Based being twisted from Lil B's original definition of being yourself to instead being epic RW XD is one of the great tragedies of the 2010s. I still say based and ive always meant it in the way Lil B did-
BASED MEANS BEIGN YOURSELF
One of Kantbots best tweets was when he compared the collective render hours of a Disney movie to the construction of the Pyramids. I think about this all the time
Video game marketers - gaming fandom priesthood - are telling me to "have a normal one" because I reject disaffected pride & antisocial ironic detachment being peddled to children as normative behavior. This is hell.
@pilgoth
The great project of normalizing autism as 'cool' — disaffected misanthropy is cool cus it means youre the protagonist. It means youre the cartoon character that ISNT a stick figure in every video. All others are npcs.
LE NYC ITALIAN FOOD YOUTUBER THINKS HIS CARROT SALAD GOT RIPPED OFF BY RAY PEAT GIRLIES
HE THINKS THEY ARE DOING IT WRONG CUS THEY DONT HAVE BRUSSEL SPROUTS DEEP FRIED IN OLIVE OIL LMAOOOOOO
The live action adaptation of the most popular manga in history, written by Eiichiro Oda is finally here. ONE PIECE sets sail on August 31st only on Netflix.
#TUDUM
GOD MADE BEES TO MAKE HONEY
GOD MADE COWS TO MAKE MILK
GOD MADE CHICKENS FOR EGG YOLKS
GOD MADE MAN TO SYNTHESIZE NATURE INTO THE INFINITE BEAUTY OF ICE CREAM
Orson Welles staged a 'Voodoo Macbeth' set in the Caribbean where the three witches were voodoo witch doctors. Like Melville, he understood the Tiki-Gothic.
Forgiveness of sins also applies to the self, without a continual renewal you instead cast yourself into hell. This was Judas' final act— throwing his money into the temple & killing himself. He didnt see a path forward, Judas could've been saved but he chose hell.
@Conkor17
Cartoons for children on how to have a heckin normal one should be the Peanuts or Nancy not resentful internet poisoned millenials.
Im a dog on a roof like Snoopy
The real anxiety of influence is midwit/reddit obsession with "originality" — understanding art in this fashion is pornographic & reduces works into search engine tags "space opera desert planet stepmom washing machine"
These are the types that get 'concerned about AI art'
The realization that Star Wars is just a worse version of Dune is actually depressing me. I’ll just be sitting here and then realize “that’s why Luke grew up on a desert planet” or “that’s why the Jedi use blades” or “Darth Maul is just Feyd Rautha” or “the ‘Emperor’ huh?”
To reduce One Piece to 'anti-racism' or 'XD killing cops' - they want to flatten great works into meme buzzwords. Again I am the only one who understands One Piece. I hate fandom, fandom is only useful in giving Oda complete economic freedom.
The trains are not the best thing about Japan—its the fact that its not difficult to find a coffee shop or even restaurant that just allows you to sit for a few hours without them aggro trying to cycle you out for cash. Literally found this in every city—This is what I will miss
"Let People Enjoy Things" is a blight- I hate "enjoyers" Noone has respect for cultivation of taste anymore, being snobbish—actually being snobbish not just performed idolatry of critical consensus— is more alienating than any niche online political sentiment
Most ppl literally worship MYSTERY— their entire conception of intelligence is self cuckolding of their own mind to have the 'humility' that "man things are just so unknowable." Its disgusting & in their 'humility' they will say "How prideful, you think you know!"
I suspect a lot of zoomers - like me - have memories that take place within digital spaces, I remember conversations vividly as if they took place on certain TF2 maps. I remember skyping my first girlfriend while I was building my Minecraft End fortress entirely out of Ice.
Disrespecting the innocence & genius of a child is one of the most disgusting things. Condescending towards children in a baby voice as if they are animals— they speak to children the same way they speak to dogs.
THEY DONT WANT YOU READING DANTES MONARCHIA AND BANQUET SO THEY KEEP REPRINTING KITSCHY BARNES & NOBLE PLASTIC BOUND COPIES OF INFERNO WITH FUNNY DANCING DEMONS ON THE FRONT & INTRODUCTIONS TO THE TEXT ABOUT HOW IT INFLUENCED THE HORROR FANDOM
Buy a paperback and give it to a friend = Cool!
Buy a paperback and read it aloud into your YouTube channel to make a new, unique copy in a totally different medium you didn't purchase the rights for and give it to anyone = Not cool.
This isn't hard for adults to understand.
@twinkophrenia
I love when they point to their 600 entries on MAL & its all seasonal trash & they think this is TASTE. & then their favorite show is self insert boy tries to date autistic girl spiritual pornography but they think "Ghibli is overrated"
Every few months a tweet goes viral talking about how they’re tired of so many sex scenes in media nowadays and how unnecessary they are and damn, it’s weird to hear sentences from 90s moral guardians spouted by 19 year olds today while we’re in the most sexless era of media
I got into horrible discourse IRL cus I said Red Flags arent real cus if your hearts been truly captured by a woman. You will overlook and forgive any fault of hers out of love & Ive never experienced such ire from a group of people than when I said this.
Wow Melville equated world dominance with a wedding to the ocean (metaphorically the Whore, chaos etc) — the ocean a ringed reef that expands infinitely encompassing all other countries under its dominion with the ruling country at its center wearing it like a crown/wedding band.
Media literacy is so funny- its just a reduction to a type midwit empiricism. Its all defining author intentions & using that as evidence to decide what the author is selling you. I love the marketplace of ideas, I'm so glad I have media literacy street smarts to save me
People really think intelligence is the same as being good at trivia. Online ppl think "normies" are sheep cus they dont have access to the sekrit online esoteric fashion trivia they know. This type of adolescent play ground social gaming comes from public school.
the Fleischer Popeye's are a perfect example of how improvising can really elevate a short. The animation in "Goonland" (1938) is obviously fantastic, but Jack Mercer's constant asides to the audience help keep things from ever getting stale.
This movie is certainly going to be kino if its having A24 guys going "I cant even I cant even I cant even dude" Listen to their exasperation. Wild viral marketing is convincing me that the correct ppl hate it.
Audio of dude going off during credits.
@a24
, feel free to use as pull quotes for ads!
“I’m so angry right now. That was a f***ing abomination. That was a career-killer. You can’t make a movie like this and ever expect audiences to take you seriously again.”
#BeauIsAfraid
The reality is 16 year olds arent reading at all, even 26 year olds arent reading. They are playing vidya & gooning.
Most people have only just pretended to read the books on this list that were assigned in highschool.
Learning HOW to read (hermeneutics) is so much more important than how much you read. This is perhaps self serving but Id prefer a guy who actually gets Dante rather than a guy whose read hundreds of novels but has no interpretation past aesthetic opinions of the prose style
My mom created a fake company and rented a closet just so my sisters & I could go to a better school in a more bougie area. My little sister was literally illiterate until like 3rd grade cus the school she was in before was not teaching her
Very interesting what happens in chapter 666 -- & the character who is literally Lucifer is named Caesar Clown & juxtaposed with Satan, Magellan, the Warden of the Imperial Prison, Impel Down.
Oda is so clear with his ironical use or extension of biblical symbolism-- as this is
Its futuristic in that its a city that actually works— its literally utopian for streets to be clean & trains to be on time.
American cities are stuck in the 70s