I’ll start with “PCU.”

The one upside is that the main villain is played by the lady who also played how-much-could-it-cost and she’s amazing as she always was even while playing a terrible role in an enlightened centrist pop-nihilist propaganda film.

The rest of it is steaming smug-seasoned “caring about things makes you stupid” ideology. And I mean pretty much anything that might matter to disadvantaged people or the planet they live on.

Wildlife conservation? Stupid. (tear down those flyers, yeah fuck non-human life forms!)

Veganism? Stupid. (better bully them until they cry!)

Black activism? Stupid. (lol look they’re chasing the clueless white boy with vaguely lynch-themed cinematics WHAT IF WE REVERSED THE VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR?!)

Feminism? Stupid. (they just need to get laid lololololololol)

how-much-could-it-cost is politically correct and has two hyphenated last names? Some rich white assholes firing her is seen as the happy ending!

All of those silly people that care too much about things just have a le epic drunk party at the end and that washes away all their concerns about the world like so many lotuses eaten by so many lotus eaters. They touched grass! smuglord

Fuck that movie so much. All the chuds in my immediate biological family loved it, of course.

  • darkmode [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The Fallout show, like fallout 3 and 4, completely sanitizes the universe. Most of the difficult questions about how a post-nuclear apocalypse world would continue are unanswered. It’s just just lol so random it’s a video game. I really did not like the writing of the show. I watched about half the first season at my friend’s request and couldn’t continue as a proud New Vegas neckbeard

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Fallout 1 made The Glow absolutely terrifying. It was a masterfully presented place of persistent invisible death that had the subtext of “THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. EVERYTHING HERE IS WRONG.”

      Fallout 2 was about as edgy and full of pop culture bullshit as a typical Family Guy episode.

      Later Fallouts further trivialized nuclear warfare to the point of 76 making it into a wacky thing to do to get le epic loot drops from le epic monsters. desolate

      • darkmode [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Later Fallouts further trivialized nuclear warfare to the point of 76 making it into a wacky thing to do to get le epic loot drops from le epic monsters.

        You’re right. I think one of the strangest decisions Obsidian made after nailing it as best they could with the base game was make Lonesome road edgy epic Nuke everybody they’re all bad. Maybe the fallout show creators are correct: video games are stupid