GlitterInfection
@GlitterInfection@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anyone else? 4 weeks ago:
She isn’t a controlling spouse, she’s a controlling housewife in an exaggerated disappointing version of a post-nuclear American family.
The show states over and over again that Walt believes a man provides for his family… a necessarily and pointedly gendered role that is central to his entire character’s motivations. Skyler’s nagging is framed exactly in relation to his perceived shortcomings with respect to this gendered expectation.
In a gay relationship you don’t tend to just mirror straight relationships but the bottom replaces the women, or something. So you can’t just conjure Skyler as a dude and make it make any sense as a family.
When there are two or more men coming together, usually they all have their own separate careers and plans for life. There is no template gay relationships have to build off of, and having children is way more difficult and complicated. We have to define everything for ourselves.
None of the tropes that are foundations of Breaking Bad work if you swap the genders of the characters. If walt were a woman nothing she does would make sense to the audience and the treatment from her annoyed husband would be absolute nonsense. Why would he expect her to provide for the family? Why would he expect her to man up? Etc?
- Comment on Tom Cruise Reshaped His Narrative with Edge of Tomorrow 5 months ago:
I’m verbose mode.
- Comment on Tom Cruise Reshaped His Narrative with Edge of Tomorrow 5 months ago:
OP posted to a movies community about Tom Cruise.
Your comment, recommending those movies, has nothing to do with Tom Cruise reinventing his narrative.
It appears that you either intended to post them in a different thread and aren’t aware that you made that mistake or you don’t understand the intended flow of communication on communities in lemmy.
Either way, that’s the same energy that a dad trying to search for celluloid clitorist couplings has when he mistakenly types his query into the Facebook post field instead of the address bar before confidently hitting Post.
- Comment on Tom Cruise Reshaped His Narrative with Edge of Tomorrow 5 months ago:
I love movie suggestions and I am pretty sure those movies you recommended are great classics, but your comment was giving big “google for lesbian porn” Facebook post energy…
- Comment on Tom Cruise Reshaped His Narrative with Edge of Tomorrow 5 months ago:
You’re not my real dad!
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 6 months ago:
It still failed to hit projected box office returns with that factored in!
It’s just funny because it’s a good movie and the first one won an academy award but is terrible.
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 6 months ago:
Fun fact, The Suicide Squad (2021) was a box office flop, whereas Suicide Squad (2016), the only academy award winning DCEU film, was a box office smash hit!
- Comment on The Biggest Box Office Bombs of 2023 6 months ago:
I don’t know what a movie about product placement has to do with Halloween.
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
My point was that the show exaggerates her mannerisms to give Walt motivation rather than to create a fully fleshed out character. She’s not a real woman, but a symbol of how men have become emasculated by their wives’ “wearing the pants” in the family. At least early on that’s her the purpose she serves.
She grows as a character, and ends up having more agency, but only in the confines of Walt’s domination of their lives with his selfishly motivated, and traditionally toxic masculine, choices.
And I don’t think you meant it this way, you can’t really easily separate disliking her from being a woman. I don’t mean to imply that you dislike her because she’s a woman, but that her character’s role is to be a controlling wife. It’s an inherently gendered character that relies heavily on preconceptions of what a woman should and shouldn’t be in a relationship with a man who is a main character in a story.
I think it’s telling that she is considered unlikable enough to even warrant discussing in a show where the main character is a multi-murderer monster who destroyed the lives of everyone he loved, and the main villains include nazis, cartels, lawyers and corporate shills.
That, for anyone, she’s the most hated character in all of that should cause anyone to question their assumptions on her.
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
Sorry, I should have said that Skyler, the character, did nothing to deserve being disliked. The show was rigged to make you dislike her, in the sense that the storytelling was solely through Walt’s eyes, even in scenes he wasn’t present for.
But I didn’t say that. Vince Gilligan, creator of the show, said it.
indiewire.com/…/breaking-bad-vince-gilligan-skyle…
I also called it a “power fantasy.” The show’s pitch was to show a man turning himself from “Mr. Chips to Scarface.” It’s not a criticism, I loved the show. It took the power fantasy tropes and subverted them frequently. But at its heart that’s what it is.
If you’re upset that I said that it was about toxic masculinity, then I apologize. That was reductive of me. It explores hegemonic masculinity through the power fantasy trope, and it can be interpreted as either a celebration of or criticism of toxic masculinity depending on how you approach it.
Plenty of more well reasoned people than I could hope to be have written in depth on the subject. Someone even wrote a book in the subject.
If you were reacting to thinking I was putting the show down, which I wasn’t intending to do, then my bad. I could have worded it better. I was trying to make the point that it’s both intentional to not like Skyler, and also the obvious wrong take to not like her.
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
In the realm of toxic masculinity power fantasies there is no room for a woman who acts kind of like a normal person.
The show was written to make you root for Walt and dislike Skylar because of that, but is she really that unlikeable if you step back and look at her actions and motivations?
- Comment on Did your taste in movies change over time? How did it evolve from your 20s, to your 30, 40's and beyond? 6 months ago:
I used to be very picky about movies as a teenager, and tended towards more odd, surreal, films that I could find. For a long time Brazil was my favorite movie and Twin Peaks my favorite show.
I was very closed minded and my first boyfriend’s sister referred to me as “the movie nazi” because I did not like Will Farrell, Adam Sandler, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, and lots of other mainstream successful people.
Now I am much more open to movies of all types, and I will watch movies with actors and actresses I have pre-biased towards distaste.
My favorite movie is now Everything Everywhere All At Once, and favorite show is too many to choose from, but probably Adventure Time.
- Comment on Are people excited for Furiosa? 6 months ago:
The trailer took my hype and turned it into whatever the opposite of hype is.
I actively don’t want to see it now. But Mad Max Fury Road is one of those movies I’d say is as close to perfect as it can get, so I will leave room for the review aggregators to tell me if it’s worth bothering.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 6 months ago:
Very true. Though I would click that bait so hard!
I still prefer this type of article to lots of others in the bait family. Obviously they want people sharing this article and saying “See! That thing I believe is proven!”
It’s a nicer engagement-driving piece of content.
- Comment on Alien | The birth and curious death of HR Giger’s Space Jockey 6 months ago:
Even though later Alien entries have been objectively worse than Prometheus, especially taking into account they made an Alien Vs predator film, I think I am more upset by Prometheus.
It had everything possible going for it to be an incredible experience and it was let down by the most idiotic script imaginable.
It had the budget; its budget was $120-130 million. It had the talent; Fassbender, Theron, and Ilba can all carry films, and Ridley Scott for crying out loud.
The viral marketing campaign leading up to its release was masterful, and the first two viral shorts are standalone works of art, in my opinion. If you haven’t seen them, and only have time for one, watch the Hello David video below. Fassbender is such a talent.
TED Talk: youtu.be/JKTXYuHUabU?si=MxMrOebvoyUL6QD4
Hello David: youtu.be/RJ7E7Qp-s-8?si=EoECGyfnU4GA1I21
So how could you attach THAT script to it?
The movie served the purpose to move two characters and another’s head to a different location. Which wouldn’t be so bad if everything and everyone wasn’t so stupid along the way.
The “I study alien life, let me shove my face in this scary snake, oh no I am dead” scene is basically the whole film in a metaphor. We get no real answers, not that we wanted them, but instead we get evil robot trope repeated, surprise Wayland’s alive, oh no not anymore, and I can’t run sideways, next to the super human who can cut babies from her stomach and the run marathons!
I secretly think Charlize Theron refused to run sideways to avoid having to do a sequel film with that quality of script.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 6 months ago:
While Helldivers 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 might look like sudden jackpot successes
This article is funny. It’s like the feel-good inverse of a rage-bait article. It’s stating what we all want to be true and cherry-picking two games that only sort of provide evidence towards it, and only if you squint really hard.
Both games are sequels backed by huge publishers with tons of cash.
BG3 is a Dungeons and Dragons franchise title; a franchise which recently received a massively successful film, a huge boost in popularity during a pandemic, and a boost in cultural relevance in Strange Things.
Helldivers 2 fits the claim a bit better, but it is still a sequel to a well received, well selling title. The extraction shooter genre is also exceedingly popular right now, and the fact that it has Games as a Service bullshit built in says that publishers weren’t as hands-off as the article implies.
The more realistic take-away from this is that good games with huge budgets for development AND marketing in reasonably popular genres can make a ton of money.
Which isn’t saying much.
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live 6 months ago:
This proposal doesn’t solve any of the issues in your second paragraph, and I wholly agree with you that those should be solved. Those would be much easier to regulate, as truth in advertising is kind of important.
The first paragraph probably feels good to think about, but right now, you don’t have any right to any of that. Perhaps start there if it’s important to you to change things?
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live 6 months ago:
It feels like developing the problem space through examples and situations would be better than trying to think of preferred solutions and working backwards.
It might also be a decent exercise for someone to go through this separately from a consumer protections policy perspective vs a culture preservation perspective, which you mention.
For instance, if the law only applied to corporations that continue to exist past the end of the product, that would be a reasonable consumer protection, but would miss most games that disappear to time from a preservation perspective.
And if preservation is the issue you want to solve, then is this the highest priority in gaming? Maybe this could be solved through a non-profit funding the transitions of server code to the hands of the consumers, or through reverse engineering efforts to rebuild servers for games that have shuttered.
But yeah, it would be nice for this problem to go away, I just hope that attempts at regulating it don’t have bad unintended consequences.
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live 6 months ago:
I have literally worked at a game company startup that ran out of money and shut down abruptly.
And have you not been paying attention to the news lately? Game companies are shutting down weekly.
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live 6 months ago:
So those things are added risks and costs that will have to be factored into deciding which games to fund and which to not.
So it will reduce the number of multiplayer games that get made.
I am a single player gamer so I selfishly am Ok with that, but less Ok with it being handled in a way that could have other unintended consequences.
As an aside, I don’t know how these petitions work, but would it be helpful to give concrete examples of software that has had this happen and what your perceived solution to it could be?
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live 6 months ago:
- relase the server software to allow players host them themselves
- patch the game to not require company’s server (even if not all features would be functional)
- allow people to create their own servers after official ones are dead (think private MMO servers)
Your petition doesn’t allow for the second option, fyi, but let’s ignore it for the moment.
Let’s take a not uncommon case that causes games to shutdown: a company that ran out of money.
How do you do any of these things legally without paying your now jobless employees?
You need to either release the servers at the same time as the game, which has cost associated with it, or you need to hold funds up front to handle paying for the costs on the backend (i.e you need to pay an insurance premium).
- Comment on The "Stop Killing Games" Australian Petition is Live 6 months ago:
This petition is worded in such a way that it almost feels like lying.
Most games that shut down aren’t doing so because they had an arbitrary ping home that breaks them, it’s because hosting servers is fundamentally part of the game’s multiplayer-oriented experience.
You’re trying to use the former to backdoor in a way to force the latter to give you all of its server code.
Assuming this law were to go forward with even the most rigorous knowledge of the problem-space, and an intentional push to require multiplayer or server-based games to give you their server code after the game is shut down, all that will do is increase the risk involved in creating any multiplayer games.
Most likely this will reduce the quality and variety of games that get created going forward, which would ironically make preservation much easier.
- Comment on What's it like adding a world to Star Wars? The Outlaws developers explain 6 months ago:
Because those other devs didn’t pay for an advert-article?
- Comment on Anon factory resets 6 months ago:
Pegging is fine, I guess.
- Comment on 70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability 6 months ago:
But I want to be exploited indefinitely!
- Comment on World of Warcraft’s next expansion The War Within will run a beta before launch, and you can sign up now 6 months ago:
Honestly, given the advances in money milking machine design and management, the 20 year old ones are the better, less exploitative, options with fewer dark patterns.
- Comment on Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (2024, dir Charlie Hamilton-James) 6 months ago:
As a gay man who likes hairy guys of all shapes and sizes, I can relate.
- Comment on Been playing FF7 Rebirth (35 hours in) and really not enjoying it. Does anyone else feel this way? 7 months ago:
That sounds like how I remember FF7 being.
Is this game a clone? It’s definitely a clone. It’s not a clone. It’s maybe a clone. Is it a clone?
That’s FF7.
- Comment on The sequel to Kingdom Come Deliverance will be revealed April 18th! 7 months ago:
Kingdom Came: Deliveranced
- Comment on Movies that “go from 0-100” in the last 15 or so minutes? 7 months ago:
Cabin in the Woods