feel like he's just doing things for the sake of being pretentious and obtuse.

I love Blasphemous, it's one of my favourite games. Yet i cant forgive it for being so successful that The Game Kitchen probably won't ever make another point and click mystery again.

Edit: I should probably have specified that this artwork is from a 2d platformer soulslike called Blasphemous 2

"On the other hand Lovecraft stories work because he was racist. Fear of the unknown etc."

Well when you get right down to it, the wizarding world of harry potter only really functions because of the author's hardcore belief in the importance of the status quo and the existence of groups of people who are inherently evil... Not saying the premise wouldn't have worked without that but it would have been a really different story

Boy that would seriously mess with the narrative of this comment section if that were the case

Edit: oh no

I used to have a friend who was born with his left hand disabled and could only really play videogames on easy unless they had heavy accessibility options. Whenever i see these weird "dark souls needs to be hard" people i cant help but think about him and how he's barred from playing these deep, visually impressive games because the community starts sending death threats at the mere mention of an easy mode.

The amount of knee jerk rage I've seen over paint whenever one of these incidents happens. Its paint. It comes off. Its an extremely effective strategy to get attention while causing little to no damage.

Meh, personally I'd still take the movie written by a human over the corperate ai, but i can see where you're coming from. I dont exactly think theres a right answer when it comes to this particular debate