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[-] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago

I IMPLORE you all to read this https://hexbear.net/post/763625, diegetic essentialism is a waste of time and infantilizes you. Please, stop it.

[-] showmustgo@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

Ok that was great. I love when someone puts an inexplicable feeling into concrete terms. Once with this DE stuff and twice with the the banger within a banger when op calls to stop calling everything fascism. Thanks 🙏

[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

Without reading (I am a staunch antiintellectual, yuck), is diegetic essentialism the boiling down of a text into strictly what happens within the text and ignoring the fact that it’s humans who consume the text and that that process can create meaning beyond that of the literal text?

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago
[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago
[-] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

It's ok if you're just having fun, but we are so far past that point.

From the linked thread

[-] D61@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

Fuck you... making me read a thing and learning shit...

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I’ve read this. It really does not work in this context. Nobody is defending or genuinely attacking Pokémon due to its incidental inclusion of cockfighting. What we are doing is defending Palworld, because it’s implicitly referencing this sort of fucked up aspect of Pokémon when you think of it too much, as a shitpost.

Not to mention the fact that there is genuine cultural analysis to be made about the fact that we just... have games about collecting sentient creatures and putting them into tiny spaces and don't comment about it at all.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ok, I mostly agree with you, but people have been pointing out Pokemon makes animals fight since day one. (Parents also called it satanic lol)

[-] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Yes, it’s a classic shitpost

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