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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • mountainriver@awful.systems
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    8 months ago

    I think when most people say a culture product was good, they mean that they were entertained. I found it entertaining way back when. Looking back at it now, Iā€™m not sure why. It is objectively awful.

    Thinking about it, I think itā€™s a combination of:

    • Due to real life stuff, I wanted to be distracted and entertained (I binge watched and read a lot of material of questionable quality at this time)
    • Fanfiction, so large suspension of demands of any formal structure and logic
    • Fanfiction of childrenā€™s fantasy books, so another large helping of suspension of disbelief
    • I started reading just as it was wrapping up, so binge reading and then moving on (only to then 10 years later finding out that it was a cult recruitment tool, like finding out you had been to Scientology seminar, enjoyed free snacks and just missed all the cult recruitment going on)

    I also think stories happens to a very large part in the mind of the reader/listener/watcher/player. So the story as perceived by me of ten years ago, or sailorā€™s coworker, doesnā€™t have to have much connection with what was actually written. That is also what I have noticed trying to re-read some of the sci-fi I read as a kid. The stories I remembered was much better than the ones in the books.

    • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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      8 months ago

      I mean I like the idea behind it is amusing enough ā€“ Harry Potter but magical science evil mastermind (heā€™s uh supposed to be a bad guy in the story right?).

      Everyone wants to read about that sort of stuff itā€™s why Death Note was so popular.

      But HPMOR just never really went anywhere with any of it and was too superficial and itā€™s only really interesting for as long as the reader fails to notice that.

      • David Gerard@awful.systemsOPM
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        8 months ago

        he sold on the big promise, got bored, started up again writing Enderā€™s Game But Shit, got bored again and finally finished it technically.