Lucy [hiatus era] 𒌋𒁯
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I'm so boomercore and oldmanpilled, I'm leadmaxxing.
SuperDicq
SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo@lucy It’s the same thing. It’s even made in the souce engine.
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Lucy [hiatus era] 𒌋𒁯
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Late Stage Mall-Emo Realism
EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI@ljs.social@lucy @SuperDicq
Gen Alpha missed out on this tho
https://youtu.be/M9J6DKJXoKk
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@EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @lucy Truly. I think Half Life 2’s atmosphere is perfect for a Linking Park video clip. It unironically works pretty great.
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@EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @lucy Also when I was 14 I thought “Half-Life: Full-Life Consequences” was the greatest thing ever.
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Late Stage Mall-Emo Realism
EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI@ljs.social@SuperDicq @lucy I think the true realism of source 1 is not the technological fidelity (nowadays arguably low) but the vibe.
It's the oppressive bleakness of late stage capitalist post-modernity that it transports that makes it deeply relatable and a product of its time
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@EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @lucy Late state capitalist post modernity?
There’s nothing capitalist or post modern about Half Life 2 in my opinion. I think it’s moreso just dystopian totalitarian combined with horror scifi. The Eastern European setting also adds a lot.
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✦Final
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lina@eientei.org
just because it's an oppressive dictatorship doesn't mean it's capitalist its like da jooz for the leftoids, in fact it literally is that just in less offensive wording
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Late Stage Mall-Emo Realism
EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI@ljs.social@SuperDicq @lucy
Yes but the Combine propaganda in HL2 and it's conflict with the existing bleak conditions is a great analogy to neo-liberalism ("be yourself, follow your desire" but in reality your rent is too high, you have workplace dictatorship, you'll be enlisted into imperialist wars and no meaningful medium of collectivity).
All the speakers and televisions speaking about progress and peace and evolution in HL2 while cops beat you up and everything looks like bulgaria encapsulate this
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@EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @SuperDicq @lucy
All the speakers and televisions speaking about progress and peace and evolution in HL2 while cops beat you up and everything looks like bulgaria encapsulate this
this is very much an eastern bloc thing.
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@EmoIsDeadAndSoAmI @lucy You know the place where Half Life 2 is set in already looked like Bulgaria before the Combine arrived?
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