just in general. star wars ‘77 founds a consumerist cult that perfectly rides the reagan era to blend the idea of fandom with “outsider” cultural grievance, which in turn inspires the wretched 90’s “gamer culture” that simmers through to gamergate, to bannon, to trump
Also people getting really excited about dressing like stormtroopers
Timmy McVeigh was a big Star Wars and Star Trek fan and if things were slightly different he would have just been a podcaster so... this tracks.
warhammer could have saved him
Or made him much worse!
Every time I see a warhammer post it's always some weirdo creaming themselves over some Galactic Catholic bullshit, or trying to wow everyone in the thread with their not-at-all creepy obsessive level knowledge of some info-kiosk made-out-of-a-person-who-never dies-but-suffers-endlessly. Freak shit.
40k is one of those acid test things where if someone has more than a passing knowledge you can tell if they get what the writers are doing or if their big issue with Thatcher and Reagan was that they were degenerate protestants.
okay sure yeah but not a lot of spare time to build bombs
You say that but they are now good at kitbashing stuff together...
oh fuck
And they're spending time in hobby shops (which is where you bought that stuff in the early-mid 90s)! I don't know, may have just lead to the van having a kick ass paint job before... you know.
True, but for every McVeigh we stifle we create 15 guys who dump mysterious Roughneck garbage cans into the water that inexplicably land standing upright (no reason)
Sounds like you need to get into gunpla instead.
Reporting this as a hate crime, btw.
I shudder at even the word. Dear Japan what is "pla"
It's short for "plamo"!
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Who has time to say PLastic MOdel in this work a day world, Senator? Typing that out cost me $13 in opportunity costs!
In Japanese, the word for danger is also the word for glue-sniffing hobby opportunity
It’s the hit album by mob. youtu.be/LfluICo7tPY
Y key comes pre-broken so they dont allow me to post "why why why do I suck so bad at making models"
the funny thing is if you go to the Warhammer community feed there are almost none of those guys because its 99% people just posting pictures of their space barbies
excuse me barbies have articulated joints those are space hummel figurines
Fash-ious Moments
it’s greasy little nerds (derogatory) all the way down
We gotta bring the jocks back, it's the only way youtube.com/shorts/kA-Jr...
We've pigeonholed them into being either star athletes or glued to their TVs watching star athletes. We have to break the cycle
It's just broad enough and specific enough to be impossible to argue down
I will win the jubilee
Do you really think it’s Star Wars that kicks off the individualist cult? Not like, Ayn Rand? (These are honest questions, not rhetorical. I’ll take my answer off the air, thanks.)
Low blow my friend but I completely see your point. I washed my hair today just to prove it. 😉
to be clear I love greasy little nerds (laudatory)
gamers aren't nerds and never were
Really love that all the most insufferable dudes who argued with me about anime in high school are now using their absolutely awful personalities to accelerate the corrosion of the public body politic. Perhaps some nerds didn't get bulled ENOUGH.
I'd subscribe to this newsletter.
Pretty sure Perlstein makes a related argument in Reaganland
Goddammit you’re right.
I will read your manifesto.
Ehhh.. bsky.app/profile/oluf...
Also in general the American interest in New Age thinking, light vs. dark, is all over Q Anon and Republicans.
That's roughly when the Hayes Code stopped being enforced, which led to the rise of the disruptive rockstar, which led to the normalization of sexual abuse within the entertainment industry, which led to the current environment where criminals are defended by the public because of their talent.
idk how to describe it but it made the choice of good vs evil so simple that it actually fed people into making choices similar to vader's descent into evil somehow e.g. hamill becoming hardcore pro-idf
the vast majority of fandom culture is so weird to me, I don't get dedicating yourself so much to one piece of media
how did the marriage between Fandom and outsider cultural grievance happen, exactly? because the nerds were bullied back then, and they latched onto the big underdog story of the time? I'm not sure i understand