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I also think it's stupid because TADC looks like colorful tripe for hot topic Fandom infants and all the characters are named shit like moogle and rimple dee and fafney and The Proper Noun and shit. like fuck you man I've got grey hairs and pay taxes I am not engaging with this stupid bullshit I got Harlan Ellison at home. I have artwork with homosexuals and transgenders in it that doesn't trigger a migraine when I look at it.

Like, the figure of Audie Murphy, americas most highly decorated war hero, is so fascinating to me in this regard. He looks, respectfully, like a massive pussy to modern eyes. If you stripped his story of context, descriptors, and just asked a screenwriter to make an action movie based on his exploits, you'd get a giant, jacked, grizzled, unsmiling murder machine cast in his role.

The real man Audie Murphy was a very sensitive, sweet, short, sad person who killed more nazis than possibly any individual in that war, and he cried all the time, and hated himself, and didn't do all the typical macho man shit that we'd expect.

and like, frankly, a lot of the stuff we now hold up as macho man virtue was just. not there. in the past. You drank your whiskey with water even if you were a real badass, because you drank whiskey in the middle of the day and it wasn't becoming to be hammered, and also the whiskey burns a bit and what the hell have you got to prove? People drank coffee with sugar and cream even if they were some real leatherneck because why the fuck would you not do that if it was available?

Like, it's of course a very tired trope, but the people who actually beat ass and worked hard jobs and did all the stuff we assign masculine virtue to, they really weren't hung up on the shit we are now. Real manly men wore pink and drank fruity cocktails and often hugged and kissed other men on the cheek and physically touched other men often.

White people will value the life of an animal over a non white person every time man.

also.

the reason to eat meat is to extract nutrients from land that is otherwise unfit for agriculture.

It would make sense to have roving herds of cattle on relatively arid land because the cattle will eat grasses growing naturally that you as a human cannot digest. The wild growing stuff being able to grow there despite a lack of water, and all that.

The reason we have problems with beef in the US is that we are trucking in food and water for the cattle and draining the Oglala aquifer.

Listen, I enjoyed the star wars cross sections and learning about all the little bleep blorps and glup shittos as a kid.

but there's just.

it feels like it genuinely takes something away from nearly all works of fiction when they are required to have Lore. like you cannot just have beautiful stories and novel images, it's got to have the potential for an extensive wiki, and for people to memorize factoids about factions and uniforms and names dates and places as if they're middle aged dads with a civil war diorama in the basement.

and I love civil war dioramas [good guy side] in the basement!

but I just feel like everything is that now. Everything is comics nerds trying to suss out relative strains of canon.

Every ounce of industrial capacity spent on new data centers and AI research is something not spent on infrastructure replacement and decarbonization.

The data centers DO have a fairly minimal impact right now compared to cars and agriculture.

but at the moment we rather need cars and agriculture whereas I don't need gas turbines churning day and night to ensure some chud is able to produce shrimp jesus photos.

but I think, truly, it is that a lot of these people on this sight that want to sneer at the fandom losers and woo woo spiritual "ai art has no soul" crowd, they are uncomfortable because they too have a religion. They are uncomfortable with the idea that a technology could be bad because they have bought into this enlightenment narrative of historical progress, that no new thing can possibly be bad, it's all inevitable and the peasants just need to suck it up and deal.

well we won't deal.