Hell yeah, 2 hour video essay about something I previously didn’t know or care about, but i’m gonna watch anyway. feed me that slop

Every few years, western farmers gather in a lab somewhere to attempt to create the most cringe protest scientifically possible.

Hope he’ll have a good nickname for musk when they inevitably have a falling out

I don’t agree that literature or music have gotten in any way worse since the 2000s, but for big budget movies specifically it feels like everything is either a big board-room created franchis, or an adaption or a remake of someone else’s creative idea.

Elves rock actually, those dwarves on the other hand…

On a more serious note, I’ve been a fantasy nerd since I was a pre-teens and I always loved elves. Now there are so many different takes on them that it’s impossible to say something definite about all of them, but I like the wish fullfilment the Tolkien-esque elves represent. People living in harmony with nature rather than at the expense of it, free from worries of mortality or aging, and able to spend their lives creating beautiful things and focusing on arts and poetry. I definitely get how the video draws a connection to celebrities and ultra-rich people from that, but I like the kind of sadness it implies for a couple reasons. One is that this type of excistence will always be impossible for us (no matter how rich you get), so elves represent something unobtainable we want, and the other is that despite this, elves are still unable to free themselves from human vices like bigotry, jealousy and pride.

Also, to be a little more explicitly positive about elves, one thing outside the scope of this video is gender coding. While fantasy today is a pretty diverse genre, you don’t have to go that far back in time before it gets very male-dominated. Elves represent ideals that in our society are heavily connected to feminity. They’re elegant, graceful and beautiful, with strong ties to creative arts and spirituality, no matter their gender. In a genre where the common ideals used to be stoic, though warrior-kings and stuff, I think that’s cool as hell actually.

The ukraine war makes me question if we live in the same reality sometimes. There’s something so existentially horrifying about thousands of people pointlessly dying fighting over some village with 5000 residents in the middle of a bombed out wasteland and this just repeats month after month, but half the people around me talk abut it like it’s an exciting sports game.

Always some type of caster. Preferably with tons of CC and weird spell options, but I’ll take a nuke wizard if that isn’t available.

Cool that if someone reposts your art on twitter without your permission it’s going straight into the LLM mines.

Pretty sure this is about an average amount of detachment from reality for a worldnews poster

If you don’t want to bleed money to a landlord, you will instead have to pay a bank tens of thousands of dollars to be able to a afford a home. what an awful system. i feel like we don’t talk about how evil banks are enough, they’re just as much disgusting leeches as landlords are.

Why is that obvious? If the rules is to not post other hexbears, then it doesn’t matter how shit their take is, it shouldn’t be posted here.

I appreciate the anti-misogyny action, but I don’t think admins or mods should be able to just ignore the rules when it’s convenient.

I’m usually late for everything and have been that way for as long as I can remember. Has caused some problems for me in the past too

going to start accusing people I don’t like of being obviously AI generated

Not sure I agree with the “Human” claim

Interesting behavior

Nah, i wouldn’t even comment that i disengage, i’d just ignore it.

People aren’t always gonna be online and able to reply to stuff, much less have longer discussions and i think most people understand that. sometimes i feel bad for not replying to people who replied to me because i went offline for a couple of days and didn’t see it, but that’s just part of communicating on a site like this.

hellworld

unicorns fell off

A dryad, I’d chose the comfiest tree and no one else would be allowed to touch it