drauch wrote:I can't stand video reviews of anything, be it games or movies; they're too fucking long (seriously, people watch 5 hour reviews of games; wtf, just play it dumbshit) and I hate listening to people.
i don't think the idea is bad, but they're so frequently just self-congratulatory "i'm so correct" fetishism. people watch just to feel right about an opinion the already had or to just bask in doing their part of the process of generation of today's distinctly toxic clout. i feel worse for the people doing these than the people watching them because the constant worship and validation has seriously got to be miles-long insulation from them ever doing anything to get themselves out of the hole and obviously bleeds into their personal lives. altogether, so much of being online, these days, feels like slowly holding everyone you know hostage to whatever variety of suicide you're committing. we all watch, few of us can ever actually "engage," but "down in the comments."
we're the first generation raised on people who grew up with television network programming a part of their daily lives. having opinions on people we don't know and treating them like presences in our lives was second-nature. we're going to start witnessing a generation raised entirely by people who were born with the internet... then the generation raised entirely by people born past the existence of facebook... there is no way human evolution is keeping up with what the phenomenon of entirely parasocial livelihoods is doing to human psychology. we're still years off from psychologists having any sort of agree-upon way to detox from this, and we probably won't see effective therapy for it in our lifetimes. how broad and incomprehensible the threat of this is - trying to imagine our genes rapidly trying to conform "okay, so, there's like, a predator or threat of some kind. but it is everywhere, all the time. and it is big. but you can't see it. also it is your own people. do we distribute MORE cortisol when they're looking at the glowing box or less?"
i like RLM mostly for their "wheel of the worst" series where they all force themselves to watch weird/horrible/insane video tapes and get drunk as piss for several hours straight until they're near the point of weeping or hysteria as they talk about how absurd the experience was.
VHS fetishists have a special place in hell for me. For more 'genre' stuff especially, it's often edited. It's dark as shit, looks like shit. The aspect ratio is almost always wrong. It's a complete disservice to the entire fuckin' production, lol. It's all just nostalgic claptrap bullshit.
was talking about how it's better to play old games on a crt to someone, recently - in a store or something? - and he said it was a 'disservice to watch anything from that era on anything else' while also admitting he didn't have one. i didn't have time to dismantle that one lol, but i did get to educate him a bit (which he appreciated) on how dithering effects could be utilized back then.
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Dynamite horror short. (It's actually only 30min, that upload loops sans sound)
