there are refugees from a dozen wars everywhere, occasionally radioactive dust storms blow in, the state monopoly on violence is on the edge of breaking down, florida is underwater but things sorta just keep on going, as if this is--ordinary. people can get used to a lot.
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The Onion Future News was one of my favorite treatments of this concepthttps://youtu.be/iKC21wDarBo
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god the language is so good
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"I love you" "I love you too"
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le guin teaches that the greatness of sff is its ability to show us ourselves in a new light to see--for instance--the arbitrariness, the strangeness of the various rote phrases and catechisms that make up the theater of broadcast news
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Yeah the idea is the language has evolved so that both intimate language like "I love you" and coarse language like "total fucking" have now just become bland broadcaster phrases
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
"Frustrage" is an amazing idea for a word and I'm gonna steal it
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the way it's all just slipped in there, like her closing a segment by deadpanning "this news is quenched" i can't get over it
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The sheer density of the worldbuilding is itself part of the worldbuilding, the information overload everyone in this world just lives with
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the way the fucking beetles segment just keeps on going long past the initial shock of the joke and then it feels stale and finally it just ascends into this hyperreal wonderhorrorland
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Like the structure of a typical Onion article (mimicking the inverted pyramid principle from real journalism) they go backwards from typical comedy principles of "escalation" We start with the most shocking joke that leaves no doubt about the kind of world this is, the Omega-12
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof and
Everything else is just this agonizingly prolonged footnote to that It immediately short circuits any objection you could have to the realism of the grimdark ("We know, we know, this world is too awful to go on existing, we're working on it")
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