Recent comments in /f/television

Matt_the_Bro t1_j6pjcyc wrote

Loser take that is nothing more than rage induced click-bait. So tired of the lame takes that skewer any highly emotional media. It's not clever or smart, its pedantic and condscending.

I am reminded of the David Foster Wallace quote: "What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic."

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jollytoes t1_j6piwdm wrote

I’ve never played the game and have been watching the series with my son who has played. Neither of us were fans of the latest episode. It was solely because we felt that we were tricked into watching a romance novel instead of a monster movie. I expect it was a necessary episode for whatever happens in the future, but we were both insanely bored for most of the show.

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ackermann t1_j6piv7y wrote

While I certainly don’t think it makes the show/game worse… having played both games, it’s not untrue that gay/queer folks are overrepresented in TLOU. Considering they are generally less than 10% of the population.

But given that historically, gays have been underrepresented in media, this might be a good thing.

In the second game especially though, there is a sense of “wait, he/she is also gay?”

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2oonhed t1_j6pii3d wrote

Low mentality / short attention span and RAMPANT ADHD spectrum type shit because are food stream and plastics are contaminated with hormones, PCBs, DDTs and by products of pharmacy that noone pays any attention to, and has been for multiple generations now. We are an evolution of mental deformity that wont change until people start believing it. But hey, I'm no Chicken Little. I wont say "the sky is falling" or "there is no hope" because I happen to know that the evolutionary path we are on now is wholly reversible. If it weren't we would all already be dead.

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anasui1 t1_j6pi0c5 wrote

Homeland. That fucking shit is eternal, I get the concept behind it but my speakers are not a torture device

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