And okay, yes, obviously This poor bastard who tried to kill Larry Linville was clearly crazy, and people who are in a delusional or dissociative state aren't inclined to do close reading of the text of a television show But of course DFW had to go and make it a deep thing
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It just leads you to a kind of despair Like obviously the Snapewives of the world are worse than most of us but do any of us *really* see the people around us for who they are? Instead of populating the world with figments of our own mind superimposed on them?
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People slam critics they don't like for "talking about your own issues instead of just telling us about the movie" But aside from bland shitty "This movie was 96 minutes long and had 13 explosions" style "objective" reviews, don't all reviews do that
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I dunno, it's bleak, challenging stuff to think about This is why DDLC struck me as so dark and depressing, being a deconstruction of the whole anime waifu phenomenon, turning it around on you
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The idea of Monika thinking of herself as "in love with you" and "in a relationship with you" even though she knows NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT YOU because you literally have no way of communicating with her She just sits there talking to the air and imagining your response
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I'm doing this right now, aren't I? I'M talking to myself in public and, even though there's a few specific real people I think might read this and react to it, am mostly talking to a generic imaginary reader on whom I'm projecting qualities about myself
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