Okay but Thief and Heat owed quite a bit to Walter Hill’s The Driver. Again, what makes Heat and Thief so much more superior than Refn’s Drive? Calling something derivative doesn’t tell us anything about the cultural object in question. Star Wars is derivative of Golden Age serials and Kurosawa films and so what? What…

Yeah, but “pretentious” and “derivative” aren’t particularly forceful criticism. We know it’s derivative because its inspirations are splashed across the screen. Refn never set out to make an original work of art. Pretentious, as a critique, is just a lazy way of accusing somebody of ambition. If one argued that the…

I take your point. I suppose I’m just at my wits’ end with the constant scrutiny of geek women’s authenticity.

I think that’s a fair point. You’re right that no doubt some endeavours aren’t fueled entirely by pleasure or passion. But I think, on the whole, we should extend some goodwill towards these people. What’s the benefit of assuming all these people have ulterior motives to being in cosplay? It’s just a symptom of…

That sounds like even more arbitrary gatekeeping. “They may love the characters enough to work dozens of hours on making the costume, but since they don’t appreciate the medium as a whole then they’re not real geeks.” Again, maybe not something you’re intending to say, but that’s what all this sounds like

Seems odd to me that people would put in those countless hours into costumes if they weren’t passionate about it.

Possibly, or maybe the women just like making the costumes and celebrating the works that they’re performing? I’m trying to be generous with my goodwill, but your post has a bit of a“fake geek girl!” accusation to it. I’m guessing you didn’t mean such a thing, but it does sound like that.

Well hate to break it to you but all words are made up. And irrespective of the quality of their project, fictional or not, the marketing was sublime in its success. Yours is a losing battle; the meaning is here to stay

I don’t understand. Is your rationale for abolishing the word because of its fictional origins? Is it because you believe the word to be inelegant? There are many awkward words that make it into the general lexicon, fictional origins or not (eg. “bedazzled,” “manager”)

As interesting as the game was, I was even more interested in the experience the game’s developers had just gone through.

both you and SRSFACE are right, I think. Yes, Chan has forgotten his marginalized HK roots and has become a mouthpiece for the politburo, but on the other hand, it doesn’t take a weatherman to see which way the film industry’s winds are blowing. Already, major Hollywood productions are seeing the value of Chinese…

We already had a POTUS who can’t speak or read good. His name was George W. Bush

Poe’s Law come to life

That’s literally the stupidest thing I’ve ever read on this website. Unless you were satirizing the kind of moron that thinks an internet comment can be censorship in which case well done.

ew. cool sexism, bruh

This is some good reportage, but goddamn this subject is painfully boring. I read almost all the way through if only to appreciate the journalism

One of the worst parts of our current culture’s relationship to media. Instead of thinking critically about the objects and what they say and how they say it, people are more interested in knowing if Wall-E is actually Buzz Lightyear’s descendant or whatever nonsense. Yes, let’s connect with poor rhetoric, poor…

Well that’s why FinalVent put censorship in quotation marks, as they were clearly being facetious. Obviously it’s not censorship, but since it’s not anime vaginabones, the reactionary elements of gaming culture aren’t going to have a shitfit because a) they’re hypocrites and b) ignorant.

THAT QUILL GUY MAKES ME SO FUCKING MAD

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