@kemsbwah Yes obviously they are indie by the proper definition but definitions are decided by how people use them, not the other way around. People call glitch an indie studio to confer them underdog status
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Nerd that talks about pop culture, politics and whatever else. Free Palestine, Slava Ukraini, No Kings. I write here: https://t.co/R0nWcBZk8i
Somewhere in West Africa Katılım Eylül 2018
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@kemsbwah That word is indie for the most part lol. No one cares about whether a studio is technically independent or not. The size and stature associated with indie studios is what gives the term relevance. And by that metric glitch, 100+ employees strong, isn’t indie
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This discussion will never fucking end because we have not invented a word for that feeling of small production that feel great due to genuinety and artistic freedom.
That and people care more about using it to throw shit at each other.
Spinosaurus@Sornaman2001
To clarify. Indie = Independent studio. Indie ≠ Niche broke studio barely getting by.
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Breaking hiatus—the strictly technical definition of indie is not one anyone uses, let’s get real. There’s a reason why no one considers BG3 an indie game, not the devs, its players, or game award judges. Size and scope clearly do play a factor in how people define indies.
Spinosaurus@Sornaman2001
To clarify. Indie = Independent studio. Indie ≠ Niche broke studio barely getting by.
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Exactly ppl got really fucking mad when the paramount avatar movie was leaked only to get happy when the last TADC episode was leaked like 😭?
Paledoptera 🦋@paledoptera
the biggest problem with art as a whole right now is people treat indie artists as soulless megacorporations and people treat soulless megacorporations like indie artists
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@Fossil4Man MHA’s ending does this word for word. Like I’m not even joking lol the last few pages are “and deku et al created a world where heroes have time to spare due to being not needed as much”.
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This is what make Ultraman so good btw. It's one of the superhero franchise that's about how the humanity work towards creating the world where the hero is not needed or at least being able to fight alongside them.
gen z superboy (official)@shin_kale_rider
That’s kind of the problem with MHA lmao The unspoken truth of all capeshit is that a world that needs superheroes for anything but the greatest crises is a dystopia, but the genre can’t acknowledge and work toward creating a society that doesn’t rely on capes
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the x-men rock as a metaphor once you take things like 10% less seriously. fucking no shit cyclops isn't a direct parallel for black people. "being hunted by gigantic robots who consider us less than human sucks" is good enough; its pulp fantasy!
shredded Denim@denimneverdies
Ngl I think I do kind of love that trope that's like "the protagonist is part of a group that faces awful persecution in their world 😢 they have superhuman strength and can shoot lasers from their eyes"
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Breaking hiatus briefly to say: in fairness, who wants screenwriter wages lol
logan 🫀@louicentss
this is why the visual quality of commercials has become better and more stylized than movies. everyone wants to be a videographer, no one wants to be writer
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breaking hiatus to say that this is because screenwriters are paid like shit even in big productions. Nothing much else to it.
jesse@darthgordita
i saw pta in some q&a recently talk about how there’s so much amazing craft in films coming out today, from the directing to the photography, but the actual writing nowadays has really gone downhill
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Worldbuilding as a distinct artistic pursuit—like the type of worldbuilding where people complete several pages worth of lore—was more or less invented by Tolkien. There are thousands of years worth of books that don’t give a shits
Genre Antagonist@AuthorialGail
“Worldbuilding” is not a fundamental writing mechanic. Like this is absurd
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Briefly breaking hiatus to say how funny this all is. They simply cannot fathom any other political mechanic other than capital
Brian Sozzi@BrianSozzi
JP Morgan on oil prices/Strait of Hormuz: "A core assumption of our framework is that the accelerating pace of oil inventory depletion will ultimately force the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, one way or another. Our base case envisions the Strait reopens in June—anchored on June 1 for simplicity—following a clear and credible announcement ratified and confirmed by both sides, such as a statement from the UN Security Council."
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Briefly breaking Twitter hiatus to point out that A CNN poll had 40% of the country believe that Biden didn’t win the presidency legitimately lol. Discourses about winning back conservative voters have to remember that these people are genuinely really fucking stupid
Soaps and Sci-Fi@SoapsandSciFi
@lxeagle17 @sam_d_1995 If the public still don't know then they don't want to know. I think it's time to let go of the idea that the public are just waiting for the right talking point. Many of them are bigoted and stupid. They wanted Trump because of the bile he spewed. They just don't like reality.
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@NotOrban Seriously even lakshya’s own article points out that the voters being polled are simply eating shit on stuff like immigrant crime rates lol. but I guess dem policy has to meet them where they’re at!
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Here comes another 10 years of slopulism
Lakshya Jain@lxeagle17
In our new poll today, Trump approval is at -22. Two months ago, it was at -15. Meanwhile, the generic ballot has gone from D+6 to...D+6. There's a good argument to be made that Dems are hitting a bit of a ceiling here due to choices they've made. theargumentmag.com/p/why-democrat…
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@timerube The baffler’s actual profit is like genuinely 70k lmfao
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really loving this discourse bc one side is saying it’s actually easy to live in nyc on 30k a year and the other side is calling the baffler a “corporation” that makes millions of dollars
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@FlamingAUS @girldrawsghosts before it became sequelbait this sort of stuff was cold
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@girldrawsghosts I hate to defend sequelbaitslop but fwiw basically the same thing happens at the end of Batman Year One, from way back in 1986
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@rosemarieho_ yo holy shit I didn’t expect to see one of my old professors on here 😭 check your email! I said hi!
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ok my twitter timeline is meaningless vaguepost bullshit now, its time to detox again
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@Croxovergoddess if he had the Helluva Boss color palette he would be indistinguishable and even without it he blends in well. no shade to the show though, it precedes helluva boss
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Y'all know the comparison is coming from the face, right?
The sharpened chin, eye shape, and more detailed grin.
And it's a fair comparison 🤷
Black Hat Organization@BlackHatOrgn
He’s like 3 Alastors thick. Now stop calling him a Hazbin Character
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@Great_Chumpion @SwannMarcus89 They beating my man's ass in the comments but I kind of get it
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@SwannMarcus89 Yeah actually a lot of normal people are wondering if it's even ethical to give birth with the seemingly inevitable horrors of the climate crisis or with our world in such insanity.
Normal people show SOME concern about making new humans into The Horrors.
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You people know me, you understand me, you get my obsessions and you feed me content and I love you for it
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@CameronCorduroy the given description is horrific but idk what self-ID'ing has to do with it. they could've done a full transition and gotten their passport changed and still assaulted and beat people up. as people in same-sex prisons often do!
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i QTd this post before being too cynical to Dilan here
they're one of the exceedingly few people who actually do care about prison rape instead of the typical American who thinks it's part of the punishment
Dilan Esper@dilanesper
this is hard to read. suffice to say you can't just do self ID in prisons. you have to do serious gatekeeping. and plenty of prison officials in various jurisdictions really acted like morons in not understanding that criminals would try to get access to female prisoners.
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