Creative works you enjoyed until politics happened - "How politics made me hate Welcome to Nightvale and other things"

[Dom Cruise]

David Wong was always a cringey sperg in my opinion. I remember back in the mid-2010's when he was active on Reddit and would just say the most retarded wokeshit on random threads. Back when Reddit wasn't as pozzed, there used to be compilations of his posts on r/cringe and Imgur in circa 2014-2015. Wong would reply to random threads with word salad drivel and get massively downvoted and told to shut up.

Examples:

Thread: "What's your favorite Chinese food meal?"
Wong: "How racist of you. Dear white people, the 'Chinese food' you eat is racist and promotes colonialism."
Random User Reply: "Fuck off, no one cares"

Thread: "Which Star Trek series is superior?"
Wong: "Definitely not the original series because they promoted hostility towards POC by not giving bigger roles to Uhurla or Sulu. Typical white supremacist writers."
Random User Reply: "Kill yourself"

Thread: "What's your most embarrassing childhood story?"
Wong: "The only thing I'm embarrassed about is the sheer amount of racist white males on this website."
Random User Reply: "Go back to Cracked"

And it was a front-facing account that was verified as him, so it wasn't a parody account. Like, his entire post history was shitty anti-white, anti-male rants as replies to each thread.

Amazing, to think there was a time in which he seemed like a level headed, rational dude, well I'm certainly not going to bother with any of his books now knowing he's THAT retarded.

What the fuck has gone wrong with our society where people have become so damn obsessed with race and the shittiest takes on race imaginable?

 

[Yukari Yakumo]

What the fuck has gone wrong with our society where people have become so damn obsessed with race and the shittiest takes on race imaginable?

I guess it's some sort of paradoxical desire to cling onto whatever form of "upper class" there is? That's why things like Blacktober exist, to validate people by invalidating the lives of others.

 

[raider of the lost wifi]

Amazing, to think there was a time in which he seemed like a level headed, rational dude, well I'm certainly not going to bother with any of his books now knowing he's THAT retarded.

What the fuck has gone wrong with our society where people have become so damn obsessed with race and the shittiest takes on race imaginable?

niggers getting freebies and having no real consequences while putting the burden of their chimpouts on everyone else with manufactured infighting. while a few rich faggots watch with contempt from their private islands and throw peanuts into the ring now and again.

I miss back when gaming was always trying to push the boundaries of current technology with various different art styles and original stories that prioritized optimization over graphics and anything else with some actual creativity to justify the price tag on their games.

Instead of the blatant copy-paste troon faggotry and other political propaganda being forced exponentially more each year. E3 2021 was an excellent example.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

I miss back when gaming was always trying to push the boundaries of current technology with various different art styles and original stories that prioritized optimization over graphics and anything else with some actual creativity to justify the price tag on their games.

Instead of the blatant copy-paste troon faggotry and other political propaganda being forced exponentially more each year. E3 2021 was an excellent example.

Mashallah, brother.

It's not just vidya though. It's as if they start with "what current year talking point will get us the most attention" and then build everything else around that, who cares if the characters act in a rational way or the plot makes sense. But its RELUHVUNT to current social ishoos, so it must be good, right? Nope. The one thing that ages a work like milk is current year talking points, because when it's no longer current year nobody will care.

Lol nope. You want to push your political view, go ahead, but you have to do it in a way that arises organically out of quality writing.

 

[HymanHive]

What the fuck has gone wrong with our society where people have become so damn obsessed with race and the shittiest takes on race imaginable?

The answer to this question and the answer to the OP is the same:

The Internet.

 

[Blamo]

I wouldn't mind this woke shit as much, if they just let you do your own stuff in peace.

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

I miss back when not every single commercial had a subtext pushing interracial relationships, being gay or trooning out. Back in the day if the occasional commercial had some gays or a mixed-couple I wouldn’t bat an eye. Now it’s almost literally every commercial. It’s probably near impossible to get advert jobs as a heterosexual white man in Hollywood these days and if you are lucky enough to land one I’d bet they offer 1/3 the pay of everyone else.

Aside from that I was a huge fan of The Magus Archives podcast until they started slipping blatantly anti-White narratives into the stories. The first season was so damn good too.

 

[Blamo]

I miss back when not every single commercial had a subtext pushing interracial relationships, being gay or trooning out. Back in the day if the occasional commercial had some gays or a mixed-couple I wouldn’t bat an eye. Now it’s almost literally every commercial.

It just shows how weird our world is that we can get nostalgic... for advertisements. It was people being happy and enjoying product.
Back in the day Pizza was for everyone, now it's only for the quirky Black woman with that big hair they always have in stock images.

 

[billydero]

Starship Troopers proposes that men can be levelled through service; the veteran general and the veteran private each get one vote. It also suggests numbers of votes can direct society. It's not fascistic at all.

That’s a really good point, and I was always under the impression that Federal service was required to show prospective citizens just how complex and difficult running the government and taking care of its people can be.

The scenes in basic training that show Rico and his mates going out to fight fires and find lost people in the wilderness also showed that federal service gives the candidate a perspective on how they are responsible for the lives of others and must be prepared to take care of them.

On the other hand, I remember that Rico’s father says he had to put their business on a war footing when the war with the arachnids starts to heat up, and it made me wonder what voice the civilians do have in government. Heinlein would have been informed by the second world war with gas rationing, scrap metal drives, and the other privations that come with total war, but it does make me wonder if the civilians had any way to have input on any of that or if they just had to lay back and take it.

 

[Blamo]

Starship Troopers proposes that men can be levelled through service; the veteran general and the veteran private each get one vote. It also suggests numbers of votes can direct society. It's not fascistic at all.

It basically works in a more ancient way of democracy. Sure Athens had it's issues, but the people voting about stuff, were the ones who were going to war as well. That's kinda admirable and could imply that people think a bit more about what they are asking of the government because they know what it takes to do stuff.

So the service, is basically the free men of the ancient world, but instead of getting connected to wealth it is connected to skin in the game and risk. You can be rich, but you don't get a vote if you don't do something for the community.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

I wouldn't mind this woke shit as much, if they just let you do your own stuff in peace.

I agree. If they made their own content or used public domain material, then I wouldn't care what they do. The problem is when they either change or "cancel" what other people like.

 

[Blamo]

I agree. If they made their own content or used public domain material, then I wouldn't care what they do. The problem is when they either change or "cancel" what other people like.

I mean they explicitly do it as a way to annoy people. If they didn't, they wouldn't be gloating about it in the media.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I don't like that I have my hairs raise, reading something modern, as we approach a Woke-controlled subject.

I don't think it's them living rent-free in my head, necessarily, because too often the writer does go out of their style and mood to be Correct. Sometimes you know it's because of the writer's beliefs, sometimes it's probably just to stay out of trouble. I think I especially don't like bearing that meta-awareness, the same as watching a movie and knowing what can/can't happen onscreen and thus in the plot because of the MPAA rating.

 

[tygressofaera]

Podcasts:

Court Junkie has been going downhill ever since the host stopped doing her own research and paired up with Law&Crime, where one of their producers now does all the research. Now the host just reads a script. However recent (ish) episodes about Cyntoia Brown and George Floyd were laughable. This woman who shot an unarmed, sleeping man in the back of the head, stole his truck and guns, and has diagnosed mental problems is completely innocent. Fentanyl, which decreases your breathing rate, and was present in massive amounts in George Floyd's autopsy will not be mentioned at all.

The Fifth Column has been unlistenable in recent episodes due to Moynihan not being able to shut the fuck up about covid for any length of time.

Youtube:

Nick Robinson called CWC >she.

Hazbin Hotel spin off series Immediate Murder Professionals shoe horned in a trans character into the last episode. It's very obvious, jarring, and stupid. The trans isn't even a good voice actor and is noticeably worse at VA work than anyone else on staff.

Books:

In general, every YA book reviewer is annoying, and there's two threads about them here, for good reason.

Every book from pre-2012 that describes a character as having "dark" skin is being perceived as being black representation. Most authors, seeing where the wind blows, are embracing this wholeheartedly to avoid cancellation. However, this is cowardly. Robin Hobb, how could you do this.

Gender is also making its way into science fiction in the least interesting ways. Is The Left Hand of Darkness examining an interesting society where the sex binary doesn't exist? No, it's just hecking valid nonbinary representation.

Games:

Pathologic, a Russian art house game from the 90's, had a remake and twitter shit the bed about it being a hard game. Regardless, the language of the English localization is so shamefully and obviously written by millennials. It's very unfunny, and no longer has the weird vibe of the first one due to this. Twitter has already cancelled it, anyway, even though they capitulated to the crybabies and added a difficulty slider. It's not even as hard as the 90's one.

Euro Truck Sim 2 has added a trans flag paint job, and when it's applied to a truck, the horn sounds are replaced by a soundbite of a male falsetto voice saying "trans rights!" But if you drive that truck into Russia, the game crashes. Just kidding, it's not that bad yet.

Edit: A couple threads here are impossible to read due to being infested by social justice types. Particularly the Jerry Peet thread, where everyone writes novel length posts about "her" using the problematic lesbian flag instead of the woke approved flag, as though it's at all interesting.

 

[Jozef]

I miss back when not every single commercial had a subtext pushing interracial relationships, being gay or trooning out. Back in the day if the occasional commercial had some gays or a mixed-couple I wouldn’t bat an eye. Now it’s almost literally every commercial. It’s probably near impossible to get advert jobs as a heterosexual white man in Hollywood these days and if you are lucky enough to land one I’d bet they offer 1/3 the pay of everyone else.

Aside from that I was a huge fan of The Magus Archives podcast until they started slipping blatantly anti-White narratives into the stories. The first season was so damn good too.

The very, very few times you see a white man in a commercial now, they're depicted as stupid, foolish, or cucks. I've been noticing it for years.

 

[Aunt Carol]

The very, very few times you see a white man in a commercial now, they're depicted as stupid, foolish, or cucks. I've been noticing it for years.

I think that's been happening for a while; I remember reading about it in the 1990s. Back then the accepted reason was something about how the mother makes most of the spending decisions in a household.

It's fitting in just fine in [current year], though.

 

[Biggie Smalls' Taint]

Too many of the early 2010s creators and the same could be said for 2000s creators put too much of themselves into their work and surrounding themselves with other "creators" who usually ended up trending left and then further left and so on.

I think it's more about following the zeitgeist. Back in the day the thing to do was to be edgy, now it's not. If in 10 years the hot new thing is to make duck comics, you'll see them churning out duck comics.

 

[The Curmudgeon]

The very, very few times you see a white man in a commercial now, they're depicted as stupid, foolish, or cucks. I've been noticing it for years.

Isn't that pretty much any media now? Not only is the white man bad, but he's pathetic too.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Euro Truck Sim 2 has added a trans flag paint job, and when it's applied to a truck, the horn sounds are replaced by a soundbite of a male falsetto voice saying "trans rights!"

Lol, I thought that was real. It's cringeworthy enough.

While on the subject of trans representation, there are exactly two trans characters in vidya that are actually handled well as characters and not just "have I mentioned I am trans today" as the entirety of their personality. They are Claire Russell from Cyberpunk 2077 who, despite having a transflag on the back of her truck, has (gasp!) a personality and motivations other than going on about being trans. She mentions it once in dialogue, ever. It works because her character arc and motivations make logical sense. It's also interesting that she mentions being a body purist in a transhumanist setting.

The other one is Max Lao from the pointy clicky adventure Technobabylon, whose transness is only touched on in optional dialogue, and whose primary character arc is as the younger and more tech savvy and optimistic foil to the player character Charles Regis, her older and more jaded detective partner with a past that never stays buried.

Amazingly, nobody has shrieked about either of these characters being lame. Compare and contrast that woman from Andromeda whose entire personality is "I used to be a man, tee hee" and similar. It's almost like... people like well written characters rather than just shoehorned ticky-box "representation." But that's just crazy talk, surely.

 

[Free the Pedos]

Looks like Dr. Who is following up the first female Doctor with the first gay one.

I liked Whittaker well enough as the Doctor, and I have no particular aversion to a gay actor being cast as the Doctor, but the fact that they're following her with a 30 year old mostly known for being a LGBTQ activist shows their priorities. I doubt he was the most compelling actor for the role.