gallowsCalibrator @Mirzaba@witches.town

#introductions now seems like a good time to re-introduce myself

I'm a trans lesbian, anarcho-communist, radfem, goth, and game artist.

I'm super into creative writing, essays, creating multimedia art in general, art/media analysis/appreciation/critique, exploration of aesthetics, deconstructive philosophy, and game design theory.

4 years of schooling, almost graduated. I'd consider myself an indie game artist, and plan to transition into a bigger focus on game design.

As far as gothness goes, I'm more into gothic punk, dark fantasy, vampire fiction, and am still sorta into rivethead culture. Uhhh also I make a lot of srs and a lot of silly posts

God this map maker guy analyzing all of the information Tobias tells you and goes on to foreshadow a collapse of sentinel control like it's no big deal. Very politically opinionated map maker just setting up the conflict of the series.

The Longest Journey is so dense with subtext that I cant help but psychoanalyze every little detail in the dialogue.

me, an hour after eating an edible: haha this edible aint shit *takes another*

me, 2 hours after eating the 2nd edible:

Ahh yes it is so funny to see in the comments of a Kurzgesagt video, capitalists saying "but there's too much corruption for a society in which the rich invest into the poor to maximize development". Not only is the basis of their statements a flimsy illusion propped up by capitalist propaganda (but.. rules of nature!), but they do not see right in front of them that their own economic beliefs are against their own interest.

*has 30 foot wall of fire blocking them from getting to me*
*they are unarmored but walk through it anyways*

*psychic uses powers to make me fight a doppelganger*
*kill psychic*
*doppelganger, while being linked to the consciousness of the psychic, continues to be alive and repeatedly hits me*
*can't stealth because getting hit*
*entire building block is alerted to my presence*

Big Fish and Bagbak are the best tracks on Big Fish Theory imo
https://youtu.be/KF6x7g5ZfwM

Oh I just learned this is in Black Panther, cool.

My littlest brother insists on being a strength based player in bloodborne, which I can appreciate. But I would much rather flip around like a ninja with skill based weapons, or go bloodtinge and use those crazy niche guns like the cannon, gatling gun, and rifle spear

this was a thing that happened in my little pony, colon, friendship is magic

i wanna make myself a sona based on the doll in bloodborne

According to the guy who effectively kickstarted the emo scene in DC, (even if he wasn't really the first or not), Ian McKaye, hardcore and emo are the same thing to him. Why? Because emo is about raw deep expression of emotion. This is how a lot of hardcore punks would describe hardcore music. Though over time emo as a thing developed a more different range of sounds. It wasn't until bands like Jawbreaker, American Football, and Sunny Day Real Estate got sorta-popular to where punks went like, "oh i guess its not really the same thing and it is stylistically different enough"

Anarcho-punk took the more direct opposition to what punk music was supposed to represent, by actively attacking it, culture jamming, and going forward with brutal honesty pertaining to the sociopolitical nature of music, punk, the industry, etc.

Pop punk forming as a genre was much of the opposite. It kind of embraced the commercial, corporate catchy side of punk, and over time, its image of being controversial and subversive was entirely erased, and now the world is just now expunging the poison Vans Warped Tour has injected in the ears of Gen Xers and Millennials. Nothing wrong with the style itself, but the way it inhabits the industry.

Hardcore punk artists were very familiar to the dishonest presentation of punk music in media, and rather than push against it in an overtly political way, they drifted into more insular territory, small venues, largely abandoning association with regular punk. they're hardcore. And through this, the spirit of punk that post-punk had tapped into to create more interesting music, was instead being developed further in more brutally honest expressions of emotion. Which these expression in hardcore led to the creation of emo, which is the same thing as hardcore etymologically, but even more personal and cathartic.

Post-punk was by and large a reaction to the artistic aspects of punk music. To post-punk musicians, punk had the spirit, but also terribly formulaic, simple, and repetitive music of low quality. Through this motivation, bands experimented with sound more, took the punk ideology and brought it into an expansive range of expression. This is also where many huge subgenres came from, such as synth punk, gothic rock, jangle pop, no wave, and many others. This change effectively undermined the popularity of regular punk music and brought in a new period of "hey, I guess punk music doesn't have to sound unsophisticated or uncreative"

Argh I wanna add an addendum to the shit I said about anarchopunk being the only authentic punk genre. Anarchopunk practices what it preaches, and typical punk bands of the time (before the dramatic shift happened) were hypocritical largely, which is one reason why the shift happened. The SHIFT i am speaking of, is many-pronged. Which I will explain each in detail. The establishment of the post-punk wave of music, hardcore punk, anarcho spirited punks retaliation, and the formation of pop punk as a subcultural identity. Essentially the hypocrisy of 70s punk and those inspired by it led to an upheaval, bringing more honest punk music.

tiny brain: sprite, powerade, mountain dew
massive cosmic brain: sprite + powerade + mountain dew