watching squid game rn, gonna livetweet a bit about it maybe. will try to keep spoilers small
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i have to say i find the increasing popularity of the “death game” genre concerning in some sense. like are people increasingly relating to feeling like society is an arbitrary game with ridiculous rules that don’t make sense but you still die if you fuck up 🤔
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the main character (of this first ep anyway) has sorta similar vocal tics to my deadbeat cousin
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no maybe it’s the reverse, not enough twisty levels of misdirection. maybe the fantasy is that there exist entities coherent and powerful enough to run death games, *therefore* all one has to do is please or outwit such entities. a deeply bureaucratized substitute for god?
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the only other korean thing i’ve seen even sort of recently is parasite and it has me wondering why i see purely financial / economic problems at the center of plots in american fiction so rarely. maybe i just don’t run into them?
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Class struggle doesn’t exist in the US :) don’t think about class struggle in the US :) :)
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