The vader on fortnite thing really is the perfect indicator of the damage pop culture obsession and monetizing people's desire to point at something and say "I know that!" has caused
The future of entertainment is coming and the worst people you know are striving to make sure it's Ready Player One
The future of entertainment is coming and the worst people you know are striving to make sure it's Ready Player One
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But the moment it becomes about The Brand, we're all cooked
Adore the original visual novel and its story, characters, and themes! Greatly resent the meaningless fanservice slurry that is most of the franchise that sprung out of it!
It wasn't just "star trek", it was the cons, the message boards
It was belonging somewhere when you didn't other places
The problem with things hitting the mainstream like they have is that it's all started resting on like, "remember the 80's- 90's? Remember the TMNT etc"
I would have thought having mario on my fruit gummies was the coolest thing when I was little
Instead it just makes me sad bc it's stuff like this everywhere
or the coke oreos
Hell world
the whimsy of "what ifs" goes away when it's just corporations amalgamating anything they may get their hands on regardless of coherence and locking it behind FOMO and high price