bongosinferno
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era jävla råttor, här öppnar jag upp ett allmänt forum för alla själar och ni spottar på mig. Jag ger er i stort sett behandling som är 200% bättre än allt ni kan få på UMO och BUP sammansvettsad och ni skrollar förbi. 1 svar, 1. SKÄMS sverige.
Ny ide som kommer ändra hela spelet
AMA fast utåtvänt. Hej sweblr hur har eran dag 25/3/2025 varit
Ny ide som kommer ändra hela spelet
AMA fast utåtvänt. Hej sweblr hur har eran dag 25/3/2025 varit
Finished all routes of Pathologic 1 so that I can gatekeep the fandom even further. AMA about Simon Kain being the dead grandpa the children mourn
I played Pathologic 2 on intended difficult so that I can gatekeep the fandom. AMA
I played Pathologic 2 on intended difficult so that I can gatekeep the fandom. AMA
Ba låt prosan flöda och tänk inte på de
vad menade han med det här
JAG ÄR DEN ENDA POLITIKERN SOM PRATAR OM DE RIKTIGA PROBLEMEN: VARFÖR ÖPPNAR FOLK INTE SINA PUNGAR FÖR FATTIGA SPELMÄN NUMERA?
I posted this on Reddit and they thought I was trying to trick them and seemed confused at me. I'm too wise for my times.
Is my game broken? I haven't seen anyone else on here talk about this scene.
Is my game broken? I haven't seen anyone else on here talk about this scene.
More people need to open their hearts and realize that 2 fast 2 furious is a pinnacle of naughty aughties gay cinema. It’s like bound if bound was about gay men and instead of having sex they raced cars (gay sex metaphor) and ludacris was there
Happy Birthday To Paul Walker!
Guys why is everyone thristing after the two Crew? I thought it was just a D&D podcast! Let's get grinchy!
I hate the fakers and the posers
Justified season 3 gay prostitute reveal monologue: Jump the shark moment or defining twin peaks style emotional catharsis peak?
Morgonrock.... Det är som att ha på sig ett extra lager skinn. Som en orm. Varje dag skändar man det för att genomföra alla sina arbeten.
Living in the shadows....
It's that time of night, have my favorite tiktok of all time
(I'm gonna be replying here also to comments with the same general stance)
I don't agree. I think this heavily downplays the destructive quality of the MacCarthy era and 1950s anti-communist zeal. I agree that the world today is in regression, corrupt etc. But American anti-communism is not at the point it was in the 50s, we are not currently seeing mass deportation due to political belief and large trials where progressives are persecuted. The games display the setting as heavily anti-communist to a point we arn't at (yet) today.
Besides that, I agree that there are similarities to today, but also not really. We never see any pre-war outsider-cultures (like, resistance movements, punks, junkies etc) in any of these games, what's presented to us in the pre-war era is pure 50s Americana that includes everybody. To include everybody in the real world the status quo can't be that aggressively white and suburban, what we get in the pre-war setting is basically a colorblind world that's overwhelmingly white coded, but not textually that.
And to finally end of this response, if they just wanted to make the world like ours today, why bother with the 50s aesthetic? I get that it's fun, and while not really a real critique of the games, I think that you're just wasting potential. Having your pre-war world be aesthetically and culturally the 1950s but excluding the real world oppression that is inherent in that culture is a really boring choice, that also mythologizes the 50s in a weird way. It just makes the setting unexplored, and while visually compelling, thematically empty.
A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.
Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.
This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!
Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.
I'm on episode 5 of the Fallout show; NO WHAT THE HELL I LITERALLY THOUGHT TO MYSELF "MAN I'M BEGINNING TO LIKE THIS SHOW" AND THEN THEY JUST REMOVE THE NCR FROM CANNON. WHY. THAT'S SUCH A FRUSTRATING CHOICE
also STOP PLAYING ON THE NOSE MUSIC I CAN UNDERSTAND THE PLOT WE DON'T NEED CONSTANT 50S MUSIC
Bethesda sanitising their product to the point of flattening its message because it's easier to avoid showing Bad Things to show and critique them? Colour me surprised
Of course this is true, but it still deserves critique! Plus, it's just plain out interesting when creatives do these kinds of moves with media, that confuse them so much! I find them really interesting, these weird hoops they create that you have to jump through to engage with the media!
A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.
Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.
This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!
Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.
Interesting thing with the Bethesda fallouts (I've been playing a bit of Fallout 4 recently) is that they, at least in my opinion, misunderstand the fun parts of the first 2 games. I don't think think the setting is a very important part in those games, it's a part of it but it's just set-dressing for the gameplay and fun quest stories and how the players interact with them. I think there's some potential in say Fallout 4 for interesting quests or stories (I've done a couple of quests but a lot of my knowledge is from the Joseph Andersson video), but the solutions to any story just leads back into the shooting gameplay loop. This is, I think, antithetical to the format of the originals, which were based a lot more in having the format of a TTRPG. If your TTRPG sessions all boiled down to shooting people with basically no alternative solutions to quests I think your players would get bored. Since it's got shooter mechanics this kind of salvages it, it becomes it's very different own thing. But the wonderful gameplay loop of those first two games is lost, and I kind of miss it. Man, I need to replay Fallout 2.
Hello, I made a Jeeves and Wooster animation for my school thesis work. It's a scene from Code of The Woosters that stuck out to me as really colorfully written, so when it was time to do an independent thesis work at the end of Swedish high school I decided to do an animation of it! It's the scene where Roderick Spode gets hit in the head with a painting.
The audio was taken from the show to save time, but the animation is based on the book. Hope you enjoy!
Twilight, a film about the hazards (and benefits) of piloting a Volvo Car
New film idea: Catch .22 caliber. He has a gun in this one.
Escape from New York.... What a perfect dad film.