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@drakebonergif Excuse me sir, where’d you get the crowbar

rate my fit for washington dc

@mauthe_doog “The Painter” in genuine horror talks r we serous

People often think that there wasn't any "pandemic media", as in no media directly addressing the pandemic or having it as a central point. And... they're wrong actually, there's heaps of games and horror that uses virus as explicit themes. There were a bunch of big studio games made during the pandemic that focused on plague as a major plot point. Avowed, Baldur's Gate 3, Horizon Forbidden West, Tainted Grail, Nier Replicant, Plague Tale, Callisto Protocol. Mostly fantasy themed, which is funny because who wants to escape from the pandemic into a fantasy world that is also undergoing a pandemic? Resident Evil games also saw a resurgence, although that's likely due more to them pumping out excellent games and highly requested remakes. A major theme in analog horror is viruses or infections: smile tapes, tangi virus, Midwest Angelica, Man in the Suit, Gemini Home Entertainment, the Painter. Gemini highlights the other major theme that is rooted in the pandemic: doppelgängers. Of course the big one was Among Us (made before the pandemic but became popular during it), but there were heaps of indie games dealing with doppelgängers either released at this time or got a big boost. No, I'm Not A Human, Unfortunate Spacemen, That's Not My Neighbor, even F&H: Termina had some. Signalis released in 2021 had both a virus and doppelgangers! A big element in analog horror is the familiar being recontextualised or made into outright horror. I'd trace it to FNAF and mascot horror- in fact there is a LOT of FNAF analog horror- and even further back to Lovecraft. The idea that the familiar and every day can suddenly become dangerous is the core of doppelgänger horror. Mandela Catalogue was created in mid 2021, which is primarily about evil doppelgängers. Gemini Home Entertainment has the mimics and wood crawlers. But this highlights a more subtle side to "pandemic horror": information control, already a big issue in society, came to a head during this period. We thought that if we could just "spread the right message" and behave properly, it would counter the virus. The fight against "misinformation" was huge, as big or perhaps bigger than spreading proper procedures. Many people thought that the health authorities had no idea what they were talking about, and they w[REDACTED]. Mandela Catalogue and Among Us are probably the defining pieces of "pandemic media". (At least Mandela was at the time, it's still ongoing.) In both, not only can you not trust the people around you, you can't entirely trust the information given to you by anyone else. It's a complete erosion of social bonds. That dissolution is fertile ground for... well, what we've got now. The Painter is possibly the defining "post-pandemic media" because of that, but we'll talk about that more soon.

@TylorStankley2 “Le slowburn makes it good”

@TylorStankley2 Midsommar feels like I’m watching a reddit horror movie is that a bad take

@HYDR0SSITY Best characters, shit motives, bad setting, meh twist, worst protag, decent story Granted it has a lot of aura so it’s a 7/10 in my books

And it’s peak fiction AGAIN why was the entire internet lying to me???

@Leleo2211 Franky isn’t scared of any admiral, he was ready to throw down with Kizaru. Franky downplaying for Admiral Agenda will NOT be tolerated

Very interesting 🤔

@WSpeedClips Can’t believe I was put in the same space as these people in the past

@Vrycoolstckmn There’s a lot of empty space that’s ignorable in theaters, but more prevalent in streaming. There’s also the colors looking more vibrant in person, and also just placebo in person

I swear to god this movie looked better in theaters

@TylorStankley2 I do

@Vrycoolstckmn I don’t think halo has ever been interesting thematically speaking

@TylorStankley2 Sorry I don’t think you can make a hanging trans wojak of this woman because you’re also trans not how that works

@TylorStankley2 The dark woke people are spreading abt this is actually just looping back around to right-wing rhetoric atp

@PlazmaBolt @Vrycoolstckmn This is what I’m saying as well

@PathfinderFacts @Vrycoolstckmn The Simpsons has made alot of millennial animators horrified of decay to the point where massive over corrections are seen as the only way to prevent your show from killing itself & it's so tragic.

This is such an insane overcorrection to me and creates the exact opposite problem

@Vrycoolstckmn They want a movie where the MC just walks around and starves to death after a while I’m crying

@Ironsidesmonke2 @M1das_OW2 @FlickerToons Son

@M1das_OW2 @FlickerToons You forgot pathfinder facts

m1das being the one non problematic twitter microcelebrity

@TylorStankley2 #vibes

Why am I supposed to take this seriously where are these times even coming from

@TylorStankley2 Every month or so I’ve seen “The Doomsday Clock is now the closest it has ever been.” I feel like at some point this headline loses meaning

@redditfartporn As someone from the south they’re right

the way northerners talk bout people from the south is honestly kinda racist and classist but Yall folk aint hear that from me

@KING_KONG_TAY One piece post timeskip

I hate when shonen mangas power creep so hard they neglect the og cast of characters that’s been there since day one because they’re not descended from a line of ancient demon dingaling monsters