æʃliŋ, loaf of autismo @aescling@cat.family

come to nobody's surprise that condensing a 3-part comic storyline that spans decades into an 80+ minute movie means that a lot of material will be cut and changed to meet the demands of the runtime AND make the story less serialized

this is an interesting comment because the comic in the first place struggled very hard with the number of things it wanted to do in the amount of space it had, so it dealt with a lot through Superman narrating the comic in retrospect and dealing with many of its conflicts in very abstract ways. if i were to adapt the comic, i would think about how i’d have an opportunity to fill things in and make it more concrete, or at least less rushed, which i do think the movie actually managed to some recurrent. though the skill in execution throughout was decidedly lost

@xenon that's very good

@xenon yes!!!!

@gayocats kitty

@gayocats kitty

landing the spike hitbox on marcina dair feels great every time

*on the chapter that criticizes such “anything but class” academics

i was also disappointed that the book’s subtitle—Rational Fascism And The Overthrow Of Communism—did not mean so much “how fascism has played a role in the global overthrow of communism” as “we will talk about fascism at the beginning to hook you in, and then talk about various other topics relative to communism and its fall”

@monorail ty

also lol

look i haven't played pokemon for well, well over a decade

wait are those even the same evolution line

oh i never updated my profile metadata for this bit

@compufox hopefully your experience will be considerably better than this poor fox’s

@gayocats this could be us

when the video essay is half an hour long, filmed in a studio, and yet, the audio is clipping from the start

anyway the book ends on the chair going after such academics so it feels Pretty Bad

the latter part of that, phrased as a “crisis of freedom”, might accurately describe how hustle culture works, but how on EARTH can you SERIOUSLY CLAIM that the dialectic is ENTIRELY internal when people ABSOLUTELY still have to sell their fucking labour-power to make a living???