German liberation is a fascist myth, Germany wanted fascism and got fascism and fought for racism until they couldn't anymore.

I really don't think Severance is in any way about labor, the people behind it are just too Hollywood to have any interest in that. It's a mystery box show, the severance procedure is a plot device and the office setting is just the only setting they could think within.

Isn't there just an app

All those damn sellouts getting rich off of book clubs, building book club mansions with their book club millions

I totally get the bitter reaction a lot of people have to modern art, the banal "i could have done that", which really means more "i don't get how some people can fill their lives making these useless and unproductive things that don't even seem to require technical skill but i have to work 40+ hour a week and if I'm not productive i get fired and can't pay my rent or eat". But if you want to get anything out of it, and there's a lot you can get out of it, which I know from personal experience, you need to rise above that first reaction of bitterness (although it's obviously something you should keep in mind when interacting with any sort of art).

It's obvious that the democratization and proliferation of art that modern artists tried to bring about didn't happen, but the fault was not in them for trying to imagine a different future. Once again, it's capitalism that squandered and misused any of the potential modern art has had.

I love how, more than a century after some French alcoholic put a toilet in an art gallery, artists have been continually asking the question “what is art, really?” only to discover the answer is that high art is a way for bored rich people to simulate meaning in their lives by turning the entire exercise into a contest of personal popularity and ego.

actually the point of duchamps fountain was to make idiots mad, which it still does a hundred fucking years later

Is genocide Europe's answer to everything?

can americans just once in a while look in a mirror and see this is all the entirety of the "the west" has ever been?

Frankly with how much they've changed the basic plot of Fallout for this show a line like that barely even registers. Whereas before the show the world of Fallout was one where unfettered capitalism and resource consumption inevitably lead to the great war and the destruction of life on earth as we know it, the show very specifically and deliberately goes full conspiracy-theory: A bunch of specifically very evil companies conspired together to sabotage peace talks with the specific intent to cause the great war. Reading about the show on some other website some guy asked why Amazon makes so many shows about evil corporations and the answer to that is obvious: If you show a clearly evil corporation doing clearly evil things you also imply that companies that do not do those clearly evil things are not evil, but are at least morally neutral. Really there's so much more stuff in the show that - deliberately or accidentally - muddles an anti-capitalist reading of the universe it's hard to know where even to start.

The only thing I can think about when I hear the name Elder Scrolls Online is this interview question from back when the game was first revealed that tells you all you need to know about the game and its complete lack of inspiration and spark:

"Q: Will we see the buildings of Alinor that look like they are “made from glass or insect wings?” And will we see the Crystal Tower for that matter?

A: When The Elder Scrolls Online launches, the playable part of the Summerset Isles will be Auridon, the big island between Summerset and the continent that includes the cities of Firsthold and Skywatch. The architecture of the High Elves is fanciful, certainly, but it’s also practical, constructed of real-world materials. Architects can’t make buildings out of poetry"

The kid will never have a father. Potentially an adopted one, but what guy is going to be like "sure, honey. Turkey baster your dead other husband's sperm right up in there. I will help raise his child."

there is nothing morally wrong with being a single mother