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I IMPLORE you all to read this https://hexbear.net/post/763625, diegetic essentialism is a waste of time and infantilizes you. Please, stop it.
Ok that was great. I love when someone puts an inexplicable feeling into concrete terms. Once with this DE stuff and twice with the the banger within a banger when op calls to stop calling everything fascism. Thanks 🙏
the wild thing is that this excellent term, which so accurately describes the utter decripitness and shallowness of pop culture and media today, came out of a shitposting subreddit for fucking WH40K lmao
a LEFTIST shitposting subreddit
40k has a lot in its favor to cause that thought to come into being and result in an essay like that. Namely the chuds who take the propaganda from their guys at face value. They are frustrating to say the least.
Without reading (I am a staunch antiintellectual, yuck), is diegetic essentialism the boiling down of a text into strictly what happens within the text and ignoring the fact that it’s humans who consume the text and that that process can create meaning beyond that of the literal text?
yep
Ah, so the fun police
It's ok if you're just having fun, but we are so far past that point.
From the linked thread
Fuck you... making me read a thing and learning shit...
my pleasure
I’ve read this. It really does not work in this context. Nobody is defending or genuinely attacking Pokémon due to its incidental inclusion of cockfighting. What we are doing is defending Palworld, because it’s implicitly referencing this sort of fucked up aspect of Pokémon when you think of it too much, as a shitpost.
Not to mention the fact that there is genuine cultural analysis to be made about the fact that we just... have games about collecting sentient creatures and putting them into tiny spaces and don't comment about it at all.
Ok, I mostly agree with you, but people have been pointing out Pokemon makes animals fight since day one. (Parents also called it satanic lol)
Yes, it’s a classic shitpost